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  ETFRN News 43/44: forests and conflicts

  European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2006

  This newsletter highlights the theme of forests and conflict. While there is much international debate on security and governance issues, sustainable management of natural resources appears to receive inadequate attention.
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  A capability centred approach to environmental sustainability: is productive employment the missing link between micro- and macro policies?

  WebEc World Wide Web Resources in Economics, 2006

  The central premise of this paper is that there is a strong synergy between economic, social and environmental interventions. Focusing development analysis and policy on merely increasing income and material wealth is misguided, as standards of living are also determined by access to social services and the health and sustainability of the environment.
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  A decade of the Maharashtra groundwater legislation: analysis of the implementation process

  Law Environment and Development Journal, 2006

  This paper explores the implementation of the Maharashtra Groundwater Act in India and evaluates its effectiveness in protecting drinking water sources.Maharashtra is among the few states in India that has enacted and implemented legislation to regulate the use of groundwater.
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  Financing energy efficiency: lessons from recent experience with a focus on Brazil, China and India

  International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Minsk, 2006

  Without gains from energy efficiency efforts, China, India and Brazil are projected to more than double their energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in a single generation, resulting in major impacts on the global energy system and climate.
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  GM crops in India: is the government's policy stance justified?

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006

  In assessing the policy stance taking by the government of India on the issue of GM technology, the author concludes that there is not sufficient economic justification for the government to promote the use of transgenic corps.
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  Of global concern: rural livelihood dynamics and natural resource governance

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2006

  The global challenges of hunger, poverty and disease have led to an increasing focus within global initiatives - policies and strategies - on conditions and developments in rural areas in the South. The aim of this paper is to analyse and understand the rural livelihood dynamics and natural resource governance that are unfolding across continents.
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  Social and gender analysis in natural resource management: learning studies and lessons from Asia

  International Development Research Centre, 2006

  This on-line book documents and reflects on the steps that researchers are taking to implement social and gender analysis, including questions of class, caste, and ethnicity, into their everyday work.
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  Sustainable drylands management: a strategy for securing water resources and adapting to climate change

  Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2003

  This information paper illustrates sustainable dryland management practises in communities vulnerable to climate change with case studies in India and the Sudan.In both cases the adaptation programme is presented, including infrastructural strategy and social involvement, followed by results of the programme, subsequent impact on the community and examples of further achievements and successes
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  Cut out the waste says WaterAid report

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The Decade for Water in the 1980s failed to secure water and sanitation for all. Today the performance of the water sector remains grossly inadequate: more than a billion people have no access to safe water and 2.6 billion have inadequate sanitation. This failure undermines development, and denies people a basic human right.
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  Women and land rights in India – competing and changing interests

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Policy support for women’s land rights in India has not translated into title deeds in women’s names. When agriculture depends heavily on women’s labour, why have women not joined together to demand rights to land?

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