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  Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  Using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model this report identifies the links among economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in Brazil.
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  Ecological footprint analysis as a tool to assess tourism sustainability

  Science Direct, 2002

  This article aims to provide a methodological framework for the calculation of ecological footprints related to leisure tourism. Based on the example of the Seychelles, it reveals the statistical obstacles that have to be overcome in the calculation process and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of such an approach.
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  Preparing marine protected areas to survive global change: additional guidelines to address coral bleaching

  World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001

  This paper describes guidelines for marine protected area (MPA) design and management that take into account the significant global problem of coral bleaching.
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  Grassland responses to global environmental changes suppressed by elevated CO2

  SciDev.Net, 2002

  The assumption that plants can absorb excessive fossil fuel emissions containing carbon dioxide because they need the gas in order to grow is challenged in this paper.These researchers report that increased levels of carbon dioxide (when combined with the other effects of climate change) actually suppress growth rather than helping plants to flourish.
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  Assessing the ecological footprint

  Environmental Assessment Institute / Institut for Miljøvurdering, Denmark, 2002

  This report sets out to assess the scientific validity of what it calls the WWF's 'doomsday prophecy', as outlined in the NGO's Living Planet Report 2002.
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  Potential carbon mitigation and income in developing countries from changes in use and management of agricultural and forest lands

  Essex University, 2001

  This paper explores the opportunities for mitigating atmospheric carbon emissions and generating development income in developing countries through a combination of sustainable agricultural practices on existing lands, slowing tropical deforestation, and reforesting degraded lands.The analysis shows that over the next ten years, forty-eight major tropical and subtropical developing countries ha
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  Global trade and consumer choices: coral reefs in crisis

  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002

  The document contains five papers presented at a symposium.The first presents an overview of the value of coral reef ecosystems to developing countries the impacts of international trade on coral reefs and local communitiesthe role of the U.S.
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  Pacific Island Developing Country Water Resources and Climate Change

  Pacific Institute, 2000

  In the context of global climate change, the author considers possible environmental outcomes for generally Pacific Island Developing States (PIDCs)The paper sets out to:provide a brief overview of PIDCS, outline present assessments of climate trends, both globally and regionally, that may have an impact on PIDCSassess some of the potential ecosystem impacts of climate change on
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  Forest biological diversity: recommendations to the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP6)

  World Conservation Union, 2002

  IUCN document which calls on the Conference of Parties (COP) to move from a research orientated work programme on forest biological diversity towards a more action orientated programme.
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  Tropical Forests and Climate Change

  Canadian Forestry Advisers Network, 2001

  This CFAN Forestry Issues paper gives an overview of global climate change, its causes, its impact on forests, and how forests can help to mitigate it.It concludes that forest-related interventions can have numerous positive spinoff effects apart from carbon sequestration and storage including:improved supply of wood products better management of protected areas increased agricu

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