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  Biodiversity after Johannesburg: a summary report

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2003

  This is a short summary report of a meeting held in March 2003 to discuss linkages between biodiversity, ecosystem services, sustainable development and the UN Millennium Development Goals.
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  Implications for coral reef management and policy: relevant findings from the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002

  The International coral reef symposium is held every four years. This book summarises key research presented at the 2000 event.
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  ‘Just wildlife?’ or a source of local development?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003

  This paper examines whether and how wildlife is a source of rural growth and development in East Africa, and whether its potential could be tapped more fully.
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  Desk study on the environment in Iraq

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2003

  Drawing on information available from multiple sources, including current media, government and NGO reports, this paper provides a preliminary assessment of the most pressing environmental challenges facing those involved in the post-conflict humanitarian relief and reconstruction effort in Iraq.
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  Poverty reduction, equity and climate change: challenges for global governance

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper first focuses on the poverty and sustainable development issues of climate change, considering the potential and limitations of win-win poverty and environmental options. It concludes by assessing strategies for linking poverty, equity and environmental outcomes.Policy conclusions include‘Equity’ is key to future North-South cooperation in climate change ‘mitigation’.
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  Innovative tools for mastering space in collaborative natural resource management

  Participatory Avenues : Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development, 2003

  This paper and presentation focus on the evolution of community-based mapping techniques which are increasingly being associated with Geographic Information Technologies (GIT).
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  Climate variability and change and sea-level rise in the Pacific Islands Region: a resource book for policy and decision makers, educators and other stakeholders

  Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2003

  This book aims to provide a summary of the latest knowledge about climate change as it relates to the Pacific Islands Region.
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  Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change in least developed countries (LDCs)

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  Adaptation to climate change has become an important policy priority in the international
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  Deforestation without limits: How the Cambodian government failed to tackle the untouchables

  Global Witness, 2002

  This report examines evidence of illegal logging that Global Witness has submitted to the Royal Government of Cambodia as part of the Forest Crimes Monitoring and Reporting Project and reviews the action and inaction of the government in each of the cases
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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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