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    Law, property rights, and social exclusion: a capabilities and entitlements approach to legal pluralism

    Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2002
    What are the effects of trends away from legal pluralism towards more uniform approaches to the law? This paper analyses the effects of legal changes in property rights for people's welfare and development in India.
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    Memorandum prepared by the Office of UPOV on the genetic use restriction technologies

    International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants, 2003
    This report from UPOV to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) examines the effect of genetic use restriction technologies (GURTs) on the sharing of benefits arising out of new plant varieties in comparison to the protection provided by the UPOV Convention.Not surprisingly it argues that the introduction of a legal framework according to the UPOV Convention offers adeq
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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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    Intellectual property rights: developments since the fourth WTO Ministerial Conference

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2003
    This February 2003 update to the Doha Round Briefing Series provides commentary on the state of play with regard to the various Doha mandates related to IPRs. The short briefing summarises the issues involved, documents the proposed solutions and notes what agreement, if any, has been reached. The mandates covered includeTRIPS and Public Health.
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    Public participation and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2003
    This report summarises a study of the ways in which different countries have sought to promote and facilitate public awareness and participation in the design and implementation of their national biosafety frameworks (NBFs).
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    Natural resource abundance and economic growth revisited

    Economics Working Paper Archive, 2001
    As the title suggests this paper revisits the 1996 Sachs and Warner paper “Natural Resource Abundance And Economic Growth” which noted that economies abundant in natural resources have tended to grow slower than economies without substantial natural resources.
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    Terminator five years later

    Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration formerly RAFI, 2003
    This edition of "Communique" looks at the current policy situation with relation to the development and use of 'Terminator' technology in GM seed varieties.
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    The fishery effects of marine reserves and fishery closures

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2002
    Marine reserves, areas permanently closed to all fishing, are frequently proposed as a tool for managing fisheries. Fishery benefits claimed for reserves include increases in spawning stock size, animal body size, and reproductive output of exploited species.
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    Climate sensitivity uncertainty and the need for energy without CO2 emission

    SciDev.Net, 2003
    This paper states that at least three quarters of the world's power must come from clean sources by the end of this century to sufficiently limit global warming.
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    Scaling-up and communication: guidelines for enhancing the developmental impact of natural resources systems research

    Eldis Document Store, 2002
    This paper is a synthesis of two previous research reports that explored scaling up and communication in natural resources (NR) research. The author describes recent increasing emphasis on these activities in development based NR research.

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