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  Making a killing or making a living: wildlife trade, trade controls and rural livelihoods

  Traffic International, 2002

  This document discusses the importance of wildlife trade for many rural livelihoods and the impact that wildlife trade regulations has on them.The paper begins by outlining trade in wildlife which can occur both nationally and internationally and takes many forms.
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  Devolution as a threat to democratic decision-making in forestry?: findings from three states in India

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper looks at two interfacing trends shaping devolution of forest management in India: appropriation of space for forest management by diverse self-initiated community formations; and state-driven devolution where government policies define the scope of local authority in forest management.
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  Biotechnology and the issues interconnected with and through it

  Biowatch South Africa, 2002

  This paper takes a step back from the policy issues surrounding biotechnology and its role in development to present a broad discussion of the biotechnology sector and its implications.The paper argues that if biotechnology is to develop usefully, the risks involved with it should be prevented.
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  Biotechnology and biodiversity: key policy issues for South Africa

  Biowatch South Africa, 2000

  This paper from Biowatch describes some of the potential effects of genetic modification on biodiversity and the environment, within both the global and South African context. Background information about the nature and extent of the biotechnology industry is presently followed by a description of the potential risks and effects of biotechnology on biodiversity.
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  A cultural solution to the world's resource crisis

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  In this article William E.
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  Community policing and the "culture of system-beating": the Honorary Game Wardens and Fisheries Inspectors of the Portland Bight Protected Area, Jamaica, West Indies

  UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2000

  Non-compliance with environmental legislation may have a variety of causes: e.g. profit, lack of environmental awareness, a don't-care attitude towards the environment, lack of an alternative, damaging behaviour may be cheaper or easier than environmentally-friendly behaviour, and the absence of deterrence due to the lack of enforcement.
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  Designing legal space: law as an enabling tool in comunity based management

  Community-Based Natural Resource Management Asia Virtual Resource Centre, 2000

  This paper explores the role of state law and legal institutions in creating an enabling environment for community-based natural resource management. Some community-based management systems have operated for many years with no formal legal underpinning, and perhaps even in direct contradiction to what is written on the law books or administered in the courts.
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  Losing livestock, losing livelihoods

  Program on Peacekeeping Policy, Institute of Public Policy, 2003

  This article examines the reasons for the ongoing decline in the biological diversity of domestic livestock species and discusses the potential impacts on food security. The author argues the importance of preserving local breeds that are well adapted to environmental conditions and the needs of local people whilst also providing a valuable gene pool for the development of new commercial species.
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  Sustainable forestry investment under the Clean Development Mechanism: The Malaysian case

  HWWA Institute of International Economics / Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv, 2002

  In the light of the development of the Malaysian forestry sector in recent years, the article gives an overview over the current discussions around the inclusion of biological carbon sink projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol.With the aim of facilitating sustainable forestry development as part of the CDM and contributing to development goals, the author rec
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  A guide to World Resources 2002-2004: decisions for the Earth: balance, voice, and power

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2003

  World Resources 2002-2004 focuses on the importance of good environmental governance and explores how citizens, government managers and business owners can foster better environmental decisions. The report argues that better environmental governance is one of the most direct routes to fairer and more sustainable use of natural resources.

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