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    Mega-dams in the Brazilian Amazon: towards a green, sustainable and inclusive socio-economic paradigm?

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2015
    In the last few decades, and especially in the wake of the recent economic crisis, the global economic landscape has been altered while developing countries, particularly those in the BRICS group, have increased their economic and political power. The recent crisis, however, is not only economic or financial; today’s world faces a major socio-environmental crisis.
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    REDD+ hits the ground: lessons learned from Tanzania's REDD+ pilot projects

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2016
    Tanzania launched a series of REDD+ pilot projects in 2009 with the goal of testing approaches to reducing deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). These projects, funded by the government of Norway experimented with a range of different approaches to protect forests, while supporting livelihoods and local economic development.
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    Protected area governance, carbon offset forestry, and environmental (in)justice at Mount Elgon, Uganda

    University of East Anglia, 2015
    At Mount Elgon National Park in Uganda, local conservation authorities assert that a variety of benefit sharing schemes mitigate the negative consequences of exclusionary forest conservation and carbon sequestration for nearby communities.
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    Real-time evaluation of Norway's international climate and forest initiative. Literature review and programme theory.

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2016
    The report presents findings of a baseline for a new wave of real time evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). Two separate but closely connected studies have been conducted following an extensive literature review, workshops, and interviews.
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    Dry-season greening of Amazon forests

    Nature [journal], 2015
    Evidence from ecological studies, eddy flux towers, and satellites shows that many tropical forests ‘green up’ during higher sunlight annual dry seasons, suggesting they are more limited by light than water. Morton et al.reported that satellite-observed dry-season green up in Amazon forests is an artefact of seasonal variations in sun- sensor geometry.
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    European forest ecosystems — State and trends

    European Environment Agency, 2016
    Increasingly, strategies for the management and conservation of forest ecosystems need to deal with emerging challenges. The growing uncertainties with regard to climate change, and the rapidly changing social and environmental pressures on forest resources, have underlined the need for the sustainable management of forest ecosystems and, potentially, the need to go even further.
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    Human rights and resource conflicts in the Amazon

    Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2015
    The Amazon comprises the largest tract of tropical rainforest in the world. Numerous indigenous peoples have traditionally inhabited this region, and 25 percent of its total land area is formally recognised as indigenous territories. Such territories are an effective means of protecting the forest.
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    Indigenous peoples’ rights and climate policies in Guyana: a special report

    Forest Peoples Programme, 2014
    Guyana is a high forest cover and low deforestation country with tropical forests covering up to 85% of the national land area. The vast majority of Guyana’s forests are found on lands traditionally used and occupied by Amerindian families and communities.
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    Forest resource development in Korea

    Korea Development Institute, 2014
    During the colonial period in the early 20th Century, around three years of the Korean War that broke out in 1950 after the establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948 and the postwar period of political and social turmoil, the forests on the Korean Peninsula faced severe devastation.
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    Gender & climate change adaptation: empowering women in agriculture and forestry

    Rainforest Alliance, 2014
    In every region of the world, women are engaged in sectors that are directly affected by climate change. In agriculture, forestry, and other livelihood activities, these women are already feeling the impact of climate change; and generally experience greater vulnerability and risk than men.

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