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  The environment: key for economic growth and development in the ACP

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006

  There is a new emphasis in international and European development bodies on the need to support environmental protection initiatives as a means to reduce poverty.
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  Towards greater access to justice in environmental disputes in Kenya: opportunities for intervention

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2005

  This paper discusses recommendations for enhancing environmental justice in Kenya.Concern for the environment has increased over the years since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. Kenya has signed, acceded to or ratified many international instruments providing for access to justice for its citizenry generally and in environmental decision-making specifically.
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  Free-flowing rivers: economic luxury or ecological necessity?

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006

  This report assesses the state of the world’s remaining free-flowing rivers and seeks to answer the question why we should maintain our last free-flowing rivers. Most of the world’s largest rivers are losing their connection to the sea, and only a third of the world’s 177 large rivers remain free-flowing, unimpeded by dams or other barriers.
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  Inter-linkages approach for wetland management: the case of the Pantanal wetland

  United Nations University, 2004

  This report discusses the so called inter-linkages approach for wetland management, as to enable the creation of a regional framework for the management of the Pantanal wetland in south America.
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  The process of institution building to facilitate local biodiversity management

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2002

  This paper examines theoretical approaches and practical experiences on local participation and the use of local institutions to improve biodiversity management.
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  Biodiversity management and local livelihoods: Rio plus 10

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002

  ODI briefing paper looking at biological resources and their management, for both conservation and people's livlihoods with a view to outlining a framework for best practice.
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  Management Options for Biodiversity Protection and Population

  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995

  This overview paper stresses what most of the authors believe: that in order to successfully manage biodiversity, local residents and resource users must be involved, and the people who are affected by conservation projects must be partners in the projects, otherwise they will not succeed.

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