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Searching with a thematic focus on Environment, Environment and Forestry in Brazil

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  Favouring local development in the Amazon: lessons from community forest management initiatives

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2008

  The opportunities to profit from commercialising forest products promise to improve livelihoods in the rural Amazon, but only if local communities have ownership over the ways in which their resources are exploited. This policy brief examines case studies in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru with the aim to establish the importance of genuinely equitable partnerships in local forest management schemes.
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  The cattle realm: a new phase in the livestock colonization of Brazilian Amazonia

  Amazonia, 2008

  Ranching in the Amazon spread at an unprecedented rate over the last five years. This brief documents this recent growth and argues that it now requires additional and undivided attention on the part of government authorities, the market chain, financial institutions, scientists and civil society organisations.
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  Forests and the biodiversity convention: independent monitoring of the implementation of the expanded programme of work: summary report

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008

  This paper assesses what progress different countries have made over recent years on preserving, protecting and restoring forest biological diversity.
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  Cutting edge: how community forest enterprises lead the way on poverty reduction and avoided deforestation

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007

  Forests are not just crucial for keeping the global environment stable; they are also a lifeline for hundreds of millions of the world's poor. This paper presents community forest enterprise as a possible solution, which combines both avoided deforestation (the concept of richer nations paying poorer ones to halt planned logging) and poverty reduction.
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  Banks, pulp and people: a primer on upcoming international pulp projects

  Pulp Mill Watch, 2007

  This report examines the pulp industry’s current expansion plans as well as the implications of these plans for people and the environment. The report argues that pulp mills have severe impacts on biodiversity, water, land rights and livelihoods.
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  Amazon Watch

  Amazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental organisations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial de
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  The formation of the Brazilian environmental movement

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  Drawing on new perspectives for analysing social movements, this paper blends a variety of concepts – political opportunity structure, micro-mobilisation contexts, collective identity formation, framing processes and mobilising strategies – to examine the formation of the Brazilian environmental movement from the 1970s through to the 1990s.
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  Why ignore tropical deforestation?: a proposal for including forest conservation in the Kyoto Protocol

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This paper argues that though greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are the principal causes of global warming, tropical deforestation is responsible for 20 to 25 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions.
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  Growing exports: the Brazilian tropical timber industry and international markets

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This study investigates how plans by the Brazilian government to more than double its share of the global timber market can be achieved, The Government plans to improve the quantity of sustainably managed forest in private areas and to increase exports from sustainable sources from 5% to 30% by 2010Nine areas of concern which require urgent attention are highlighted: better business pr
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  Small and medium forest enterprise in Brazil

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This study, part of the Small-Medium Forestry Enterprises for Poverty Reduction and Sustainability project, assesses the opportunities and constraints being faced by the Small and Medium Forest Enterprises (SMFEs) in Brazil.

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