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  High stakes: the future for mountain societies

  Panos Institute, London, 2002

  This report looks at the threats that face mountain environments and the people that live in them. It describes a 'vertical gradient of poverty' whereby 80 per cent of mountain inhabitants live below the poverty line. The authors describe the political, cultural and social marginalisation of many mountain communities.
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  Tourism and Protected Areas

  World Commission on Protected Areas, 2002

  The six papers in this volume cover topic areas relevant to park managers dealing with visitor management.
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  Intentionally sustainable: how community based natural resource management encourages the sustainable use of resources

  Community-Based Natural Resource Management Asia Virtual Resource Centre, 1999

  This paper presents a framework to explain how CBRM programs can help people to move from unsustainable to sustainable resource use and shows how gender concerns that affect CBRM efforts fit in the framework.The author focuses on increasing the tangible, economic benefits that people perceive they derive from a resource.
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  Assessment of CBNRM best practices in Tanzania

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  This paper reports on an assessment made of best practice CBNRM projects in Tanzania.
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  Stakeholder participation in policy on access to genetic resources, traditional knowledge and benefit-sharing. Case studies and recommendations

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001

  The third objective of the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), requires the benefits derived from the commercial and scientific use of genetic resources to be shared fairly and equitably with countries that provide the resources (often biologically rich countries in the South).
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  Case study: Environmental Information Network of Ghana

  Bridges.org, 2002

  The bridges.org IICD Case Study Series on ICT-Enabled Development sets out to illustrate how information and communication technology (ICT) contributes to development in Africa.
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  Mountain watch: environmental change and sustainable development in mountains

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 2002

  Mountain Watch provides the first map-based overview of environmental change in mountain regions and its implications for sustainable development.
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  Collective action, property rights, and devolution of natural resource management

  CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2001

  Policy briefing on experience of programmes aiming to improve the management of natural resources by supporting the participation of local resource users
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  Biopiracy in the Amazon

  Amazon Link, 2003

  This collection of short case studies is produced by Amazon Link with the objective of highlighting the obstacles posed by biopiracy to the development of a sustainable trade in Amazon forest products.Each case study outlines the indigenous use of each forest product, it's perceived economic potential and the patents applied to that product and/or its derivatives.
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  Effects of household dynamics on resource consumption and biodiversity

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  Whilst human population size and growth rate are often considered important drivers of biodiversity loss the authors of this paper argue that aggregate demographic statistics mask substantial changes in the size and number of households and, consequently , their effects on biodiversity.

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