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  Tropical Forest Fire Susceptibility Mapping at the Cat Ba National Park Area, Hai Phong City, Vietnam, Using GIS-Based Kernel Logistic Regression

  2016

  The Cat Ba National Park area (Vietnam) with its tropical forest is recognized as being part of the world biodiversity conservation by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and is a well-known destination for tourists, with around 500,000 travelers per year.
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  No sense of ownership in weak participation: a forest conservation experiment in Tanzania

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2016

  Sense of ownership is often advocated as an argument for local participation within the epistemic development and nature conservation communities. Stakeholder participation in initiating, designing or implementing institutions is claimed to establish a sense of ownership among the stakeholders and subsequently improve the intended outcomes of the given institution.
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  The Importance of addressing housing, land and property (HLP) challenges in humanitarian response

  International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2016

  This paper was published by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to inform the round table talks on ‘the importance of housing, land and property (HLP) rights in humanitarian response’ held in Geneva.
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  Pushed aside: displaced for "development" in India

  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2016

  By providing a first-hand account of development projects and business activities that have caused displacement across India, this report documents and analyses the scale, process and impacts of this phenomenon.
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  From a temporary emergency shelter to an urbanized neighborhood: The Abu Shoak IDP Camp in North Dārfūr

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2016

  In early 2003, two rebel movements (the Sudanese Liberation Army and the Justiceand Eq
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  Local content requirements in the petroleum sector in Tanzania: a thorny road from inception to implementation?

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2016

  Tanzania has recently discovered huge offshore natural gas fields. This has led the Government to develop local content policies (LCPs) to increase job and business opportunities for nationals in the sector. We study the process behind the development of these policies and the positions of stakeholders.
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  At the extremes: corruption in natural resource management revisited

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2016

  Natural resource sectors are undergoing profound changes. Resources are being extracted in more remote locations within corruption-prone developing countries than was previously the case; there is an increased proliferation of actors involved in resource extraction; and a marked shift towards renewable energy, conservation and climate change projects in developing countries.
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  Civilians’ survival strategies amid institutionalized insecurity and violence in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2016

  The Nuba’s peripheral homeland of the Nuba Mountains, in southern Kordofan, is one of Sudan’s current killing fields, with high numbers of civilian casualties, of wounded and internally displaced persons, refugees, families, and individuals.
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  The future of mechanized schemes and agricultural investment in the South Kordofan State / Nuba Mountains

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2016

  This paper tackles the issue of the future of mechanized schemes and investment in the agricultural sector in the South Kordofan State/Nuba Mountains. The main objective of this study is to assess the viability of investment in mechanized scheme areas in South Kordofan, such as Habila, which witnessed the intervention of mechanized farming in the 1960s.
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  The ocean and us: how healthy marine and coastal ecosystems support the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

  GRID Arendal, 2015

  The ocean has been a cornerstone of human development throughout the history of civilization. People continue to come to the coasts to build some of the largest cities on the planet, with thriving economies, culture and communities. Ocean and coastal ecosystems provide us with resources and trade opportunities that greatly benefit human well-being.

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