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  The Global Environment Facility: the first ten years – growing pains or inherent flaws?

  Environmental Defense Fund, 2002

  This paper from environmental defence and halifax initiative takes a critical look at the the Global Environment Facility (GEF) arguing that from its creation at the Rio Earth Summit conflicting pressures and flaws have consistently led to dissatisfaction with its performance.
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  Ecological footprint of nations, 2002 update

  Redefining Progress, 2002

  The authors argue that in order to manage the world's natural resources, we must first measure them, in the same way that we account for financial resources.
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  Sustainable tourism in protected areas: guidelines for planning and management

  World Commission on Protected Areas, 2002

  This is a comprehensive book detailing the state of the art in both the theory and practice of managing tourism in Protected Areas (PAs).
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  Governing biodiversity: access to genetic resources and approaches to obtaining benefits from their use: the case of the Philippines

  Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2002

  This study explores both bilateral and multilateral approaches to access and benefit sharing (ABS) in the governance of biological resources.
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  Women and MPAs: how gender affects planning and management

  Marine Protected Area News, 2002

  This issue of the newsletter looks at issues of gender for MPAs. The main article states that decisionmaking on the use of coastal and marine resources is often principally based on the input of men.
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  FSC objectives e-conference: Final synthesis report: themes and opinions from the discussion

  Forest Stewardship Council, 2002

  This is the final report from an independent, threaded e-conference on the future objectives of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) held between October 7 – November 1, 2002.The conference discussed three main threadsIf we were inventing FSC today, knowing what we know now, what would it look like?How can FSC really start to deliver on its mission in the South?FSC started by ac
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  World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg): an assessment for IISD

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2002

  This paper provides an outline and analysis of the outcomes of the Johannesburg, 2002 world summit on sustainable development (WSSD).
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  World Conservation special issue: the species trade: CITES in the new millenium

  World Conservation Union, 2002

  This special issue of World Conservation magazine discusses the background to the CITES agreement and the IUCN position on it.The second paper in the issue discusses the need for the agreement and ways of making it more effective through legislation and enforcement.
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  Ecological education in everyday life

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2002

  This book publishes the papers from a conference in Egypt and ends a series on non-formal basic education for literacy. The editor defines basic education as knowledge transmission practices in communities, and education practices that prove useful to the needs of life.
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  WIPO moves toward “world” patent system

  GRAIN, 2002

  This paper discusses the possibility of having a world patent system, that is one bureau issuing “world patents” which are automatically valid in all countries.

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