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    The Amazon’s vicious cycles: drought and fire in the greenhouse - ecological and climatic tipping points of the world’s largest tropical rainforest, and practical preventive measures

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2007
    The Amazon forest greatly influences the global climate and may be coming under increasing threat due to climate change. This report explores the relationship between the Amazon, climate, and the changes in this relationship that are underway as a result of forest destruction and the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.
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    Legalising women’s land rights in Lao PDR and Bolivia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Since the 1980s, governments and donors in many developing countries have promoted land titling. However, women still face major challenges to having their land rights recognised, despite official support for equal land titling.
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    Potential and challenges of payments for ecosystem services from tropical forests

    Policy and Environment Programme, ODI, 2008
    ‘Forest carbon’ has taken centre stage due to the urgency to mitigate climate change. One possible avenue to conserve carbon storing forests is through “payments for ecosystem services” (PES) schemes, which are voluntary or conditional agreements between a seller and buyer of environmental services.
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    Connecting small enterprises in ways that enhance the lives of forest-dependent people

    Unasylva, FAO, 2007
    Small and medium forest enterprises are the norm in many developing countries. They have much to offer in terms of poverty reduction. But they are often isolated from structures that might help them make that contribution - from markets, financial and business development service providers, and policy processes.
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    Optimal taxation in the forestry sector in the Congo Basin: the case of Gabon

    IMF Publications, 2007
    The key challenge for the Congo basin countries is to manage their forests in a sustainable manner while obtaining a fair share for their exploitation. This paper uses Gabon as a case study. It contends that tax policy should be used exclusively for revenue purposes and resource preservation should be achieved mainly through legislation and enforcement.
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    Link between spirit forest and biodiversity conservation: case study at Son la province

    Research Center for Forest Ecology and Environment, Vietnam, 2007
    This study examines spirit forest in two communities in Son la province, Vietnam.  Using a participatory approach, it analyses traditional regulation, local knowledge on spirit forest and community forest protection. Standard vegetation measurements were also carried out in several spirit forests in Son la province.
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    Natural capital - financing forest certification in Malaysia

    Global Forest and Trade Network GFTN/WWF, 2007
    What are the key challenges and opportunities involved in financing forest certification in Malaysia? This report explores economic and market aspects of responsible forestry and certification as well as the current relationship between the financial sector and the forest industry.
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    Sudan post-conflict environmental assessment

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2007
    Despite a peace agreement with the south and a fast-growing economy, Sudan faces critical environmental issues including land degradation, deforestation and the impacts of climate change, that threaten the Sudanese people’s prospects for long-term peace, food security and sustainable development.
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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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    Pulp Mill Watch

    Urgewald has also set this website to document the problems caused by the pulp industry's operations around the world.

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