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  Ecological footprinting

  European Parliament, 2001

  This technical paper is a report to the Scientific and Technological Options Assessment panel of the European industry, research and energy division.
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  Advancing sustainable resource management: using ecological footprint analysis for problem formulation, policy development, and communication

  Redefining Progress, 2001

  This paper is divided into three sections.
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  Closing the gap: information, participation and justice in decision-making for the environment

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002

  The study reports on the early findings of an innovative approach to measuring progress in implementing Principle 10 (known as the “Access Principles”) of the Rio Declaration at the national level.
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  Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2002

  The paper states that sustainability requires living within the regenerative capacity of the biosphere.
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  The human footprint and the last of the wild

  Wildlife Conservation Society, 2002

  This paper describes the methodology used to produce a map of the human footprint, that is human impact and resource use on Earth.The authors used four types of data as proxies for human influence:population densityland transformationaccessibilityelectrical power infrastructureThe authors used nine existing datasets of terrestrial human infrastructure and population,
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  Assessing the ecological footprint

  Environmental Assessment Institute / Institut for Miljøvurdering, Denmark, 2002

  This report sets out to assess the scientific validity of what it calls the WWF's 'doomsday prophecy', as outlined in the NGO's Living Planet Report 2002.
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  Potential carbon mitigation and income in developing countries from changes in use and management of agricultural and forest lands

  Essex University, 2001

  This paper explores the opportunities for mitigating atmospheric carbon emissions and generating development income in developing countries through a combination of sustainable agricultural practices on existing lands, slowing tropical deforestation, and reforesting degraded lands.The analysis shows that over the next ten years, forty-eight major tropical and subtropical developing countries ha
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  IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2002

  IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2002

  The list is presented as a website. Summary statistics are available and a summary comparison with lists from previous years.The complete database of species can be searched by name, family, extent of threat and country.
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  The economic valuation of biological diversity

  Mekonginfo, 1999

  This paper is based on the hypothesis that the failure to allocate economic values to the respective components of biological diversity is one of the causes of decreases in diversity.
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  The global coral reef crisis: trends and solutions

  Reef Check, 2002

  The document summarises data collected by volunteer teams worldwide to assess the status of the world's coral reefs. Monitoring was carried out from 1997 through 2001 at over 1500 reefs in the Atlantic, Indo-pacific and Red Sea.Surveyors measure fish abundance, shellfish abundance, evidence of human impact and living coral cover.

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