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    Climate, biodiversity and forests

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998
    Highlighting the contention that climate change itself is a major threat to biodiversity this report argues that protecting biological diversity may, in fact, help mitigate other impacts of climate change.
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    New options for African countries regarding protection for new varieties of plants

    GRAIN, 2001
    Examines the international protection of new varieties of plants, and outlines the difficulties developing countries in general, and African countries in particular, might encounter in the course of implementing these Conventions.The issues are examined for: UPOV Convention (1978 and 1991 Acts) TRIPSplant variety protection recommendations and the Convention on Biological Dive
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    Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems

    Wageningen University, Netherlands, 2001
    Evidence suggests that major ecosystems can shift to alternative and contrasting stable states depending on environmental conditions. The authors propose a theoretical model for these shifts.
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    Incentive measures for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity

    World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
    Reviews the causes of biodiversity loss and suggests policy responses.
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    The links between biodiversity and poverty

    World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
    Poor people, especially those living in areas with low agricultural productivity, depend heavily and directly on genetic, species and ecosystem biodiversity to support their livelihoods. This support takes the shape of contributions to health and nutrition, reduced vulnerability, crop and stock development, and off-farm resource use.
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    Guiding principles for biodiversity in development: lessons from field projects

    World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
    Capturing the experiences and opinions of people working on biodiversity issues in some 35 EU partner countries.
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    Strategic approach for integrating biodiversity in development cooperation

    World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
    Reviews the importance of biodiversity for development and the causes of biodiversity loss, and lists key actions that need to be taken by policy makers, programme designers and coordinators, and project implementers to ensure the integration of biodiversity in development cooperation.The emphasis is on using biodiversity to contribute to, rather than compete with, effo
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    Global change and ecological complexity (GCTE)

    Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems, 1999
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    Forest maps: national maps on diversity and conservation status

    UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1999
    WCMC's data holdings on forests, their diversity and conservation status world wide come from a variety of national and international sources. These data have been compiled by the WCMC Forest Programme.
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    Conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources (FAO)

    Forestry Department, FAO, 1997
    Significant forest genetic resources are being threatened as a result of tropical deforestation and loss of genetic resources. Yet, in several countries, worldwide concern about the depletion of tropical forests still needs to be translated into action.

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