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    Sustainable livelihood opportunities and resource management in coastline communes facing special difficulties

    Overseas Development Institute, 2004
    What are the livelihoods and poverty issues facing coastline communes in Vietnam? How can poverty alleviation programmes best respond to them? This publication reports on research carried out for the Government of Vietnam to inform a new national programme supporting infrastructure development in coastal areas exposed to harsh conditions.
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    Payments for ecosystem services: getting started. A primer

    The Katoomba Group's Ecosystem Marketplace, 2008
    Designed to provide the reader with a solid understanding of what Payments for Ecosystem Service (PES) are and how they work, this primer is intended for an audience interested in exploring the potential of PES — either as prospective PES sellers themselves or as staff of organisations that work directly with communities or landowners who may be interested in PES.
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    Biofuels - at what cost? Government support for biodiesel in Malaysia

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2008
    Focusing on government support policies, this report examines the history and status of the biofuel industry in Malaysia. It forms part of a multi-country effort by the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) to characterise and quantify government subsidies and other support for biofuel production, distribution and consumption.
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    Rights-based approaches to forest conservation

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2008
    In context of the recent emergence of the debate on rights-based approaches (RBA) to conservation, this paper provides a collaborative piece of work on the constitution of RBA’s and some of the key issues surrounding them. It also looks at some examples from countries where there is a need for RBA’s.
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    WWF discussion paper: policy approaches and positive incentives for REDD

    Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Programme Office, WWF, 2008
    This paper aims to provide an overview to potential policy approaches and positive incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in the post-2012 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In particular, the paper discusses the potential implications or key elements for consideration when determining positive incentives for REDD.
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    Eldis key issues page: Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)

    Eldis Environment Resource Guide, 2008
    The concept of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) - also called Payments for Environmental Services - has received substantial interest in recent years as a way of creating positive economic incentives to change human behaviour in ways that increase or maintain environmental services, such as watershed protection, the sequestration of carbon and the provision of habitat for endangered species.
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    Human-elephant conflict mitigation: a training course for community-based approaches in Africa (participant's manual)

    2007
    Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) is a complex and pervasive problem that occurs throughout the range of the African elephant wherever elephants and people share the same habitat, often competing for the same resources. [adapted from author] This training manual aims to train African wildlife managers in HEC mitigation.
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    Human-elephant conflict mitigation: a training course for community-based approaches in Africa (trainer's manual)

    The People & Wildlife Initiative, 2007
    Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) is a complex and pervasive problem that occurs throughout the range of the African elephant wherever elephants and people share the same habitat, often competing for the same resources. [adapted from the authors] This training course aims to train African wildlife managers in HEC mitigation. 
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    Land and decentralisation in Senegal

    Drylands Programme, IIED, 2008
    Land and decentralisation policies in Senegal have been closely linked since the country became independent in 1960.
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    The status of rural poverty in the Near East and North Africa

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2007
    Poverty in the Near East and North Africa region (NENA) is mainly a rural phenomenon. Almost half (48%) the area’s population lives in rural areas. This report focuses on key rural poverty issues in 13 diverse countries in the region, without attempting to propose policy or programme actions at national or local levels.

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