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  International ocean governance: using international law and organizations to manage marine resources sustainably

  World Conservation Union, 2001

  This comprehensive document provides an overview of the array of international conventions and organizations governing ocean use.In the context of an increasing focus on regional and large scale oceans management, the book discusses the legal context of cross-boundary management and ways of targeting international legal instruments to solve specific oceans problems.
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  Impacts of Environmental Change on Fauna and Flora and Associated Ecosystems. A Bibliography

  Wildlife Interest Group, American Society of International Law, 2002

  This bibliography of peer-reviewed and gray literature (including journal articles, newspaper articles, reports and materials on the Internet) focuses on environmental change (defined therein as global warming or ozone depletion) and its impacts on flora and fauna species and critical supporting ecosystems, as well as agricultural resources. 3386 citations have been included to date and the bib
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  Natural resource abundance and human capital accumulation

  University of California, Berkeley Library, 2002

  This study examines indicators of human capital accumulation together with data for natural resource abundance and rents in a panel of 102 countries running from 1970 to 1999.The main conclusions are: mineral wealth makes a positive and marked difference on human capital accumulationmatching on observables reveals that cross-country results are not driven by a third factor such as o
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  Issues linked to Convention on Biological Diversity in the WTO negotiations implementing Doha mandates.

  Center for International Environmental Law, 2002

  This document analyses the content of TRIPS and CBD related mandates contained in the Ministerial texts approved at Doha. It aims at providing developing countries with suggestions for common action in the relevant WTO bodies.
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  Is trade good or bad for the environment?: sorting out the causality

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2001

  The authors ask whether economic growth eventually brings environmental improvement and whether cross-border integration helps or hurts in this process. That first question is the much-studied environmental Kuznet's curve, while the second is the focus of this paper.There is an apparent positive correlation between openness to trade and some measures of environmental quality.
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  International symposium on women in Asian fisheries

  The WorldFish Center, 2001

  This site contains documents from all speeches held at the symposium.Papers include:women in Asian fisheries: a generalist's perspectiveThe role of networks in addressing research and development issues on women in fisheriesempowerment of women in Asian fisheriestechnological changes and their implications for women in fisheriesstrategies for addressing gender issues thr
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  Freshwater trends and projections: focus on Africa

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2002

  This report shows that Africa has experienced the largest population rise between 1990 and 2000 of any region but still has the lowest total water supply coverage.
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  The status of natural resources on the high-seas

  World Conservation Union, 2001

  This report consists of two parts.
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  Manual on participatory 3-D modeling for natural resource management: essentials of protected area management in the Philippines

  Participatory Avenues : Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development, 2000

  The manual is intended to assist Participatory Learning and Action practitioners, non-governmental and other civil organizations, society or scientific institutions and others who would find "community-based 3-D modeling" a powerful tool enabling local stakeholders to express their views and assert their rights.The manual's content and format are designed for practitioners who would like to pla
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  Tourism and the environment in the Caribbean: an economic framework

  World Bank Publications, 2000

  The authors outline the ways in which tourism and the environment are linked. They point out that the economic benefits which tourism can bring to a country, can be severely curtailed by environmental degradation that makes a destination less attractive.The report discusses stakeholder incentives for addressing environmental problems.

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