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    Water Scarcity in Bangladesh. Transboundary Rivers, Conflict and Cooperation

    2013
    It is often assumed that transboundary water systems are potential sources of conflict that can exacerbate political, social, and economic tensions and cause disputes concerning the distribution, use and management of water.
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    Rising Powers in International Development: an annotated bibliography

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    The Rising Powers – a category that includes the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as well as other key countries such as Mexico, Turkey and Indonesia – are establishing themselves as an influential presence in the global development landscape, and playing an increasingly important role in shaping prospects for poverty reduction in lowincome countries.
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    Engaging BRICS: Challenges and Opportunities for Civil Society

    Oxfam India, 2012
    The emergence of BRICS represents an important change in the global political economy. There is anticipation that the BRICS – building on their own lessons and initiatives – will play a progressive role on economic and social issues at regional and global levels. The critical view  includes doubts about the nature and coherence of the group.
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    Governing the forests: an institutional analysis of REDD+ and community forest management in Asia

    International Tropical Timber Organization, 2013
    This report examines the history, structure and monitoring mechanisms of REDD+ to better understand how it impacts upon, and interacts with, Community Forest Management (CFM). It presents case studies of CFM and REDD+ governance from Bangladesh, Indonesia and India, and concludes with some lessons learned.
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    Another BRIC in the wall? South Africa's developmental impact and contradictory rise in Africa and beyond

    2012
    Globalisation is transforming the nature of authority in international relations, as hegemony is replaced by geo-governance, involving a more varied set of actors. However, private authority over markets and resources is still often constituted and refracted through states.
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    Enhancing South-South and triangular cooperation: study of the current situation and existing good practices in policy, institutions, and operation of South-South and triangular cooperation

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    South-South and triangular cooperation has become a major subject of international development discussions. One of the key issues identified in such discussions is the lack of information on South-South and triangular cooperation implemented by different parties and the need to promote knowledge-sharing on the practices of South-South and triangular cooperation, especially existing good practice.
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    The politics of climate change in India: narratives of equity and co-benefits

    Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, 2012
    According to this paper, India occupies a dual position in global climate politics: as a developing economy with low levels of historical and per capita emissions; and as a rapidly growing economy with rising emissions. Indian climate politics have been mainly shaped around the first perspective, but it is increasingly being forced to tackle with the second.
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    Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) in developing countries: challenges and opportunities

    Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, 2010
    Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) were introduced by the Bali Action Plan in 2007 and they have since been interpreted in various ways by different countries and country groupings. A key question for the talks on NAMAs at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in 2009 and beyond is whether the different positions can be reconciled.
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    Centre for Development Finance (CDF)

    The Centre for Development Finance (CDF) combines in-depth contextual knowledge, operational expertise and academically grounded insights to achieve two main goals:
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    Respecting rights, delivering development: forest tenure reform since Rio 1992

    The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2012
    This report evaluates the progress achieved in forest management by indigenous people and local communities, which was set as a key objective at the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It presents new findings and identifies what needs to done to protect global forest areas and ensure their contributions to social, environmental and economic development.

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