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    Challenges to managing ecosystems sustainably for poverty alleviation: securing well-being in the Andes/Amazon

    Andes/Amazon Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) program, 2008
    This report presents the results of a situation analysis of ecosystem services and poverty in the Amazon and Eastern Andes, carried out between September 2007 and March 2008. It intends to provide guidance to the Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation Programme (ESPA) programme as regards the definition of research and capacity-building priorities for the Andes/Amazon.
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    Practical approaches to transboundary water benefit sharing

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2008
    The emergence and maintenance of transboundary water management regimes rests on a complex web of inter-related factors that define incentives for cooperation. This paper considers practical mechanisms towards an operationalisation of benefit sharing in transboundary water by focusing on steps for putting the concept into practice and the lessons learned from existing cooperative efforts.
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    Saving water: from field to fork. Curbing losses and wastage in the food chain

    Stockholm International Water Institute, 2008
    Agriculture is the largest human use of water. Clearly, agricultural practices need to be targeted to reduce wastage of water. This has been the centre of attention for water saving practices for some years. But there are additional ways to save water. Food consumers and businesses have a key role.
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    Environment for African development: a sustainable future through science and technology

    Environment and Sustainable Development Programme, United Nations University, 2008
    Focusing on sustainability through science and technology, this paper looks at the key environmental challenges for Africa in the near future. It also identifies environmental best practices and addresses the need for action before looking at ways forward.
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    The Terrestrial Carbon Group (n/a)

    The Terrestrial Carbon Group develops policy recommendations to unlock the potential of terrestrial carbon.
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    Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas. Targets for comprehensive protected area systems

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2007
    Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) represent discrete sites that are globally vulnerable, irreplaceable, and commonly, the last remaining strongholds for many threatened and geographically concentrated species.
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    How to include terrestrial carbon in developing nations in the overall climate change solution

    The Terrestrial Carbon Group, 2008
    This paper argues that terrestrial carbon (including trees, soil, and peat) can be used to provide up to 25% of the climate change solution. The document focuses on the role and use of terrestrial carbon and provides guiding principles for terrestrial carbon to be effectively included in the international response to climate change, which would support:
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    The environment and poverty times

    Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2008
    The paper features a collection of short articles that focus on the complex links between environment and poverty reduction. The articles discuss how natural resources can contribute to economic growth that also benefits the poor.
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    Water, livelihoods and growth: concept paper

    Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region, 2007
    With a focus on RIPPLE (Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region), this paper looks at research-inspired policy and practice learning in Ethiopia and the Nile.
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    Depopulating the Tibetan grasslands: national policies and perspectives for the future of Tibetan herders in Qinghai Province, China

    Plateau Perspectives, 2008
    Tibetan grasslands constitute one of the most important grazing ecosystems in the world and encompass the source areas of many major Asian rivers.

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