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Power to protect? Participation in decentralized conservation management: the case of Kangchenjunga Conservation Area, Nepal
Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2014This report is based on a case study of participation in and decentralized management of Kangchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA) in north-eastern Nepal.DocumentConflicting dilemmas: economic growth, natural resources and indigenous populations in South America
Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2014South American countries have experienced impressive economic growth in the last two decades. This growth, based on natural resource exports and increasing natural resource extraction, is largely dependent on the expansion of the economies of Brazil and China.DocumentThe environmental crime crisis. threats to sustainable development from illegal exploitation and trade in wildlife and forest resources
GRID Arendal, 2014Given the alarming pace, level of sophistication, and globalized nature that illegal trade in wildlife has now notoriously achieved, UNEP initiated a Rapid Response Assessment to provide some of the latest data, analysis, and broadest insights into the phenomenon.DocumentEnvironmental migration and labor markets in Nepal
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014This discussion paper focuses on how migration impacts the labour markets of receiving communities in developing countries.DocumentAfrica’s extractive governance architecture: lessons to inform a shifting agenda
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014Careful reflection is needed in examining options for streamlining and capacitating the myriad Africa-led initiatives that have emerged recently in the area of resource governance.DocumentManaging resources and the democratic order: the experience of Botswana
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009How has Botswana been able to succeed in promoting better governance, so far, where other resource-rich African states have failed?DocumentNatural resource governance, boom and bust: the case of Kolwezi in the DRC
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009Mineral extraction is the main source of employment and income in, Kolwezi, a city that has been tied since its inception to the fortunes of Congolese copper and cobalt mining and the intertwined narrative of trends in international copper and cobalt supply, demand and price.DocumentAssessment of the headwaters of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia
World Agroforestry Centre, 2012The study site of Fogera Woreda is one of 106 woredas of the Amhara National Regional State and is located in the South Gondar Zone, about 65 km north of the Regional capital Bahir Dar town, onDocumentForest governance in Africa
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009Although difficult to calculate systematically, forests play a significant economic role at the continental, regional, national and local levels in Africa. This paper sets out to provide an overview of key forest governance issues across the African continent. It focuses particularly on the experiences in western, central and, to a lesser extent, eastern subregions of the continent.DocumentResource abundance in mozambique: avoiding conflict, ensuring prosperity
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014From as early as the 1960s companies have been exploring the natural resource wealth of Mozambique. However, it is only in the past decade that the potential of these resources has been realised. Indeed, Mozambique is now thought to have some of the largest deposits of gas and coal on the African continent, and beyond.Pages