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  Payments for environmental services: a trial in Vietnam

  IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 2006

  This study looks at whether Vietnam could adopt the Payment for Environmental Services (PES) approach as part of its national conservation strategy. Using a pilot study in the country’s uplands, it investigates how such a scheme might run and assesses its impact on the environment and on the local people’s livelihoods.
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  Our precious coasts – marine pollution, climate change and the resilience of coastal ecosystems

  GRID Arendal, 2006

  Global warming events and storms are expected to increase in the future, along with significant coastal population growth and development. This report finds that it will therefore be essential to effectively control marine pollution and coastal development in order to build resilience and enhance the ability of coral reefs to recover from severe weather events.
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  Namibia’s protected areas: their economic worth and the feasibility of their financing

  Wildlife Integration for Livelihood Diversification Project, Ministry of Environment and Toursim, Namibia, 2005

  With a focus on Namibia, this document investigates the economic value of the national parks system with respect to tourism.
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  How does community-based natural resource management in Namibia change the distribution of power and influence? Preliminary findings

  Wildlife Integration for Livelihood Diversification Project, Ministry of Environment and Toursim, Namibia, 2004

  What might some of the socio-political effects of communal area conservancies and community based natural resource management (CBNRM)? This document looks at some emerging issues, such as empowerment and the decentralisation of decision-making.The report shows how stakeholders in two Namibian conservancies, and those on the national level, perceive the socio-political impacts of CBNRM.
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  Sustainable financing of protected areas: a global review of challenges and options

  World Conservation Union, 2006

  Targeted primarily at government and non-government agencies responsible for funding and managing Protected Areas (PAs), this report:assesses the recent status of and trends in PA financingexamines the concept of PA financial sustainability, describing how financial constraints can block effective biodiversity conservation in PAsexplains various financing mechanisms, reviews exampl
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  Using eminent domain powers to acquire private lands for protected area wildlife conservation: a survey under Kenyan law

  Law Environment and Development Journal, 2006

  This paper critically examines the potential of using eminent domain (compulsory purchase ) for acquiring lands for protected area conservation and makes recommendations for reforms.Under Kenyan law, the provisioning for eminent domain is in the Constitution, as well as in legislation.
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  Parks, people and professionals: putting 'participation' into protected area management

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 1995

  The historically dominant ideology underpinning conservation has been that people are bad for natural resources. Policies and practice have, therefore, sought to exclude people and so discourage all forms of local participation in protected areas.
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  Exploring the linkages between poverty, marine protected area management, and the use of destructive fishing gear in Tanzania

  Tanzania Online, 2006

  This paper is a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper focusing on the use of destructive fishing gear, which has been identified as one of the most critical issues being faced by the Marine Protective Area (MPAs) in Tanzania.
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  Conservation with social justice?: the role of community conserved areas in achieving the Millennium Development Goals

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  A great proportion of the world’s poor are vulnerable to the degradation of natural resources and ecosystems. The standard approach to the conservation of these resources (the establishment of “protected areas”) has in many cases actually exacerbated the poverty of local people by undermining traditional access and tenure rights.
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  Towards effective protected area systems: an action guide to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity Programme of Work on Protected Areas

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2005

  This Action Guide to the Programme of Work on Protected Areas describes the targets and timetables and provides an overview of potential steps, case studies, tools and resources for implementation.The first section of the Guide briefly outlines the role and importance of protected areas, and outlines the requirements under the CBD Programme of Work.The second section provides guidance for th

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