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  Cross-sectoral toolkit for the conservation and sustainable management of forest biodiversity

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008

  The pressures from sectors such as agriculture, mining, or energy on forest biodiversity require cross-sectoral approaches for the conservation and sustainable management of forests. This tool-kit summarises information on policy approaches that aim to minimize the negative impacts of other sectoral policies on forests and forest biodiversity. 
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  Forests and water

  Unasylva, FAO, 2008

  Water-related problems are an increasingly important challenge to sustainable development, and the availability and quality of water are strongly influenced by forests.
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  Cutting edge: how community forest enterprises lead the way on poverty reduction and avoided deforestation

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007

  Forests are not just crucial for keeping the global environment stable; they are also a lifeline for hundreds of millions of the world's poor. This paper presents community forest enterprise as a possible solution, which combines both avoided deforestation (the concept of richer nations paying poorer ones to halt planned logging) and poverty reduction.
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  The Amazon’s vicious cycles: drought and fire in the greenhouse - ecological and climatic tipping points of the world’s largest tropical rainforest, and practical preventive measures

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2007

  The Amazon forest greatly influences the global climate and may be coming under increasing threat due to climate change. This report explores the relationship between the Amazon, climate, and the changes in this relationship that are underway as a result of forest destruction and the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.
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  Potential and challenges of payments for ecosystem services from tropical forests

  Policy and Environment Programme, ODI, 2008

  ‘Forest carbon’ has taken centre stage due to the urgency to mitigate climate change. One possible avenue to conserve carbon storing forests is through “payments for ecosystem services” (PES) schemes, which are voluntary or conditional agreements between a seller and buyer of environmental services.
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  Link between spirit forest and biodiversity conservation: case study at Son la province

  Research Center for Forest Ecology and Environment, Vietnam, 2007

  This study examines spirit forest in two communities in Son la province, Vietnam.  Using a participatory approach, it analyses traditional regulation, local knowledge on spirit forest and community forest protection. Standard vegetation measurements were also carried out in several spirit forests in Son la province.
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  Sudan post-conflict environmental assessment

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2007

  Despite a peace agreement with the south and a fast-growing economy, Sudan faces critical environmental issues including land degradation, deforestation and the impacts of climate change, that threaten the Sudanese people’s prospects for long-term peace, food security and sustainable development.
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  Conflict-sensitive business practice: guidance for commercial reforestation in Colombia

  International Alert, 2006

  This manual is an adapted version of the Conflict-Sensitive Business Practice (CSBP) toolbox which applies the CSBP methodology to the Colombian reforestation sector in Colombia. The manual discusses the national information related to planted forests as well as conflict management and resolution.
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  Convergence between certification and verification in the drive to legality assurance: assessing the pros and cons

  VERIFOR, 2007

  This brief highlights two different approaches to regulating trade in timber resources: certification and verification.
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  Can payments for avoided deforestation to tackle climate change also benefit the poor?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  Avoided deforestation (AD) has become a global concern with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This paper discusses financial incentive schemes to reduce rates of deforestation and forest degradation in tropical countries may be established and considers some of the issues from the perspective of host countries and the forest-dependent poor.

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