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  Environment and development decision making in Africa 2006-2008

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2008

  The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) is the primary ministerial level forum for environment and development issues in Africa. It has helped launch various environmental initiatives at the regional level, and these have greatly influenced environmental policy in Africa.
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  Biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asian timber concessions: a critical evaluation of policy mechanisms and guidelines.

  Ecology and Society, 2008

  This paper assesses the tools and guidelines that have been developed to promote sustainable forest management (SFM) and the progress that has been made in Southeast Asia toward better logging practices. It specifically focuses on practices relevant to biodiversity issues.
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  Accounting for the ecological dimension in participatory research and development: lessons learned from Indonesia and Madagascar

  Ecology and Society, 2008

  At the interface of environmental and social issues, not enough is known about the links between policies, regionally important biophysical factors, local natural resource management sustainability,
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  Will agroforests vanish? The case of Damar Agroforests in Indonesia

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2008

  Resin producing agroforestry in the Krui area of Sumatra in Indonesia is presented as an environmentally friendly, income generating land-use system which contributes to both development and conservation objectives. This paper studies the change in household income portfolios in three communities in the Krui area with the aim of answering five research questions:
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  The cattle realm: a new phase in the livestock colonization of Brazilian Amazonia

  Amazonia, 2008

  Ranching in the Amazon spread at an unprecedented rate over the last five years. This brief documents this recent growth and argues that it now requires additional and undivided attention on the part of government authorities, the market chain, financial institutions, scientists and civil society organisations.
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  Another inconvenient truth

  Oxfam, 2008

  Biofuels are presented in rich countries as a solution to two crises: the climate crisis and the oil crisis. However, this Oxfam Briefing Paper argues that they are not be a solution to either, and instead are contributing to a third: the current food crisis.
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  Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, UK (CRE)

  Centre for Rural Economy (CRE) is an academic research centre specialising in interdisciplinary social science and applied policy research into issues around rural development.
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  Links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: situation analysis for arid and semi-arid lands in southern Africa

  Eldis Poverty Resource Guide, 2008

  Humans have always depended upon natural ecosystems to supply a range of services useful for their survival and well-being. However, with widespread urbanisation, modernisation, and globalisation, along with the primacy of capitalist economic models, the obvious reliance of humans on ecosystems has become diluted for many, and difficult to maintain for others.
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  How the water flows: a typology of irrigation systems in Afghanistan

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2008

  This paper develops and presents a typology of irrigation systems in Afghanistan. The report is intended to enhance knowledge of irrigation methods and management with the aim of improving system performance and productivity.
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  A review of tools for incorporating community knowledge, preferences, and values into decision making in natural resources management

  Ecology and Society, 2007

  A number of tools are available to elicit the knowledge, values, and preferences of communities. This paper provides a review of a selection of participatory tools in the analysis, synthesis, and decision making related to natural resource management and policy. A framework for analysis is established by identifying a set of criteria for evaluating each tool.

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