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  Small and medium forest enterprise in Guyana

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This report assesses the opportunities and constraints facing the Small and Medium Forest Enterprises (SMFEs) in Guyana.Major observations from the study are:government policy towards SMFEs is complicated by the view that they are both important for rural income generation, but also less desirable in terms of enforceable sustainabilitywithin the sector profit margins are small owing
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  International initiatives to address tropical timber logging and trade: a report for the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2006

  This report examines a broad range of international initiatives to address tropical timber logging and trade.
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  Poverty environment linkages: a study of use and management of forest resources in Mahabharat tract, west Nepal

  Eldis Document Store, 2004

  The author explores the socio-economic dimension of forest resource use and management in the Mahabharat hill track of Arghakhanchi district in west Nepal.Analysis focuses on:various attributes of forest resources use and variation between regions, socio-economic and demographic groupslocal forest management systems and practices forest resource use and its related management
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  The Pyramid: a diagnostic and planning tool for good forest governance

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  ‘The Pyramid’ is a diagnostic tool providing a framework for highlighting factors that limit progress towards Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) by stimulating:participatory and transparent assessmentdialoguetarget-settingmonitoring at the country levelIt further aims to fill the ‘forest governance gap’ between the management unit and international policy level by asse
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  Governance towards responsible forest business: guidance on different types of forest business and the ethics to which they gravitate

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  Aimed at government authorities with responsibility for the forest sector, this paper clarifies what "responsible forest business" means.
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  Logging, legality and livelihoods in Papua New Guinea: synthesis of official asssesments of the large-scale logging industry

  Forest Trends, 2006

  This report summarises key findings of the Papua New Guinea (PNG) government's five reports into administration and practice of the logging industry.
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  Climate change and the forest sector: possible national and subnational legislation

  Forestry Department, FAO, 2004

  Climate change presents the world with a daunting problem. Responding to this problem will require pioneering efforts in science, politics, pollution control, forest land management and law.
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  Time and temperance: how perceptions of time shape forest ethics and practice

  Forestry and Land Use Programme, IIED, 2005

  This paper argues that natural forests cannot compete in terms of generating revenue per unit area with land use alternatives such as intensive agriculture or forest plantations.
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  Managing the environment for development and to sustain pro-poor growth

  Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006

  The main finding of the paper is that resource-intensive development in Asia has been achieved at significant environmental cost. Environmental issues such as deforestation, pressure on water supplies, and pollution from industry and energy use pose real limits to further economic growth. In many Asian countries, the cost is equivalent to one third or more of Gross National Savings.
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  Rehabilitation of degraded lands in Sub-Saharan Africa: lessons learned from selected case studies

  European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2004

  This synthesis document brings together the findings of African forest scientists operating under the umbrella of the Forestry Research Network of Sub-Saharan Africa who compiled case studies of land rehabilitation from all major ecological regions in Western- Eastern and Southern Africa.

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