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    Development and climate change in Nepal: focus on water resources and hydropower

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2003
    This report presents the integrated case study for Nepal carried out under an OECD project on Development and Climate Change. The report is structured around a three-tier framework. First, recent climate trends and climate change scenarios for Nepal are assessed, and key sectoral impacts are identified and ranked along multiple indicators to establish priorities for adaptation.
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    Blue carbon: the role of healthy oceans in binding carbon

    Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2009
    While the reduction of emissions are currently at the center of climate change discussions, the critical role of the oceans and ocean ecosystems has been vastly overlooked.
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    Protecting the environment during armed conflict

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2009
    This report seeks to identify gaps and weaknesses in the current international legal framework for protecting the environment during armed conflict.
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    Irrigation in the Middle East region in figures

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    This FAO report aims to provide an accurate status of rural water resources management, with a special focus on irrigation, highlighting the major changes that have occurred in the last decade. In each country, the paper features major characteristics, trends, constraints and prospective changes in irrigation and in water resources.
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    Arab environment: climate change and the impact of climate change on Arab countries

    Arab Forum for Environment and Development, 2009
    Although greenhouse gas emissions from the Arab world amount to 4.2% of global emissions, the impact of climate change on the fragile environment of the region and its people is expected to be immense.
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    Evaluating dependence on wildlife products in rural Equatorial Guinea

    Zoological Society of London, 2009
    This thesis shows that two rural villages in continental Equatorial Guinea consume, produce and earn significant amounts from wildlife resources, particularly bushmeat.
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    Diagnosis and the management constituency of small-scale fisheries

    The WorldFish Center, 2009
    Diagnosis and adaptive management can help improve the ability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) in the developing world. This paper presents a framework for diagnosis and adaptive management and discusses ways of implementing the first two phases of learning: diagnosis and mobilising an appropriate management constituency.
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    Agriculture and climate change: real problems, false solutions

    EcoNexus, 2009
    Agriculture plays an important role in climate change, both as a contributor emitting greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and as a potential reducer of negative impacts. This paper gives an overview of how current and proposed agricultural practices affect climate change and how the proposed measures for mitigation and adaptation impact agriculture.
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    Fiduciary responsibility. Legal and practical aspects of integrating environmental, social and governance issues into institutional investment

    United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2009
    This report is about identifying future challenges within the financial system in order to reduce further crises like the Natural Resources Crisis. The authors integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment analysis in order to engage with companies to promote sustainable business practices.
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    Reforming wildlife governance in East and Southern Africa: the role of corruption

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2009
    This brief looks at the role corruption plays in structuring wildlife governance systems in Africa by comparing the differing governance structures which have elicited variant economic and ecological outcomes. Wildlife is an important economic asset in Africa worth billions of dollars annually. The biological diversity is a natural spectacle and priceless global heritage.

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