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    Establishing indicators for urban poverty-environment interaction in Tanzania: The case of Bonde la Mpunga, Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2008
    This report is a case study of Bonde la Mpunga, a wetland in Dar es Salaam which was formerly used for rice growing. It is an area abundant in natural resources with fishing being the main economic activity. It is a sprawling unplanned place which continues to attract people because of cheap accommodation and its proximity to Dares Salaam.
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    Environmental goods collection and children’s schooling: evidence from Kenya

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
    This study examines the link between environmental goods collection and children's schooling in Kenya. It proposes that, as resources becomes more scarce, households will invest more time in collecting them and this will adversely affect the children’s school attendance and performance.The main findings of the study are:
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    Lessons from citizen activism in Uganda

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    This paper highlights the role played by citizens who launched a campaign to prevent Uganda’s celebrated natural forest, the Mabira Central Forest Reserve, from being donated to a private sugar-growing and processing company. The paper presents tactics from this campaign as a lesson for approaching broader issues of governance.
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    Effectiveness of bylaws in the management of natural resources

    CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2008
    This paper discusses the historical changes in power delegation from central origins to secondary institutions. The analysis covers the rise of bylaws across the Western African countries and links the multiplicity of bylaws to the spread of the decentralisation movement. West Africa is an environmentally diverse region that is poor, growing rapidly, and losing valuable natural resources.
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    Rising temperatures, rising tension: climate change and the risk of violent conflict in the Middle East

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2009
    Climate models are predicting a hotter, drier and less predictable climate in the Middle East, a region already considered the world's most water-scarce and where, in many places, demand for water already outstrips supply. This report addresses the links between climate change, peace and conflict.
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    Food crisis and the global land grab

    This website contains news and commentary about the global rush to buy up or lease farmlands abroad as a strategy to secure basic food supplies or simply for profit.
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    Rights-based approaches: exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2009
    The links between the realisation of human rights and the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity are receiving increasing attention worldwide. Experience has demonstrated that exclusionary approaches to conservation can undermine those same rights of affected communities and can undermine conservation objectives.
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    What's driving the wildlife trade? A review of expert opinion on economic and social drivers of the wildlife trade and trade control efforts in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam

    World Bank Research, 2008
    This paper discusses the findings of a study  on the economic and social drivers of the wildlife trade in four south-east Asian countries, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR and Vietnam. It assesses the effectiveness of interventions that have been employed to halt illegal and unsustainable trade in their native flora and fauna.
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    ForestryNepal

    This website aims to facilitate online networking among Nepalese foresters, to provide a platform to share news and information on forestry sector of Nepal and to promote forest science among general
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    Migration, climate change and the environment

    International Organization for Migration, 2009
    Environmental factors have long had an impact on global migration flows. Although there is limited reliable data on the subject, the scale of such flows, both internal and cross-border, is expected to rise significantly over the next decades as a result of climate change.

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