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  Inter-generational Access to Resources: Developing Criteria and Indicators [forest management in Indonesia]

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1997

  Paper makes use of data from a methodological pre-test conducted in and around Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Its purpose was to contribute to the development of principles, criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management (SFM).
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  Criteria and Indicators for Assessing the Sustainability of Forest Management : Conservation of Biodiversity

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1996

  Paper is merely a first step in creating a suitable framework for applying a proposed a set of forest biodiversity indicators and verifiers. The framework and the indicators and verifiers require field testing, and we fully expect there to be changes resulting from the field trials, which will be reflected in major improvements in their effectiveness.
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  Rational exploitations: Economic Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1998

  Paper aims to develop economic criteria and indicators that relate to the sustainable management of tropical forests. Covers the economic dimensions and issues associated with C&I design.Paper aims to synthesize some of this‘non-C&I’ literature, with a view to distilling some key lessons that are of relevance to C&I design within the forestry sector.
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  Criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, CIFOR

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1998

  Project of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) to identify key elements in forest management, i.e. biophysical, biodiversity, socio-economic or policy indicators, to provide clear information on the sustainability of the benefits and services from forests.WWW site includes full text of reports from the project, newsletter
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  Real wages and the demand for skilled and unskilled male labour in Ghana's manufacturing sector : 1991-1995

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997

  Real wage rates in Ghana have fallen substantially over the last twenty years. In this paper survey data for the years 1991-1996 is used to assess whether this fall has continued in the 1990s.
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  Rates of return on physical and human capital in Africa's manufacturing sector

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998

  In this paper two sets of issues are addressed using panel data from the manufacturing sector of five African countries. First, how high are the returns to human relative to physical capital. Second, what is the relative importance of technology and endowments of human and physical capital in determining differences in earnings and productivity across the countries.
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  NAFTA Supplemental Agreements: Four Year Review

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 1998

  Examines the objectives and accomplishments to date of the NAAEC and the NAALC.1 It also includes a discussion of the USA-Mexico Border Environmental Cooperation Agreement (BECA) which was designed to address environmental infrastructure problems in the US-Mexican border region.
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  Financial Flows and the Environmental Strategy in Indonesia in the 1990s

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998

  Examination of the rises and falls in international public financial flows to Indonesia; the re-emergence of the International Monetary Fund as a major investor in the economy; and a proposed agenda for Indonesia's environmental movement.
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  Who owns the ecosystem?

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  Paper is about how human society organizes its proprietary relationship to the biosphere and, in particular, the property implications of ecosystem management. Our premise is that ecosystem management is endangered by its "bigger-is-better" bias, the potential source of public backlash among landowners.
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  Tree Conservation Information Service

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1999

  Data on over 7000 tree species of global conservation concern, including IUCN red list category and supporting information, gathered using many sources: literature, journals, floras and most importantly contributions from over 300 botanists. The database is being continually updated.

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