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    Tropical forestry and carbon sequestration

    Tropbio Group, 2001
    This paper examines strategies for carbon sequestration, and how this is provided for under the Kyoto Protocol, with particularly attention to Malaysia's carbon sequestration strategies. Carbon sequestration is a significant technique that plays a major role in bringing down global warming.
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    The institutional paradox of community based wildlife management

    Global Development Network, 2003
    The paradox of institutional development for community based wildlife management is that a phase of co-management is a necessary requirement before community based initiatives can be established.
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    Java furniture makers: winners or losers from globalisation?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This article examines whether participation in the global economy leads to sustainable income growth. In order to this, the article analyses the furniture industry of Central Java which has grown rapidly since the financial crisis in 1997.
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    The Last Frontier: illegal logging in Papua and China’s massive timber theft

    Environmental Investigation Agency, UK, 2005
    This report exposes how these last precious forests in the Indonesian archipelago, particularly in the province of Papua are being felled illegally and sold off wholesale to China, which is now the largest consumer of stolen timber in the world.It highlights the following points:there is a complex web of middlemen and financiers from across the region responsible for masterminding the
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    Broken promises: how World Bank Group policies and practice fail to protect forests and forest peoples’ rights

    World Rainforest Movement, 2004
    This collection of articles by rainforest campaigners focuses on the role of World Bank practices in the lives of forest people's.Articles include:The World Bank and Forests: a tissue of lies and deception Ricardo Carrere, World Rainforest Movement & Marcus Colchester, Forest Peoples ProgrammeThe Great ‘Community Forest Management’ Swindle: critical evaluation of an ongoing World Ba
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    Indigenous control and sustainability of common resources in the hills of North East India

    Gauhati University, Assam, India, 2005
    The Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India, enacted fifty years ago, allows autonomy to tribal communities in administrative, legislative and financial matters and was supposed to protect them from domination and exploitation by external forces.
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    Africa Environment Outlook

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2003
    The Africa Environment Outlook (AEO) report provides a comprehensive and integrated analysis of Africa’s environment. AEO contains a detailed assessment of the current state of the environment in the region, indicates discernible environmental trends and examines the complex interplay between natural events and the impacts of human actions on the environment.
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    Who should own Indonesia’s forests? Exploring the links between economic incentives, property rights and sustainable forest management

    Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia, 2004
    Indonesia’s forests have been disappearing rapidly since the 1980s: 1.8 million hectares per year are estimated to have been deforested between 1985 and 1997.
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    A preliminary assessment of timber requirements for Aceh's reconstruction, and its implications

    Greenomics Indonesia, 2005
    In the aftermath of the tsunami, this study assesses the amount of timber required to provide temporary barrack accommodation, low cost permanent housing and reconstruction of public buildings, as well as for rebuilding the fishing fleet during the emergency response and reconstruction in the Province of Aceh.The study finds :4 to 8 million cubic meters of logs will be needed for the r
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    Dangerous liaisons: The continued relationship between Liberia’s natural resource industries, arms trafficking and regional insecurity

    Global Witness, 2004
    The report examines the links between Liberia's timber and diamond industries and the ongoing conflict and violence. The report highlights that until Liberia's timber and diamond industries are reformed so that they no longer contribute to conflict, they will pose a threat to Liberia's security and must be sanctioned accordingly.

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