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    Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in developing countries (REDD) - the link with wetlands

    Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, 2009
    This paper summarises the importance of wetlands in relation to climate change and eaxmines their potential role in the measures for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) under the Kyoto Protocol. The links between REDD concepts and wetlands are explored for the following reasons:
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    Intergrated water resources management for river basins organisations

    International Network for Capacity Building in Integrated Water Resources Management (Cap-Net) [UNDP], 2008
    Unregulated use of scarce water resources is wasteful and highly unsustainable. Integrated water management aims to create coherent policies which take into account all different user groups and overall social and economic goals. Water allocations and management decisions consider the effects of each use on the others.
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    Conflict resolution and negotiation skills for integrated water resources management

    International Network for Capacity Building in Integrated Water Resources Management (Cap-Net) [UNDP], 2008
    Conflict is an unavoidable aspect of human social systems. Given the central importance of water resources to all human communities, it is natural that conflicts arise with regard to access, allocation, development and management of the resource. This training manual provides five modules which look at the following areas: 
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    Low input food and nutrition security: growing and eating more for less

    Food & Nutrition Security and Permaculture in Malawi, 2005
    Tackling food insecurity in Malawi has moved away from emergency aid towards relief and recovery, with government policy looking at food diversification and nutrition. Produced following a nine-month study conducted in Malawi throughout 2005 involving twenty pilot projects, this manual presents a step by step and hands-on approach to achieve food security.
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    Natural resource wealth, conflict, and peacebuilding

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009
    What connections exist between natural resource wealth and violent conflict? And what do such connections imply for policies to build peace in resource-rich areas? This synthesis paper takes stock of what social science research has to say about these questions. The author reviews the academic literature on resource wealth and conflict.
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    India’s water future to 2025–2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations

    International Water Management Institute, 2007
    This research report captures the trends of key drivers of India’s water demand in the recent past, and assess their implications on future water demand and ultimately on water resources. Water demand of irrigation, domestic and industrial sectors is modeled for the years 2025 and 2050. Projections on water and food demand and supply are made as follows:
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    A Ricardian analysis of the impact of climate change on African cropland

    African Association of Agricultural Economists, 2008
    This paper examines the impact of climate change on cropland in Africa using a ricardian cross-sectional approach. Relying on farm data from an 11-country survey of over 9500 farmers, the study analyses the impact of climate and other variables on the annual net revenue. The authors confirm that current climate change affects the net revenues of farms across Africa.
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    In dead water: merging of climate change with pollution, over-harvest, and infestations in the world’s fishing grounds

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2008
    The world’s oceans are already under stress as a result of overfishing, pollution and other environmentally-damaging activities in the coastal zones and now on the high seas. Climate change is presenting a further and wide-ranging challenge with new and emerging threats to the sustainability and productivity of a key economic and environmental resource.
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    Towards integrated natural resources management (INRM) in dry areas subject to land degradation: the example of the Khanasser valley in Syria

    International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, 2008
    Using the Khanasser Valley in Syria as an example, this paper looks at Integrated Natural Resource management (INRM) as an approach to tackle land degradation. The authors argue that INRM is a better approach because of its comprehensive nature and simplification of the inherently complex socio-ecological systems.
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    From exclusion to ownership? challenges and opportunities in advancing forest tenure reform

    The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2008
    In 2002, Forest Trends reported that in recent decades governments had begun to reduce their legal ownership and control of the world’s forests. This document evaluates whether this forest tenure transition continued in the 2002–2008 period, and assesses the implications of statutory forest tenure change for forest people, governments, and the global community.

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