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  Allocation and tenure instruments on forest lands: a source book

  US Agency for International Development, 2004

  This book, prepared by the Philippine Environmental Governance Project, serves as a reference guide for field personnel in guiding communities, investors, local government units, private persons and other organisations desiring to apply for tenure instruments on forest lands.The book covers all existing tenure and allocation agreements for the management and use of forest resources in forest la
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  Securing the future of forests: lessons from Namibia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Despite the efforts of many conservation and environmental groups, the destruction of forests around the world continues to increase. In Namibia, the amount of forest cleared each year has increased by 80% during the last ten years. Many people are dependant on forests for resources such as food and fuel wood, and the continuing destruction of forests threatens their livelihoods.
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  Europe and North Asia FLEG: a key task for civil society

  Fern, 2004

  Against the background of the first Ministerial Conference on Europe and North Asia Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (ENA-FLEG) which will take place during 2005, this briefing note aims to provide the first step in engaging all actors, particularly environmental and social NGOs, in this crucial regional process, both by raising key issues and by making critical information accessible as earl
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  Gender mainstreaming in Nepal; working paper 6

  Engendering Eden, Cork, 2003

  This paper explores the dynamics of gender mainstreaming in several areas of Nepal. The author begins with the premise that in most areas of Nepal women are discriminated against. Within mountain areas this is less so with the societies being more gender equitable, but women still remain relatively marginalised.
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  The role of standards-based approaches in community forestry development: findings from two case studies in southeast Asia

  Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2003

  This study analyses the effects on local forest management capacities of two community-oriented Standards-based approaches (SBAs).
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  Conflict timber: dimensions of the problem in Asia and Africa

  ARD, Inc., 2004

  As a response to the growing recognition of the connection between forests, logging and conflict, this report provides a comprehensive examination of the economic, ecological, political, social and security dimensions of conflict timber in both Asia and Africa.The study, commissioned by USAID, identified four interrelated characteristics common to conflict timber incidents in Asia and Africa:
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  Report on biodiversity and tropical forests in Indonesia

  International Resources Group, 2004

  This report provides an assessment of the status of forests and biological diversity in Indonesia.
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  A biodiversity conservation plan for Papua New Guinea based on biodiversity trade-offs analysis

  Australian Museum, 2004

  This paper reports on a rapid biodiversity assessment project that identified candidate areas for biodiversity protection in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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  Social and environmental risk factors in the emergence of infectious diseases

  Nature Publishing Group, 2004

  This article from Nature Medicine Supplement looks at the emergence over the past 30 years of new diseases such as HIV and AIDS, Ebola, hepatitis C, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and avian influenza, alongside the resurgence of "old" diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) and cholera. The authors argue that these trends are influenced by multiple social and environmental factors.
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  Reverence and responsibility in forest ethics: inserting the meaning of life back into the culture of possession

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  The paper argues that spiritual reverence and biocentric responsibility deserve a place in the foundations of global forest ethic. The author finds a pattern to copy in the African notion of ecotheandric balance - balancing the interests of ecosystem integrity, spiritual reverence and human interest.

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