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    Arab Environment Future Challenges: 2008 Report of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development

    Arab Forum for Environment and Development, 2008
    The state of the Arab environment stands at a pivotal juncture with numerous environmental problems both current and imminently threatening the region. Among the major challenges being faced are water scarcity, land degradation and desertification, inadequate waste management, coastal and marine environment degradation and air pollution.
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    Beyond tenure: rights based approaches to peoples and forests. Some lessons from the Forest Peoples Programme

    The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2008
    Although the historical focus on tenure reforms has resulted in some important improvements in the livelihoods of forest communities, it has not prevented them from suffering social exclusion and impoverishment.
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    Participatory management of forests and protected areas: a trainer’s manual

    Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2008
    Participatory and inclusive approaches to forest and Protected Area management are not new. They have been advocated by various groups including NGOs, academics and forest resource users for over two decades. However, the interpretation and application of such approaches has remained patchy, diverse and controversial.
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    A fair share? Experiences in benefit sharing from community managed resources in Asia

    Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2007
    This book attempts to answer the question of whether the benefits of Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) initiatives will be sufficient to raise rural people out of poverty, and provide them with sufficient incentive to sustainably manage their resources.
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    Share – Managing water across boundaries

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2008
    Nations share more than 260 international river basins which cover nearly half of the Earth’s surface. As demand for water grows in all countries, these shared resources will increasingly be drawn upon to meet the competing needs of billions of people for drinking water, food, energy, and industrial production.
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    MEAs, conservation and conflict. A case study of Virunga National Park, DRC

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2008
    Focusing on the case of Virunga National Park (PNVi) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this paper looks at Multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and the impact of ongoing conflict. It also discusses opportunities for elevating environment-conflict issues to international policy levels to help save important ecosystems in times of conflict.
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    Future scenarios as a tool for collaboration in forest communities

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2008
    This paper discusses how a participatory method to facilitate thinking about future scenarios can help change the way forest communities and local governments interact. It reviews a growing body of literature on future scenarios and shares first-hand experiences in forest communities in the northern Bolivian Amazon and the central provinces of Vietnam.
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    Environmental peacebuilding theory and practice: a case study of the Good Water Neighbours Project and in depth analysis of the Wadi Fukin/Tzur Hadassah communities

    EcoPeace Friends of the Earth Middle East, 2008
    Whilst the Israeli-Palestinian conflict does not stem from an ecological cause, issues such as water supply and water scarcity, pollution of groundwater and solid waste management are important regional issues and a shared burden on all sides of the border.
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    The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity. An interim report

    European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2008
    This document aims to promote a better understanding of the true economic value of ecosystem services and to offer economic tools that take proper account of this value. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) is split in two phases and this interim report summarises the results of Phase I.
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    Analytical situations of land degradation and sustainable management strategies in Africa

    INSouth, 2008
    In the face of trends towards a widening “food gap” and general poverty, this paper attempts to address the problem by discussing the methodologies necessary for sustainable land management to ensure improved food security, rapid economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries of Africa.

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