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    Tenure security and forest tenure reform in China

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
    This study assesses the determinants of forestland allocation to households in the forest tenure reforms in China in the period 1980-2005. It also examines the current level of tenure security on forestland and how this tenure security is affected by past and more recent policy changes.
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    Best practices in environmental information management in Africa: the Uganda case study

    Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2009
    This report provides a snapshot of both the successes achieved and challenges faced in managing environmental data and information in Uganda, providing some relevant recommendations. The report firstly states that the data collection and information management infrastructure in the country is still very weak.
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    Vital forest graphics: stopping the downswing?

    Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2008
    This atlas focuses on a number of selected issues that are topical and important in terms of forests. The atlas examines changes in forest cover in various parts of the world over the last century. It also provides an analysis of the most salient features of the largest forest ecosystems, as well as the boreal forests.
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    Uganda: atlas of our changing environment

    Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2009
    This atlas uses remotely sensed data, ground photographs and graphics to provide evidence on both positive and negative environmental changes in Uganda. The report aims at serving as a tool for informing decision-making processes in Uganda.
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    Review of the Embassy’s development assistance portfolio: environment and climate change “greening and climate proofing of the portfolio”

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009
    This paper tries to identify possible ways and means of addressing appropriate climate change and environmental concerns in existing Norwegian programmes and projects in Uganda. For Norway, the priority areas are:
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    Gender review: mainstreaming gender in the development portfolio of the Norwegian embassy in Ethiopia

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009
    This paper includes a gender review of the Norwegian embassy’s portfolio in Ethiopia on natural resource management and food security. The paper aims at identifying ways and means of addressing and integrating women’s and gender concerns into the current agreements within present framework and budgets.
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    More than rain: identifying sustainable pathways for climate adaptation and poverty reduction

    Development Fund, Norway, 2008
    This report aims to contribute to the increased understanding of how to integrate climate change adaptation in poverty reduction projects and programs in ways that increase the capacity of individuals, households and communities to respond to climate variability and change.
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    Fiction, facts and future: Norad’s assistance to water supply and sanitation development in Tanzania and Kenya during the 70s, 80s and 90s

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2008
    The main purpose of this report is to provide an update on the status of the Norwegian investments made on the water supply and sanitation sector in Tanzania and Kenya during the 1970s, 80s and 90s. The report aims at drawing lessons from these programmes for the benefit of future programmes in water and sanitation world wide.
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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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    The last stand of the orangutan – state of emergency: illegal logging, fire and palm oil in Indonesia’s national parks

    UNEP Environmental Law Programme, 2007
    Orangutans survive only in the dwindling tropical rainforests of Borneo and northern Sumatra, being dependent on the forest for food and nesting sites. This document describes how orangutan populations are seriously affected when their forest is destroyed or logged, not least because they are often killed for meat or to protect newly planted crops.

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