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Cost Benefit Analysis of Private Sector Environmental Investments: A Case Study of the Kunda Cement Factory
International Finance Corporation, 1999Considers the case of a cement plant in Estonia and tries to answer the question: how do the (private) costs of curbing pollution compare to the (social) benefits to the population? While it is often easy to estimate costs, it is exceedingly difficult to capture the benefits, especially in developing and transition countries.DocumentLand, Forests and People in Finnish Aid in Zanzibar: Some Preliminary Observations
Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1998Sets out to examine the question of aid provision. As part of a general study on Finnish aid, the main focus is on two projects in Zanzibar: Zanzibar Forestry Project (ZFP) and Zanzibar Integrated Lands and Environment Management (ZILEM) project. This study centres on initial research carried out in Dar es Salaam (documentary) and Unguja (documentary, observational and in-depth interviews).DocumentParticipation and Sustainability: Partners in Conflict?: The Case of the East Usambara Catchment Forestry Project (EUCFP), Tanzania
Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1998Discusses the concepts of participation and sustainability and how we see them in the context of the EUCFPDocumentThe Importance of the Local Government in the Management of the Costal Line in Chile: The case of the Sixth Region
International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998Paper on the legal and policy issues relating to the integrated management of the coastal area of Chile.DocumentThe Financial Crisis in Asia. Statement by Marcus Noland (IIE)
Institute for International Economics, USA, 1998The main points of this testimony are that :events in Asia will slow US economic growth, and increase the US trade deficit on the order of $50 billion in the medium-run, with most of this increase generated by trade with Japan and South Korea.DocumentCase Study of the Women's Health Care Foundation, Quezon City, Philippines
Family Health International, 1997The Women's Health Care Foundation seeks to expand women's health care services "beyond the womb." Established in 1980, the Foundation works to meet the diverse health needs of Philippine women throughout their life cycle, broadening services beyond the traditional maternal-child health programs to include services for adolescents and postmenopausal women; counseling on sexually transmitted diseaDocumentShifting Cultivators as Agents of Deforestation: Assessing the Evidence
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998Increasing concern on two fronts - the international environmental movement and growing interest in biodiversity conservation - has brought shifting cultivation back into the foreground of rural development forestry. Opinions remain divided as to the part that shifting cultivation plays in accounting for the high levels of deforestation in the tropics.DocumentAssessing "Participation" in Forest Management: Workable Methods and Unworkable Assumptions
Center for International Forestry Research, 1996Paper reports the results of a pre-test in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, of four methods designed to assess the level and nature of participation by local people in forest management quickly and easily. Two of the methods --- the "Iterative Continuum Method" (ICM) and the participatory card sorting method --- were deemed helpful.DocumentAssessing People's Perceptions of Forests in Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve [Kalimantan, Indonesia]
Center for International Forestry Research, 1996Previous research identified three important issues of relevance to forest people's roles in sustainable forest management which we address here: the presence of a "conservation ethic", a feeling of closeness to the forest, and a significant forest-culture link.DocumentInter-generational Access to Resources: Developing Criteria and Indicators [forest management in Indonesia]
Center for International Forestry Research, 1997Paper makes use of data from a methodological pre-test conducted in and around Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Its purpose was to contribute to the development of principles, criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management (SFM).Pages