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  The environmental food crisis: the environment’s role in averting future food crises. A UNEP rapid response assessment

  GRID Arendal, 2009

  This report provides the first summary by  the UN of how climate change, water stress, invasive pests and land degradation may impact world food security, food prices and how we may be able to feed the world in a more sustainable manner. The report examines the need to get smart and more creative about recycling food wastes.
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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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  Advocacy for safe freshwater and sanitation

  Norwegian Church Aid, 2008

  This sourcebook presents advice, perspectives and case studies about advocacy for safe freshwater and sanitation.
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  From forest reserve to national park: change in legal status and impacts on livelihoods and biodiversity resources, Mt. Elgon, Uganda

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2008

  Uganda is well endowed with natural resources and some 24 per cent is at present under forest cover. However, as in most Africa countries, Uganda’s forests are in decline. Mount Elgon forest was gazetted under the Forest Department from 1938. The status was changed to a National Park in 1993. Its management was transferred to the wildlife authorities.
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  Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE)

  The Encyclopedia of Earth is an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society.
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  Forest environmental income and the rural poor

  Encyclopedia of Earth, 2008

  There has in recent years been a growing recognition of the important role played by environmental goods and services in the livelihoods of poor people. This short paper discusses methodological issues related to determination of environmental income.
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  Institutions, organizations and the poverty/environment nexus: challenges to a rights-based approach to management of coastal resources in Colombia and Ghana

  Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2008

  Coastal zones globally are hot spots when it comes to the challenges of sustainable resource management and poverty reduction. They used to be relatively under populated and placid. This is now changing due to growing population movements towards coastal zones.
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  Liquid dynamics: challenges for sustainability in water and sanitation

  STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2007

  This STEPS paper reviews past and current debates in the water and sanitation domain and takes initial steps towards developing a framework that might better address the sustainability challenges posed by liquid dynamics.
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  Helping people build a better world? barriers to more environmentally friendly energy production in China

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2008

  The first goal of this report is to identify and analyse changes that have happened in the Shell Group since the 1990s when energy companies started their ‘greening’ processes. These changes happened due to stricter environmental legislation, increased civil society pressure and media scrutiny.
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  China and UN environmental policy: institutional growth, learning and implementation

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2007

  The focus of this article is on whether, and to what extent, the major UN bodies for environmental issues – the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), the Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD), and the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) – have contributed to increased environmental awareness and institution building in China and whether they have ultimately contributed to

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