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  Women's Major Group (The WMG)

  The role of the Women’s Major Group is to assure effective public participation of women’s non-governmental groups in the UN policy processes on Sustainable Development, Post2015 and Environmental mat
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  Environmental screening note for the proposed hospital development on Tristan da Cunha

  Evidence on Demand, 2013

  This environmental screening note documents the findings of an environmental screening mission undertaken in September 2013 on behalf of DFID. The field work has been undertaken by an environmental specialist already engaged by the TDC administration on an independent mission.
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  A horizon scan of environmental drivers of poverty

  Evidence on Demand, 2015

  This report presents the results of a rapid desk-based study of the environmental drivers of poverty, based on a review of peer-reviewed and grey literature for the last 10 years. The major non-climate environmental drivers of poverty are identified: biodiversity loss (at the global scale) and a variety of pollution and resource degradation issues at smaller scales.
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  Gender equality & women and girls empowerment: considerations for the post 2015 agenda

  Women's Major Group, 2015

  Women's Major Group (WMG) position paper on the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Post-2015 development agenda.
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  Managing water and fertilizer for sustainable agricultural intensification

  International Water Management Institute, 2015

  This reference guide is designed to improve general understanding of the best management practices for the use of water and fertilizers throughout the world to enhance crop production, improve farm profitability and resource efficiency, and reduce environmental impacts related to crop production.
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  Measuring environmental action and economic performance in developing countries

  Green Growth Knowledge Platform, 2015

  This study reviews the existing body of work on the impact of environmental policies on economic performance in both developed, and, where available, developing countries.
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  Building resilience to environmental change by transforming gender relations

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014

  This briefing is based on a workshop which brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss why gender relations are still largely absent from debates on climate change and disasters, what misconceptions may exist, and to define the broad lines of a forward-looking action research agenda.
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  Factors affecting local ecological knowledge and perceived threats to the kori bustard (Ardeotis kori struthiunculus) in the Serengeti Ecosystem, Northern Tanzania

  Academic Journals, 2014

  This study examines local tribal knowledge regarding the ecology of the kori bustard (Ardeotis kori struthiunculus) and assessed threats to this species in Northern Serengeti communities. A picture of an indigenous kori bustard was presented to survey participants in villages in the study area.
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  Perceptions of farmers in Bangladesh to Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) as an Agricultural Pest in | Sarker | Environment and Natural Resources Research

  Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2014

  We explored the degree to which Bangladeshi farmers perceive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) as agricultural pests, as related to the type of farming and other demographic profile of the farmers.
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  The Shelf Programme: A decade of successfully helping to secure the sovereign maritime rights of developing coastal states

  GRID Arendal, 2015

  Not so long ago there was real concern that many developing States would not make the United Nations imposed deadline for lodging submissions for extended continental shelf. We can now look back on ten years of successful capacity building, technical and scientific support and see the tangible results of the pioneering Shelf Programme.

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