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  What drives deforestation and what stops it? A meta-analysis of spatially explicit econometric studies

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2014

  This paper presents a meta-analysis of what drives deforestation and what stops it. The researchers find that forests are more likely to be cleared where economic returns to agriculture and pasture are higher, either due to more favorable climatological and topographic conditions, or due to lower costs of clearing forest and transporting products to market.
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  Rapid desk-based study: donor and partner programmes in sustainable forest management and fuelwood value chains in Eastern and Southern Africa

  Evidence on Demand, 2014

  Forests and trees are the source of a myriad of products, services and functions (including income) for many people living in urban and peri-urban areas, as well as for rural communities, which earn their living by responding to urban demand.
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  Food, water, and energy security in South Asia: a nexus perspective from the Hindu Kush Himalayan region

  Science Direct, 2014

  With limited land resources, inadequate energy supply, and growing water stress, South Asia faces the challenge of providing enough water and energy to grow enough food for the burgeoning population.
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  Center for Food Safety

  Center for Food Safety (CFS) is a national non-profit public interest and environmental advocacy organization with an interest in human health and the environment, curbing the use of harmful food p
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  Community based forest biomass monitoring: Training of trainers manual

  Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2014

  Community Based Forest Biomass Monitoring (CBFBM) is the monitoring of forest biomass by communities. It is a form of monitoring that ultimately aims to be ‘driven’ and ‘owned’ by the local communities and ‘guided’ and ‘facilitated’ by outside experts.
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  Achieving sustainable development in Africa: Progress, challenges and prospects

  International Journal of Development and Sustainability, 2014

  This study analyses the achievement of sustainable development in Africa using the qualitative paradigm. Using secondary data, the study results are taken to suggest mixed indicators for the progress of Sustainable Development in Africa.
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  Amazonian policy and politics, 2003-13: deforestation, hydropower and biofuels

  Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2014

  In the period 2003-13 Brazil experienced important economic and political developments: it became a much more relevant international player; its economy entered the world’s top ten; and society became more politically active and expressed its complaints more aggressively. Amazonian policy and the politics of the period developed in this context, and three issues played a central role.
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  Quality Education for Sustainable Development: A priority in achieving sustainability and well-being for all

  Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2014

  This policy brief argues that the foremost priority for educational development should now be on enhancing quality, transcending past objectives focused primarily on access and attainment (i.e. Education For All (EFA) and the Millennium Development Goals) Enhancing Quality Education should become a cornerstone of both the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the post-2014 Global Action
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  Many factors in an uncertainty future: Situation climate change among local community priority in Cambodia

  Cambodia Climate Change Network, 2014

  This research represents an initial step towards understanding the major problems identified by communities as priorities to be addressed in order to become less vulnerable to climate related risks as well as other kinds of event.
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  Factors at country level influencing choice in utilisation of energy resource potential

  Evidence on Demand, 2014

  The UK Department for International Development (DFID) commissioned this rapid desk-based study into the factors affecting choice of energy resource utilisation (with a focus on electricity generation). The results of the study will help to provide an improved understanding of the relative effect of each factor.

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