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    Plan Bleu (http://www.planbleu.org/)

    The Plan Bleu project works in partnership with UNEP and MAP.
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    Eldis key issues page: Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)

    Eldis Environment Resource Guide, 2008
    The concept of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) - also called Payments for Environmental Services - has received substantial interest in recent years as a way of creating positive economic incentives to change human behaviour in ways that increase or maintain environmental services, such as watershed protection, the sequestration of carbon and the provision of habitat for endangered species.
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    Eldis Environment Resource Guide

    Resource guide on Eldis website covering global environmental issues. Guide includes links to full-text online documents and directory of related web sites, events and job announcements.
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    Human-elephant conflict mitigation: a training course for community-based approaches in Africa (participant's manual)

    2007
    Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) is a complex and pervasive problem that occurs throughout the range of the African elephant wherever elephants and people share the same habitat, often competing for the same resources. [adapted from author] This training manual aims to train African wildlife managers in HEC mitigation.
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    Human-elephant conflict mitigation: a training course for community-based approaches in Africa (trainer's manual)

    The People & Wildlife Initiative, 2007
    Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) is a complex and pervasive problem that occurs throughout the range of the African elephant wherever elephants and people share the same habitat, often competing for the same resources. [adapted from the authors] This training course aims to train African wildlife managers in HEC mitigation. 
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    Andes/Amazon Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) program (ESPA-AA)

    The Andes/Amazon Ecosystem Services Poverty Alleviation (ESPA-AA) project is part of the regional situation analyses initiative by Ecosystem Services Poverty Alleviation (ESPA), a research programme&n
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    Financing sustainable forest management

    European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2008
    Despite the adoption of many international agreements over the last decades, degradation of forests and deforestation has continued. Since this is largely due to the market's failure to account for forests' multifunctionality, this issue argues that a new, holistic approach is necessary to ensure sustainable forest management (SFM) is adequately supported and financed.
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    Favouring local development in the Amazon: lessons from community forest management initiatives

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2008
    The opportunities to profit from commercialising forest products promise to improve livelihoods in the rural Amazon, but only if local communities have ownership over the ways in which their resources are exploited. This policy brief examines case studies in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru with the aim to establish the importance of genuinely equitable partnerships in local forest management schemes.
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    Land and decentralisation in Senegal

    Drylands Programme, IIED, 2008
    Land and decentralisation policies in Senegal have been closely linked since the country became independent in 1960.
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    Future forestry education. Responding to expanding societal needs

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2008
    Forestry education in recent years has largely failed to adequately respond to the dynamics in forestry practice, the demands of the job market and the challenges of new global forestry paradigms.

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