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  Conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources (FAO)

  Forestry Department, FAO, 1997

  Significant forest genetic resources are being threatened as a result of tropical deforestation and loss of genetic resources. Yet, in several countries, worldwide concern about the depletion of tropical forests still needs to be translated into action.
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  Biodiversity and its value [in Australia]

  Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia, 1993

  Explains biodiversity and the three levels at which it is usually considered: genetic, species and ecosystem diversity. It also briefly discusses why biodiversity is important, especially the value of its components and diversity itself.
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  People and protected areas in India

  Unasylva, FAO, 1999

  The author critically examines recent participatory ecodevelopment approaches to the management of Protected Areas in India.
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  Management Options for Biodiversity Protection and Population

  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995

  This overview paper stresses what most of the authors believe: that in order to successfully manage biodiversity, local residents and resource users must be involved, and the people who are affected by conservation projects must be partners in the projects, otherwise they will not succeed.
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  Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will, how and when

  Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999

  Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, activists. Many continue to share despite knowing that by withholding this knowledge they could receive pecuniary advantage.
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  Biodiversity Conservation and its Opponents

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Arguments over biodiversity conservation continue to generate more heat than light. This paper reviews pro-conservation arguments, concluding that the main policy requirements are to improve the scientific basis of our understanding, and to popularise up-to-date knowledge among a wide audience.
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  Biodiversity and the appropriation of women's knowledge

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1997

  In the past few years research institutions and development organizations have 'discovered' the relevance of men farmers' indigenous knowledge of genetic resource management and, after some delay, that of women farmers as well. At the same time, attention has been drawn to the global need to conserve biological diversity.
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  Rethinking the decentralisation and devolution of biodiversity conservation

  Unasylva, FAO, 1999

  This article challenges devolution and populist approaches to biodiversity conservation and forest management by examining several of the main assumptions on which they are based.The concept of partnership in conservation is based on the following, often contested,assumptions: local populations are interested and skilled in sustainable forest resource use and conservation;contempo
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  Protected Areas: the concept and case studies

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998

  Historical development of the concept of protected areas and biodiversity, plus short case studies of Cameroon, Colombia, Spain and Zimbabwe.

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