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  Surges and ebbs: national politics and international influence in the formulation and implementation of IWRM in Zimbabwe

  Water Alternatives, 2016

  In  the  1990s, the  Government  of  Zimbabwe  undertook  water  reforms  to  redress  racially  defined inequitable access to agricultural water.
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  The political economy of conservation at Mount Elgon, Uganda: between local deprivation, regional sustainability, and global public goods

  2016

  This paper presents a case study from Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda, examining and deepening an understanding of direct incomes and costs of conservation for local people close to protected areas.
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  Tropical Forest Fire Susceptibility Mapping at the Cat Ba National Park Area, Hai Phong City, Vietnam, Using GIS-Based Kernel Logistic Regression

  2016

  The Cat Ba National Park area (Vietnam) with its tropical forest is recognized as being part of the world biodiversity conservation by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and is a well-known destination for tourists, with around 500,000 travelers per year.
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  Environmental issues in Ethiopia and links to the Ethiopian economy

  Evidence on Demand, 2015

  Ethiopia has a high-level strategy to pursue agriculture-based industrialisation with a goal of achieving middle income country status by 2025 with no net increase in carbon emissions.
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  Local content requirements in the petroleum sector in Tanzania: a thorny road from inception to implementation?

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2016

  Tanzania has recently discovered huge offshore natural gas fields. This has led the Government to develop local content policies (LCPs) to increase job and business opportunities for nationals in the sector. We study the process behind the development of these policies and the positions of stakeholders.
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  At the extremes: corruption in natural resource management revisited

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2016

  Natural resource sectors are undergoing profound changes. Resources are being extracted in more remote locations within corruption-prone developing countries than was previously the case; there is an increased proliferation of actors involved in resource extraction; and a marked shift towards renewable energy, conservation and climate change projects in developing countries.
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  Values, culture and the ivory trade ban

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016

  The new reality of a world without ivory trade demands a re-examination of human values towards both elephants and ivory and what each has come to represent. The closure of the world’s largest ivory markets (US and China), in line with the  longstanding international ivory trade ban, must reflect a change in values.
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  Mesophotic coral ecosystems - a lifeboat for coral reefs?

  GRID Arendal, 2016

  The shallow coral reefs that we all know, are like the tip of an iceberg - they are the more visible part of an extensive coral ecosystem that reaches into depths far beyond where most people visit.  The invisible reefs, known as mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) are widespread and diverse, however they remain largely unexplored in most parts of the world.  With the global climate he
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  Climate change threatens Hawaiian forest birds

  Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment, 2016

  In Hawai'i, geograpahic isolation has prevented the natural establishment of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and many insect species, such as biting mosquitoes. Isolation has also facilitated the spectacular evolutionary radiation of Hawaiian honeycreepers from a single small flock of North American finches into more than 50 species and subspecies of endemic forest birds.
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  Re-thinking the application of sustainable use policies for African elephants in a changed world

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016

  Despite increasing calls to recognise the intrinsic value of biodiversity, the need to incentivise people to choose conservation as a competitive form of land use through a sustainable use (SU) approach remains the de facto and de jure reality across most of africa today.

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