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    Topic guide: strategic environmental assessment in practice: capturing lessons learned over the past 10 years

    Evidence on Demand, 2014
    This Topic Guide provides a synthesis of findings from eight international studies of Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs), primarily written over the past decade. These studies are based on reviews of over 100 SEAs.
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    Research and evidence on green growth

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    Emerging evidence and more hypothetical analysis suggests, that Green Growth can lead to poverty reduction, economic growth, reduced vulnerability to climate change and natural disasters, greater energy security, and more secure livelihoods for those directly dependent on the use of natural resources.
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    Rapid desk based evidence search and gap analysis on environmental degradation and pollution in developing countries

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    This study has collated information on the role that pollution (air, water and soil pollution) has played in environmental degradation and the consequences of such degradation for human well-being, poverty.
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    Climate & environment assessment: business case: effective institutions platform

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    Evidence on Demand produced this HelpDesk Report as part of a Business Case for a programme of country assistance in reform and development. The report defines the environmental context of the Climate and Environment Sensitivity Analysis, and also assigns categories for risk and opportunities as part of the business case.
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    Linking FLEGT and REDD+ to improve forest governance

    European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2014
    Section 1 of this publication introduces the two main international forest initiatives, FLEGT and REDD+. Section 2 describes interactions between various initiatives in a general way. Section 3 deals with governance, law and institutions. It includes articles on safeguards, land tenure and civil society participation, among other topics.
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    United Nations World Water Development Report 2014: Water and Energy, Volume 1

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2014
    This report provides an overview of major and emerging trends from around the world, with examples of how some of the trend-related challenges have been addressed, their implications for policy-makers, and further actions that can be taken by stakeholders and the international community. It argues that water and energy are closely interconnected and highly interdependent.
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    Human rights, climate change, environmental degradation and migration: A new paradigm

    International Organization for Migration, 2014
    With climate change and environmental degradation (CCED) predicted to displace millions of people in the near future, be it directly or indirectly, the fact that there is little consensus on the definition of CCED migrants is a cause for concern.
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    WMO statement on the status of the global climate 2013

    World Meteorological Organization, 2014
    This statement reflects on the major weather and climate events of 2013. It states that the dramatic impact of droughts, heat waves, floods and tropical cyclones were felt by people and property in all parts of the planet. 2013 tied with 2007 as the sixth warmest on record, continuing the long-term global warming trend.
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    Fact sheet. Project: Analysis of the Impacts of Urban Land Use and Climate Change on Coastal Forest Ecosystem and Management (IULUCC - CFM)

    Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2013
    Coastal forests are among the hotspots of biodiversity and therefore critical for conservation in Tanzania. However, most of the previous climate change mitigation efforts in Tanzania focused on participatory forest management in rural areas and did not address the major driving force of deforestation and forest degradation from urban areas.
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    Drought in Jalna: community-based adaptation to extreme climate events in Maharashtra

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2014
    This booklet is based on outcomes from a two-year Indo-Norwegian research and capacity development project titled, ‘Extreme Risks, Vulnerabilities and Community-Based Adaptation in India (EVA)’. The findings draw upon empirical data from rural communities in Jalna District in the dryland region of Marathwada of Maharashtra.

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