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  Paying for environmental stewardship: using markets and common-pool property to reduce rural poverty while enhancing conservation

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2003

  This paper argues that environmental sustainability and poverty elimination are the century's key issues, but that they are not addressed holistically. It states that that there are many ways that environmental improvements can help the poor, and that poverty alleviation can go hand-in-hand with achieving a better environment.
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  Forest conservation and the rural poor: a call to broaden the conservation agenda

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2001

  This paper begins by asking why forest conservationists should consider poverty reduction.
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  Trade and forests: why forest issues require attention in trade negotiations

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper attempts to assess the impacts of trade negotiations on natural tropical forests, taking into account the context and regional dynamics both within and outside the forest sector.Findings:further liberalisation for agricultural products is likely to have a significant impact on forest areas, encouraging increased conversion to agricultural landWTO decisions on ecolabelling
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  Carbon accounting in forests: proceedings of an international workshop on 'facilitating international carbon accounting in forests' 2003

  CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products, 2003

  The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief introduction to greenhouse and climate change, international frameworks, carbon sequestration and carbon trading. It focusses in particular on policy relating to Australia.The paper demonstrates that increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have been identified as a major cause of global warming.
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  Private sector involvement in China’s forests: sustainable forestry?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  In recent decades the transformation of China’s forestry sector has enabled households to earn income from forestry, lease forest land and own trees. How are national reforms being implemented locally? Can the private sector help make forestry more sustainable?
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  The direct and underlying causes of forest loss

  World Rainforest Movement, 2003

  This paper assesses the underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation and the forces behind unsustainable agriculture. It demonstrates the far-reaching consequences of globalisation, in terms of land tenure policies and inequalities. It examines consumption and production patterns and the global problem with many actors.
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  Mangroves: local livelihoods vs. corporate profits

  World Rainforest Movement, 2003

  This book gathers a selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), addressing the issue of the processes leading to the destruction of mangrove forests and the struggles developed at the local and global levels to protect and use these forests in a socially equitable and environmentally adequate manner.The articles give an overview of
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  Selling timber or nature? Reconciling forestry and tourism in Mexico

  E-review of Tourism Research, 2003

  This short paper describes research is based on a comparative case study of two communities in southern Mexico: Santa Catarina Ixtepeji and Santa Maria Yavesia in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca.
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  Running pure: the importance of forest protected areas to drinking water

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2003

  This report presents arguments for the potential role of protected areas in helping to maintain water supply to major cities. It demonstrates that water provides a powerful argument for protection.
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  The World Trade Organization and forests

  World Rainforest Movement, 2002

  This paper assesses the impact of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the future of forests. It presents information from the stand point that there is a need to radically modify, what it terms as, the current corporate-led approach to international trade.It presents arguments on free trade vs.

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