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  Buying time: a user’s manual for building resistance and resilience to climate change in natural systems

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2003

  This manual is intended for natural resource managers who wish to plan for the potential and current impacts of climate change. It looks at impacts and mitigation measures (other than reducing emissions) by biome. The manual outlines practical ideas of how to begin increasing the resiliency of ecosystems and plan our protected areas in response to the threat of climate change.
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  Climate change decreases aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika, Africa

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  This paper presents evidence that climate warming is diminishing productivity in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa.
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  The economics of worldwide coral reef degradation

  International Coral Reef Action Network, 2003

  Estimates in this report state that coral reefs provide each year nearly US$ 30 billion in net benefits in goods and services to world economies, including, tourism, fisheries and coastal protection. Yet, according to this report, coral reefs are under heavy pressure. Already, 27% is permanently lost and with current trends, a further 30% is at risk of being lost in the coming thirty years.
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  Implications for coral reef management and policy: relevant findings from the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002

  The International coral reef symposium is held every four years. This book summarises key research presented at the 2000 event.
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  Climate variability and change and sea-level rise in the Pacific Islands Region: a resource book for policy and decision makers, educators and other stakeholders

  Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2003

  This book aims to provide a summary of the latest knowledge about climate change as it relates to the Pacific Islands Region.
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  Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  Using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model this report identifies the links among economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in Brazil.
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  Ecological footprint analysis as a tool to assess tourism sustainability

  Science Direct, 2002

  This article aims to provide a methodological framework for the calculation of ecological footprints related to leisure tourism. Based on the example of the Seychelles, it reveals the statistical obstacles that have to be overcome in the calculation process and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of such an approach.
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  High stakes: the future for mountain societies

  Panos Institute, London, 2002

  This report looks at the threats that face mountain environments and the people that live in them. It describes a 'vertical gradient of poverty' whereby 80 per cent of mountain inhabitants live below the poverty line. The authors describe the political, cultural and social marginalisation of many mountain communities.
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  Mountain watch: environmental change and sustainable development in mountains

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 2002

  Mountain Watch provides the first map-based overview of environmental change in mountain regions and its implications for sustainable development.
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  Preparing marine protected areas to survive global change: additional guidelines to address coral bleaching

  World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001

  This paper describes guidelines for marine protected area (MPA) design and management that take into account the significant global problem of coral bleaching.

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