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    From Brazilian fields to Norwegian farms

    Norwegian Church Aid, 2014
    • Brazil has a Federal Constitution and consolidated legislation that provide for the protection of the environment, health and welfare of workers in rural areas.
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    Assessment of the socio-economic and environmental impact of tropical storm Gustav on Jamaica

    Planning Institute of Jamaica, Jamaica, 2008
    This report was prepared to document impact on affected population; estimate costs of damage and losses; identify geographically affected areas; and identify the financial priorities for rehabilitation and reconstruction.
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    Issues in captive coal block development in India

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2009
    Given the high global demand for and the ever-rising price of oil and the abundance of comparatively inexpensive coal in their own region, India and China have long been heavily dependent on it as a source of energy to meet the needs of their people, as also for national growth. China has the third largest and India the fourth largest coal reserves in the world.
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    Challenges in solar power development in India

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2011
    Despite the fact that India has 300 days of sunlight annually on average, solar power plays an almost insignificant role in the Indian energy mix.
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    An introduction to greater Mekong subregional cooperation

    Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace, 2011
    Mekong region, one of the most important economic and strategic gateways in the region, has become the focus of cooperation, integration, and development in the context of Southeast Asian and East Asian regionalism.
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    Solid waste management in Cambodia

    Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace, 2009
    Solid waste management consists of two sectors: the formal operation and the informal scavenging activities. Because scavenging contributes to solid waste management economically and environmentally and also serves as an occupation for some of the most impoverished in the city, recently it has become the focus of scholarly deliberation.
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    Water resources usage and management in the Mekong region and Cambodia: challenges and future prospects

    Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace, 2011
    Water insecurity has the capacity to fundamentally influence all segments of society and can have disastrous consequences with the potential to threaten national, regional and international security and stability.
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    Violating rights and threatening lives: the Camisea Gas Project and indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation

    Forest Peoples Programme, 2014
    This report highlights the existing impacts of the Camisea gas project in the south-east Peruvian Amazon on indigenous peoples living in ‘voluntary isolation’ (‘isolated peoples’) in the Kugapakori-Nahua-Nanti and Others’ Reserve.
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    Peru’s deadly environment: the rise in killings of environmental and land defenders

    Global Witness, 2014
    The world’s attention was be on Peru December 2014, as governments from 195 countries convened in the capital Lima for the UN Climate Conference. As delegates negotiated a global deal aimed at averting catastrophic climate change, a parallel human rights crisis is still unfolding in Peru and around the world.
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    What is legal? Formalising artisanal and small-scale mining in Colombia

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014
    Colombia’s mining sector is characterised by widespread informality. A recent census revealed that 72 per cent of all mining operations in Colombia are classed as ‘artisanal and small-scale mining’ (ASM), and 63 per cent are ‘informal’, lacking a legal mining concession or title. Large-scale mining (LSM) comprises only one per cent of operations.

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