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  Environment, livelihoods and local institutions: Decentralization in Mainland Southeast Asia

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002

  This report provides an overview of the decentralisation of natural resources decision-making and management in mainland Southeast Asia during the past 20 years. It is based upon seven in-depth case studies from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Yunnan, China and comparative material from ongoing collaborative work with partners in Northern Thailand.
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  Power from the trees: how good forest governance can help reduce poverty

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2002

  IIED opinion paper which argues that forestry can offer some high-potential routes out of rural poverty. Forestry, the authors state, can contribute to food security, provide resource safety nets and sometimes enterprise opportunities where little else exists.
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  Global Environment Outlook 3 (GEO 3)

  Global Environment Outlook Report and Project, UNEP, 2002

  This high profile and detailed UNEP report is aimed at fulfilling the reporting requirement of Agenda 21.
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  Moving Towards Good Forest Governance in Asia and the Pacific

  Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2002

  A draft position paper prepared as part of Indonesian People’s Forum during PREPCOM IV of WSSD to stimulate dialogue and interest in good forest governance.
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  Indigenous knowledge, policy and institutional issues for collaboration between mountain adjacent communities and management agencies

  Mountain Forum, 2002

  This paper looks at possibilities existing within the indigenous knowledge systems, community structures, institutional management agencies and other resource users for sustainable mountain and site-based resources conservation.
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  Wildlife and poverty study: phase one report

  Department for International Development, UK, 2001

  Report aimed at producucing recommendations to DFID on an appropriate strategy for interventions which link rural livelihoods to wildlife and common natural resources.
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  Controlling the international trade in illegally logged timber and wood products

  Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2002

  This report examines how importing/consuming governments might establish and operate a system for denying market access to timber and wood products produced and exported illegally. It covers processes and procedures for identifying illegal timber, methods for denying markey access to those products, effective forms of international co-operation and the implications for WTO trade rules.
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  Non Wood forest products bibliography

  Forestry Department, FAO, 2001

  A useful and detailed collection of references for data sources and research in non wood forest products. The collection includes work from a range of disciplines including ethnobotany, economics, forest management and agricultural sciences. The reange of products described is also extensive ranging from medicinal plants to edible fungi.
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  Local actors, powers and accountability in African decentralizations: a review of issues

  Overseas Development Institute, 2001

  Using a literature review of existing theory and practice in decentralisation this paper (prepared for IDRC) reviews the most recent wave of African decentralisations to determine whether the new language of democratisation, pluralism and rights is being translated into law and practice.The author finds that, although little empirical research has been done, first indications are that there are
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  Women, men, and environmental change: the gender dimensions of environmental policies and programs

  Population Reference Bureau, 2002

  This paper examines how gender differences play a part in natural resource use, how resource depletion affects women and men differently, and what has been done worldwide to integrate gender concerns in environmental planning.The author finds that the different roles and responsibilities of women and men are closely linked to environmental change.

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