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Monitoring land cover dynamics in sub-saharan Africa
European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2006Over the last 25 years civil disturbances, drought, population increases and global market pressures have all contributed in direct and indirect ways to a modification of Sub saharan African land cover.DocumentConflict-sensitive business practice: guidance for commercial reforestation in Colombia
International Alert, 2006This manual is an adapted version of the Conflict-Sensitive Business Practice (CSBP) toolbox which applies the CSBP methodology to the Colombian reforestation sector in Colombia. The manual discusses the national information related to planted forests as well as conflict management and resolution.DocumentThe Chad-Cameroon oil & pipeline project: a project non-compliance report
Forest Peoples Programme, 2007This report assesses the role of the World Bank in the funding and management of the Chad-Cameroon oil and pipeline project. The report argues that the project has fueled violence, impoverished people in the oil fields and along the pipeline route, exacerbated the pressures on indigenous peoples and created new environmental problems.DocumentRegulating the commons in Mauritania: local agreements as a tool for sustainable natural resource management
International Association for the Study of Common Property, 2006Natural resource management is Mauritania is a complex pluri-legal affair, with tribal law, colonial French law and modern state law coexisting and often contradicting. One approach of dealing with these codes, and at the same time, the various stakeholders, is to establish local agreements (LAs).DocumentThe Western Sahara conflict: the role of natural resources in decolonization
Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2006This collection of articles looks at the role of natural resources in Western Sahara and outlines the framework for Western Sahara’s independence from Morocco.There is no doubt that the question of the natural resources of Western Sahara such as fish, oil and phosphates has been the main reason for the interest in the area in question.DocumentThe intersection of decentralization and conflict in natural resource management
International Development Research Centre, 2005This study seeks to contribute to the analysis of decentralisation reforms by examining the role of decentralisation in generating, exacerbating or otherwise influencing conflict.DocumentNatural resource conflict management case studies: an analysis of power, participation and protected areas
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003This report presents a collection of case studies which focus on processes of conflict management and resolution and the different ways and means that conflicts are addressed.DocumentConflicts in Joint Forest Management: cases from South Rajasthan, India
Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2003Joint Forest Management (JFM) has been an important step for improving amangement and governance of forests in India. However, conflicts and conflict resolution arrangements in the JFM framework are one area where there is urgent need for attention.DocumentBeyond Boundaries: Transboundary Natural Resource Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
Biodiversity Support Programme, 2001This publicaiton provides an overview of the background and current status of Transboundary Natural Resource Management (TBNRM) initiatives.DocumentThe process of institution building to facilitate local biodiversity management
Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2002This paper examines theoretical approaches and practical experiences on local participation and the use of local institutions to improve biodiversity management.Pages