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A choice for China: ending the destruction of Burma’s northern frontier forests
Global Witness, 2005This report argues for an end to unsustainable and destructive illegal logging in Burma’s north forests. Whilst the logging itself is mostly managed by relevant authorities in Burma, much of the timber is exported illegally to China.DocumentForests and floods: drowning in fiction or thriving on facts?
Center for International Forestry Research, 2005This new report from FAO and CIFOR challenges the conventional wisdom linking large-scale flooding to deforestation. The report acknowledges that forests can play a role in minimising runoff that causes localised flooding. But it concludes that there is no evidence that a loss of trees significantly contributes to severe widespread flooding.DocumentThe oil for ape scandal: how palm oil is threatening orang-utan survival
Friends of the Earth, 2005This report discusses the imminent threat of extinction to orang-utan in Malaysia and Indonesia bought about by the production of palm oil (a source of vegetable oil).DocumentGood, average and bad: law in action
Policy Power tools, 2005This tool aims to support the scrutiny and the improvement of positive outcomes of laws for rural communities. It explores the reasons behind variable practical outcomes (good, average and bad) then suggests changes in how to develop laws, put them into practice or enforce them.DocumentIndigenous control and sustainability of common resources in the hills of North East India
Gauhati University, Assam, India, 2005The Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India, enacted fifty years ago, allows autonomy to tribal communities in administrative, legislative and financial matters and was supposed to protect them from domination and exploitation by external forces.DocumentSocial and environmental risk factors in the emergence of infectious diseases
Nature Publishing Group, 2004This article from Nature Medicine Supplement looks at the emergence over the past 30 years of new diseases such as HIV and AIDS, Ebola, hepatitis C, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and avian influenza, alongside the resurgence of "old" diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) and cholera. The authors argue that these trends are influenced by multiple social and environmental factors.DocumentGreasy palms – palm oil, the environment and big business
Friends of the Earth, 2003This report summarises two separate Friends of the Earth reports on, respectively, the increasing demand for palm oil in developed countries, and the social and environmental impacts of palm oil cultivation in Southeast Asia - focussing particularly on Indonesia.DocumentDeforestation, floods and state reactions in China and Thailand
Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, 2002What factors motivate developing countries to prevent deforestation, which can cause serious environmental damage, such as flooding? Do democratic states take action more effectively than authoritarian states?DocumentBiological diversity and tropical forestry analysis [Pakistan]
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003This short report details the assessment of tropical forestry and biological diversity Pakistan.