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  Communities and conservation in West Kilimanjaro, Tanzania : participation, costs and benefits

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015

  This thesis contributes to the current debate on how to balance conservation and development objectives. The extent of land under protection globally has increased enormously over the last 30 years, and there are still plans to expand the current protected areas (PAs) and create new ones.
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  Review of the projected impacts of climate change on coastal fishes in southern Africa

  ResearchGate, 2015

  The coastal zone represents one of the most economically and ecologically important ecosys- tems on the planet, none more so than in southern Africa. This manuscript examines the potential impacts of climate change on the coastal fishes in southern Africa and provides some of the first information for the Southern Hemisphere, outside of Australasia.
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  Climate change in Coral Triangle of the Pacific Countries: supporting communities to adapt

  Asian Development Bank, 2016

  In 2010, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) launched a regional technical assistance to respond to concerns raised by five Pacific developing member countries that lie within or on the border of the Coral Triangle - €”Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, and Vanuatu, collectively called the Coral Triangle of the Pacific (CTP) countries -” regarding management of their coastal and
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  Traditional livelihoods and mining in Mongolia's changing climate: exploring the potential of cross-sectoral partnerships in achieving sustainability

  Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, 2016

  The growing scale of resource development activities accentuates the complexity underlying the sustainability of traditional livelihoods in Mongolia. At the same time, Mongolia experiences growing vulnerability to climatic variability and change, expressed in the form of intense desertification, water stress, and extreme dzuds.
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  Petroleum fund in Tanzania? Other alternatives may be better

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2016

  This Brief is an output from Tanzania as a future petrostate: Prospects and challenges, a five-year (2014-19) institutional collaborative programme for research, capacity building, and policy dialogue. It is jointly implemented by REPOA and CMI, in collaboration with the National Bureau of Statistics. The programme is funded by the Norwegian Embassy, Dar es Salaam.
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  Implication of participatory forest management on Duru-Haitemba and Ufiome Forest reserves and community livelihoods

  AJ, 2016

  The fate of the forest is usually connected with forest management systems, societal demands as well as exposure to major disturbances such as wildfires, heavy browsing animals.
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  Mega-dams in the Brazilian Amazon: towards a green, sustainable and inclusive socio-economic paradigm?

  BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2015

  In the last few decades, and especially in the wake of the recent economic crisis, the global economic landscape has been altered while developing countries, particularly those in the BRICS group, have increased their economic and political power. The recent crisis, however, is not only economic or financial; today’s world faces a major socio-environmental crisis.
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  Making a killing: a 2011 survey of ivory markets in China

  International Fund for Animal Welfare, 2016

  An unprecedented surge in ivory seizures occurred in 2011. Media reported that 5,259 elephant tusks were seized worldwide in that year alone, representing the lives of at least 2,629 elephants. In spite of the government’s efforts to regulate the ivory trade, China continues to be the world’s main recipient of smuggled ivory.
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  From uniformity to diversity: a paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems

  IPES Food / The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, 2016

  The evidence in favour of a major transformation of our food systems is now overwhelming.
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  Land, biodiversity and extractive industries in southern Africa: How effective are legal and institutional frameworks in protecting people and the environment?

  Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2016

  In the natural resources sector, laws are often formulated to regulate the relationship between men and the environment. Ideally, the law can play a vital role in regulating and protecting communities from adverse environmental and social impacts of mining, loss of land, biodiversity and natural wealth, as well as other human rights violations.

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