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  Remaining drops: freshwater resources: a global issue

  Pacific Institute, 2006

  This report, targeted at the financial sector, outlines key trends in water use and availability, describes new water-related risks and identifies strategies for the financial community to assess investment opportunities and dangers in order to reduce investment risk.
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  Namibia’s protected areas: their economic worth and the feasibility of their financing

  Wildlife Integration for Livelihood Diversification Project, Ministry of Environment and Toursim, Namibia, 2005

  With a focus on Namibia, this document investigates the economic value of the national parks system with respect to tourism.
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  How does community-based natural resource management in Namibia change the distribution of power and influence? Preliminary findings

  Wildlife Integration for Livelihood Diversification Project, Ministry of Environment and Toursim, Namibia, 2004

  What might some of the socio-political effects of communal area conservancies and community based natural resource management (CBNRM)? This document looks at some emerging issues, such as empowerment and the decentralisation of decision-making.The report shows how stakeholders in two Namibian conservancies, and those on the national level, perceive the socio-political impacts of CBNRM.
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  The environment: key for economic growth and development in the ACP

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006

  There is a new emphasis in international and European development bodies on the need to support environmental protection initiatives as a means to reduce poverty.
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  Guide to participatory tools for forest communities

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2006

  This toolkit contains a collection of participatory tools for environment and development practitioners, researchers, and local government leaders for promoting sustainable forest management and empowerment of forest-dependent communities.
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  Global environmental governance: a reform agenda

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2006

  Since environmental issues entered the international agenda in the early 1970s, global environmental governance (GEG) institutions have been developing rapidly. As a consequence, however, the GEG system has outgrown its original design.
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  When are payments for environmental services beneficial to the poor?

  Agricultural and Development Economics Division, FAO, 2006

  Payment for environmental services (PES) can encourage agricultural producers to reduce negative environmental impacts or produce positive outcomes.
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  Preventing disease through healthy environments: towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease

  World Health Organization, 2006

  How much disease could be prevented through better management of our environment?
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  Special evaluation study on environmental safeguards

  Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2006

  This report is a special evaluation study (SES) of the Asia Development Bank’s (ADB) environment policy with respect to environmental safeguards.
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  Chronic poverty and the environment: a vulnerability perspective

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006

  The relationships between poverty and the environment are highly contested. This paper highlights some of the key thinking on poverty-environment relationships, and introduces a framework focusing on the importance of environmental vulnerability in explaining poverty dynamics. The relationship between environmental sustainability and poverty is two-fold.

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