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  Linkages between development assistance and invasive alien species in freshwater systems in Southeast Asia

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2006

  Recognising the significant impacts that IAS have on the environment, economy, and human health, the U.S.
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  Climate change and nature: adapting for the future

  World Conservation Union, 2006

  This report argues that climate change requires an adaptive management style that focuses on transparency and learning. Such an approach needs to target stakeholders in decision making and implementation at the level of landscapes and seascapes.
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  Environmental goods negotiations: issues and options for ensuring win-win outcomes

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  In analysing possible approaches for ensuring balanced trade gains in the ongoing WTO negotiations, the author suggests that a combination of special and differential treatment (SDT) provisions and environmentally preferable products (EPP) of export interest to developing countries, could offer a balanced deal to developing countries.
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  Environmental histories, access to resources and landscape change: an introduction

  Land Degradation and Development, 1999

  This paper outlines a framework for understanding the complexity of land degradation processes, their impacts, and offers insights into their remediation.
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  Family fortunes: analysis of changing livelihoods in Maasailand

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  Working in collaboration with the Belgian funded project ‘Better policy and Management Option for Pastoral Lands: Assessing Trade off between poverty alleviation and wildlife conservation (Reto-o-Reto)’, this project aims to identify the direction and drivers of change in Maasai livelihoods and analyse at household level those factors and institutions that the Maasai consider help or hinder their
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  Greenwash: critical analysis of FSC certification of industrial tree monocultures in Uruguay

  World Rainforest Movement, 2006

  In Uruguay there is growing opposition to the large-scale monoculture plantations of Eucalyptus and Pine. This has partly originated from years of campaigning by local environmental, social and trade union organisations, who have been documenting the impacts of this forestry model.
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  Water: a shared responsibility

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2006

  Many countries are still not on track to reach the water-related targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – threatening their security, development and environmental sustainability.
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  Cities versus agriculture: revisiting intersectoral water transfers, potential gains and conflicts

  International Water Management Institute, 2006

  Making better use of the water we have- instead of increasing and diversifying supply, is proposed by many as a way of mitigating water-scarcity problems. Moving water away from agriculture to uses with higher economic value is widely seen as desirable. But does this notion really hold water?
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  GM crops in India: is the government's policy stance justified?

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006

  In assessing the policy stance taking by the government of India on the issue of GM technology, the author concludes that there is not sufficient economic justification for the government to promote the use of transgenic corps.
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  Free-flowing rivers: economic luxury or ecological necessity?

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006

  This report assesses the state of the world’s remaining free-flowing rivers and seeks to answer the question why we should maintain our last free-flowing rivers. Most of the world’s largest rivers are losing their connection to the sea, and only a third of the world’s 177 large rivers remain free-flowing, unimpeded by dams or other barriers.

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