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Counting on the environment: forest incomes and the rural poor
Environment Department, World Bank, 2004This report investigates the extent to which people in rural areas of developing countries depend on income from forest environmental resources, and how this dependence is conditioned by different political, economic, ecological, and socio-cultural factors.DocumentBT cotton in China
Greenpeace International, 2002This paper discusses the issues surrounding BT cotton in China. BT cotton is the main genetically modified crop variety in large scale production in China. Recent research shows that BT cotton is effective in controlling the primary pest of cotton.DocumentBio-economic modelling for NRM impact assessment
Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004This paper discusses the various bio-economic modelling approaches and methods which can be used for simultaneously evaluating the economic and environmental impacts of natural resource management (NRM) technologies and policies affecting natural resource use and management in rural areas in the developing countries.DocumentPoverty and Environment Times (no. 2)
United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2004A collection of articles on poverty and the environment. Content includes:understanding of environment and poverty linksenvironment and health: HIV/AIDS and the environmentIsraelis and Palestinians share water in a Friends of the Earth water project.DocumentThe social impacts of payments for environmental services in Costa Rica
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003This paper analyses the social effects of the Payment for Environmental Services (PES) scheme within the Virilla watershed in Costa Rica. This is a programme where forest and plantation owners are financially and legally acknowledged for the environmental services that their forests provide to the community.DocumentThe Mepanda Unkua Project: a planned regulation of the Zambezi River in Mozambique
Association for International Water Studies, Norway, 2003This report examines the potential social and environmental consequences of the proposed Mepanda Unkua Project, a large scale dam planned on the Zambezi River in the Province of Tete in Mozambique.DocumentAir quality estimates in Taiyan, Shanxi Province, China
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2003DocumentInterdisciplinary research on development and the environment
Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2001