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  Carbon accounting in forests: proceedings of an international workshop on 'facilitating international carbon accounting in forests' 2003

  CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products, 2003

  The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief introduction to greenhouse and climate change, international frameworks, carbon sequestration and carbon trading. It focusses in particular on policy relating to Australia.The paper demonstrates that increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have been identified as a major cause of global warming.
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  The direct and underlying causes of forest loss

  World Rainforest Movement, 2003

  This paper assesses the underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation and the forces behind unsustainable agriculture. It demonstrates the far-reaching consequences of globalisation, in terms of land tenure policies and inequalities. It examines consumption and production patterns and the global problem with many actors.
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  Slash and burn – are shifting cultivators harming forests?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Everyone agrees that logging and agriculture can cause deforestation. But does shifting cultivation, or ‘slash and burn’ farming destroy forests particularly? Are local farmers solely to blame? Recent research by Overseas Development Institute (ODI) suggests the role of shifting farming in starting forest fires has been exaggerated. It is not, in fact, a major cause of biodiversity loss.
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  Healing the scars? Tracing links between environment, food and conflict in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  A University of Leeds collaborative study has probed links between environmental change and famine – two problems perceived to lie at the heart of Africa’s current crisis – in the context of another all too often linked to the continent - warfare and civil unrest.
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  Rewriting forest history in West Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Kissidougou in Guinea, West Africa, is characterised by so-called 'forest islands', relics - it was assumed -of original dense forest cover. It was also assumed that local cultivation practice was to blame for the destruction of the trees.
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  Democracy and deforestation. The politics of protecting the forests

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How can the process of tropical deforestation be controlled? We now know a good deal about the causes of deforestation but not its control. Research from the University of Leeds in Thailand and the Philippines fills this gap, showing that changes in the domestic political scene explain how deforestation processes have been controlled in the two countries.
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  Money grows on trees: criminals get away with destroying Cambodia’s forests

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  In 1995, corrupt officials secretly awarded all of Cambodia’s unallocated forest, 35 per cent of the country’s total land area, as concessions to logging companies. How have these rogue loggers exploited political instability and weak government institutions to plunder Cambodia’s timber? Can anything be done to check the depredations of the ‘untouchables’ before Cambodia is logged out?
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  Curtains for sandflies? Controlling skin leishmaniasis in Venezuela.

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The incidence of skin diseases, including leishmaniasis, spread by different varieties of sandflies in tropical areas has increased dramatically in humans. Because of deforestation, sandflies have encroached further into human settlements. Here they have begun to infect domestic animals and humans. What can be done to control this trend?
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  Overcoming environmental education challenges in Ethiopia: the role of non-formal education

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is the formal education system the best avenue for delivery of effective environmental education? Can Ethiopia’s newly decentralised educational administrations work with other arms of government and farmers to tackle the short-term and unsustainable resource exploitation patterns which imperil prospects of ever achieving food self-sufficiency?
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  Living on the precipice: what future for mountain societies?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  2002 may have been designated International Year of Mountains, but is enough being done to conserve the mountain habitats which are home to 1 in 10 people and contain half the world’s biodiversity? Are mountain residents being consulted as plans are developed to check the threats posed by deforestation, mining, tourism, hydropower, environmental warming, conflict and natural disasters?

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