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  Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will, how and when

  Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999

  Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, activists. Many continue to share despite knowing that by withholding this knowledge they could receive pecuniary advantage.
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  An Assessment of European - aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the poor

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  The paper assesses four Watershed Development Projects in India supported by European donors, namely Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Danida), Doon Valley Integrated Watershed Management Project (European Commission), Karnataka Integrated Watershed Management Project (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) and Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Overseas Development Administration/Department
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  Business development, social security or patronage? Zambia’s Agricultural Credit Management Programme.

  Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997

  The government that took power in Zambia in 1991 faced the challenge of fulfilling its promise to liberalise the economy while at the same time preventing any further increase in poverty and consolidating its hold on power. Part of its response was the launch, in 1994, of the Agricultural Credit Management Programme (ACMP).
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  'The rich are just like us only richer?: poverty functions or consumption functions?

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  The concept of a poverty function is introduced, modelling the shortfall of household consumption from the poverty line as a function of reduced form determinants such as human capital and land holdings. The model is estimated using a tobit and data from Uganda.
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  Poverty and Environment: Turning the Poor into Agents of Environmental Regeneration

  Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998

  The poor adapt and learn to live with poverty in a variety of ways. They also try to cope with shocks from events such as droughts, floods and loss of employment. Environmental resources play a vital role in their survival strategies. As the poor depend on environmental resources, one can expect them to have a stake in their preservation. Much of the damage done to natural resources is by others.
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  India's Position on Climate Change from Rio to Kyoto: A Policy Analysis

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Policy-making analysis of actors, structures, ideas, interests and powers behind the Indian government’s national position on climate change.
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  Rural Poverty: Population Dynamics, Local Institutions and Access to Resources

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1998

  Analyses two examples of changing institution-resource access relationships in Africa and Latin America. The Africa case (Kakamega, Western Kenya) highlights the resource endowments and problems associated with the participation of individuals in multiple institutions, whereas the Latin America case (Oaxaca, Mexico) focuses on the changes in a single institution in response to population growth.
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  What's Special About Wildlife Management In Forests?: Concepts And Models Of Rights-Based Management, With Recent Evidence From West-Central Africa

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Wildlife consumption is an integral part of the livelihood and trade patterns of many peoples in the developing world, and highly valued by them. Yet to date the dominant models of wildlife management in areas of high – and allegedly unsustainable – consumptive use have favoured the exclusion of the users from the resource and the denial of its local values.
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  Protected Areas: the concept and case studies

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998

  Historical development of the concept of protected areas and biodiversity, plus short case studies of Cameroon, Colombia, Spain and Zimbabwe.
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  General equilibrium modelling of trade and the environment / John Beghin ...[et al.]

  OECD Development Centre, 1996

  The environmental impacts of economic activity have become an increasingly urgent concern in both OECD Member countries, as well as in non-Member countries. Research in this area is still in its infancy, and the data required to buttress analytical studies is still sparse.

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