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  Rise and spread of national and sub-national forest carbon schemes

  Forest Carbon Asia, 2012

  In December 2011 at the international climate change negotiations at COP17 in Durban, there were further developments on the proposed REDD+ mechanism to reduce forest-based emissions and enhance forest carbon sinks. Various countries have initiated forest-related emission reduction and offsetting schemes within the last year.
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  China, India, South Africa, Brazil (BASIC): Crucial for the global environment. Commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment

  ECON Pöyry, 2011

  This study, commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Environment, aims to assess why and how the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India, and China) are important for the global environment. The study shall also provide an overview of environmental policy in the BASIC countries.
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  People and protected areas: id21 insights, issue 57

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  For many threatened plants and animals, protected areas are a vital refuge in the face of declining natural habitats. However, across the world they face increasing pressures. Some conservation policies are also disadvantageous for local people. What does the future hold for protected areas?
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  Pastoralism – research, policy and practice

  Odessa Centre, 2010

  Open access journal aimed at providing a central forum where those concerned with pastoralism can confront each other’s ideas, data and analysis, and discuss the implications of their work.
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  Survey of the trade flow in the fisheries sector in Asia: analysis for the Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs

  2009

  This report reviews the exportation of cod and haddock fish from the Barents Sea to Asia, and especially to China. It investigates the share of illegal exports, as well as the importing and processing companies in China.
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  A disharmonious trade: China and the continued destruction of Burma’s northern frontier forests

  Global Witness, 2009

  The report documents on illegal logging and illegal export of timber to China in Kachin State in Burma, which is on the border of China and where deforestation is at its worst.
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  Resource manual on flash flood risk management module 2: non-structural measures

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2008

  Frequent flash floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region pose a severe threat to life, livelihoods and infrastructure, both within the mountains and downstream. They tend to carry with them much higher amounts of debris which can cause damage to hydropower stations, roads, bridges, buildings and other infrastructure.
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  Resource manual on flash flood risk management module 1: community-based management

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2008

  Frequent flash floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region pose a severe threat to life, livelihoods and infrastructure, both within the mountains and downstream. Vulnerable groups, including people with disabilities, the poor, women and children, are the worst hit. This manual aims to help communities build their capacity to manage flash floods and other disaster risks themselves.
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  The time to lead is now: the adoption of ESG analysis by Asian government pension funds

  The Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia, 2009

  Asia's pension funds are among the largest and fastest growing pools of capital in the region and their influence in the capital markets will continue to grow, especially as asset allocations diversify.
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  Tenure security and forest tenure reform in China

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009

  This study assesses the determinants of forestland allocation to households in the forest tenure reforms in China in the period 1980-2005. It also examines the current level of tenure security on forestland and how this tenure security is affected by past and more recent policy changes.

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