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  In search of excellence: exemplary forest management in Asia and the Pacific

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This publication reflects the outcome of an initiative to identify instances of exemplary forest management in the region and examine the core components of high quality forest management in an effort to illustrate good forest management to a wide audience and encourage others to take up some of the most promising ideas, methods and approaches.
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  Exploring ecological and socio-economic issues for the improvement of area enclosure management: a case study from Ethiopia.

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2005

  Land degradation is a severe problem across sub-Saharan Africa, and Ethiopia is among the most affected countries.
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  The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management: an issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners

  Precautionary Principle Project, 2004

  This study represents an initial examination of issues surrounding the meaning, acceptance and implementation of the precautionary principle (or precautionary approach) in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management (NRM).The paper first addresses the meaning of precaution, its core concept and its various formulations.
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  Protecting forests for water management

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Forests play an important role in the water cycle, stimulating rainfall, protecting soils from erosion and regulating the flow of water. It is therefore important to preserve forests for water management. Previous efforts to protect forests in Ecuador have relied on controlling land use and excluding local people.
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  A net with holes: the regional fisheries management system

  Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, 2004

  The UN General Assembly (UN GA) is currently discussing proposals to provide urgent protection for the biodiversity of the deep seas from destructive activities, most specifically from bottom trawl fishing.
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  Evolution of village-based marine resource management in Vanuatu

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2004

  This paper compares the findings from surveys of village-based marine resource management in coastal villages of Vanuatu, an archipelago in the tropical western Pacific.
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  Indigenous and local communities and protected areas guidelines: guidance on policy and practice for co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas

  World Conservation Union, 2004

  This guide explores the protected area approaches and models that approach conservation as fully compatible with human communities.
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  Sharing power: learning-by-doing in co-management of natural resources throughout the world

  Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme, IIED, 2004

  This book examines the impacts, tensions, inequalities and opportunities in relation to natural resource management.
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  Models for recognising indigenous land rights in Latin America

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper discusses issues surrounding indigenous land rights, sharing an understanding and information about land tenure and titling within Latin America.
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  Inter-linkages approach for wetland management: the case of the Pantanal wetland

  United Nations University, 2004

  This report discusses the so called inter-linkages approach for wetland management, as to enable the creation of a regional framework for the management of the Pantanal wetland in south America.

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