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  Comprehensive environmental projects: linking adaptation to climate change, sustainable land use, biodiversity conservation and water management

  Centre for Development Cooperation Services, Free University, Amsterdam, 2004

  This report presents an analysis of the synergies between environmental policies and the development of comprehensive environmental projects.
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  Biodiversity offsets: views, experience and the business case

  World Conservation Union, 2004

  This report explores the potential of biodiversity offsets, which the authors define as conservation activities that intend to compensate for the residual and unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects.
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  Using economic incentives to conserve CITES-listed species: a scoping study on individual transferable quotas for sturgeon in the Caspian Sea

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  This paper explores how individual transferable quota system (ITQs) can be used to act as economic incentives in conserving CITES-listed species, with particular reference to sturgeon fisheries of the Caspian Sea.
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  Internalising global externalities from biodiversity: protected areas and multilateral mechanisms of transfer

  Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 2004

  This paper provides an overview on international agreements on protected areas, and the associated transfer mechanisms both from a theoretical and an empirical viewpoint. The paper examines whether the existing regime of multilateral mechanisms of transfer and the parallel bilateral transfers works to effectively preserve biodiversity at the global scale.
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  Shared terrestrial ecosystems of East Africa: towards conviviality

  African Centre for Technology Studies, 2002

  The East African Community (EAC) initiated a process to prepare common guidelines for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of shared aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems of East Africa. The shared terrestrial ecosystems of East Africa include wetlands, forest ecosystems and protected wildlife ecosystems.
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  Biodiversity for food security (benefit sharing)

  Syngenta Foundation, 2004

  This publication offers a collection of presentations from the symposium "Food Security and Biodiversity: Sharing the Benefit of Plant Genetic Resources" jointly organised by SDC and the Syngenta Foundation to mark World Food Day 2004.
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  Wild meat harvest and trade in Liberia: managing biodiversity, economic and social impacts

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This briefing paper examines the issues surrounding livelihoods and wild bushmeat trade in Liberia.
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  Shared aquatic ecosystems of East Africa: status and trends

  African Centre for Technology Studies, 2002

  The East African Community (EAC) initiated a process to prepare common guidelines for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of shared aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems of East Africa.
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  Conservation of wildlife: a bio-economic model of a wildlife reserve under the pressure of habitat destruction and harvesting outside the reserve

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2004

  It is commonly perceived that biodiversity is threatened by many factors of which destruction and reduction of habitats is considered most the important for terrestrial species. This paper argues that, in order to counteract these threats, reserves should be established with restrictions on land-use and exploitation.
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  Financing national protected area networks internationally: the Global Environment Facility as a multilateral mechanism of transfer

  Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 2004

  This paper addresses the functioning of the present multilateral system for international financing of national protected areas.

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