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    Assessment and monitoring of forest and tree resources

    World Forestry Congress, 1999
    The interest for better information about forest resources is growing at both national and international level. Demands for new types of information are now frequently being raised (regarding e.g. biological diversity, non- wood forest products, forest quality). The conceptual and methodological basis to satisfy many of these new demands, however, is insufficient.
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    Rain Forest Growth Model FORMIX3: A Tool for Forest Management Planning Towards Sustainability

    Tropical Ecology Support Programme / Tropenökologisches Begleitprogramm, GTZ, 1999
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    Riverlink: directory of NGOs in river and watershed issues

    International Rivers Network, 1999
    Riverworks is a directory of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), activists and experts working on river and watershed issues around the world. It is constantly updated and printed upon request. Riverworks is produced by International Rivers Network (IRN), a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the world's rivers and watersheds.
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    Sub-Saharan Africa science support programme

    American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999
    The AAAS Sub-Saharan Africa Program was inaugurated by AAAS in 1987, representing a concerned response on the part of U.S. scientists and educators to the institutional crisis their African colleagues were facing. Its establishment also represents the commitment on the part of U.S. scientific societies and donors to attempt to work with African institutions in order to address that crisis.
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    The costs and benefits of Korean Unification

    Institute for International Economics, USA, 1997
    "We construct the Korean Integration Model (KIM), a two-country computable general equilibrium (CGE) model linking the North and South Korean economies. Using KIM, we simulate the impact of a customs union and a monetary union of the two economies both in the presence and absence of cross-border factor mobility, treating technological transfer in three ways.
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    The Role of Agricultural Education in Improving the Performance of Support Services for the Renewable Natural Resources Sector

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
    Whilst recent research (mainly in sub-Saharan Africa) has indicated a number of successful innovations in agricultural education and training (AET), it has generally been unresponsive to changing patterns of demand for trainees, which are influenced by the changing roles of public and private sectors.
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    Tragedy of the Commons for Community-based Forest Management in Latin America?

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
    This paper considers the evidence surrounding the popular view that common property management regimes (CPMRs) of forest management in Latin America must inevitably break down in the face of economic and demographic pressures. The evidence shows that there have been both positive and negative experiences, with a number of policy implications.
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    Ancestor Spirits and Land Reforms: Contradictory discourses and practices on rights on land in South India

    Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, 1999
    This paper is about Untouchable ancestors' strong emotional attachment to their ancestral land. Ancestrors of Untouchables remain in their ancestral land at the margin of the village, whereas ancestors of high castes leave for the abode of ancestors, after expiating their sins by transferring them to Untouchables.
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    Global desertification dimensions and costs

    Center for International Earth Science Information Network, 1992
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    Biodiversity and its value [in Australia]

    Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia, 1993
    Explains biodiversity and the three levels at which it is usually considered: genetic, species and ecosystem diversity. It also briefly discusses why biodiversity is important, especially the value of its components and diversity itself.

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