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    Independent Environmental Assessment: Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2009
    This report contains findings of the assessment to review the impact of environmental measures that were implemented by Beijing for the Olympic Games. When Beijing was awarded the Games in 2001, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) evaluation team notes that Beijing faced a number of environmental pressures and issues, particularly air pollution.
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    Environmental impacts of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement on the Greater Mekong Sub-region

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2008
    Environmental issues have received attention from Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) leaders. However, there is lack of institutional mechanisms to coordinate the implementation of environmental protection policies or action plans.
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    Urban environmentalism and activists’ networks in China: the cases of Xiangfan and Shanghai

    Conservation and Society, 2008
    This article analyses the characteristics of the Chinese environmental movement in terms of their organisational development and strategies. A comparative study of two Chinese cases - Shanghai and Xiangfan - is conducted to illustrate the dynamics of environmental activism and how they are affected by the social contexts based on their location.
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    Depopulating the Tibetan grasslands: national policies and perspectives for the future of Tibetan herders in Qinghai Province, China

    Plateau Perspectives, 2008
    Tibetan grasslands constitute one of the most important grazing ecosystems in the world and encompass the source areas of many major Asian rivers.
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    Approaches to rural poverty alleviation in developing Asia: role of water resources

    Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2008
    Focusing on water resources and irrigation, this paper documents a talk by Michael Lipton exploring approaches to poverty alleviation in developing Asia. The talk discusses the findings of a recent paper ‘Pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated agriculture in Asia: poverty in irrigated agriculture - realities, issues, and options with guidelines’.
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    Gender and natural resource management: livelihoods, mobility and interventions

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    This book examines the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy, and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment, and natural resource management.
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    Focus on... Neglected species

    New Agriculturalist, 2008
    Increasingly, global food security has become dependent on a shrinking basket of a select number of crops. With prices for staple crops such as rice, wheat and maize having recently doubled or even tripled, it is timely to re-focus on the neglected or underutilised crops that can provide food security and income generation, particularly for the poor.
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    China in Africa policy briefing: China’s environmental footprint in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    Along with its economic presence, China has rapidly expanded its environmental footprint in Africa. This policy brief discusses and analyses the concerns about the impacts of China’s economic expansion on Africa’s environment. Concerns over China’s environmental footprint in Africa have arisen for at least five reasons:
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    Helping people build a better world? barriers to more environmentally friendly energy production in China

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2008
    The first goal of this report is to identify and analyse changes that have happened in the Shell Group since the 1990s when energy companies started their ‘greening’ processes. These changes happened due to stricter environmental legislation, increased civil society pressure and media scrutiny.
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    China and UN environmental policy: institutional growth, learning and implementation

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2007
    The focus of this article is on whether, and to what extent, the major UN bodies for environmental issues – the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), the Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD), and the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) – have contributed to increased environmental awareness and institution building in China and whether they have ultimately contributed to

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