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Mountain watch: environmental change and sustainable development in mountains
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 2002Mountain Watch provides the first map-based overview of environmental change in mountain regions and its implications for sustainable development.DocumentEffects of household dynamics on resource consumption and biodiversity
SciDev.Net, 2003Whilst human population size and growth rate are often considered important drivers of biodiversity loss the authors of this paper argue that aggregate demographic statistics mask substantial changes in the size and number of households and, consequently , their effects on biodiversity.DocumentPoverty and climate change: reducing the vulnerability of the poor through adaptation
Department for International Development, UK, 2003The report makes clear that climate change presents a serious risk to poverty eradication and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. While it affects us all, the adverse impact of climate change is more severely felt by poor people and poor countries.DocumentPreparing marine protected areas to survive global change: additional guidelines to address coral bleaching
World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001This paper describes guidelines for marine protected area (MPA) design and management that take into account the significant global problem of coral bleaching.DocumentEconomic impacts of climate change in South Africa: a preliminary analysis of unmitigated damage costs
Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2002What are the predicted economic impacts of climate change in South Africa? This paper attempts to provide preliminary estimates based on secondary data from the findings of the Vulnerability and Adaptation Study for the South African Country Study on Climate Change (1999).DocumentGrassland responses to global environmental changes suppressed by elevated CO2
SciDev.Net, 2002The assumption that plants can absorb excessive fossil fuel emissions containing carbon dioxide because they need the gas in order to grow is challenged in this paper.These researchers report that increased levels of carbon dioxide (when combined with the other effects of climate change) actually suppress growth rather than helping plants to flourish.DocumentFresh air?: options for the future architecture of international climate change policy
New Economics Foundation, 2002The author of this report describes and evaluates eight leading policy proposals to address climate change that are competing to succeed the Kyoto Protocol’s initial phase.DocumentMapping poverty and livestock in the developing world
International Livestock Research Institute, 2002Study includes a set of maps and tables that locate significant populations of poor livestock keepers, and broadly assesses how poor livestock keeping populations are likely to change over the next 3–5 decades.It concludes that: Numbers of poor (and numbers of poor livestock keepers, as far as this analysis can be taken) are greatest in South Asia (SA), particularly in the mixed irrigaDocumentWorld Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg): an assessment for IISD
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2002This paper provides an outline and analysis of the outcomes of the Johannesburg, 2002 world summit on sustainable development (WSSD).DocumentForest carbon and local livelihoods: assessment of opportunities and policy recommendations
Future Harvest, 2002In preparation for the eighth session of the conference of the parties (COP8) to the Climate Change Convention, this report argues that businesses looking to buy carbon credits should do so by funding forests planted and managed by local people. It is argued that forest planting can mitigate global warming and that carbon producing business can mitigate their impact on the global climate by buyPages