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State of the World's Forests 1999
State of the World's Forests, FAO, 1999Reports on the latest figures on global forest cover; current efforts to assess forest resources; the forest fires of 1997 and 1998; recent trends in forest management; the significance to forestry of the Kyoto Protocol of the Framework Convention on Climate Change; current and projected forest products production, consumption and trade; recent trends in forest policy, legislation and instituDocumentEntering the 21st Century: World Development Report 1999/2000
World Development Report, World Bank, 1999Localization—the growing economic and political power of cities, provinces, and other sub-national entities—will be one of the most important new trends in the 21st century.DocumentCan China feed itself?: A System for Evaluation of Policy Options
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1999Decision-support application for planners and policymakers.DocumentEnvironmental change and human health in countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP)
Stockholm Environment Institute, 1999Aims to first briefly describe the broad global, economic, political, social, institutional context in which ACP countries currently find themselves. Describes the health status and key health threats in ACP countries in an environmental context and reviews environmental developments in the region and the ways in which they are influencing health.DocumentSpecial report on land use, land use change and forestry: summary for policymakers [climate change]
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2000Reviews the current understanding of the relationship between land use (especially forestry), carbon dioxide emissions and the Kyoto Protocol agreementsTopics cover: how the global carbon cycle operates, and how this relates to forestry activitiesaccounting rulescomparison of the usefulness of models and ground-based assessments of changes in carbon stocksshort term prospectDocumentPopulation and the environment: the global challenge
Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2000As the century begins, natural resources are under increasing pressure, threatening public health and development. Water shortages, soil exhaustion, loss of forests, air and water pollution, and degradation of coastlines afflict many areas.DocumentGlobal farming systems study: challenges and priorities to 2030
Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001For more than a decade, the proportion of internationally supported public investment directed at agriculture and the rural sector in developing countries has been declining. Moreover, this is occuring at a time in which the process of globalisation is changing patters of trade and investment, placing agricultural producers and communities under tremendous pressure to adapt in order to survive.DocumentForests in global warming
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 1998Reviews the causes of deforestation, focusing on the market distortions which hide the real economic value of forests. These include taxation polciy, uncertain property rights and population growth. Adressing such issues at the nationnal level provides a basis for national and international agreements on combatting climate change through carbon storage programmes.DocumentCarbon and forest management
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2001This manual is written as briefing for USAID natural resource and environmental program officers, as well as for their host-country counterparts and other colleagues working on issues related to forestry.The report has two main objectives:To synthesize existing information regarding the relationship between forest resources and carbon, as it relates to the issue of climate changeToPages