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  Budget 2003 and Aviation [UK]

  Environmental Audit Committee, UK Parliament, 2003

  This paper responds to the March 2003 discussion document released by the UK Treasury and the Department for Transport (DfT) entitled Aviation and the Environment: Using Economic Instruments.
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  Scrapping the hi-tech myth: computer waste in India

  Toxics Link, 2003

  This report investigates the dumping of e-waste, particularly computer waste in India.
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  New genetics, food and agriculture: scientific discoveries, societal dilemmas

  International Council for Science, 2003

  This report presents an overview of the findings of a selection of approximately 50 science-based reviews, published in years 2000-2003, on modern genetics and its applications in food and agriculture and the environment.The purpose of this analysis is to consider what are the issues that concern various societies, and, on the basis of the science underpinning the discoveries in modern genetics
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  Climate Change and Tourism: Final report of the 1st International Conference on Climate Change and Tourism

  World Tourism Organization, 2003

  This paper is the proceedings of the First International Conference on Climate Change and Tourism in Djerba, Tunisia (9-11 April 2003).
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  Ethnic conflict, institutions and the tragedy of the commons: when human diversity hinders economic growth: empirical evidence from a sample of African countries

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper analyses the effect of ethnic conflict on economic growth.
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  Wildlife and people: conflict and conservation in Masai Mara, Kenya

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper reports on the proceedings of two one-day workshops held with communities in the TransMara District where a human-elephant conflict study has taken place.
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  The role of livestock in mitigating land degredation, poverty and child malnutrition in mixed farming systems: the case of coffee-growing midlands of Sidama - Ethiopia

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1998

  This study illustrates the role played by livestock in alleviating land degradation, poverty and the resulting child malnutrition in integrated farming systems in Ethiopia.
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  Fuel substitution: poverty impacts on biomass fuel suppliers

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This paper reports on a project to determine the full livelihood and poverty impacts of fuel substitution. The paper makes recommendations to policy makers on how negative impacts can be mitigated.The project focused on traditional fuel suppliers in Addis Ababa, Nairobi and Kampala in order to identify and characterise the traditional fuel supply sector from a livelihood point of view.
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  Lightening the lode: a guide to responsible large-scale mining

  Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, Washington, 2000

  This document offers recommendations for responsible metal mining, to help guide the appropriate siting and development of large-scale mineral development in sensitive environments, such as tropical forests.
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  Economic impacts of climate change in South Africa: a preliminary analysis of unmitigated damage costs

  Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2002

  What 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).

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