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  The great leap backward?

  Foreign Affairs [Journal], 2007

  China's environmental problems are mounting. Water pollution and water scarcity are burdening the economy, rising levels of air pollution are endangering the health of millions of Chinese, and much of the country's land is rapidly turning into desert. While Chinese government has implemented environmental regulations, it is unable to enforce their regulation.
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  Corporate and environmental and social responsibility in the East Asia and Pacific region: review of emerging practice

  World Bank, 2006

  The economies of the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) region have grown rapidly over the last few decades. However, this rapid growth was accompanied by considerable environmental damage, such as water and air pollution deforestation, biodiversity loss, and climate change impacts.
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  Cost of pollution in China: economic estimates of physical damages

  World Bank, 2007

  While rapid economic growth in China has brought millions of people out of poverty, the environmental consequences of China’s industrialisation is proving to be very costly. This study estimates the physical and economic cost of air and water pollution in China and argues that this development has huge economic consequences and which are disproportionately felt by the poor.
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  Debating shifting cultivation in the Eastern Himalayas: farmers’ innovations as lessons for policy

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2006

  Hundreds of millions of people in Asia are dependent on shifting cultivation, yet the practice has tended to be seen in a negative light and discouraged by policy makers. This document challenges prevailing assumptions, arguing that shifting cultivation – if properly practised – is actually a ‘good practice’ system for productively using hil
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  Environmental aspects of China's papermaking fiber supply

  Forest Trends, 2007

  This report assesses the environmental impacts of China’s pulp and wastepaper production as well as the reputational risks related to China’s pulpwood sourcing from “high risk” countries.
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  Monitoring of illegal trade in ivory and other elephant specimens

  Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, 2007

  Examining the factors that give rise to illicit trade in elephant ivory, the conclusions in this paper include:
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  Time to go green: environmental responsibility in the Chinese banking sector

  BankTrack, 2007

  This report evaluates the extent to which Chinese banks meet environmental international best practice models. It provides dossiers of ten of the most important banks in China, including China’s government-owned policy banks, and the Big Four commercial banks.
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  Decentralised governance of natural resources: part 1: manual and guidelines for practitioners

  Drylands Development Centre, UNDP, 2006

  This publication aims to promote learning from experience, to enable practitioners to improve on current and future efforts to mainstream and integrate governance of natural resources into a decentralised governance processes.
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  Protecting community rights over traditional knowledge: implications of customary laws and practices

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  This collaborative research project seeks to assist indigenous and local communities I protecting their rights over traditional knowledge (TK) relating to biological resources, in accordance with their customary laws and practices. The project further aims to inform and influence policy makers at all levels.
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  Communities, livelihoods and natural resources: action research and policy change in Asia

  International Development Research Centre, 2006

  This book responds to the question of how poor rural people can improve their living conditions and the productivity of their resource base through local interventions in natural resource management. The book describes and analyses processes and outcomes from a set of action research projects in the poorest parts of Asia.

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