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  The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity. An interim report

  European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2008

  This document aims to promote a better understanding of the true economic value of ecosystem services and to offer economic tools that take proper account of this value. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) is split in two phases and this interim report summarises the results of Phase I.
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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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  Local governance institutions for sustainable natural resource management in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2008

  This paper reflects on experiences from research and interventions in the Sahel on management of renewable natural resources - soils, water, forests, and biodiversity - for the purpose of food and income generation. It focuses on local governance institutions in relation to natural resource entitlements, use and decision-making on management in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
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  Links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: situation analysis for arid and semi-arid lands in southern Africa

  Eldis Poverty Resource Guide, 2008

  Humans have always depended upon natural ecosystems to supply a range of services useful for their survival and well-being. However, with widespread urbanisation, modernisation, and globalisation, along with the primacy of capitalist economic models, the obvious reliance of humans on ecosystems has become diluted for many, and difficult to maintain for others.
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  Conservation and human rights

  International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2007

  This paper presents a collection of articles exploring the key issues surrounding the relationship between human rights and conservation. It looks at what human rights are and what do they have to do with conservation.
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  Forests and the biodiversity convention: independent monitoring of the implementation of the expanded programme of work: summary report

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008

  This paper assesses what progress different countries have made over recent years on preserving, protecting and restoring forest biological diversity.
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  Engaging neoliberal conservation

  Conservation and Society, 2008

  The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broader context of neoliberalism. This latest edition of Conservation and Society journal explores what can be gained by seeing conservation through a neoliberal lense.
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  Cross-sectoral toolkit for the conservation and sustainable management of forest biodiversity

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008

  The pressures from sectors such as agriculture, mining, or energy on forest biodiversity require cross-sectoral approaches for the conservation and sustainable management of forests. This tool-kit summarises information on policy approaches that aim to minimize the negative impacts of other sectoral policies on forests and forest biodiversity. 
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  The conservation and use of wildlife-based resources: the bushmeat crisis

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008

  This paper addresses the hunting of tropical forest wildlife for food (known as “bushmeat”, “wildmeat” and/or “gamemeat”). It argues that this is an issue of concern primarily for three reasons:
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  Monitoring land cover dynamics in sub-saharan Africa

  European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2006

  Over the last 25 years civil disturbances, drought, population increases and global market pressures have all contributed in direct and indirect ways to a modification of Sub saharan African land cover. 

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