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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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    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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    The Chad-Cameroon oil & pipeline project: a project non-compliance report

    Forest Peoples Programme, 2007
    This report assesses the role of the World Bank in the funding and management of the Chad-Cameroon oil and pipeline project. The report argues that the project has fueled violence, impoverished people in the oil fields and along the pipeline route, exacerbated the pressures on indigenous peoples and created new environmental problems.
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    The top-down global response to bird flu

    GRAIN, 2006
    This report from GRAIN looks at the power politics behind this global response to avian flu and its consequences for the poor.
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    People-oriented approaches in global conservation: is the leopard changing its spots?

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2002
    This case study report focuses on the world’s largest conservation organisation, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), examining the dynamics of mainstreaming people-oriented approaches in the conservation of biological diversity. Part of this study was commissioned by WWF UK and WWF International in the mid-1990s to help promote better people-oriented forest conservation practices.
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    The process of institution building to facilitate local biodiversity management

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2002
    This paper examines theoretical approaches and practical experiences on local participation and the use of local institutions to improve biodiversity management.
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    Wildlife and poverty study

    Department for International Development, UK, 2002
    The DFID Wildlife and Poverty Study aims to assess how and why wildlife is important to the livelihoods of the poor and vulnerable, review the key underlying policy and institutional issues, investigate the synergies and trade-offs between donor strategies and draw implications for appropriate strategy and intervention.
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    Indigenous and local communities and protected areas: rethinking the relationship

    World Commission on Protected Areas, 2002
    This interview attempts to illustrate the opportunities and obstacles involved in forging a new alliance between communities and conservation. The debate covers practical initiatives and statements of inalienable rights, emerging concepts and their political consequences, the legitimacy/legality dichotomy and the increasing number of social actors involved in protected area management.
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    Reconciling the needs of man and widlife in India

    Wildlife Interest Group, American Society of International Law, 1999
    Essay which discusses the contention that what gets conserved, and by whom, will ultimately be determined by social and political processes as much, if not more, than by the scientific knowledge which conservationists bring to bear on resource management.The author argues that state exclusionary policies of protected area management have largely failed to achieve conservation goals and in some
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    Defining common ground for the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2001
    WRI reports on the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor - an attempt to safeguard one of the world's biodiversity hotspots while meeting the social and economic needs of the region's people.

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