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Searching with a thematic focus on Environment, Environmental impact assessment, Participation

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  Climate Witness community toolkit

  WWF South Pacific programme, 2007

  The South Pacific region is among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. With an almost complete reliance on natural resources for subsistence living and economic development, the changes occurring in sea levels, weather and rainfall patterns will have an enormous impact on local communities.
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  A haze of secrecy: access to environmental information in Malaysia

  Article 19, 2007

  This paper discusses how Malaysian people are being denied access to vital information regarding their environment.This is not only in breach of international standards, but also places both citizens and the environment at risk. It finds that greater environmental openness would enable more effective participation in environmental stewardship and decision-making.
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  Citizen participation in the environmental impact assessment process in Guyana: reality or fallacy?

  Law Environment and Development Journal, 2006

  This paper seeks to examine the use of Environmental Impact Assessment in the Guyana context.
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  Avante consulta!: effective consultation

  Policy Power tools, 2005

  This tool proposes a set of steps that aim to empower communities in local consultations intended to identify:who has the rights to manage natural resources in an area, andhow this management should be carried out and monitored.The tool has been written within the context of the policies regarding land and forestry rights in Mozambique.
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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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  Manual on participatory 3-D modeling for natural resource management: essentials of protected area management in the Philippines

  Participatory Avenues : Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development, 2000

  The manual is intended to assist Participatory Learning and Action practitioners, non-governmental and other civil organizations, society or scientific institutions and others who would find "community-based 3-D modeling" a powerful tool enabling local stakeholders to express their views and assert their rights.The manual's content and format are designed for practitioners who would like to pla
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  The privatization process of rangeland and its impacts on pastoral dynamics in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya: the case of Western Sichuan, China

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 1999

  This article disucsses the effects of the last four decades of change in China in relation to traditional Tibetan pastoral production systems.
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  Consultation and public participation within EIA (Manchester EIA Leaflet)

  Environmental Impact Assessment Centre, University of Manchester, 1999
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  Study of GEF project lessons: summary report

  Global Environment Facility, 1998

  Report synthesizes lessons learned to date from projects financed during GEF's Pilot Phase. It was prepared primarily for the benefit of project and task managers of GEF projects. The Project Lessons study underscores that even well designed projects evolve continuously, and their managers need to be able to deal with a variety of technical, social and political issues at the same time.
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  Market Based Instruments For Environmental Policymaking In Latin America And The Caribbean: Lessons From Eleven Countries

  New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 1998

  Study of market-based instruments, focusing on 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela) and a cross-section of issues (water supply and abstraction, water quality, air quality, energy, solid and liquid waste management, toxic substances, noise, and agriculture) within an urban s

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