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  Producing localized commodity frontiers at the end of cheap nature: an analysis of eco‐scalar carbon fixes and their consequences

  Wiley Online Library, 2018

  There is no single ‘great’ commodity frontier whose exploitation under current socio‐technical conditions could fuel capital accumulation at the global scale. According to Jason Moore, this represents the ‘end of Cheap Nature’ and signals a terminal crisis for capitalism as we know it.
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  Real-time evaluation of Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative. Empowerment of indigenous peoples and forest dependent local communities through support to civil society organisations

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2017

  The Terms of References (ToR) of the present evaluation have the following objectives:
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  Livelihoods and land uses in environmental policy approaches: The case of PES and REDD+ in the Lam Dong Province of Vietnam

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017

  This paper explores assumptions about the drivers of forest cover change in a Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) context in the Lam Dong Province in Vietnam.
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  Projected impacts of climate change on forests in the Brahmaputra, Koshi, and Upper Indus river basins

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017

  Two dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs), IBIS and LPJ, were used to assess the projected impacts of climate change on forests in terms of the shifts in vegetation types and changes in NPP (net primary productivity) in the mid Brahmaputra, Koshi, and upper Indus river basins.
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  Natural resource governance at multiple scales in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017

  Human efforts to address poverty, enhance welfare, and conserve natural resources and the environment often fail because of faulty governance and implementation. Improvements in governance are consistently viewed as means to address the failures of sustainable development and natural resource management.
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  Climate change threatens Hawaiian forest birds

  Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment, 2016

  In Hawai'i, geograpahic isolation has prevented the natural establishment of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and many insect species, such as biting mosquitoes. Isolation has also facilitated the spectacular evolutionary radiation of Hawaiian honeycreepers from a single small flock of North American finches into more than 50 species and subspecies of endemic forest birds.
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  Implication of participatory forest management on Duru-Haitemba and Ufiome Forest reserves and community livelihoods

  AJ, 2016

  The fate of the forest is usually connected with forest management systems, societal demands as well as exposure to major disturbances such as wildfires, heavy browsing animals.
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  Mega-dams in the Brazilian Amazon: towards a green, sustainable and inclusive socio-economic paradigm?

  BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2015

  In the last few decades, and especially in the wake of the recent economic crisis, the global economic landscape has been altered while developing countries, particularly those in the BRICS group, have increased their economic and political power. The recent crisis, however, is not only economic or financial; today’s world faces a major socio-environmental crisis.
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  Indigenous peoples’ rights and climate policies in Guyana: a special report

  Forest Peoples Programme, 2014

  Guyana is a high forest cover and low deforestation country with tropical forests covering up to 85% of the national land area. The vast majority of Guyana’s forests are found on lands traditionally used and occupied by Amerindian families and communities.
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  Forest resource development in Korea

  Korea Development Institute, 2014

  During the colonial period in the early 20th Century, around three years of the Korean War that broke out in 1950 after the establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948 and the postwar period of political and social turmoil, the forests on the Korean Peninsula faced severe devastation.

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