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  Rights-based approaches: exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2009

  The links between the realisation of human rights and the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity are receiving increasing attention worldwide. Experience has demonstrated that exclusionary approaches to conservation can undermine those same rights of affected communities and can undermine conservation objectives.
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  Gender and natural resource management: livelihoods, mobility and interventions

  International Development Research Centre, 2008

  This book examines the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy, and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment, and natural resource management.
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  Gender and equity issues in liquid biofuels production - minimizing the risks to maximize the opportunities

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2008

  The production of liquid biofuels such as bioethanol and biodiesel is rapidly increasing in developing countries, due mainly to the establishment of large-scale biofuel feedstock plantations. This results in potential socio-economic benefits, particularly in terms of agricultural employment, but also in risks, which tend to be context-specific.
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  Maximizing conservation in Protected Areas: guidelines for gender consideration

  Gender and Environment /Genero y ambiente, 2003

  Women’s and men’s relationships with the environment in protected areas (PAs) and their buffer zones, in the context of their respective gender roles, are crucial for the very survival of these natural habitats.
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  The impact of fisheries development and globalization processes on women of fishing communities in the Asian Region

  Asia Pacific Research Network, 2003

  This paper looks at the impact of fisheries development and globalisation processes on women of fishing communities in the Asian region.
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  Intentionally sustainable: how community based natural resource management encourages the sustainable use of resources

  Community-Based Natural Resource Management Asia Virtual Resource Centre, 1999

  This paper presents a framework to explain how CBRM programs can help people to move from unsustainable to sustainable resource use and shows how gender concerns that affect CBRM efforts fit in the framework.The author focuses on increasing the tangible, economic benefits that people perceive they derive from a resource.
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  Women and MPAs: how gender affects planning and management

  Marine Protected Area News, 2002

  This issue of the newsletter looks at issues of gender for MPAs. The main article states that decisionmaking on the use of coastal and marine resources is often principally based on the input of men.
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  International symposium on women in Asian fisheries

  The WorldFish Center, 2001

  This site contains documents from all speeches held at the symposium.Papers include:women in Asian fisheries: a generalist's perspectiveThe role of networks in addressing research and development issues on women in fisheriesempowerment of women in Asian fisheriestechnological changes and their implications for women in fisheriesstrategies for addressing gender issues thr
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  The hidden side of group behaviour: a gender analysis of community forestry groups

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2001

  Communities managing common pool resources, such as forests, constitute a significant example of group functioning.
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  Modelling the Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Women, at Work and at Home: IDS research proposal

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998

  Researching the uneven impact of globalisation (mainly trade) on women and men in developing countries. It aims to construct and apply models to analyse the effects of trade liberalisation on the monetary economy, the household economy and the interactions between them.

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