Documents tagged with deforestation

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Congo Basin Countries Lose Out

A briefing note for Copenhagen.
  • FERN Richard published this 2 days ago
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Jones DA - Jaguar Paradise

David Aneurin Jones, Calcada, S. & Chaverri, R., 2009-11-18 "Jaguar Paradise? Human boundaries in conservation management and consequences of limited protection" Presented at the annual meeting of ...
  • Rebecacha published this 12 / 02 / 2009
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Cross-Sectoral Policy Impact Between Forestry and Other Sectors

The influences of public policies on the development of the forestry sector have been recognized for some time. Suffice it to recall, for example, the work of Repetto and Gillis1 and more recent wo...
  • yeangdonal published this 11 / 27 / 2009
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2009-05-01 An Independent Report on the State of Ipo Watershed

An Independent Report on the State of Ipo Watershed Prepared by a composite team comprising of members of the UP Mountaineers, Mountaineering Federation of the Philippines and concerned individuals...
  • ipo_dam4441 published this 11 / 24 / 2009
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Wooden Pallets Contribute to Reforestation, Not Deforestation

To hear the claims that wooden pallet producers have clear cut, raped and pillaged their way through America's old growth virgin forests, stripping them of trees, leaving them bald and naked. Sound...
  • Neotrope published this 11 / 24 / 2009
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Solar Cookers Update

A presentation with 14 slides on design,building and use of solar cookers with recent developments,low cost cookers,panel type cookers used in developing countries and troubled nations in Africa---...
  • Srinivasan nenmeli K published this 11 / 19 / 2009
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Forest Vocation Lands and Forest Policy_When Simpler is Better

Innovative policy solutions to address problems of soil and water related externalities associated with land use or cover. A cost effective and efficient forest policy solution that simplifies sub...
  • jrenten published this 11 / 13 / 2009
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The Agrofuel Aberration

How a wrong policy can lead to more expensive food prices and to the clearance of the last primeval forests.
  • elstel published this 11 / 12 / 2009
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Low-Carbon Development: Latin American Responses to Climate Change

Governments and civil society in Latin America and the Caribbean should be well informed about the potential costs and benefits of combating climate change, their policy options over the next deca...
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  • worldbank published this 11 / 03 / 2009
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The Cost Implication of Going Green

Going “green” has a cost implication. As much as environmentalists and others with vested interests try to sugar coat the pill, it all comes down to money.
  • cypher-0 published this 10 / 04 / 2009
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Earth Observations From Space - The First 50 Years of Scientific Achievements

Being able to see the earth from space has fundamentally changed the way we perceive our planet. Over the past 50 years, thousands of satellites have been sent into space on missions to collect...
  • historysaver3684 published this 08 / 25 / 2009
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The Rainforest of Cameroon: Experience and Evidence from A Decade of Reform

Starting in 1994, Cameroon introduced regulatory and market-based reforms to regulate access to its rainforests, balance public and private interests in those forests, and integrate wider economic,...
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  • worldbank published this 08 / 17 / 2009
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PDF 5 - Ecological Services and Ecological Release

This pdf, which includes rainforest photos and a diatoms image, surveys examples of ecosystem services and the phenomenon of ecological release. Largely consisting of material excerpted from What ...
  • Rocky XVIII published this 08 / 16 / 2009
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Conservation - Why 10% Goals Are Not Enough

Existing conservation goals envision setting aside ten percent samplings of representative ecosystems as a means of preserving a portion of earth's biodiversity. But conserving individual organism...
  • Rocky XVIII published this 08 / 02 / 2009
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ITU Symposium on ICTs and Climate Change - Background Report

This revised background report has been prepared by the ITU secretariat for the Symposium on ICT and Climate Change in Quito, Ecuador (8-10 July 2009). New sections highlight the key issues in the ...
  • ITUtechwatch published this 07 / 22 / 2009
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Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant:Prospects for Commercial Agriculture in the Guinea Savannah Zone a

Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant' explores the feasibility of restoring international competitiveness and growth in African agriculture through the identification of products and production system...
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  • worldbank published this 07 / 20 / 2009
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Brown - Plan B 3.0 (2008) - Synopsis

Synopsis of Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (New York and London: W.W. Norton, January 2008.) -- Discussed at Digging Deeper (www.ufppc.org) on June 29, 2009.
  • jensenmk published this 06 / 29 / 2009
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Why Environmentalism is Doomed

Why Mother Nature, not humans, will solve the problem of Global Warming.
  • MarmaladeMaestro published this 06 / 14 / 2009
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The Plummeting Value of Humans

Why you as a human are worth less than you think. The consequences of 'human devaluation'. Why a global catastrophe would not be such a bad thing.
  • MarmaladeMaestro published this 04 / 28 / 2009
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Livestock's Long Shadow (U.N.)

A major report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations which reveals that "the livestock sector accounts for 18 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions - more than tran...
  • veganfuture published this 04 / 11 / 2009
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