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Forest-tenure reform ‘too slow’
A lack of progress in forest-tenure reform is hindering action to stop deforestation and alleviate poverty among some of the world's poorest rural peoples. The failure to ensure land rights for local communities-particularly indigenous peoples and women-in the forests of Central and West Africa will impede efforts to stop deforestation.
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- Apr 2010
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- ITTO Tropical Forest Update Vol: 19 Issue: 2 pp: 3
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Tourism in protected areas: Worsening prospects for Tigers?
Against the backdrop of the increasing popularity of ecotourism and the dramatic loss of tigers due to lack of funding, mismanagement, population and development pressures as well as poaching, this article finds that the present policies benefit neither conservation nor local communities.
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- Mar 2010
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- Economic and Political Weekly Vol: 45 Issue: 10 pp: 27-29
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Local economic impact of different forms of nature-based tourism
Tourism has been widely used as a component of conservation interventions which are intended to deliver benefits to local people, thereby contributing to development and creating incentives for conservation. However, a large proportion of total tourist revenue can be lost from the local area as leakage.
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- Feb 2010
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- Conservation Letters Vol: 3 Issue: 1 pp: 21-28
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Culture and sustainable livelihoods
The sustainable livelihoods (SL) approach offers a practical means of addressing some critical aspects of sustainable development. In this research, the SL framework is applied to an analysis of tourism development among the Shanmei Cou in Taiwan.
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- Jan 2010
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- Journal of Human Ecology Vol: 29 Issue: 1 pp: 1-21
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Beyond the Maoists
Redefine growth so that forest people become beneficiaries.
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- Dec 2009
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- Civil Society Vol: 7 Issue: 2
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Economic viability as a concept in joint forest management: A case study from the Bankura (North) Division, West Bengal
Joint Forest Management (JFM), the partnership between the Government Forest Department and forest-fringe community (organised through the Forest Protection Committees (FPCs) towards Forest Protection, had its inception in the state of West Bengal and is considered to be the most successful in this state.
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- Dec 2009
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- Indian Forester Vol: 135 Issue: 12 pp: 1607-1617
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Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level
This book builds on related experience of the IUCN Environmental Law Centre in the areas of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, Access and Benefit-Sharing
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- Dec 2009
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- IUCN
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Relocation of villages in Sariska Tiger Reserve
The Sariska Tiger Reserve, one of the important tiger habitats of Central India, came into limelight because of the disappearance of tigers from the area. It exemplifies another ‘protected area’ in the country facing immense threats and complexities due to the local communities residing within the protected areas. (Correspondence)
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- Nov 2009
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- Current Science Vol: 97 Issue: 10 pp: 1399-1400
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Costing the Earth
The value of biodiversity must be accounted for, says Pavan Sukhdev. It is time for governments to invest to secure the flow of nature's 'public goods'.
- Date:
- Nov 2009
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- Nature Vol: 462 Issue: 7271 pp: 277
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Biodiversity’s bright spot
While species losses mount worldwide, conservationists in Brazil have made great strides towards saving the golden lion tamarin and its forest habitat from destruction.
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- Nov 2009
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- Nature Vol: 462 Issue: 7271 pp: 266-269
