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Beyond Fences: A resource book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Beyond Fences: A resource book

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: IUCN

Argues that for a conservation initiative to be sustainable it must involve the indigenous community, address local needs and use an internal management strategy. In-depth explanations of terms and concepts used in Volume 1 are provided in Volume 2 in a series of concept files.

Proceedings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202
A World of Water
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

A World of Water

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: NUS Press

Water, in its many guises, has always played a powerful role inshaping Southeast Asian histories, cultures, societies and economies.This volume, the rewritten results of an international workshop, with participants from 8 countries, contains 13 essays, representing a broad range of approaches to the study of Southeast Asia with water as the central theme.

Arborvitae
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Arborvitae

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Learning Lessons to Promote Forest Certification and Control Illegal Logging in Indonesia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 90

Learning Lessons to Promote Forest Certification and Control Illegal Logging in Indonesia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-10-07
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  • Publisher: CIFOR

Illegal logging is a cause for widespread concern. It has negative environmental impacts, results in the loss of forest products used by rural communities, creates conflicts, and causes significant losses of tax revenues that could be used for development activities. The Nature Conservancy and World Wide Fund for Nature developed the Alliance to Promote Certification and Combat Illegal Logging in Indonesia to respond to the concern about illegal logging. The Alliance is a three-year initiative that aims to: 1. Strengthen market signals to expand certification and combat illegal logging, 2. Increase supply of certified Indonesian wood products, 3. Demonstrate practical solutions to achieve ce...

People, Development and Environment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

People, Development and Environment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Rules Without Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 366

Rules Without Rights

This book is about what it really means when companies claim to be promoting sustainability and fairness in their global operations.

福庇众生
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

福庇众生

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Areca Books

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Crimes Against Nature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Crimes Against Nature

This comprehensive analysis of garbage trafficking, wildlife trafficking, illegal fishing, and illegal logging highlights the difficulty in balancing human interests and environmental responsibility. The alarming consequences of eco-crime go far beyond the widespread degradation of the natural world; important societal institutions are undermined and negative social and economic impacts also result from garbage trafficking, wildlife trafficking, illegal fishing, and illegal logging. In order to successfully combat these problems, a consistent, international response will be necessary. Crimes Against Nature: Illegal Industries and the Global Environment addresses an important topic that is la...

Tree Thieves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Tree Thieves

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-07-07
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

The tree was poached in a two-part operation. It was felled one night and taken another. Here was a murder mystery in the deep woods: who had taken the cedar, how had they done so, and - most importantly - why? __________ A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects with environmentalism, class, and culture. In Tree Thieves, Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the illegal timber market. As she traces three timber poaching cases, she introduces us to tree poachers, law enforcement, forensic wood specialists, the enigmatic residents of former logging communities, environmental activists, international timber cartels, and indigenous comm...