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Making Grasslands Sustainable in Mongolia: Adapting to Climate and Environmental Change

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

Climate change threatens grassland ecosystems and herders’ livelihoods in Mongolia. Herders depend on pasture and water resources for their livestock, and are thus among the most vulnerable groups to climate change impacts. However, although climate change impacts on grassland ecosystems are...

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Country Safeguard Systems Regional Workshop Proceedings Towards Common Approaches and Better Results

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012

Australian Agency for International Development, Japan International Cooperation Agency, and the World Bank confirmed their …

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Water-resource and land-use issues

Calder, Ian R. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

This paper reviews perceived notions of the relationships between catchment land use and hydrology and explores whether much of the widely disseminated folklore, so often inextricably linked with issues of land use, is based on myth or reality. Gaps in our knowledge of the underlying processes...

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Unveiling information on opportunity costs in REDD: Who obtains the surplus when policy objectives differ?

Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark; Bakkegaard, Riyong Kim; Palmer, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

Improving information about individual opportunity costs of deforestation agents has the potential to increase the … difference to overall welfare as rents remain with agents. The amount of deforestation avoided will at least be as high as under …

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Readiness and Avoided deforestation policies: on the use of the REDD fund

Delacote, Philippe; Simonet, Gabriela - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

The first phase of the REDD+ mechanism consists of helping countries to improve their capacity to carry out national forest inventories, notably to assess land-use changes and forest carbon stocks and fluxes. However, there might be some links between the funding of this first phase and the...

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Reducing deforestation and forest degradation: leakage or synergy?

Angelsen, Arild; Delacote, Philippe - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

Agricultural expansion is the main deforestation driver, while forest degradation is due to non-sustainable poaching … and harvesting of forest products. Policies to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) thus … discussed. Does reduced deforestation indire ctly decrease or enhance forest degradation? How does better control on illegal har …

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Water-resource and land-use issues

Calder, I. R. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 1998

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Sustainability of the Dry Forest in Androy: A Viability Analysis

Zaccour, Georges; Smala Fanokoa, Pascaux; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

We investigate the dynamic effect that the Tandroy's unsustainable practices have on the forest. The Tandroy people live in Androy, a region located in the southern part of Madagascar. They are mainly an agricultural and cattle herding society whose subsistence relies on the slash-and-burn...

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Consideraciones sobre impacto ambiental por efecto de las obras de regadïo en el distrito de riego Chancay-Lambayque, Per. In Spanish

Garces-Restrepo, C.; Guerra-Tovar, J. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 1999

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Consideraciones sobre impacto ambiental por efecto de las obras de regadϯ en el distrito de riego Chancay-Lambayque, Peru.

Garces-Restrepo, Carlos; Guerra-Tovar, Julio - International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

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