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Fire has been a part of India's landscape since time immemorial and can play a vital role in healthy forests, recycling … to burning on an annual or semi-annual basis. As these fires are no longer beneficial to forest health, India is … increasingly wrestling with how to improve the prevention and management of unwanted forest fires. India is not alone in facing …
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This Analytical Framework is a product of a World Bank initiative on Securing Forest Tenure Rights for Rural Development, which seeks to enhance the World Bank's capacity and effectiveness when dealing with land rights issues in forest areas. The initiative is core to 'Participation and Rights,'...
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The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest and most biodiverse, represents a global public good of which 15 percent has already been lost. The worldwide value of preserving the remaining forest is today unknown. A "Delphi" exercise was conducted
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priorities for the Royal government of Cambodia and its conservation partners. 1)articulate a clear and shared vision and re …-commitment to conservation goals and objectives; 2)formalize a meaningful enabling legal and regulatory framework for management and … protection of conservation areas; 3)formulate clear strategies for recognizing and improving community benefit sharing in …
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Incentive-based conservation is a promising approach to tropical forest conservation, including within multiple …-use protected areas. Here we analyze the environmental impacts of Bolsa Floresta, a longstanding forest conservation program …. We thus find only statistically insignificant additional conservation effects from implementation. No important …
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-level conditional payments did not harm household-level socioeconomic indicators, a key safeguard requirement of conservation policies …
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The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest and an important constituent of the global biosphere, continues degrading by rapid deforestation, which is expected to continue despite policies to prevent it. Current international funding to protect the Amazon rainforest focuses on...
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This paper looks at the evidence on the magnitude and impacts of forest illegal acts, examines the vulnerabilities of the forest sector, and proposes a strategy for combating forest crime. Forest crime prominently includes illegal logging but acts against the law also affect other sector...
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Afghanistan has been in conflict and internal turmoil since the early 1970s, which has resulted in loss of life, insecurity, ethnic division, and wide-spread damage to the environment and natural resources. As citizens of one of the poorest nations in the world with an increasing poverty level...
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