Proposals for a Legally Binding Global Convention on Forests, debated and rejected at the 1992 UNCED Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero, re-surface periodically at international fora. The case for concerted global action rests on the existence of ‘international problems’, where this is the only effec...
Glück, P.
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Tarasoffsky, R.G.
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Byron, R.N.
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Tikkanen, I.
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[Options for strengthening the international legal regime for forests: a report prepared for the European Commission under the study contract B7-8110/96/000221/D4 (proposal for a legally-binding instrument on forest)]
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Options for strengthening the international legal regime for forests: a report prepared for the European Commission under the study contract B7-8110/96/000221/D4 (proposal for a legally-binding instrument on forest)
Illegal forest activities pose a significant threat to the sustainability of forest ecosystems, result in losses of government revenues, foster a vicious cycle of bad governance, and may contribute to increased poverty and social conflict. As such, they have received considerable attention from t...
Tacconi, L.
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Boscolo, M.
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Brack, D.
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[National and international policies to control illegal forest activities: a report prepared for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Japan]
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National and international policies to control illegal forest activities: a report prepared for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Japan
This report summarizes the policy, research and capacity development activities that research teams from Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Nepal, Rwanda and Uganda and partner organizations will jointly carry out for the project “Strengthening national capacities to impl...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Bioversity International
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[Strengthening national capacities to implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Report of the first project planning workshop, 6-10 February 2012, Rome, Italy]
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Strengthening national capacities to implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Report of the first project planning workshop, 6-10 February 2012, Rome, Italy
The project “Strengthening national capacities to implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture” brings together partners from eight countries: Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Nepal, Rwanda and Uganda; and other organizations. T...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Halewood, Michael
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Bioversity International
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[Strengthening national capacities to implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Report of the research planning and training workshop, 2-4 May 2012]
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Strengthening national capacities to implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Report of the research planning and training workshop, 2-4 May 2012
Water cooperation has received prominent focus in the post-2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While proposals for measuring water cooperation appear to be converging toward a small set of indicators, the degree to which these proposed indicators draw on past work is unclear...
Saruchera, D.
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Lautze, Jonathan
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[Measuring transboundary water cooperation: learning from the past to inform the sustainable development goals]
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Measuring transboundary water cooperation: learning from the past to inform the sustainable development goals