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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2007
    France, Estonia, United States of America, Sweden, Germany, China, Australia, Latvia, Canada, Colombia, Lithuania, South Africa, Malaysia, Italy, Netherlands, India, Mexico, Brazil

    Bioenergy sits at the intersection of three of the world’s great challenges - energy security, climate change, and poverty reduction - and has received an enormous amount of attention in the past few years. Joint work on these issues is vital considering that together, the G8 +5 Countries account for about 55 percent of the world’s population, 70+ percent of global GDP, and about 72 percent of world energy-related and industry CO2 emissions (excluding deforestation). Bioenergy statistics are inadequate and not up to date.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2007
    Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Italy, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, Australia, Papua New Guinea, India, Guinea, Myanmar, Thailand, Asia

    A quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and national resources management for the Asia-Pacific region.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2007
    United States of America, China, Sri Lanka, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Canada, Pakistan, Finland, Thailand, New Zealand, Nepal, Philippines, South Africa, Australia, Myanmar, Netherlands, India, Asia

    A quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and national resources management for the Asia-Pacific region.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2007
    United States of America, Chile, Italy, Indonesia, Canada, Gabon, Cameroon, Brazil

    FAO has been coordinating global forest resources assessments every five to ten years since 1946 (FAO, 2006), with the objective to provide a periodic global and uniform picture of existing forests, derived trends and statistics. Especially FAO’s periodically reported deforestation rates enjoy a high degree of public attention and are widely cited in literature.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2007
    Italy

    Human rights principles and language are being used to support resource access claims as rights-based approaches empower individuals and groups to gain or maintain access to natural resources. This paper addresses the right to food and access to natural resources in regard to Right to Food Guidelines Provisions, Violations and State Obligations.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2007
    France, Bangladesh, United States of America, China, Indonesia, Australia, Iran, Republic of Korea, Thailand, Pakistan, Philippines, Turkey, Japan, Tunisia, India, Mexico, Mongolia, Asia

    Water is essential for life and plays a key role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. As the population continues to grow and the economy develops, competition for water uses between different users has intensified and induced excessive strain on the environment. Climate change and water pollution further aggravate the situation. Today, 2.8 billion people are affected by some form of water scarcity, and the number of regions affected by water shortages is on the rise.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2007
    Seychelles, Tunisia, United States of America, Japan, South Africa, Madagascar, Italy, Malta, Guinea, New Zealand

    Meeting symbol/code: COFI/2007/Inf.11

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2007
    Angola, Nepal, United States of America, Zambia, South Africa, Gambia, Mali, Sweden, Zimbabwe, Italy, Botswana, Germany, Namibia

    This publication is part of a series of training materials on natural resources conflict management developed by FAOs Livelihood Support Programme. It supports the discussions presented in Negotiation and mediation techniques for natural resource management (2005) a conceptual guide by sharing recent, real-life experiences of Africans who have used the processes and principles of consensual negotiation and mediation to address natural resource conflicts.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2008
    Central Asia, Eastern Europe

    The paper elucidates the current structure of university education in Belarus and particularly emphasises available levels of education. Furthermore, the paper focuses on existing study programmes training specialists in the field of cadastre, land management, GIS, and real estate management in the Republic of Belarus. The overview is based on a survey of existing curricula of several Belarusian universities as well as on the National classifier of specialities. Recent development and future trends in land administration education of Belarus are partly addressed.

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