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  1. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Madagascar

    Parks and protected areas are valuable
    assets to developing nations, whether viewed as
    environmental, economic or social goods. Nevertheless, to
    date there are few examples where the full potential
    economic rent of protected areas has been captured
    efficiently or distributed effectively. This severely limits
    the capacity of developing nations to sustain their natural
    resources. In Sub-Saharan Africa the crisis is acute,

  2. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    The Sahel Operational Review (SOR) seeks
    to accelerate the transfer of lessons learned in natural
    resource management from ongoing Bank projects to the design
    of new Bank projects. This paper is the final report of the
    second phase of the SOR. It summarizes 29 SOR activities
    between 1989 and July 1994, including project reviews,
    seminars, workshops, conferences, and studies. This final
    report is an attempt to incorporate the major lessons and

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Madagascar

    The objective of the project is to
    improve the environmental management capacity in Madagascar
    through the implementation of institutional development and
    emergency actions. Project components included: (i)
    protection and management of biodiversity; (ii)
    community-based soil conservation and watershed management;
    (iii) mapping and remote sensing for improved natural
    resources management; (iv) improved land security through

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Africa, South Africa

    The book provides an evaluation of, and
    policy advice on key environmental, social, and economic
    issues concerning the development of nature tourism. Using
    KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa as a case study, it highlights
    both the benefits, and trade-offs I promoting, an managing
    sustainable nature-tourism development, and it assesses how
    policy can enhance nature tourism's contribution to
    economic growth, poverty reduction, and conservation. The

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Africa, Western Africa

    The West African Mineral Sector
    Strategic Assessment (WAMSSA) is a strategic environmental
    and social assessment intended to identify policy,
    institutional, and regulatory adjustments required to
    integrate environmental and social considerations into
    mineral sector development in Africa. The study focused on
    three Mano River Union (MRU) countries, Guinea, Liberia, and
    Sierra Leone, all categorized as mineral-rich countries

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Democratic Republic of the Congo

    The study presents an analysis of the
    situation of the Pygmies in Democratic Republic of Congo
    (DRC), including their history and relations with the other,
    mainly Bantu, populations. It provides a brief description
    of their lifestyle, their socioeconomic status, and a
    participatory diagnosis of the key factors that lead to
    their current impoverishment and marginalization. The study
    discusses the rationale for protecting Pygmy culture and

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