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A review of the current state of bioenergy development in G8 + 5 countries

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
natural resources management
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.
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AQUASTAT - Dams and agriculture in Africa

Reports & Research
May, 2007
Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, Benin, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, China, Eswatini, Congo, Guinea, Niger, Cameroon, Morocco, South Africa, Lesotho, Madagascar, Zambia, Brazil, Tunisia, Senegal, Chad, Norway, Africa
natural resources management
water management
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Assessing causes of recent organic carbon losses from cropland soils by means of regional-scaled input balances for the case of Flanders (Belgium)

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
France, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Europe
land management
Several recent reports on cropland soil organic carbon (SOC) stock changes throughout Europe indicate a general continuing loss of SOC from these soils. As most arable soils in Europe are not in an equilibrium situation because of past changes in land-use and management practices, shifts in both have been suggested to drive this decline of SOC stocks. A lack of data has prevented the unambiguous verification of the contribution of these factors to SOC loss.
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Biodiversity of the ground-dwelling spider fauna of afforestation habitats

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
Ireland
land ownership
The aim of this study was to assess spider diversity among habitats that are typically used for afforestation in Ireland, and to identify habitat parameters which could potentially be used as indicators of their biodiversity value. Ground-dwelling spiders were surveyed in 24 sites across Ireland, with eight sites of each of the following habitat types: improved grassland, wet grassland and peatland.
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changing relationships between forestry and the local community in rural northwestern Ireland

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
Ireland
land tenure
Following centuries of deforestation, Ireland has undergone a substantial afforestation programme in the last 40 years. This paper presents the results of a case study undertaken to examine local response to afforestation. The study is set in Arigna, a region in northwestern Ireland that has traditionally depended on agriculture but has experienced relatively high rates of afforestation in recent decades.
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Children's Property and Inheritance Rights in the Context of HIV and AIDS

Reports & Research
December, 2007
Angola, Rwanda, Zambia, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Eswatini, Congo, Malawi, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda, Somalia, Eritrea, Tanzania, Botswana, Norway, Kenya, Africa
private ownership
land governance
property rights
land ownership
land tenure
The present paper – the third in the HIV/AIDS Programme Working Paper Series – is based on field research conducted by two grassroots organizations – CINDI-Kitwe in Zambia and GROOTS Kenya in Kenya to map out and document cases of property grabbing from children, in particular those who became orphans due to AIDS. It is intended to explore methods which grassroots organizations use or can use to document their work.
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Coastal protection in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami: What role for forests and trees?

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
Bangladesh, Finland, Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand, New Zealand, Asia, Oceania
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
deforestation
environment
natural disasters
land improvement
Following the widespread wreckage and loss of life caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004, unprecedented efforts where made to restore order and rebuild the lives and livelihoods of the millions affected. A proportion of the reconstruction and rehabilitation effort was focused on environmental rehabilitation and a part of this again on the rehabilitation of coastal trees and forests. Many programmes were implemented during the post-tsunami period to restore coastal trees and forests, and in particular mangrove forests.
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Compulsory Purchase (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 2007 (S.I. No. 3617 of 2007).

Regulations
December, 2007
United Kingdom
These Rules prescribe the procedure to be followed in connection with public local inquiries relating to the authorisation of compulsory purchase orders made under the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 as amended by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. They relate to orders where a Minister is either the confirming authority in the case of a non-ministerial order or, in the case of inquiries relating to a compulsory purchase order made in draft by a UK government Minister, the appropriate authority.
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Consistent estimation of long-run nonindustrial private forest owner timber supply using micro data

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
Finland
landowners
In this paper, the effects of stumpage prices and forest and landowner characteristics on nonindustrial private forest owners' long-run timber supply are examined using cross-sectional variation in a data set of 1860 landowners in Finland during 1994-1998. We estimate an inverse hyperbolic sine Tobit model allowing for heteroscedasticity and non-normality of errors. The hypotheses of the rotation model can be examined by decomposing the effects of the exogenous variables into the effects on the conditional mean of nonzero harvests and the effects on the probability of nonzero harvest.
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Danish Strategy for Adaptation to a Changing Climate 2008.

National Policies
January, 2008
Denmark
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land-use planning
land governance
coastal areas
environment
natural disasters
land management
The present Strategy is based on the notion that adaptation to climate change is a long-term process, and that it is still uncertain what the consequences of climate change will be and how soon they will take effect.