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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2008Zimbabwe
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesJanuary, 2009Global
Forests are essential for human survival and well-being. They harbour two thirds of all terrestrial animal and plant species. They provide us with food, oxygen, shelter, recreation, and spiritual sustenance, and they are the source for over 5,000 commercially-traded products, ranging from pharmaceuticals to timber and clothing. The biodiversity of forests—the variety of genes, species, and forest ecosystems—underpins these goods and services, and is the basis for long-term forest health and stability.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2008Zimbabwe
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2008Zimbabwe
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2008Indonesia
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2008Indonesia, Nepal, Bolivia, Zimbabwe
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2008Peru
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2008Indonesia
Since President Soeharto stepped down, decentralization has offered a better governance system for this nation of more than 220 million people of varied ethnic groups spread over more than 15,000 islands. Despite its potential, implementation of decentralization has been riddled with unexpected problems. Decentralization turned out to have created problems, ranging from conflicts among people who refused regional fragmentation, conflicts between newly-created districts and the original, larger district from which they were created, and between local and central government.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2008Indonesia
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2008Central America, South America
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