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The Future of the World's Forests

Ideas vs Ideologies

By: Jim Douglas,Markku Simula

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The Future of the World's Forests

Ideas vs Ideologies

By: Jim Douglas,Markku Simula

At the landmark 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit), solemn resolutions were made both to protect the world’s biodiversity and to co-operate on managing natural forests in a sustainable and ecologically responsible way. If anything, given recent developments in issues such as climate change and poverty, the problem of protecting and sustaining forests should logically have become more important globally. Yet public interest in, and development support for, forest activities have declined and rates of forest loss remain stubbornly high. Why has this happened? This book seeks answers to this question. It examines the often dysfunctional relationships between various members of the international forest constituency, which have so often prevented the formation of consensus. It also explores the tendency to pursue technical and politically convenient ‘fixes’ focused on the internal workings of the forest sector, while ignoring the overwhelming influence of external forces on the fate of forests. The result, all too often, has been programs which benefit a few powerful players and fail to provide real solutions. The book provides a new examination of and perspective on the international forest policy debate. It clarifies the reasons for global forest conflicts and provides insight for future policy development. Including examples from both the developed and developing world, it provides an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students in forest policy and international relations, as well as a useful reference for policymakers and professionals in the forest sector, the development community and conservationists. With significant global attention now focused on reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), the authors examine the promise and the potential problems that apply to this initiative.

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216

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9048195829

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9789048195824

The Forest Certification Handbook

By: Ruth Nussbaum,Markku Simula

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The Forest Certification Handbook

By: Ruth Nussbaum,Markku Simula

First published in 1995, The Forest Certification Handbook has become the landmark book concerning all aspects of forest and wood product certification from policy to business to in-the-field technical issues. Yet since first publication an enormous amount has happened in the field. This new second edition has been entirely rewritten to incorporate the changes over the past decade, and is a complete and up-to-date source of information on all aspects of developing, selecting and operating a forest certification programme that provides both market security and raises standards of forest management.

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309

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Earthscan

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ISBN 10

1849773009

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9781849773003

Forest Resource Policy in Latin America

By: Ronnie de Camino,Julio C. Tresierra,Ramón López,Thomas Kelly,Markku Simula,Kari Keipi,Carlos Felipe Jaramillo,Olli Haltia,Jared J. Hardner,Marc J. Dourojeanni,Jan G. Laarman,Richard Rice

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Forest Resource Policy in Latin America

By: Ronnie de Camino,Julio C. Tresierra,Ramón López,Thomas Kelly,Markku Simula,Kari Keipi,Carlos Felipe Jaramillo,Olli Haltia,Jared J. Hardner,Marc J. Dourojeanni,Jan G. Laarman,Richard Rice

Forest Resource Policy in Latin America" gathers the thinking of a score of experts on sustainable use and management of forests, including incentives for investment. The authors tackle the thorny social issues of property rights, deforestation, and forest management and ownership by indigenous people and take a hard look at the trade and environmental issues in forest production that will affect future directions for sustainable forestry development in Latin America. Some argue that the main opportunity to conserve natural forests lies in recognizing and paying for the environmental services they provide. In addition, compensatory measures such as the establishment and better management of strictly protected areas appear to be the best tools to delay the loss of ecosystems and species. Alternative forest concession policies and trade and environmental issues in forest production are also analyzed.

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293

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Inter-American Development Bank

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1886938342

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9781886938342

Physical Climate Science Since IPCC AR4

A Brief Update on New Findings Between 2007 and April 2010

By: Markku Rummukainen

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Physical Climate Science Since IPCC AR4

A Brief Update on New Findings Between 2007 and April 2010

By: Markku Rummukainen

This report provides an update of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), focusing on the physical climate system that in the IPCC work is addressed by its Working Group I. The report considers progress in understanding of the human and natural drivers of climate change, climate observations, attribution, key climate feedback, as well as ocean acidification. Recent developments and near future prospects of climate modelling are also discussed in brief. Some of the key findings that the recent literature brings forth include: Parts of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have shown rapid melt over recent years. Solar cycle effects on global temperatures are small compared to anthropogenic forcing More emerging research on the "other CO2 problem", ocean acidification Climate change may have significant effects on natural carbon sinks The report is written by four leading Nordic climate scientists: Markku Rummukainen, Jouni Räisänen, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen and Halldór Björnsson on behalf of the Nordic ad hoc Group on Global Climate Negotiations. The Nordic ad hoc Group on Global Climate Negotiations prepares reports and studies, conducts meetings and organises conferences to support the Nordic negotiators in the UN climate negotiations. The overall aim of the group is to contribute to a global and comprehensive agreement on climate change with ambitious emission reduction commitments.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289320788

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9789289320788

Product Focused Software Process Improvement

4th International Conference, PROFES 2002 Rovaniemi, Finland, December 9-11, 2002, Proceedings

By: Markku Oivo

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Product Focused Software Process Improvement

4th International Conference, PROFES 2002 Rovaniemi, Finland, December 9-11, 2002, Proceedings

By: Markku Oivo

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Product Fucused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2002, held in Rovaniemi, Finland in December 2002. The 48 revised papers presented together with 2 keynote contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on improvement management, process modeling, software quality, Agile software development, process improvement approaches, methods and techniques, embedded software process improvement, process improvement case studies, effective use of measurements, wireless services, use cases, knowledge management, embedded systems methods, COTS quality techniques, frameworks, mobile solutions, and methods and techniques.

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660

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540002340

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The Forest Certification Handbook

By: Ruth Nussbaum,Markku Simula

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By: Ruth Nussbaum,Markku Simula

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Taylor & Francis

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113655405X

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The Future of the World's Forests

Ideas vs Ideologies

By: Jim Douglas,Markku Simula

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Ideas vs Ideologies

By: Jim Douglas,Markku Simula

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The Future of the World's Forests

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The Forest Certification Handbook

Forest Resource Policy in Latin America

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Physical Climate Science Since IPCC AR4

Physical Climate Science Since IPCC AR4

Product Focused Software Process Improvement

Product Focused Software Process Improvement

The Forest Certification Handbook

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The Future of the World's Forests

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