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Security, Development and Forest Conflict: a forum for action
Conflict timber - Lessons for post-conflict reconstruction The issues to be discussed include: Conflict timber – definitions and proposed Expert Panel on conflict resources; responding to the needs of demobilized forces without fuelling future conflict ... conflict in forested areas and manage military exploitation of forests; and address the problem of conflict timber and the needs of post-conflict ...
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Security, Development and Forest Conflict: a forum for action
Working group 2 Conflict Timber: Lessons from Liberia Silas Siakor, Sustainable Development Institute, Liberia pdf 199 kb ppt 268 kb The UN Security Council and timber sanctions A.G. Blundell, Chair, Panel of Experts on Liberia, UN Security Council Art Blundell, UNSC pdf 97 kb Word 31 kb Reducing the trade in conflict resources & Fostering ...
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bushmeat blog
The harvesting of this wood, ... established forestry as a national priority and instituted a five-year tax holiday on timber industries. This policy, combined with the return of commercial interests to the country, repopulation, ...
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Business and Conflict
Conflict Conflict Sensitive Business Practice The Extractive Sector and Conflict The Finance Sector and Conflict »  Environment and Security (E&S) Conservation and Conflict Conflict-sensitive Conservation Conservation in Times of Conflict Conservation in Post-conflict ... global security, war and conflict, the control over natural resources—be they oil, water, timber or "conflict diamonds"—and ...
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ForestHarvest - Managing land for non-timber forest products in Scotland
There are increasing ... timber forest products are often regarded as a 'free' resource. But they also offer woodland owners a possible way of increasing the revenue from their land. There is not necessarily a conflict ...
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Tropical timber import export Africa Asia volume Congo Ghana Guinea China RCA France
This seems to conflict with the intent of the law, which grants logging concessions in perpetuity - presumably to encourage ... logging activity takes place. Whereas export statistics indicate that France is the leading destination of timber (primarily logs, the export of which is illegal unless certain requirements have been met) from ...
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China Olympics 2008 dumping illegal unsustainable timber USA furniture EU plywood finance subsidies import export Beijing Fujian CO2 Carbon Offset plantations
Half of China's timber imports are probably illegal (- some, particularly those from tropical countries, will also be associated with conflict). Much of this is destined for export after processing (/laundering). Thus, export markets (primarily G8 countries) are culpable for much of China's illegal timber imports. ...
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Policy Brief #6 "Designing Forestation Models for Rural Asia: Avoiding Land Conflict as a Key to Success"
Forestation Models for Rural Asia: Avoiding Land Conflict as a Key to Success Partly due to the worldwide upsurge in industrial demand for timber, the number of planted forests has ... options tends to undermine their enthusiasm for maintaining the planted forest lots. Avoiding land conflict and encouraging enthusiasm for planting amongst local people are critical to the sustainable management ...
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Strzelecki Conflict over Forest Clearing
Strzelecki Conflict over Forest Clearing Strzelecki Conflict over Forest Clearing Media Release 18/7/97, Dr Rod Anderson, Environment Victoria Local residents ... here. It is no longer necessary to clear out scarce native forests for paper or timber products. There is more than enough wood fibre available from recycling and the great plantation ...
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Annie Kajir -- the lawyer who won't be scared off by the robber barons of Papua New Guinea's timber industry. | July 2006 | New Internationalist
The Malaysian timber company Rimbunan Hijau dominates: through some 60 separate companies, it controls timber rights in an estimated three million hectares of PNG forest ... . Flowers on the razor wire Can a nonviolent army of trained civilians bring peace to conflict zones? Chris Richards reports from Sri Lanka on the peace movement's new frontier. The ...
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