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May 2013

Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Soil Conservation - Evidence from Malawi

Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP), University of Leeds, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
Using a large plot-level database from Malawi, this paper shows that land tiling alone might not induce greater investment in soil conservation under the exisiting customary inheritance systems and that a reform of the rental market is in order.
May 2014

Economics of Land Degradation Initiative: Practitioner’s Guide

Economics of Land Degradation (ELD)
This Economics of Land Degradation Initiative: Practitioner’s Guide reaches out to provide practitioners and decision-makers with the skills necessary to make an economic case for preventing or reversing land degradation and to adopt more sustainable land management options.
August 2014

Climate change and primary industries: Impacts, adaptation and mitigaton in the Nordic countries

Nordic Council of Ministers
The report Climate change and primary industries: Impacts, adaptation and mitigaton in the Nordic countries and policy recommendations provide a baseline and a way forward, a focus for the activities that can help the Nordic region to address the threats and opportunities of climate change for our primary production systems.
June 2010

Brazil Low-Carbon Country Case Study

World Bank Group
The Brazil Low‐Carbon Development Study by the World Bank offers a significant exploration into the potential for Brazil to foster economic development whilst reducing greenhouse gas emissions and is the resultof a c
June 2011

Baseline Report: National Strategy on Climate Change and Low Carbon Development for Rwanda

Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE), University of Oxford

This Baseline Report is the first step in the process of developing a National Strategy on Climate Change and Low Carbon Development for Rwanda. It provides a snapshot of the country today and the planned initiatives that will take it forward, placing it within the context of climate change.

July 2014

Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization

World Bank Group, Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC), People's Republic of China

This report is the results of joint research by a team from the World Bank and the Development Research Center of China’s State Council which was established to address the challenges and opportunities of urbanization in China and to help China forge a new model of urbanization.

June 2011

Global Guidance Principles for Life Cycle Assessment Databases - A Basis for Greener Processes and Products

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment)

The document provides guidance principles for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) databases; this includes how to collect raw data, how to develop datasets and how to manage databases.

December 2007

UNECE Environmental Performance Reviews: Ukraine 2007 (2nd cycle)

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
The Second Environmental Performance Review of Ukraine takes stock of the progress made by Ukraine in the management of its environment since the country was first reviewed in 1999.
September 2018

The Global Wetland Outlook

Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
The Global Wetland Outlook examines the state and trends of wetlands. It reviews the drivers of wetland loss and degradation, identifies knowledge gaps, highlights successes and best practices, and outlines responses for the wetland community and other sectors to maintain or restore the ecological character of the world's wetlands.
January 2016

Global Environment Outlook 6: Regional assessment for North America

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment)
This assessment, Global Environment Outlook 6: Regional assessment for North America , was carried out in order to characterize the priority environmental issues, states and trends in the region in a systematic, evidence-based manner, as input into the sixth iteration of UNEP’s flagship Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) process.

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