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Participatory Management of Forests and Protected Areas

Participatory Management of Forests and Protected Areas

Sejal Worah, 2008. Participatory Management of Forests and Protected Areas. A Trainer’s Manual, RECOFTC.
This manual contains a series of training activities with detailed instructions, handouts, facilitator notes, reference to the time and materials needed, and case studies to help design training courses on various aspects of participatory management of forests and protected areas. In particular, [...]

The World Bank and Climate Change: Sustainability or Exploitation?

The World Bank and Climate Change: Sustainability or Exploitation?

Commentary on article from Upside Down World
This article discusses suspicions of the market-based Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for reduced emissions to combat climate change and how developing countries communities are affected.
Development workers for the last decade have been worried about how World Bank and UNEP sponsored mechanisms to sequestering carbon in developing countries forests [...]