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Integrating Economics into Resource and Environmental Management Some Recent Experiences in the Pacific

… sufficient incentive to avoid or reduce the extent of deforestation and forest degradation in Fiji. She compares … that reservoir is being depleted rapidly and tropical deforestation and forest degradation accounts for a … Finding a mechanism to incentivise the reduction of deforestation and forest degradation is therefore, a crucial …
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Global Mercury Assessment

… to water and land totalling more than 800 tonnes per year. Deforestation mobilizes another 260 tonnes of mercury into … pesticides and fungicides used in agriculture, and deforestation are considered separately. The global estimate … use of mercury in these products has been greatly reduced. Deforestation, especially in the Amazon Basin, can lead to …
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Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

… variety of activities ranging from coastal development and deforestation to climate change, pollution to overfishing … no mangrove trees remained as a result of unregulated deforestation for charcoal production. Since that time, … the Reserve, including changes in drainage patterns, deforestation of riparian forests and water canalization …
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Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction - Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security

… and tracking trends in environmental degradation, such as deforestation and drought, and restoration. Integrated risk … Disaster Risk Reduction 3 REDD: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in Developing Countries 12 • …
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Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management

… biodiversity in the region faces several threats including deforestation, alien invasive species, mining, natural … practices resulting in severe land degradation and deforestation. Both countries are already experiencing … and threatened by a variety of factors including logging, deforestation, pollution, fire, shifting agriculture, etc. …
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