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Library ResourceJanuary, 1998Guyana
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1998Cuba
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1999Chile
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1998Ecuador
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1998Chile
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Library ResourceNational PoliciesJanuary, 1999Jamaica
The Jamaica National Environmental Action Plan (JANEAP) is a national Plan with a multi-sectoral approach. The duration of the Plan is 3 years between 1999 and 2002. The main objective of the Plan is to ensure good environmental planning and management to contribute to the sustainable development.Regarding the biological resources, forestry, watershed management, protected areas and oceans the Plan provides for different actions to be taken. A Fisheries Management Plan and an Ocean and Coastal Zone Policy will be prepared and implemented.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1999Latin America and the Caribbean
Land and forestry-based activities could in principle play important roles as climate change mitigation strategies. In practice, however, several questions have been raised about their feasibility. Therefore, understanding the processes and determinants of land use changes is critical. This paper aims to contribute to such understanding in the larger part of a larger project on sustainable development and economic growth. It begins with a dynamic model of land use.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1999Nicaragua, Latin America and the Caribbean
The advance of the agricultural frontier constitutes the biggest source of deforestation in Central America today. This conversion of tropical forests into agricultural land and pasture is the direct result of individual land use decisions. This paper presents a simple analytical model of household land use, followed by an econometric analysis of household survey data from the Río San Juan region of Nicaragua in order to test for consistency with the model.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksNovember, 1998Costa Rica
Rosero-Bixby, L. & Palloni, A. Population and Environment (1998) 20: 149. doi:10.1023/A:1023319327838
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1998Nicaragua, Central America, South America
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