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Our study covered 25 villages in India, comparing the functioning of forest protection groups founded under state initiatives, including institutions under the Joint Forest Management program and community forest management systems formed by communities on a voluntary basis. The study revealed that the length of time for which the forest has been...

This paper addresses two prime concerns in ecotourism: defining ecotourism, and identifying indicators of ecotourism to facilitate operationalizing and evaluating the concept at a particular location. Based on a literature review, the following indicators are identified: impacts of ecotourism on the natural environment, its contribution to the...

The Kyoto Protocol, in its present form, is quantitatively and structurally totally inadequate to combat dangerous climate change. That is - to the authors of this paper - the inevitable conclusion to be drawn from three careful scientific studies on behalf of the Ministry of Environment of the German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, two...

International climate-control or environmental agreements have substantial impacts on international terms of trade. This would seem to suggest that international environmental coalitions cooperating on climate control could penalize non-cooperating countries through trade sanctions. However, alternative approaches exist in which cooperating nations...

This study estimates the relative vulnerability of coastal districts of India using an integrated vulnerability index, which is defined as a function of the exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity of the districts to present and future climate risks. The study also ranks districts in terms of the likely number of human casualties due to...

China accounts for a significant share of global clean development mechanism (CDM) potential. So far, China has lagged behind other large developing countries, such as Brazil and India, in implementing a system for approval of CDM projects. But China now has the foundations for effective participation in the CDM. Eighteen projects had been approved...

Book Review Climate Trading: Development of Kyoto Protocol Markets Author: Deborah Stowell Publisher Information: Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2005. Finance and Capital Markets series. 264 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 1-4039-1616-0 Emission trading and the market-based mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol are becoming more and more fashionable topics for...

Remarks: 季刊環境研究

Remarks: Proceedings of 2nd Extended Regional Workshop on Capacity Development for Clean Development Mechanism