| Business and Ecosystems: Markets for Ecosystem Services - New Challenges and Opportunities for Business and the Environment |
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World Conservation Union, 2007.
A briefing outlining the potential for mobilizing business and markets to conserve nature.
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| Serving Youth with Microfinance: Perspectives of Microfinance Institutions and Youth-Serving Organizations |
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Michael McNulty, Chemonics, 2005.
Investigates the applicability of microfinance to youth in conflict-affected areas.
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| Lighting Up the World |
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Jennifer Perry, Lighting Magazine, April 2006.
An article from Lighting Magazine, in which the autheor spoke to a number of visionary people working in underdeveloped communities about how they are creating safe and reliable lighting systems at a grassroots level.
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| CEO Briefing: Renewable Energy |
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United Nations Environmental Program Finance Initiative, 2004.
Presents the business case for financing renewable energy and makes strong policy recommendations for further action.
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| Challenges of Water Scarcity: A Business Case for Financial Institutions |
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United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative, et al, 2005.
Highlights the importance of private sector participation in the water sector for the benefit of water sustainability.
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| Poverty, Development, and Biodiversity Conservation: Shooting in the Dark? |
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Arun Agrawal and Kent Redford, Wildlife Conservation Society Working Paper No. 26, March 2005.
Examines the conceptual discussion around poverty and biodiversity and analyzes three such interventions.
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| Cooking and Carbon Expert Workshop Summary |
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University of Oxford, November 2005.
From the Cooking and Carbon Expert Workshop, with a focus on generating carbon credits from cooking.
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| Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Education: Thailand and selected countries experience |
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Dr. Arnulfo F. Itao, Office of Private Education Commission.
Highlights initiatives in Thailand to introduce entrepreneurship elements into the education system, both before and after the 1999 Education Reform Act, and compares these experiences with those in other countries.
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| Gender Oriented Enterpreneurship Promotion |
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Claudia Ulrike Gminden, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2003.
A manual highlighting successful Women's Enterprise Promotion strategies that are replicable and applicable for practitioners.
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| Consumer Demand and Operator Support for Socially and Environmentally Responsible Tourism |
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Zoe Chafe, Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development and The International Ecotourism Society, 2005.
Summarizes the findings on trends shaping the ecotourism industry and informing debates about sustainable development certification.
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| Heating Up Society To Take Environmental Action: A guide to effective environmental education and communication |
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Environmental Education and Communication Project (GreenCOM)
Explores how lessons learned from successful behavior
change programs could be
used to help develop sustainable environmental
solutions.
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