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estimates of mangrove cover and change reveal catastrophic deforestation in Myanmar
Mangroves are one of the world's most threatened ecosystems, and Myanmar is regarded as the current mangrove deforestation hotspot globally. This study demonstrates the impo...
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Sustainable Forest Management in Myanmar
This power point presentation was presented at the Regional Workshop on “Enhancing Conservation and Sustainable Management of Teak Forests and Legal and Sustainable Wood Supply ...
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Biodiversity and Conservation of Protected Areas Law
The draft law addresses the existing regulations pertaining to biodiversity and conservation of protected areas within the Union of Myanmar.
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EITI Report for the Period 2017- 2018
The purpose of this Report is to reconcile the data provided by companies operating in the extractive sector (hereafter referred to as “Companies”) with the data provided by rel...
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Myanmar’s Nascent Environmental Governance System: Challenges and Opportunities
This is one of the articles of Natural Resources & Environment (NR&E) which is a quarterly magazine of practical, informative articles for practitioners. NR&E is published by th...
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Taking Stock: Tracking Trends in European Aid for Forests and Communities
Forests and forest-dependent communities are under increasing pressure due to infrastructure projects and the growing demand for agricultural commodities. Although there is incr...
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Organised-chaos-the-illicit-overland-timber-trade-between-myanmar-and-china
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Myanmar Country Environmental Analysis, A Road towards Sustainability, Peace, and Prosperity: Synthesis Report
This report explores the issues and challenges faced and the legal and institutional context. Through a lens of poverty reduction, social inclusion and participation, and econom...
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EITI Report for the Period April 2015- March 2016. Oil, Gas and Mining Sector
The purpose of this Report is to reconcile the data provided by companies operating in the extractive sector (hereafter referred to as “Companies”) with the data provided by rel...
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EITI Report for the Period April 2016- March 2017. Oil and Gas, Gems and Jade, Other Minerals and Pearl
This report summarised information about the reconciliation of tax and non-tax revenue from the extractive industries in Myanmar as part of the implementation of the Myanmar Ext...
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Myanmar Pearl Cultivation Licences 2017-2018
Myanmar pearl cultivation licence data as geodata based on MEITI 5th Report (FY2017/18) annex (http://www.myanmareiti.org/files/uploads/license_information2017-2018.xlsx). It in...
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Biodiversity, Human Rights and Business in Myanmar
This briefing paper explores the relationship between biodiversity, human rights, society and business in Myanmar, with particular reference to the oil and gas, mining and touri...
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Brief of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Systems Diagnostic
This brief provides understanding of Myanmar EIA systems and recommendations towards their strengthing.
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Beneficial Ownership: Tackling Hidden Company Ownership Through Myanmar's EITI Process
This paper focuses on a new and ground-breaking provision of EITI: a requirement for the identities of the real owners – the ‘beneficial owners’ – of extractive industry compani...
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Sharing the Wealth: A Roadmap for Distributing Myanmar’s Natural Resource Revenues
This discussion paper outlines options available under the current legal structure to help the new leadership fulfill its commitment to decentralize natural resource revenues. I...
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Baseline Data-set
The MIMU have been tracking more than 200 indicators from various sources and the dataset is available through their website.
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Agriculture, natural resources,and environment initial sector assessment, strategy, and road map
A report from the Asian Development Bank on the Myanmar government's plan for addressing priority needs in the agriculture, natural resources, and environment (ANRE) sector. Pub...
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Natural Resources and Sub - national Governments in Myanmar: Key considerations for wealth sharing
The research presented in this discussion paper provides an overview of the current role of subnational government in natural resource management andrevenue collection in Myanma...
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Tree cover data from Global Forest Watch
This file contains tabular data on tree cover, loss, and gain produced by the University of Maryland/Google. For more information on each data set, please visit data.globalfores...
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Natural Resources of Myanmar (Burma): Ownership, Management, Revenue Sharing and Impacts
This research paper explores the natural resource governance Myanmar specifically the governance of oil and gas extraction in Rakhine State and jade extraction in Kachin State t...