Report on indigenous fishing rights in the seas with case studies from Australia and Norway

At its eighth session, in May 2009, the Permanent Forum appointed Carsten Smith and Michael Dodson, members of the Permanent Forum, as special rapporteurs to prepare a study on indigenous fishing rights in the seas, and requested that the report be submitted to the Permanent Forum at its ninth session, in April 2010. The study includes an analysis of the potential protection of indigenous fishing rights in the seas provided by the existing international framework, including the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Labour Organization Convention No. 169 and Apirana Mahuika et al. versus New Zealand. Case studies from Australia and Norway, with reference to conventions and States in those two respective regions (vis. Papua New Guinea in relation to the Torres Strait Treaty; Sweden and Finland in relation to the Nordic Saami Convention), are presented to enable comparison between these States and with international law

Successful Applications of Vertical-Roller-Mills in Phosphate Processing

To keep up with increasingly challenging tasks in the processing of ores and industrial minerals, the design of the process as well as the choice of the equipment to be installed will become more complex. This accounts for the process step of grinding in particular, as it has significant impact onto the performance of the downstream sorting process and represents a major share in the overall operating expenditures of a mining operation. Especially with increased requirements to the grinding product, alternative technologies such as compressive comminution in Vertical-Roller-Mills (VRM) can offer efficient solutions and replace conventional grinding technology. Please click Additional Files below to see the full abstract

Can we trust the data? : methodological experiences with forest product valuation in lowland Bolivia

Forest products are important to rural households across virtually all forest types in developing countries. There are, however, only few comprehensive and systematic efforts at valuing these products and determining their absolute and relative economic importance to rural households. Having used the novel income survey approach developed by the global Poverty and Environment Network (PEN), this paper presents methodological experiences with forest product valuation in lowland Bolivia. Household (n = 118) data was collected in six communities in the Tropics of Cochabamba from February 2006 to January 2007. Households used a large number of products, including 151 forest and non-forest environmental products. Valuing all these products was time consuming but possible using the households’ own-reported values. Even for non-traded products useful values can be estimated. Generally, using households' own reported estimates result in aggregate unit values with satisfactory properties