This page provides direct access to a comprehensive database
of the most important conference media resources. These include
case study videos, documentaries, and flash presentations, as
well as other key documents and conference material.
| Films from the Environmental Education Media Project for China |
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The Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation Project Film |
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Covering an area that is the size of France, the Loess Plateau is home to more than 50 million very poor farmers who have suffered centuries of severe soil erosion, leading to massive environmental degradation and poverty. The film documents a remarkable paradigm shift: the rebirth of a self-sustaining ecosystem in the dry and remote Loess Plateau region of China, and identifies why and how the World Bank/government joint project has completely changed the landscape of the region.
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An Interview with Jurgen Vogele of the Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation Project |
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World Bank task manager Jurgen Vogele introduces the experiences in the initiation and implementation of the Loess Plateau project and shares his thoughts on how and why this project has succeeded. The experience shows the crucial importance of listening to the indigenous people, understanding the local best practices, designing the projects that provides the incentives for farmers to give up unsustainable practices, and implement the projects so that can be scaled up to nonproject areas. This is how successful “model” projects can be scaled up.
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Scaling Up Poverty Reduction in China |
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This film examines how China succeeded in raising hundreds of millions of people out of poverty since reforming its economy in 1978 and how the lessons learned are helping the poor community throughout China. Experiences from three case studies on "The Southwest Poverty Reduction Project", "Growth and Transition in Wenzhou and Suzhou" and "The Loess Plateau project" were introduced. This film is a part of a series of documentaries for the Shanghai Global Learning Process on Scaling Up Poverty Reduction.
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The Long March |
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This video documents the story of a city—Chengdu—to have transformed its river system from a filthy and polluted place unfit for human inhabitance, to an ecological healthy riverbank attractive to tourists and residents. The power of public awareness, knowledge dissemination, commitment and innovation is fully demonstrated.
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Women of the Gobi |
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This video shows how people of Gobi, Mongolia have had to be more self-reliant and how women have emerged as leaders of new communities called Nukhaluls. These community accomplishments are inspiring others, spreading a grass roots democratic movement that is pioneering people-centered conservation, helping to ensure a sustainable future for the land and the people and empowering women to replace failed state social services.
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A Line in the Sand |
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This video shows the deterioration of eco-system in Alashan, China, and efforts, experiments local people, together with government and international development agencies have taken to address this issue.
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Because They're Worth It |
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The video shows how access to micro-finance/micro-credit, together with education, health services can help change poor people’s lives. The power of women’s participation and community based development is vividly demonstrated.
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Trading Legal Timber |
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With rapid economic development, over-exploitation of natural resources has put a growing burden to the globe. Without any action, it could leave our future generation’s life in danger. As China emerging as a manufacturing center of the world, reserving forest resources has become an imminent issue. By introducing the legal timber concept, the video introduces the effect that trading legal timber could bring in this aspect, and how it could further affect related manufacturers’ future development in China.
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A Steppe Ahead |
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This clip shows the breathtaking landmark of the Eastern Mongolian Steppe –the largest area of contiguous grasslands on Earth, numerous wild animal and plant species resident on it, as well as local people’s life. As yet largely undeveloped, this oasis has recently attracted the attention of foreign companies eager to develop the oil and gold reserves which lie beneath it. The video discussed the challenges people face in pursuing an ecological-friendly economic development.
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