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- Unsustainable development: the Philippine experience
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High rates of urbanisation in the South have led to unsustainable development in its cities and towns. The form of development that is taking place is `parasitic', in that it excludes the poor and follows the development paradigm of the North rather than ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- The Landcare experience in the Philippines: Technical and institutional innovations for conservation farming
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Sustainable land use is critical for the development of the Philippines uplands, where about 18 million people live. This paper relates our experiences using a participatory approach to develop agroforestry practices and institutions for conservation farm ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Integrating participatory elements into conventional research projects: measuring the costs and benefits
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Until recently, participatory and conventional approaches to agricultural research have been regarded as more or less antagonistic. This article presents evidence from three sub-projects of a Thai-Vietnamese-German collaborative research programme on 'Sus ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- Women's involvement in small-scale aquaculture in Northeast Thailand
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In Northeast Thailand, women are heavily involved in small-scale aquaculture. However, as aquaculture becomes more intensive, women are in charge of less. Women's decision-making power in aquaculture and in the household is stronger when women have greate ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10
- Officialising strategies: participatory processes and gender in Thailand's water resources sector
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This paper examines participatory processes in an Asian Development Bank (ADB) technical assistance package in Thailand's water resources sector. The authors analyse various levels of social interaction in the local community, in meso-level stakeholder co ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- Gender in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Congress, Manila, 19–22 October 2008
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The Gender in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Congress held in Manila 19–22 October 2008) was the Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance. Its purpose was to provide a forum for decision makers to formulate gender-resp ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-29 10:28
- Environmental leadership training for Asia
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There was a split between North and South over environmental issues at the 1992 Earth Summit. A similar rift may re-emerge as British ODA opens management of its training programmes to competition in 1993. Emerging environmental training institutions in A ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- Social and Gender Analysis in Natural Resource Management: Learning Studies and Lessons from Asia
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Author: Vernooy, Ronnie (ed.) Publisher: New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, CA, London: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 13:18
- Mangrove planting in Vietnam
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In 1989, Save the Children Fund (UK) began an experimental project to plant mangroves along a coastal estuary in the Thach Ha district of Ha Tinh province in northern central Vietnam. It was designed and managed by the district forestry and water manageme ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- Practical innovations for strengthening Community-Led Total Sanitation: selected experience from Asia
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While Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is a relative success in a growing number of countries, there are also difficulties in assuring all community members can build and use toilets. This paper draws on experiences of IRC International Water and S ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-05-14 17:03
