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- Trees, People, and Power: Social Dimensions of Deforestation and Forest Protection in Central America
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Author: Utting, Peter Issue: Volume 4, Number ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 08:34
- Global food-price shocks and poor people – an overview
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Hunger has been on the rise since the mid-1990s, due to a variety of factors, including a lack of policy attention and a sense of complacency generated by long-term real declines in food prices. Food prices rose sharply after 2006, and there is consider ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-15 15:41
- Women targeted and women negated: an aspect of the environmental movement in Bangladesh
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In Bangladesh, government organisations and non-governmental organisations are implementing programmes and energy-saving projects in an effort to save the environment. This article examines such programmes in the specific area of improved stove technology ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Democracy and social participation in Latin American cities
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Democratisation, structural adjustment, state reform (including decentralisation), and liberalisation of the economy (including privatisation) have brought about dramatic changes in the nations, societies, and cities of Latin America and the Caribbean (LA ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis
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Author: Tostensen Arne, Inge Tvedten, and Mariken Vaa (eds.) Publisher: Uppsal ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-09 13:42
- Women and the Environment: A Reader
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Author: Sontheimer, Sally (ed.) Issue: Volume ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 13:14
- Fostering “Why not?” social initiatives – beyond business and governments
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In this article, we challenge the notion that complex and resilient problems – such as global warming and poverty – will have to be resolved by governments or responsible corporations. Instead, we argue for the potency of social initiatives ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-08-16 10:12
- Complexities in natural-resource management: irrigation infrastructure in Bihar
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All over Gaya District in Bihar, irrespective of a person's caste or economic status, irrigation is the overriding topic of concern on public platforms and in private conversations. In the absence of adequate government action, different kinds of commun ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:47
- Taking sustainability from policy to practice: bringing poverty concerns into the project cycle
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The concept of sustainability has evolved and expanded to include more than just environmental issues. Development practitioners now address questions linking sustainability to population and, in particular, to poverty alleviation. Environmentally sustain ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59
- On-farm testing and dissemination of agroforestry among slash-and-burn farmers in Nagaland, India
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This paper describes the structure and impacts of a development project in Nagaland, India. The project was a large-scale experiment in participatory development that emphasised local technology based on farmer-led testing of agroforestry, where farmers t ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
