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Making Grasslands Sustainable in Mongolia: Adapting to Climate and Environmental Change
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013
Climate change threatens grassland ecosystems and herders’ livelihoods in Mongolia. Herders depend on pasture and water resources for their livestock, and are thus among the most vulnerable groups to climate change impacts. However, although climate change impacts on grassland ecosystems are...
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Deforestation in the Himalayas: Myths and Reality
Baland, Jean Marie; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2014
Deforestation in developing and middle income countries is an urgent global problem, affecting climate change, soil … frequently dominated by widely held beliefs concerning the extent of deforestation (that it is large and growing over time), and … its impacts on local livelihoods (that these are adverse and large). Views concerning determinants of deforestation …
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Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel
Baland, Jean-Marie; Libois, Francois; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2013
A longitudinal household survey from World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) was used for the study. A …
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Country Safeguard Systems Regional Workshop Proceedings Towards Common Approaches and Better Results
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012
Australian Agency for International Development, Japan International Cooperation Agency, and the World Bank confirmed their …
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Water-resource and land-use issues
Calder, Ian R. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
This paper reviews perceived notions of the relationships between catchment land use and hydrology and explores whether much of the widely disseminated folklore, so often inextricably linked with issues of land use, is based on myth or reality. Gaps in our knowledge of the underlying processes...
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Water-resource and land-use issues
Calder, I. R. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008516177
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Consideraciones sobre impacto ambiental por efecto de las obras de regadïo en el distrito de riego Chancay-Lambayque, Per. In Spanish
Garces-Restrepo, C.; Guerra-Tovar, J. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 1999
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Unbelievable but True — Improved Cook-stoves are not Helpful in Reducing Firewood Demand in Nepal
Nepal, Mani; Nepal, Apsara; Grimsrud, Kristine - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper analyzes the effect of different types of cook-stoves on firewood demand at the household level. Nationally representative household data from Nepal is used for the study. [SANDEE Working Paper No. 51 - 10].
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Consideraciones sobre impacto ambiental por efecto de las obras de regadϯ en el distrito de riego Chancay-Lambayque, Peru.
Garces-Restrepo, Carlos; Guerra-Tovar, Julio - International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011069132
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Valuation of Urban Air Pollution: A Case Study of Kanpur City in India
Gupta, Usha - eSocialSciences - 2006
This study estimates the monetary benefits to individuals from health damages avoided as a result on reductions in air pollution in the urban industrial city of Kanpur in India. A notable feature of this study is that it uses data from weekly health-diaries collected for three seasons. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341736