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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945341
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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
relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountainous regions of Nepal (i.e., excluding the low …-lying Terai regions) were surveyed in three successive rounds of the Nepal LSMS corresponding to 1995, 2003 and 2010, while other … is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal between 1995 and 2010.[BREAD …
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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
representative household data from Nepal is used for the study. [SANDEE Working Paper No. 51 - 10]. …
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Sisyphean Labours Domestic Water Supply In The Central-Western Himalayas
eSocialSciences; People's Science Institute PSI - 2009
The paper begins with a review of national programmes and their performances. The next two sections highlight the record of domestic water supply programmes in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh with the help of official statistics and some ground truths from micro‐level studies and surveys. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466889
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Survival Lessons Water Management Traditions in the Central-Western Himalayas
eSocialSciences; People's Science Institute PSI - 2009
India is home to fantastic water harvesting traditions that have evolved over millennia. The central western Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand are no exceptions to these traditions. The present review describes a variety of water harvesting structures found in this region. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987325
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Mountains of Concrete: Dam Building in the Himalayas
Dharmadhikary, Shripad - eSocialSciences - 2008
The report discusses for the first time the linkages between climate change and dam-building in the Himalayas, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487536
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Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in the Himalayas
Micevska, Maja - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of nonfarm incomes across rural households. A unique data set collected in the Himalayan region of India allows us to deal with the heterogeneity of rural nonfarm activities by using aggregations into categories that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566189
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Schematic Natural Hazard Zonation of Bihar using Geoinformatics
Ghosh, Tuhin; Mukhopadhyay, Anirban - eSocialSciences - 2013
The findings of the present study are being documented with an aim for invoking a paradigm shift in the attitudes and perceptions about natural hazards; this shift should make the state and the people more prepared to face such calamities, and consequently minimize the loss of life and property,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945478
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Are Embankments a Good Flood-­-Control Strategy? A Case Study of the Kosi River
Somanathan, E - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper makes a first pass at evaluating embankments. Using two years or more of data from 504 households in 28 villages in the floodplain of the Kosi river in north Bihar, a comparison of the agricultural output, wage incomes, unemployment, and other indicators of well-being between villages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945321
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Monetary Incentives to Reduce Open-Field Rice-Straw Burning in the Plains of Nepal
Pant, Krishna Prasad - eSocialSciences - 2014
In southern Nepal, rice straw burning in open fields is common practice. This is problematic because biomass burning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945376