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Mekong Mainstream Dams: Threatening Southeast Asia's Food Security
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2010
hydropower dams on the Mekong River’s lower mainstream. If built, these dams would harm the river’s ecology and block the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671528
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WRR: Special Focus on Restoring the Flow
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2011
their health and our own. If a river's flow is its heartbeat, then we humans have become the heart disease of the world …'s rivers. The articles in this issue look at three ways to solve the problem of maintaining healthy river flows. URL: [http …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319312
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The Don Sahong Dam: Potential Impacts on Regional Fish Migrations, Livelihoods and Human Health
Bird, Ian - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper focuses on the Don Sahong Dam (DSD’s) potential impacts on fish and fisheries, and particularly the project’s regional implications in relation to fisheries, including its possible impacts on food security, nutrition and poverty alleviation in Laos and neighbouring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323693
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Unravelling Khulna Jessore Drainage Project
Islam, Shahidul; Kibria, Zakir - eSocialSciences - 2009
An analysis of the Asian Development Bank-funded Khulna Jessore Drainage Rehabilitation Project by the Bangladeshi NGO Uttaran.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002695
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Feeding Southeast Asia: Mekong River Fisheries and Regional Food Security
Peterson, Brooke; Middleton, Carl - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper reviews the available literature that links regional food security to the Mekong River’s wild capture fisheries, and argues for recognition of the existing contribution that the fisheries make to regional development. With a focus on the proposed Mekong mainstream dams, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492226
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Foretelling the Mekong: Key Findings of the MRC’s Strategic Environmental Assessment on Mekong Mainstream Dams
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2011
economies. As these dams threaten to irreversibly undermine the ecology of the Mekong River and will place at risk the …With 11 large hydropower dams proposed to block the Lower Mekong River’s mainstream, the future of the river lies at … a crossroads. To inform decision-making, in October 2010, the Mekong River Commission (MRC) published a Strategic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002311
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Book Review: Environmental Challenges: Posing the Problem
Pandey, Vijay Laxmi - eSocialSciences - 2007
Environmental Issues in India: A Reader Edited by Mahesh Rangarajan; Pearson Longman, New Delhi; Pp. 570, Rs 199.
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Climate Change Conference Derailed: USA 2, Rest of the World 0
Raghunandan, D. - eSocialSciences - 2008
Despite the stark warning contained in the recently released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), endorsed even by governments the world over, that GHG concentrations in the atmosphere are on the verge of causing irreversible, probably catastrophic, climate change that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250502
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Historical and Contemporary Factors Govern Global Biodiversity Patterns
Chase, Jonathan - eSocialSciences - 2012
Jetz and Fine that we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction event on this planet and the cause is us. By achieving greater understanding of the underlying causes and correlates of current-day biodiversity, this analysis can also help point the way towards a deeper understanding of how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010539665
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A Changed World: A Plea for New Thinking
Iyer, Ramaswamy R. - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper queries the rightness of the current mainstream thinking on development and technological change; expresses the apprehension that the much-feared climate change seems to have begun, and concludes with a fervent plea to all to undertake some radically new thinking. It is a concerned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696018