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It is argued that sustainable development makes best sense as a social learning process that brings tangible and useful …
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lifestyle changes. Ecological Citizenship (EC) has been suggested within the field of political theory as an approach to realize …
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action at various levels, good citizenship, community participation, information technology, psychological aspects …
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The most recent global food crisis has forced development agencies in the global North to rethink the nexus between … agricultural development, food aid, and food security, and how development assistance strategies can enhance food security to more … strategic response of major state and multilateral development agencies to the global food crisis, this paper examines the …
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This is an historic overview of conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa from pre-colonial times through the present. It demonstrates that Africans practiced conservation that was ignored by the colonial powers. The colonial market economy combined with the human and livestock population explosion of...
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twenty-first century. The analysis reveals vividly the risks of conventional development approaches and the real danger of … value changes for getting there. A fundamental shift in the development paradigm is found to be an urgent necessity for …
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in interaction with the environment and its built-in systemic features that contradict long-term sustainable development … continued promotion of expanding consumption; (d) globalism and the contradictions of continued Western-style development; and …
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is linked to issues of development, whereby adaptation is essential to counteract the negative impacts and improve the … potential of the population to undergo development processes. Findings additionally revealed a gap in the literature about how …
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Efforts to increase forest cover in the developing world will only succeed if the root causes of deforestation are addressed. Researchers designing reforestation initiatives tend to emphasize macro-level drivers of deforestation, about which they have extensive data and knowledge. On the other...
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This paper attempts to assess whether renewable energy self-sufficiency can be achieved in the crop production and processing sector in Tanzania and if this could be accomplished in an environmentally sustainable manner. In order to answer these questions the theoretical energy potential of...
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