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Stakeholder analysis of the Koga Irrigation and Watershed Management Project
Gebre, A.; Getachew, D.; McCartney, Matthew - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2008
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Dry forest based livelihoods in resettlement areas of Northwestern Ethiopia
Abebaw, Degnet; Kassa, Habtemariam; Kassie, Girma T.; … - In: Forest Policy and Economics 20 (2012) C, pp. 72-77
resettled dry forest areas of Northwestern Ethiopia. The paper mainly aims at identifying the main drivers of household behavior …, resettlement history and self-reported change in standard of living. The estimation results also suggest households most likely to …
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Climate change, environmental degradation and migration
Warner, K.; Hamza, M.; Oliver-Smith, A.; Renaud, F.; … - In: Natural Hazards 55 (2010) 3, pp. 689-715
Climate change will have a progressively increasing impact on environmental degradation and environmentally dependent socio-economic systems with potential to cause substantial population displacement. The key concerns in Less Developed Countries (LDCs) will include serious threats to food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010995836
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Perceptions and patterns of human–elephant conflict at Barjora block of Bankura district in West Bengal, India: insights for mitigation and management
Chakraborty, Kunal; Mondal, Jhantu - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 15 (2013) 2, pp. 547-565
Human–elephant conflict is an issue of great concern regarding the growing competition between people and wildlife for food and shelter throughout Asia and Africa. The situation the Asian elephant faces is much critical. According to IUCN (Big hopes for endangered Asian Elephants, News...
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Study on Sustainable Development of Resettlement in Urbanization Process - a Case Study on the ADB-funded Nanning Qingxiu Mountain Ecologizal Protection Project
Liang, Su-ping - In: Asian Agricultural Research 03 (2011) 10
migrants and government policy in resettlement protect. Government has provided compensation for relevant building and land …. The implementation and effect of resettlement policy is analyzed sustainable development of resettlement: change ideas of … resettlement to promote establishment of civil rights protection ideas; carry out early survey to protect rights and interests of …
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First Ghana Dams Forum, "Using dams for development: institutionalising the multi-stakeholder process in Ghana," Accra, Ghana, 4 September 2007
International Water Management Institute (IWMI); … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010921509
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Peter Penz, Jay Drydyk and Pablo S. Bose, Displacement by Development. Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities, Cambridge University Press, 2011, 358 pp.
TERMINSKI, Bogumil - In: Revista europea de derecho de la navegación marítima … (2011) 28
in the field of development studies, decision-making mechanisms and legal framework for resettlement planning, defining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019755
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Country Safeguard Systems Regional Workshop Proceedings Towards Common Approaches and Better Results
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012
, particularly environmental assessment and involuntary resettlement practices, and remaining challenges, including filling gaps in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276464
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PARKS, POPULATION, AND RESETTLEMENT IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Stycos, J. Mayone; Duarte, Isis - 1994
opposed resettlement and favored community participation in programs to reduce pressures on the park. In addition to providing … housing and services, a resettlement program will have to find adequate substitutes for current park activities that provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005327505
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Dams and Development
WCD, World Commission on Dams - eSocialSciences - 2006
The dams debate is simple because behind the array of facts and figures, of economic statistics and engineering calculations, lie a number of basic and easily understood principles. If adhered to and routinely applied, these principles would not only go a long way towards responding to the...
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