... waste incineration.Solutions to waste-generation problems include innovative uses of waste, improved waste management systems, increases in recycling, advances in landfill safety, and reductions ... reinforce understanding, and Internet links and suggestions for further reading serve students with stirred interest.Although Thomas Malthus's alarm about resource scarcity earned economics a ... increasingly pristine wilderness areas, displacing more bears and requiring more labor and capital to clear trails and install infrastructure. Likewise, additional bear habitat comes at an increasing...
... suggested guidelines forestablishing and managing a program to encourage research on sustainability,agriculture, andnatural resources in U.S. institutions and their developing countrycounterparts.The ... managed jointly by BA and BOSTID.The Committee International Soil and Water Research and Development is assessing theneeds and priorities in soil and water management for developing countries. ... systems indeveloping countries, international agricultural researchcenters, private agencies and industries, anddeveloping country institutions (Yohe et al.,1990). The eight CRSPs are conducting...
... Gumucio10COMMUNICATION ANDNATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ã EXPERIENCE/THEORY IntroductionUSING THIS BOOK This book has been written as a tool for people involved or interested in communica-tion andnaturalresource ... Ndangang, in the Co -management of Natural Resources: Organizing, Negotiating and Learning-by-Doing: In the past, many traditional societies formed relatively closed systems in which nat-ural resources ... social change, and a commitment to enhance rural people’s capac-ities in managing communication processes. FAO is interested in exploring this in therealm of naturalresourcemanagementand rural...
... presenting methods for CBA in the context of disaster risk managementin developing countries, outlining the potential of integrating disaster risk into economic project appraisal in order ... measures in project and development planning also called mainstreaming in the literature. Including disaster risk and risk management measures in appraisal methods will help rendering development ... disasters in developed countries generally do not find and discuss aggregate, macroeconomic impacts; indevelopingcountries a series of studies focusing on developingcountries find significant short-...
... emphasis on estuarine, intertidal harvesting of salmon. Beginning in 1973, I began inves-tigating a related set of questions pertaining to the process whereby the Kla-wock Tlingit had transitioned ... North Carolina, New England, and Newfoundland. In all of these cases the fundamental point of similar-ity lies in the close connection between local resources users and the envi-ronment in which ... to contribute to more effective and sustain-able approaches to forest managementin particular andnaturalresource management in general. A central strength (and weakness) to tek is the fact...
... hoes and other “grubbing”20 WEEDS AND INVASIVE PLANTS Weeds in Rangelands, 26Original Vegetation and Early Land Use History ofGreat Basin, 28Introduction of Cheatgrass and Fire, 28Invasive ... completely in the seedling stage. Mowingor grazing in early spring makes little difference since developing seed ofthe species are readily viable and capable of germinating the following autumn.Even ... believed then and continue to believe thatbetter management results from the understanding of how plants interact wit heach other and their environment andmanagement to create and maintain weedpopulations.We...
... difficulties involved in satisfying short-term oriented investors, 3) managerial inertia and resistance due to their conservative instincts and values and due to their uncertainty about what ... found a clear linear relationship between this participation index and three performance indicators, defect density, line yield and cycle time. Finally, a study of the oil refining industry found ... gains, on the order of 40 percent or so in most of the studies reviewed, can be obtained by implementing high performance management practices.” Mainstream Economicsand Human Resource Management...
... decline in the percent marrying before 18 in 24 countriesand no change in 3 countries. The percent having premarital sex by age 18 has risen in 20 countries, and remained unchanged in 7 countries. ... collected in 50 developingcountries representing roughly 60 percent of the population of the developing world as a whole and 88 percent of the population living incountries defined as low income ... schooling for young people on the one hand, and to improve adolescent reproductive health on the other, will be handicapped. Schooling and Adolescent Reproductive Behavior in Developing Countries Cynthia...
... adolescents in at least one ofthe three younger subgroups. Of these cases, eight were in Asia (India and Indonesia), five in Latin America (Guatemala and Peru) and three in Africa (Uganda). Most ... to have the greatest in uence on theuse of maternal and child health care in Bangladesh, India and Indonesia. In particular, adolescents aged 16 or younger in India and Indonesia were less likely ... (12% in Bolivia and Brazil). In Africa and Asia, most women lived in rural areas(71–91%). In Latin America, especially in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru, greater proportions of mothers lived in a...
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... chain in differentways, and often at different times and places.’ In summary, integrating SAGA into research is important in de-veloping a better understanding and awareness of the social and ... integrate social and gender analysisinto naturalresourcemanagement research. They point to the im-portance of ‘local’ history and context, and to the increasingly inter-locking ‘local’ and ... commonissues; writing studies/stories; and planning.KEY COMMON ISSUES In reviewing individual case studies and synthesizing the most strikingthings and the missing or underemphasized elements, nine commonissues...
... found1083Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2000, 78 (9)Indoor air pollution indeveloping countries Indoor air pollution indeveloping countries: amajor environmentaland public health ... is protective in these settings.CancerLung cancerTobacco smoke is the most important risk for lungcancer and explains most cases in industrialized countries. Indeveloping countries, non-smokers,frequently ... air pollution and environmental tobacco smoke trigger asthma in sensitized individuals (79, 81). In developing countries, studies on biomasssmoke in relation to asthma in children and adultshave...
... Asymmetric Information: The Case of IndustrialWastewater Treatment’, 28(3) Journal of EnvironmentalEconomicsand Management, 357-373.Tietenberg, Thomas (1996), EnvironmentalandNaturalResourceEconomics ... regulationsconcerning wages. The relocation of labor-intensive industries to developing countries has drawn widespread attention and concern.However, Porter (1990) sees stringent standards among other environmental impacts ... ‘Polluter-Pays’ inEconomicsand Law’, in Eide, Erling and Van Der Bergh, Roger (eds), Law andEconomics of The Environment, Oslo, 53-90.Calabresi, Guido (1991), ‘The Pointlessness of Pareto: Carrying Coase...
... Liu(1992), and Jiggins and Roling (1997) have noted that all types of actionresearch promote individual and collective learning and increase individualautonomy and problem-solving capacity in a durable ... and so on. The natural resource management analysis takes as basic elements the natural resources at stake and the stakeholders who have some interest—directly or indirectly in the use or maintenance ... claim on the natural resources and that shouldalso be heard in any planning exercise. In short, conflicts do exist and arethe rule rather than the exception in terms of naturalresource management. If...