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Water Policy Briefing Series - Issue 19 - April 2006
Heavy use of groundwater leading to steady declines in water tables is a problem increasingly witnessed in many parts of the world. In an attempt to reverse this trend, water policy experts and resource managers often advocate...
When the Crop Post-Harvest Programme began to implement its ‘Partnerships for Innovation’ strategy in 2002, the management team decided to commission an evaluation of this approach in order for future programmes to learn from our experiences.
From the start of this study, Andrew...
En este informe se describen los resultados de la Conferencia electrónica sobre el Futuro del Alimento y de los Productores de Pequeña Escala. La primera parte de este libro presenta un extensivo resumen de la contribución de los participantes y sus recomendaciones de políticas. La...
A General Overview of Mountain Laws and Policies with Insights from the Mountain Forum's Electronic Conference on Mountain Policy and Law. 2000
Laws and policies concerning the conservation and sustainable development of mountain peoples and ecosystems are relatively small in number. Yet mountain areas are some of the most important regions in the world and are environmentally,...
Research Report Series - Report 10, 2006
Water demand management, or making better use of the water we have—as opposed to augmenting supply—is increasingly proposed as a way of mitigating water-scarcity problems. Moving water away from agriculture to uses with higher economic...
Tourism is the fastest-growing industry in the world. By the year 2010, the World Tourism Organization predicts that there will be one billion international tourists and more than US$1,500 billion generated in revenue. As tourism increases in mountain regions around the world,...
Finding an equitable balance between the demands of lowland populations and the needs of mountain communities is an increasingly urgent priority, combined with a strong need to balance productive use of forests with their protection.
This report documents the comments and case studies provided by participants around the world in this electronic conference. Themes included: mountain...
En continuidad con los encuentros de los años anteriores, durante el Foro Social Mundial policéntrico de Caracas, los movimientos sociales que en todo el planeta luchan por el derecho al agua y en contra de su mercantilización, lograron confluir los distintos talleres en un trabajo y...
This is the fi rst edition of the RIPWiG reporter. Its purpose is to share discussions from a policy dialogue group known as the Rural Innovation Policy Working Group (RIPWiG), an expert advisory group established by UNU-INTECH and its partners in India as part of a DFID funded...
Agent based modeling is a technique for simulating complex systems that allows the modeler to investigate both the potencial for and the ssources of emergent properties: Behabiors of the systems quite different from the behabior of any of the elements within it. Problems well suited to...
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