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Small hydropower project is a clean source of power, which India has in abundance. Small hydropower projects are site specific and need careful planning for project formulation and implementation. In this paper an attempt is made to discuss types of small hydropower schemes and present a methodology on planning and implementation of small hydropower projects.
The viability of biodiversity conservation based uniquely upon a model of protected areas is being questioned in the developing world, and new evidence is emerging on the social and ecological costs of displacing people in order to impose wilderness. This re-evaluation of the strict protected area model is driven in part by new data showing that some human-dominated regimes of land use...
This publication demonstrates the link between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, while contributing to the ongoing global effort to promote gender equality in socio-economic development.
The present publication seeks to highlight initiatives that have successfully used disaster risk reduction as a tool to adapt to climate change and reduce risk and...
Islands are special places with a natural attraction for tourists and a special challenge to sustainability. The thousands of islands on the face of the earth include some of the finest and most sought after destinations, such as the Balearic Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the Galapagos Islands, the Canary Islands, the French Polynesian Islands, and the Caribbean islands. The mystique...
Governments are often accused of responding only to short-term and parochial considerations. It is therefore remarkable that representatives of 190 countries recently committed themselves at the Convention on Biological Diversity to
reducing biodiversity loss. This presents conservation biologists with perhaps their greatest challenge of the decade. The authors of this Policy Forum...
Formal exercise for regional planning has not been a regular phenomenon in Nepal. What is there is the regional development strategy, which has never been a strong basis for consideration of spatial dimension in national development endeavours. Since 1970, regional development strategy has been occupying a place in the successive periodic plans of Government of Nepal. The Fourth Plan (1970-75...
Most development theory and practice is implicitly based on the dichotomy between 'rural' and 'urban' areas, populations and activities. This is reflected in the division of policies along spatial and sectoral lines, with urban planners usually concentrating on urban nodes and giving scant attention to agricultural or rural-led development, while rural development planners tend to ignore urban...
Planning for Water-Wise Development in the Sierra provides local conservation groups, local government and the public useful information about the connection between development and water – water quality, water supplies and the health of the Sierra’s watersheds.
This guide presents planning strategies that promote development patterns and practices better aligned with water...
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