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The link between economic growth and human development has been a subject of rigorous empirical econometric work since the 1970s. Education, which is an important component of human development, has been found to explain varying levels of return and economic growth. Further, it has been found that countries that have equalised their educational achievements for men and women have, on average,...
In this issue, articles focus on:
- Rural phone use;
- Overcoming rural-urban divides;
- Improving rural road networks;
- The Mekong region's rural water market;
- Networks to maintain crop diversity;
- Reducing indoor air pollution
Though community forests have a vital role in environmental services and sustainable development in developing countries such as in India and Nepal, the credit cannot yet to be claimed under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). It is due to difficulties of assessing the biomass and carbon storage in the community forests for monitoring and verification. However, forest carbon monitoring is...
The current food price crisis has received widespread attention, but discussions to date have largely overlooked the gender dimensions of the crisis. More than 15 years of rigorous research on gender and intrahousehold resource allocation suggest not only that men and women will be affected differently by the global food crisis, but also that, as both consumers and producers, they will have...
This study was carried out in Bhodkhore Community Forest Users Group in Parbat district, Nepal with the overall objective to develop a clearer understanding of the challenges for service providers while working towards improving the Community Forestry governance. The primary data were collected through personal interviews, group discussions, key informant interviews and direct observations...
Ophiocordyceps sinensis (Berk.) G.H. Sung, J.M. Sung, Hywell-Jones & Spatafora is a highly valuable medicinal fungus. Biologically it is an entomopathogenic, entomophagous or entomophilous fungus. In order to investigate different floral associations with O. sinensis, and to know different threats to pasture biodiversity, research was conducted in three pastures of Raha and Majphal Village...
ICIMOD's People and Resource Dynamics in Mountain Watersheds of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas Project (PARDYP), funded by SDC, IDRC, and ICIMOD, has been carrying out research in middle mountain watersheds since 1996, focussing on natural resource degradation and community and farm-based options to promote rehabilitation of degraded lands and increase in on-farm productivity. This publication is a...
The economic recovery packages put forward by many countries amount in total to a large amount of money, some of which may have a beneficial impact on greening the global economy. But many packages are woefully small, few contain adequate detail for full assessment and some indeed are actually counterproductive if the aim is to move rapidly to a low carbon economy in the face of the climate...
There are numerous case studies around the world describing integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs). Recently some localised syntheses have been published that use sophisticated statistics to identify patterns and causal linkages, but no attempt has yet been made to draw together lessons from across the globe.
This paper is an attempt to provide a framework for such an...
Although cross-disciplinary research collaboration is necessary to achieve a better understanding of how human and natural systems are dynamically linked, it often turns out to be very difficult in practice. The authors outline a framing approach to cross-disciplinary research that focuses on the different perspectives that researchers from different backgrounds use to make sense of the issues...
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