sustainable management
Created in 1986, the asbl ADG has for mission to promote a lasting sustainable economical development, generating autonomy in countries of the South. To achieve this target, ADG ’s methodology is supported by three axis of intervention:
- Financial and technical support in order to achieve concrete actions in the countries of the South as a partner of local associations....
It is critical to integrate, or “mainstream” thinking about climate change into development strategies, plans and programmes. This is especially true when pursuing goals that are most likely to be affected by the impacts of climate change, such as greater access to safe drinking water, healthy ecosystems or food
security.
This Toolkit offers practical, “...
The traditional patterns of land use that have created many of the world's cultural landscapes contribute to biodiversity, support ecological processes, provide important environmental services, and have proven sustainable over the centuries. Protected landscapes can serve as living models of sustainable use of land and resources, and offer important lessons for sustainable development. This...
The three publications and DVD Film on Women, Energy and Water in the Himalayas "Policy Guidelines, Project Learning, and Training of Trainers Manual" encapsulate the experiences and lessons from a recent project on 'Incorporating the Needs and Roles of Women in Water and Energy Management in Rural Areas in South Asia'. The UNEP and ICIMOD project was supported by...
A case study has been presented on Sokshing Management and its contribution to sustainable livelihood of the Bhutanese people. The case study was carried out over a period of three years taking three representative regions of the country as research sites. Since other local resource management institutions also form integral part of resource management regimes in a community, these have been...
In July, 2006 the authors had the pleasure of working in Bhutan with the emerging Ugyen Wangchuck Environment and Forestry Institute (UWEFI). Along with others (i.e., several American academics, a Danish forester, and Bhutanese representatives from the Natural Resource Training Institute, government agencies and the private sector), they examined conservation education goals and institutional...
Forests cover about 30 percent of the total earth land area, but in Pakistan, the forest area is less than 5 percent. The natural forests of Pakistan are distributed over the Hindu-Kush, Karakoram and Himalayan mountains in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Northern Areas and AJK, and contribute significantly towards the economy and sustainable development of the country.
Forests play many roles in the development of a country, and especially in securing the livelihoods of people who live in and around them. Forest ecosystems are one of the greatest sources of biodiversity, but they are more fragile than many know. In particular, the natural forests of South and Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America are rapidly vanishing. Although the international...
The process of institutional changes in the forestry sector of Pakistan was initiated by the Government of Pakistan with support from different donor agencies during the mid-1990s. This paper analyses a participatory forest management initiative in the milieu of local social realities (such as customary forest use, power relations and livelihood concerns) and the actors who are part of these...
Climate change is the single greatest threat to development - making the battle to overcome poverty ever harder and more expensive. Finance is urgently needed to help vulnerable communities adapt to a changing climate.
At Copenhagen, there was progress on finance, if limited. The Copenhagen Accord proposed the establishment of a 'Copenhagen Green Climate Fund' and included a loose...
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