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The aims of the project conducted by REGION/BUILD European Partnership are: – to set up a framework for international co-operation between regional and local authorities, educational institutions, NGOs from Slovakia, Lithuania, Greece as a prerequisite for common strategy in developing and improving suitable way of education in the area of building up regional competitiveness; – to...
Every culture is a crystallization of wisdom accumulated from generation to generation. The continuity and development of the knowledge system depends on specialists and foremost exponents of an ethnic group who hand it over from generation to generation. The transmission of culture cannot be handed over without the lay people, but it will depend more upon the role of folk masters as outstanding...
Wetland Educational Kit Series - Wetlands and Ramsar Sites compiled by Wetland Friends of Nepal, Institute of Forestry, Pokhara to promote awareness about wetlands among local communites, to encourage local people's participation in wetland management, to promote wise use of wetland resources for sustainable livelihoods.
The Renewable Energy and Environment Group GERES, supported by its partners, has developed a solar greenhouse specifically designed for vegetable production in winter in the high altitude areas of the trans-Himalayas, where night temperatures can fall to as low as -20?C or more. The greenhouse was tested by NGOs working with farmers in five different trans-Himalayan areas and practical...
The paper looks at conservation, sustainable use and benefit sharing. It considers the 'ecosystem approach', looks at protected areas and the restoration, rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems and recovery of species as well as management of invasive and alien species. The traditional knowledge of local and indigenous communities is considered. Options for sustainable use including sustainable...
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