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Capacity Building should be based upon the need of GI and EO applications, be it for national development planning system of member countries or professional/ market needs. Human resource development includes on job training for planners as well as 3 tier system of learning. Further, a GIS based multi-level networking is also proposed considering academic institutions/organisations, Government...
This paper is a reproduction and detailed document of the presentations given in Awareness Workshop on "Technology, Tools and Best Practices for Sustainable Mountain Development" on 11th November 2005, Yangon, Myanmar and ICIMOD – Myanmar Quinquennial Review Meeting on 25th May 2006. Most people look upon Remote Sensing and GIS section of Forest Department as a model case for...
<p>Impacts of climate change will have a disproportional negative impact on developing countries (Stern 2007, IPCC 2007). Climate change will exacerbate problems related rapid population growth, existing poverty and a heavy reliance on agriculture and the environment. Developing countries have a much more limited capacity to cope with the problems caused by climate change. This...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) depicts the Hindukush-Himalaya, including Nepal, as a “white spot,” a region about which scientific information on climate change is limited or lacking altogether. Given that the rise of this mountain range, the world’s highest, has had a considerable influence on global wind circulation and climate dynamics, this...
This report is the product of a regional consultation project initiated by IDRC and DFID, and carried out by the Fundacion Futuro Latinoamericano, a non-profit organisation based in Quito, Ecuador. The objective of this project is to identify the information gaps, knowledge requirements of relevant stakeholders, and the state of existing capacity and needs of the most vulnerable...
This report aims to provide an overview of the state of the debate on poverty reduction in the face of climate change. The authors have investigated the links between poverty and climate change in practice and examined the issues in the light of a case study in Indonesia. They have...
Vulnerability to climate change is determined, in large part, by people's adaptive capacity. A particular climate hazard, such as a drought, does not affect all people within a community – or even the same household – equally because some have greater capacity than...
This paper deems that beside the unprecedented natural disaster of floods, Pakistan confronts the twin challenges of stabilising a fragile democratic transition and countering violent extremism. The author notes that in light of the urgency for relief and rehabilitation, donors may opt to collaborate with the ruling military regime. However, the international community must not allow it...
Gender discrimination and son preference are key demographic features of South Asia and are well documented for India. However, gender bias and sex preference in Nepal have received little attention.
1996 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey data on ever-married women aged 15–49 who did not desire any more children were used to investigate levels of gender bias and sex...
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