Handbook
Empowering rural women by promoting women’s entrepreneurship and e-business in cooperatives has been identified as an important approach to alleviate rural poverty and promote sustainable development. The promotion of women’s entrepreneurship and e-business in the niche area of green or “organic” cooperatives is a relatively undeveloped area where women can play a...
The IUCN protected area management categories are a global framework, recognised by the Convention on Biological Diversity, for categorising the variety of protected area management types. The following guidelines provide direction, descriptions, principles and advice in the application of the IUCN protected area management categories in particular biomes and management approaches.
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The risks and vulnerabilities that people face from natural disasters are as much a product of their social situation as their physical environment. Vulnerabilities and capacities of individuals and social groups evolve over time and determine people’s abilities to cope with disaster and recover from it. Social networks, power relationships, knowledge and skills, gender roles, health,...
This Handbook is a review on existing literature and case studies in India and Philippines which have a specific focus on integrating children in to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) policies and programmes. It is part of a course organised by Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre on how to successfully carry out community disaster risk reduction. With increasing focus on child participation in...
The Conservation Management System has grown steadily since its inception, and now provides a unique approach to management planning, which is used to support nature conservation and countryside management throughout the UK and in many other countries worldwide.
The strength of the CMS management-planning format lies in the fact that it was created specifically to meet the needs...
This guide is intended to assist watershed coordinators, stakeholders, and other Sierra-based conservation groups working to restore and protect their local rivers, lakes and streams. The guide is designed to provide an overview and be used as a reference when planning for watershed restoration projects in the Sierra Nevada.
The Sierra Nevada Alliance is dedicated to improving Sierra waters for creating healthy watersheds. These are community groups with participation from a broad range of stakeholders in an area who are dedicated to protecting and restoring their watershed.
The Sierra Nevada Alliance has experienced that watershed groups have greatly benefited from hosting Creek Stewardship days and that...
Hot water is required for many purposes and the sun can be used effectively, efficiently and economically to provide heat. So, solar water heating systems are designed to make convenient use of this phenomenon. Solar water heaters generally employ a solar collector and a storage tank. The solar water heating collector is the most widespread solar energy conversion device and there are several...
Although most research into the use of solar energy in recent years has been on photovoltaic technology, where sunlight is converted directly into electricity, there are many applications of solar thermal energy such as heating, drying and water distillation. Solar technologies that rely entirely on energy absorbed from the sun and having no moving components, are referred to as passive solar...
Windpower technology dates back many centuries. There are historical claims that wind machines which harness the power of the wind date back beyond the time of the ancient Egyptians. The first wind powered electricity was produced by a machine built by Charles F. Brush in Cleveland, Ohio in 1888 AD which had a rated power of 12 kW. The wind systems that exist over the earth’s surface are...
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