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Performance and problems of water districts: selected experiences
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009Water districts are local service providers that operate Level III water systems in areas of the Philippines outside Metro Manila.In terms of population coverage, therefore, water districts are the dominant local water service providers. But while water districts are clearly important,the percentage of the national population serviced by them remains low.DocumentProtocol: effects of payment for environmental services and decentralized forest management on deforestation and poverty in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
The Campbell Collaboration, 2014Natural forest preservation in the tropics, and thus in developing countries, must be an element of any effective effort to manage climate change. Forests serve as natural carbon sinks, which help to mitigate the effect of other carbon emissions. However, forest cover is being reduced and it is estimated that deforestation is responsible for 10-17 per cent of global carbon emissions.DocumentEffects of decentralized forest management (DFM) on deforestation and poverty in low and middle income countries: a systematic review
The Campbell Collaboration, 2014Natural forest preservation in the tropics, and thus in developing countries, must be an element of any effective effort to manage climate change. Forests serve as natural carbon sinks, which help to mitigate the effect of other carbon emissions. However, forest cover is being reduced and it is estimated that deforestation is responsible for 10-17 per cent of global carbon emissions.DocumentFinal evaluation of the Regional Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) Capacity Building Programme for Southern Africa
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014Background:DocumentOil and gas in India: the milestones (1825-2012)
Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014This report provides an analysis of India’s oil and gas milestone between 1825 and 2012 upstream and downstream. The upstream analysis begins in 1825 with Lieutenant R. Wilcox of the 46th Regiment Native Infantry, who with his small survey party was on a military mission to maintain law and order, spotted oil seepages in the north-eastern corner of Assam in September.DocumentA competition study in the fishery sector in Cambodia
Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace, 2006Fishery plays an important role in supporting rural livelihoods throughout Cambodia and economic development.DocumentIssues in captive coal block development in India
Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2009Given the high global demand for and the ever-rising price of oil and the abundance of comparatively inexpensive coal in their own region, India and China have long been heavily dependent on it as a source of energy to meet the needs of their people, as also for national growth. China has the third largest and India the fourth largest coal reserves in the world.DocumentChallenges in solar power development in India
Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2011Despite the fact that India has 300 days of sunlight annually on average, solar power plays an almost insignificant role in the Indian energy mix.DocumentViolating rights and threatening lives: the Camisea Gas Project and indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation
Forest Peoples Programme, 2014This report highlights the existing impacts of the Camisea gas project in the south-east Peruvian Amazon on indigenous peoples living in ‘voluntary isolation’ (‘isolated peoples’) in the Kugapakori-Nahua-Nanti and Others’ Reserve.DocumentPeru’s deadly environment: the rise in killings of environmental and land defenders
Global Witness, 2014The world’s attention was be on Peru December 2014, as governments from 195 countries convened in the capital Lima for the UN Climate Conference. As delegates negotiated a global deal aimed at averting catastrophic climate change, a parallel human rights crisis is still unfolding in Peru and around the world.Pages