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The New 'Knowers' of West Africa. Muslims, Education and Social Change. A commentated bibliography.
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998Bibliography presents summaries of and comments on eight different texts, each providing important contributions to the subject of Muslims, education and social change in West Africa.DocumentDeforestation and Land Use on the Evolving Frontier: An Empirical Assessment [in Nicaragua]
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999The advance of the agricultural frontier constitutes the biggest source of deforestation in Central America today. This conversion of tropical forests into agricultural land and pasture is the direct result of individual land use decisions.DocumentEngendering development
Gendernet, World Bank, 2000Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.DocumentTrial by fire: forest fires and forestry policy in Indonesia's era of crisis and reform
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2000This report examines the destruction and systematic plunder of Asia's greatest rainforests under former Indonesian president Suharto. The report focuses on the 1997-1998 forest fires in Indonesia that resulted in the burning of 10 million hectares of forests.DocumentEnvironmental impact of refugees in Guinea (pre-assessment report)
United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2000Report on the findings of the pre-assessment of the environmental impacts of the refugee situation in Guinea.Observations and conclusions:high population densities in the rural areas has resulted in high pressure on natural resources in southern Guinea.DocumentStaking Their Claims: Land Disputes in Southern Mozambique
Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997Conflicting interests in land and resource use emerged in postwar Mozambique, giving rise to multiple layers of dispute. This article explores the disputes occurring between 1992 and 1995 in two districts which are notable for the severity of competition over land by virtue of their proximity to Maputo, namely, Matutuíne and Namaacha.DocumentMultiple Uses of Common Pool Resources in Semi-Arid West Africa: A Survey of Existing Practices and Options for Sustainable Resource Management
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998Common pool resources such as rangeland, forests, fallow fields and ponds provide an array of social and economic benefits for a wide variety of users in semi-arid west Africa. However, poor definition and enforcement of the institutional arrangements governing the use of these resources sometimes lead to social conflicts and resource degradation.DocumentAssessing the Need to Manage Conflict in Community-Based Natural Resource Projects
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998Considers the role of ‘conflict management assessment’ in community-based natural resource projects. The importance of conducting an assessment of the potential for conflict and its management in relation to a project intervention is stressed, and an assessment framework described.DocumentForest cleansing: racial oppression in scientific nature conservation
The Corner House, UK, 1999Article looks at a specific case of racial oppression manifesting itself within development programs. At a more general level, the article looks at how ecological project can become politicised.An example of this is South-East Asia, where valley-based states have regularly attempted to sedentarize or repress hill-dwelling ethnic minorities.Pages