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    Plumbing a new institutional economics: sustainable water supply systems for Tamilnadu, India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can costly infrastructure such as water supply systems be made more sustainable? In the past, technocrats have set the design criteria, but how important are political and institutional factors? What costs and charges should policymakers take into consideration? And who else holds a stake in water supply?
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    Politics and provision On-the-ground realities of water and sanitation development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Addressing the challenge of water and sanitation under-provision requires a subtle understanding of several factors: the nature of the resource, the wider poverty environments in which millions of people live and the politics within which problems are framed and solutions are sought. How do current policy debates deal with these factors?
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    Urban sanitation: are the poor being heard?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The international commitment to provide basic services for all has yet to be achieved for a high percentage of the urban poor. Residents of densely crowded settlements endure the indignity, shame and sickness that lack of sanitation produces. Improved sanitation will provide real benefits to the lives and livelihoods of the poor.
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    Living on the precipice: what future for mountain societies?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    2002 may have been designated International Year of Mountains, but is enough being done to conserve the mountain habitats which are home to 1 in 10 people and contain half the world’s biodiversity? Are mountain residents being consulted as plans are developed to check the threats posed by deforestation, mining, tourism, hydropower, environmental warming, conflict and natural disasters?
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    Left on the back burner: time to put energy onto the urban planning agenda?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Could more efficient use of energy have an impact on poverty alleviation? What changes in energy use patterns are likely to generate the greatest benefits for the poor? What are the constraints on the uptake of energy efficiency measures? Can they be overcome?
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    Scrapping the hi-tech myth: computer waste in India

    Toxics Link, 2003
    This report investigates the dumping of e-waste, particularly computer waste in India.
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    Devolution as a threat to democratic decision-making in forestry?: findings from three states in India

    Overseas Development Institute, 2003
    This paper looks at two interfacing trends shaping devolution of forest management in India: appropriation of space for forest management by diverse self-initiated community formations; and state-driven devolution where government policies define the scope of local authority in forest management.
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    Peoples’ social movements: an alternative perspective on forest management in India

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    This paper reports on research that aimed to assess and understand the impact of peoples’ social movements in Madhya Pradesh on the forest management space. It analyses the extent of the influence these movements wield on the shaping of policies, plans and programmes which ultimately define the forest management space.
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    Tourism conservation and sustainable development

    Department for International Development, UK, 1997
    This is the first, introductory volume of a report and case studies looking at the benefits and costs of tourism to national parks.
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    Legislative complementarity and harmonisation of biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2001
    This report is one of eight thematic reviews prepared for the Biodiversity Planning Support Programme (BPSP), a programme created to help countries strengthen national capacity to prepare and implement National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans in compliance with Article 6 of the Convention on Biological Diversity.The study consists of the following sections:A synthesis report on

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