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    Gender equality in urban environmental management in selected south east Asian cities

    Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 2007
    This compiled report deals with the gender issues in three sectors of Urban Environmental Management: water and sanitation, solid waste and air pollution in Southeast Asia. Authors provide articles on the gender situation in a number of southeast Asian cities. Key points from a selection of these include:
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    Integrating energy, gender and rural development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Economic and social advancement requires people to have access to efficient and affordable fuel. However, more than two billion people in the world rely on inefficient biomass fuels such as firewood, which take time to collect. Poor rural women have primary responsibility for collecting and using this fuel, which has several consequences for their health and opportunities to earn income.
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    Virtual water trade: a realistic concept for resolving the water crisis?

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2007
    The concept of Virtual Water Trade (VWT) is based on the idea that water-poor developing countries are increasingly importing their food from water-rich countries.  in order to conserve their own water resources and use them in other, more productive areas where more value added per volume unit of water is generated.
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    Kerala Research Programme on Local Development

    The programme has followed a ‘bottom-up’ approach in which individuals are encouraged to submit project proposals that fall in the priority areas of research.  The essential flavour o
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    On the verge of a new water scarcity

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
    This paper takes a close look at the growing challenge of water scarcity. It looks at the symptoms and scale of the challenge before putting forward policy recommendations involving good governance and management practices.
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    Dealing with drought: livelihood options for drought risk reduction

    Duryog Nivaran: South Asia Network for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2006
    Recent development in South Asia has led to a rapid increase in exploitation of rivers and groundwater, causing considerable stress on these water sources.
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    United Nations University International Network on Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)

    UNU-INWEH’s  aim is to strengthen water management capacity, particularly of developing countries, and to provide on-the-ground project support.
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    Gender and agricultural mechanisation in Kenya

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Despite considerable investment, agriculture in Kenya is characterised by declining food production per capita and worsening environmental degradation. Why have technologies which have worked elsewhere failed? How can female cultivators be encouraged to consider new methods?
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    Amazon Watch

    Amazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental organisations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial de
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    Water demand initiative - WaDImena

    International Development Research Centre, 2000
    With the lowest volume of annual renewable water resources and of water resources per capita, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the most water-scarce region in the world.

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