As cities expand to cover farmland with roads and buildings, the conflict between traditional land rights, and modern systems of ownership and distribution become very clear. This report comes from Blantyre in Malawi, where city authorities now charge rent on land that was once freely owned.
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Library ResourceMultimédiadécembre, 2001Malawi, Afrique australe, Afrique
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2001Sri Lanka, Asia du sud-est
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2001Inde, Asie méridionale
Studies the low-cost alternative strategy of selective lining of watercourses to reduce seepage and increase irrigated areas in the Indian subcontinent. Satellite remote-sensing (SRS) is seen as a cost-effective evaluation tool in view of its large area of synoptic and repetitive coverage.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2001Sri Lanka, Asia du sud-est
Although irrigation projects often provide water for more than crop irrigation, water allocation and management decisions often do not account for nonirrigation uses of water. Failure to account for the multiple uses of irrigation water may result in inefficient and inequitable water allocation decisions. Decision-makers often lack information on the relative economic contributions of water in irrigation and nonirrigation uses. This report addresses this problem.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2001Asie
This paper provides the general objectives of the special issue: secondary forests in Asia: their diversity, importance and role in future environmental management. It provides a brief overview of the renewed attention to tropical secondary forests and sketches the history of research on this subject.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2001Népal
Most forests in tropical Nepal are secondary, resulting largely from episodes of large-scale timber harvesting in the past along with accumulated small scale extraction of timber and non-timber forest products by local people over centuries. Currently in the forest depleted stage, remaining tropical secondary forests are still very important for fulfilling the subsistence and economic needs of local people, as well as for biodiversity conservation, groundwater recharge, and the protection of lowland agriculture from landslides and floods.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2001Mexique, Amérique septentrionale
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Library ResourceMultimédiadécembre, 2001Gambie, Afrique, Afrique occidentale
Around ten years ago the government of the Gambia earmarked a strip of land along the Atlantic coast for tourism development. More recently, land in the same area is being used to provide affordable housing for civil servants. The chief of one village affected by these policies describes the problem of land shortage he now faces.
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Library ResourceMultimédiadécembre, 2001Kenya, Afrique orientale, Afrique
Mr. Situma Mwichebe talking to Ann Mikia about the reality of water rights in Kenya.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2001
This paper provides an economic perspective on concepts related to adaptive co-management (ACM). The discussion is cast within a formal generalised complex system (CS) framework. The authors explicitly explore the hypothesis of whether ACM can be regarded as an emergent strategy under specific conditions. The conditions draw a corollary from the well-known work of Adam Smith that describes 'self interest' as a forcing factor (the 'invisible hand) that lead to stability and efficiency in economic systems.
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