This online database provides information on the organisations, people and places that make up the complex mining industry of the D.R.C. It plots the country’s significant mines and exploration zones, and asks who owns the rights to, and means of production. This is part of a series of reports mapping ownership of extractive industries across Africa.
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2007République démocratique du Congo, Afrique sub-saharienne
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Library Resourcejanvier, 1985Turquie, Asie occidentale, Afrique septentrionale
This paper describes the pastoral situation in Erzurum Province, Anatolia, Turkey, and gives an account of some of the existing range management practices.It emphasises the necessity of understanding existing pastoral practices, and more importantly the circumstances that give rise to them, when planning the improvement of livestock husbandry, breeding, fodder production and pasture management. Erzurum province is one of the most important areas in Turkey for the production of sheep and cattle for fattening and slaughter.
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2014
Comprehensive yet concise report outlining the key challenges and projected demands in the global agricultural sector, from an energy-water-food nexus perspective.
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2012Népal, Asie méridionale
Climate change can affect water supply in Nepal by its impact on precipitation, glacier melting and increase in temperature. This study identifies the vulnerability of the water supply system in Kathmandu Valley to the impact of the worst case scenario of climate change and suggests adaptation strategies to deal with the situation. It finds that existing strategies are insufficient and more than five million people would be deprived of the minimum needed water by 2050 under the driest scenario.
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2008Ouganda, Afrique sub-saharienne
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2001République arabe syrienne, Asie occidentale, Afrique septentrionale
Discusses the widely help conception that arid shrub-lands in Syria and elsewhere in West Asia and North Africa are degraded. A particular characteristic of such areas is a preponderance of unpalatable shrubs or a lack of overall ground cover with a rise in the associated risks of soil erosion.The article finds that:migrating pastoralists have been the scapegoats for this condition of the range.
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2001Indonésie, Malaisie, Asie orientale, Océanie
This report documents the environmental and social impacts of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), assesses the role of international financial institutions in fuelling APP’s unsustainable and damaging operations and examines the link between this unsustainable practice and APP's financial crisis.Financial institutions should acknowledge that it is far more than the financial failure of APP that proves that they seriously underestimated the risk in financing the company.
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2018
In this paper the author takes a ‘political settlements’ approach to examining the political effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in developing countries. The political settlements approach uses an integrated understanding of politics, power and institutional forms to explain how, given different political processes and incentives, the same institutional forms can produce different economic and developmental outcomes.
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2014Afrique du Sud, Chine, Inde, Fédération de Russie, Brésil, Afrique sub-saharienne, Asie occidentale, Afrique septentrionale
There is a general consensus among academics, politicians and social movements, that BRICS as ‘new donors’ are increasing both their quantitative and qualitative role in defining what is considered to be ‘the world economic order’.
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2004Philippines, Asie orientale, Océanie, Asie méridionale
This is the first in a series of evidence-based reports on the role of large engineering contractors in strengthening the positive local economic and social impacts of capital investment projects in the oil and gas sector in developing countries.
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