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Documentos e Resumos de Políticas
Janeiro 2015
Ásia
Bangladesh
Cambodja
Índia
Indonésia
Paquistão
Filipinas

This issue brief highlights the challenges indigenous peoples experience in securing their customary land rights in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Philippines; hence, this publication specifies recommendations for the government and CSOs in strengthening the recognition to indigenous peoples' rights.

Relatórios e Pesquisa
Janeiro 2015
Índia
Território Britânico do Oceano Índico
Paquistão

This study investigates dynamics of land-use shifts, agricultural land-use, and its intensity in relation with urbanization and other factors in Jammu & Kashmir, a mountainous state of India.

Urban open spaces for adolescent girls: An assessment for Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan cover image
Relatórios e Pesquisa
Janeiro 2015
Paquistão

Urban open spaces are valued for their health, social, economic, and environmental benefits. Outdoor physical activity is important for the wellbeing of youth, while playfulness is crucial for creativity and innovation. It is observed that in Pakistan the access of adolescent girls to public open spaces and school playgrounds is restricted, but there has been no prior scientific study.

Documentos e Resumos de Políticas
Janeiro 2015
Ásia
Bangladesh
Cambodja
Índia
Indonésia
Nepal
Paquistão
Filipinas

This issue brief highlights the challenges women are facing on access to lands, and the strategies in achieving gender justice for land rights - based from the results of the scoping studies on women and land in seven Asian countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and Philippines).

Relatórios e Pesquisa
Janeiro 2015
Ásia
Bangladesh
Cambodja
Índia
Indonésia
Paquistão
Filipinas

This compilation of scoping studies on indigenous peoples in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Philippines reveals how the basic bond of indigenous peoples to land are threatened by forces far more powerful than they are equipped to face.

Artigos e Livros
Dezembro 2014
Paquistão

Salinity and sodicity are prime threats to land resources resulting in huge economic and associated social consequences in several countries. Nutrient deficiencies reduce crop productivity in salt‐affected regions. Soil fertility has not been sustainably managed in salt‐affected arid regions.

Artigos e Livros
Dezembro 2014
Paquistão
Ásia

Soil erosion due to accelerating runoff in various land cover types pose a serious threat to the long term sustainability of the fragile Himalayan landscape characterized by subsistence farming.

Relatórios e Pesquisa
Dezembro 2014
Paquistão
Índia
Ásia
Sudeste Asiático

Cost recovery from irrigation in almost all the countries presents a dismal picture. Low cost recovery coupled with declining government finances has led to the deterioration of both the quality of the built infrastructure and institutions managing and governing such infrastructure.

Artigos e Livros
Dezembro 2014
Índia
Nepal
Bangladesh
Paquistão
Etiópia
Sudeste Asiático

Hydrological modeling is an indispensable component of water resources research and management in large river basins. There is a tendency for each new group working in a basin to develop their own model, resulting in a plethora of such tools for each major basin. The question then becomes: how much modeling is enough?

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