Browsing Bora-import by Subject "Environment"
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Afghanistan: Findings on Education, Environment, Gender, Health, Livelihood and Water and Sanitation. From Multidonor Evaluation of Emergency and Reconstruction Assistance from Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom
(Research report, Research report, 2005)The Chr Michelsen Institute (CMI) (Lead agency), Copenhagen Development Consultants (Copenhagen DC) and the German Association of Development Consultants (AGEG) undertook during 2005 a Multidonor Evaluation of emergency ... -
Cost-Benefit Analysis, Discounting, and the Environmental Critique: Overloading of the Discount Rate?
(Report, Research report, 1991)The use of (high) discount rates in cost-benefit analysis is being criticized in the environmental debate. In particular, some feel that high future environmental costs do not get a fair hearing in a project appraisal due ... -
Debt and Deforestation: A Tenuous Link
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)This paper examines the hypothesis that heavy foreign debt causes high rates of tropical deforestation. Empirical evidence indicates that no universally valid link exists between debt and deforestation - in either direction. ... -
Environment, society and the state in southwestern Eritrea
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)This paper examines the relationships between environment, society and the state in the Gash-Setit region, western Eritrea. Through an examination of the environmental narrative of the local communities and the state, the ... -
Environmental, social and economic problems in the Borkena plain, Ethiopia
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)People in Borkena in Ethiopia suffer from a complex interplay of environmental degradation, increasing shortage of land due to population growth, conflicts between different ethnic and religious identities, and social ... -
Governance for sustainability? Balancing social and environmental concerns in Harare
(Research report, Research report, 2002)The paper examines urban governance in the framework of sustainable urban development. It agrees with most analyses that sustainable settlements embrace social, ecological and economic dimensions. The discussion stresses ... -
Population and Environment Relationships in Developing Countries: A Select Review of Approaches and Methods
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)A diversity of opinion, theory, and conceptual approaches characterizes discussion of population and environment relationships among social scientists. This review captures some of this diversity by considering several of ... -
Turning but not Toppling Malthus: Boserupian Theory on Population and the Environment Relationships
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)Subsequently to the Brundtland Report, the 1992 Earth Summit, and the resu1ting Agenda 21, the issue of population and development has increasingly evolved into discussion on the "population, environment and development ...