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Landcare particpation in Australia: the volunteer perspective

Curtis, Allan; Nouhuys, Marike Van - In: Sustainable Development 7 (1999) 2, pp. 98-111

There are over 4000 community Landcare groups involving over 120 000 volunteer members working to achieve more sustainable use of Australia's farming lands and to conserve biodiversity. After reviewing the achievements of the community Landcare program the authors discuss their research...

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Decentralization: an effective method of financial management at the grassroots (evidence from India)

Datta, Sumana; Varalakshmi, V. - In: Sustainable Development 7 (1999) 3, pp. 113-120

Haryana is among the 20 Indian states currently implementing the Joint Forest Management Programme (JFMP). Protection and management of degraded forests by village level institutions - hill resource management societies (HRMSs) - in partnership with the Haryana Forest Department could be...

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Micro-level sustainable biomass system development in central Himalaya: stress computation and biomass planning

Sharma, A.; Prasad, R.; Saksena, S.; Joshi, V. - In: Sustainable Development 7 (1999) 3, pp. 132-139

Indian rural populations greatly depend on natural resources for meeting various biomass needs, especially in a geographically difficult area like the Himalayas. A number of external interventions in the form of expansion of commercial fuels, afforestation, harvesting renewable energy sources,...

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Exogenous and indigenous influences on sustainable management

Michaels, Sarah; Laituri, Melinda - In: Sustainable Development 7 (1999) 2, pp. 77-86

of internationally debated constructs of sustainable development and profoundly local meanings of living within nature … Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) on defining sustainable development, have the greatest impact in the initial …

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Alternative scenarios of social development: is analytical sustainability policy analysis possible? How?

Kaivo-oja, Jari - In: Sustainable Development 7 (1999) 3, pp. 140-150

scenarios are discussed: (i) the Deep Ecology Scenario, (ii) the Strong Sustainable Development Scenario, (iii) the Weak … Sustainable Development Scenario, (iv) the Boomsday Scenario, (v) the Doomsday Scenario and (vi) the World Bank 'Policy Tunnel … sustainable development is not a conflict-free concept because the criteria of sustainability (environmental sustainability …

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The sustainable management of tropical catchments edited by D. Harper and T. Brown, 1999. Wiley, xiv 381 pp, £75.00 (hbk). ISBN 0 471 96914 1

Martin, Adrian - In: Sustainable Development 7 (1999) 3, pp. 163-163

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Environmental protection and sustainable development in Tunisia: an overview

Baban, Serwan M. J.; Foster, Ian D. L.; Tarmiz, Baccar - In: Sustainable Development 7 (1999) 4, pp. 191-203

, Tunisia is suffering from the inevitable conflicts between environmental protection on the one hand and sustainable … development on the other. The background to the development of environmental protection in Tunisia has been reviewed. The …

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Optimising recycling effort: an evaluation of local authority PCW recycling initiatives

Butler, John; Hooper, Paul - In: Sustainable Development 7 (1999) 1, pp. 35-46

Pressure to divert post-consumer waste (PCW) from landfill has focused on recycling and, to a lesser extent, incineration with energy recovery. Waste collection authorities (WCAs) seeking to minimize costs have favoured the use of centralized rather than localized recycling options. This paper...

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Sustainability and environmental economics, an alternative text by John Bowers, 1997. Addison Wesley Longman, vii+238 pp, £14.99 (pbk). ISBN 0-5827656-X

Ingham, Barbara - In: Sustainable Development 7 (1999) 4, pp. 204-205

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Sustainable rural development by Andrew Shepherd, 1998. MacMillan, 294 pp. £12.99 (pbk). ISBN 0-333-66485-X

Madhavan, Shobhana - In: Sustainable Development 7 (1999) 1, pp. 54-55

TYPE="ORG" OID="af1" CNY="GB">University of Westminster

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