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important, if often under-appreciated, steps to incorporate insights from social and political theory, but that these (hard …
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This study was undertaken to assess farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for various climate-smart interventions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. To assess farmers’ choices and their WTP for the potential climate-smart technologies and other interventions, scoring was used...
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Recognising the dearth of detailed analyses of economic and environmental performance of traditional water harvesting systems (TWHS) meant exclusively for domestic use, this paper enquires into the relevance and explores possible modernisation/revival of talavas (tanks) in two villages of...
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. The relations between these three fields will have to be looked into and subsequently the role of Switzerland will have to …
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tradition of measurement of inequality that follows from this conceptualisation have not paid adequate attention to the need for …
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within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …
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All foreign observers have interpreted China through the filter of their own era, as well as their personal background … and experiences. A virtual academic industry has developed, not on China itself but on 'interpretations', 'perceptions …' or 'images' of China, but the narrower, though not always separate, issue of scholarly approaches and interpretations …
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Ernest Morrison Lecture on Ethnography, 2003, The Contemporary China Centre] …
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In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the West -- as high as 1.07 in China … campagins. Hepatitis B is common in many Asian countries, especially China, where some 10 to 15 per cent of the population is … hepatitis B can account for about 45 per cent of the "missing women": around 75 per cent in China, between 20 per cent and 50 …
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Reform in the People's Republic of China has seen a dramatic change in the discourse of localism, which has now moved … China, suggests to the contrary that the impact of new discourses of localism has actually strengthened the nationalist …, 2004, The Contemporary China Centre] …
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