Household water insecurity is a pressing problem in developing countries. Unsustainable water withdrawal is increasing due to population growth, industrialization, urbanization, and increasing agricultural production which leads to various problems. The number of countries facing problems of...

Households in developing countries face an enormous set of health risks from using contaminated water sources. In 2014, a group of 512 households relying on unimproved water, sanitation and hygiene practices in the Greater Accra region of Ghana were randomly selected to participate in the...

Bioenergieträgern - etwa Biofestbrennstoffe, Ölpflanzen und Biogas - wird in ihrer Eigenschaft als regenerative Energieformen ein großes technisches Potenzial im Hinblick auf eine nachhaltige Ent wicklung zugesprochen. Des Weiteren könnte eine ausgeweitete Nutzung in En t wicklungsländern...

This paper focuses on the interactions between local communities having at least some degree of informal claims over natural resources and external agents, particularly firms interested in commercial resource exploitation. The paper makes three contributions to the existing literature. First,...

Participatory approaches aim at achieving representation of a broad segment of local communities, including poor and marginalized groups in natural resource management. Focusing on the case of Joint Forest Management (JFM) in India, this paper analyzes three levels of participation (attendance...