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Sustainability typically involves the balancing of three major factors: the economy, the environment, and some notion of equity. Though the economy is already a key aspect, the recognition of the informal economy, seems to be absent from the many possible permutations of these three. This paper...
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development is rarely planned using cultural resources. It is against this background that a Community-Based Cultural Heritage … article are the development of cultural competency-based training curriculum that will assist communities to transform …
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, remittance-dependent countries like Nepal clearly back migration in their post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) discussions. We …
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The concept of sustainable development does not articulate what needs to be sustained, developed, or how, and is … discussing sustainable development, and I offer broad, provisional suggestions as to how we can begin doing this. I first discuss … how the notion of sustainable development at its heart is an attempt to unite conservation with growth. I then consider …
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environmental capital in order to keep up with the pace of human development activities and the need to utilize resources … sustainably. Hitherto, the cost of this development has been at the expense of public health and cleaner environment. The outcome …
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The Mission-Aransas coastal region (MACR) in Texas is home to settlements vulnerable to coastal hazards. The region also contains significant biodiversity including several endangered species. The habitats in the bays and estuaries of MACR are especially sensitive to changes in land use/land...
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“heroes” who contribute to Indonesia’s economic development, or as exploited “victims” of labor abuse. By analyzing public … victims do not undermine representations of migrants as heroes of development. Instead, in Indonesian public discourses about …. More attention to gendered moral assumptions behind migrants’ narratives of development and victimhood can illuminate how …
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Biological monitoring is a powerful tool for understanding ecological patterns and processes, implementing sound management practices, and determining wildlife conservation strategies. In Mexico, regional long-term bird monitoring has been undertaken only over the last decade. Two comprehensive...
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Yemen is currently undergoing a major political transition, yet many economic challenges—including fuel subsidy reform—remain highly relevant. To inform the transition process with respect to a potential subsidy reform, we use a dynamic computable general equilibrium and microsimulation...
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The most recent global food crisis has forced development agencies in the global North to rethink the nexus between … agricultural development, food aid, and food security, and how development assistance strategies can enhance food security to more … strategic response of major state and multilateral development agencies to the global food crisis, this paper examines the …
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