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Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Innovations and Policies for Mountainous Areas
2013-04-05 10:07:24| Springer Environmental Sciences titles
series:Springer Environmental Science and EngineeringThis book is based on the findings of a long-term (2000-2014) interdisciplinary research project of the University of Hohenheim in collaboration with several universities in Thailand and Vietnam. Titled Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Areas in Southeast Asia, or the Uplands Program, the project aims to contribute through agricultural research to the conservation of ...
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India: Economic Growth Must Be Environmentally Sustainable: PM
2013-04-05 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Outlook: Warning that environmental degradation could have serious consequences, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today emphasised that economic growth should be based on optimal use of natural resources and development must be environmentally sustainable. Often, he regretted, "economic policies designed to promote growth have been implemented without considering their full environmental consequences, presumably on the assumption that these consequences would either take care of themselves or could be dealt...
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MERiFIC: sustainable wave power for island communities
2013-03-26 01:15:00| Power Technology
The MERiFIC project aims to encourage the development of clean marine power to boost the self-sufficiency of coastal and island communities in the UK and France. Dr Nicola Davies speaks to some of the EU-funded project's key researchers to find out h
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Sustainable Catalyst Provides Pluses
2013-03-25 18:43:10| Chemical Processing
Simple organic molecules provide fast synthesis with high enantioselectivity.
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Scientists Propose a New Architecture for Sustainable Development
2013-03-21 15:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: As a United Nations working group negotiates a set of sustainable development goals, 10 scientists and development analysts, in a commentary published today in Nature, have proposed a fundamentally different way to frame this concept. (Click here for relevant Dot Earth posts.) Over the last several decades, sustainable human development has been conceived largely as the outcome of balanced work on three pillars economic and social development and environmental protection. The authors, building...
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