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Author: John Dittmer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780252065071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the monumental battle waged by civil rights organizations and by local people to establish basic human rights for all citizens of Mississippi
Author: Douglas Sheil
Publisher: CIFOR
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9798764889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOperational overview. Villages and communities. Field sample selection. Village-based activities. First community meeting. Community landscape mapping. Selecting local informants. Community-based data collections. Field-based activities. Site, vegetation and trees. Plants and site - ethnoecological data. Soil assessment. Data control and management. Plant taxonomy and verification. Database. Conclusiones.
Author: Saska Petrova
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-23
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1317163508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe role of local people in contemporary nature conservation practices is often poorly understood or neglected. This book, therefore, examines questions of local participation at the nature-society nexus within national parks in the transitional context of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The post-1990 reconfiguration of conservation paradigms in this part of the world has re-opened various age-old debates about the protection and administration of natural heritage. Further complicating the situation has been the introduction of market-based principles, which has embedded the entire process in broader dynamics of neoliberalization and the capitalist space economy. Providing an integrated perspective on why, how and for whom nature conservation practices have been implemented in CEE, this book sheds further light upon the mechanisms through which such practices both redefine and are affected by the everyday life of people living in national parks. Offering a critical global review of the environmental motivations and power interests behind the creation of national parks, as well as a typology of the relations between local people and the dynamics of nature protection in them, this work challenges the dichotomy between developed and developing countries that pervades much of the academic literature on nature protection. Author Saska Petrova highlights the lessons that can be learnt by applying the experiences of local community participation in environmental management in CEE to other locations undergoing major systemic change in their environmental governance practices, such as the 'low carbon transition' that is currently unfolding at a global scale.
Author: Carol J. Pierce Colfer
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2006-03-01
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1411677595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes the author's experience with her family in Danau Sentarum National Park, in the center of Borneo. She and her husband were working with communities there to manage an area of flooded forests. The book introduces the people and the area, and describes the joys and frustrations of working with NGOs, consulting firms, government and local communities.
Author: Leonid Moiseevich Gudoshnikov
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 142
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Greg Pahl
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2012-08-13
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1603584102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 90 percent of US power generation comes from large, centralized, highly polluting, nonrenewable sources of energy. It is delivered through long, brittle transmission lines, and then is squandered through inefficiency and waste. But it doesn't have to be that way. Communities can indeed produce their own local, renewable energy. Power from the People explores how homeowners, co-ops, nonprofit institutions, governments, and businesses are putting power in the hands of local communities through distributed energy programs and energy-efficiency measures. Using examples from around the nation - and occasionally from around the world - Greg Pahl explains how to plan, organize, finance, and launch community-scale energy projects that harvest energy from sun, wind, water, and earth. He also explains why community power is a necessary step on the path to energy security and community resilience - particularly as we face peak oil, cope with climate change, and address the need to transition to a more sustainable future. This book - the second in the Chelsea Green Publishing Company and Post Carbon Institute's Community Resilience Series - also profiles numerous communitywide initiatives that can be replicated elsewhere.
Author: DK Eyewitness
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2024-05-28
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 0593847369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre you keen to explore a different side of Berlin? Like a Local is the book for you. This isn't your ordinary travel guide. You won't find the Reichstag Building or Charlottenburg Palace on these pages because that's not where Berliners hang out. Instead, you'll meet the locals at bustling flea markets, carefree clubs, and peaceful urban gardens - and that's where this book takes you. Turn the pages to discover: - The small businesses and community strongholds that add character to this vibrant city, recommended by true locals - 6 themed walking tours dedicated to specific experiences such as vintage shopping and cocktail history - A beautiful gift book for anyone seeking to explore Berlin - Helpful what3word addresses so that you can pinpoint all the listed sights - A thoughtfully updated second edition, including new places to visit Compiled by three proud Berliners and revised and updated for 2024, this stylish travel guide is packed with Berlin's best experiences and secret spots, handily categorized to suit your mood and needs. Whether you're a restless Berliner on the hunt for a new hangout or a visitor keen to discover a side you won't find in traditional guidebooks, Berlin Like A Local will give you all the inspiration you need.
Author: Charles E. Van Engen
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 1991-09
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0801093112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA world-claiming theology of the church draws on ancient and modern thoughts. The author focuses on how the church can grow to become in reality "God's missionary people."
Author: Helene Heyd and Andreas Neef
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early 1990s, Thailand launched an ambitious program of decentralized governance, conferring greater responsibilities upon sub-district administrations and providing fiscal opportunities for local development planning. This process was reinforced by Thailand's new Constitution of 1997, which explicitly assures individuals, communities and local authorities the right to participate in the management of natural resources. Drawing on a study of water management in the Mae Sa watershed, northern Thailand, this study analyzes to what extent the constitutional right for participation has been put into practice. To this end, a stakeholder analysis was conducted in the watershed, with a focus on the local people's interests and strategies in water management and the transformation of participatory policies through government agencies at the local level. Government line departments were categorized into development- and conservation-oriented agencies. While government officers stressed the importance of stakeholder inclusion and cooperation with the local people, there is a sharp contrast between the official rhetoric and the reality on the ground. The analysis reveals that government officers, particularly in the conservation-oriented agencies, are not disposed to devolve power to lower levels due to the fear of losing their traditional mandate and persistent stereotypes about local communities' incompetence to manage water resources in a sustainable way. On their part, villagers do not perceive a tangible change in the implementation of water policies and retain a widely negative image of government officers. In conclusion, the participation of local people in development activities and in the conservation and management of natural resources seems to be currently at the stage of passive or, at best, consultative participation. In order to deal with the severely increasing water problems in northern Thailand, decision-makers have to recognize the value of participation and promote a change of government officers' attitude towards local people through training programs and incentives. Communities and individuals need to be made aware of their constitutional rights and potentials for cooperating with government agencies and participating in their projects.
Author: T. M. Thomas Isaac
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780742516076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this definitive history, a key figure in the People's Campaign in Kerala provides a unique insider's account of one of the world's most extensive and successful experiments in decentralization. Launched in 1996, the campaign mobilized over 3 million of Kerala's 30 million people and resulted in bottom-up development planning in all 1,052 of its villages and urban neighborhoods. The authors tell a powerful story of mass mobilization and innovation as bureaucratic opposition was overcome, corruption and cynicism were rooted out, and parliamentary democracy prevailed. Considering both the theoretical and applied significance of the campaign in the context both of India's development since independence and of recent international debates about decentralization, civil society, and empowerment, the book provides invaluable lessons for sustainable development worldwide.
