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Sustainable Development in Practice: Ecological and social aspects

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The article was published on 2009-01-01. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Human development theory & Sustainability.

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Mobile Pastoralism in Crisis: Challenges, Conflicts and Status of Pasture Tenure in Nepal Mountains

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the issues, challenges and opportunities of mountain pastoralism with focus on the transhumant herding system and showed that the shrinking grazing land for mobile pastoralists, newly emerging market trends, increased awareness of high altitude people about education and increasing options for employment outside the area have posed threats to the traditional occupation.
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The Community Engagement Process: A Governance Approach in Adaptation to Coastal Erosion and Flooding in Atlantic Canada/Le Processus D'engagement Communautaire : Une Demarche De Gouvernance En Adaptation Aux Problemes D'erosion Cotiere et D'inondation Au Nouveau Brunswick

TL;DR: In this paper, a community engagement process was proposed by researchers to better understand the coordination of actions amongst stakeholders, which included developing an inventory of local perceptions on sea level rise, knowledge and concerns, awareness and information on adaptation measures already used by local people, community capacity building and decision-making through focus group discussions.
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Four hurdles for conservation on private land: the case of the golden lion tamarin in Brazil's Atlantic Forest

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the mechanisms by analysing documents and interviewing landholders and other stakeholders, and found that local NGOs successfully identified landholdings where ecological, legal, social and some financial hurdles had already been crossed, and helped landholders over the final financial hurdle by funding critical cost components.
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Un modèle et son revers : la cogestion des réserves de biosphère de Waza et de la Bénoué dans le Nord-Cameroun

Adam Saleh
TL;DR: In this article, a methode s'appuiesur l'analyse des donnees bioecologiques, des releves sur le terrain, des enquetes andinterviews aupres de differents acteurs and l’examen des terroirs des zones acogestion.