Study region : In this study, 33 catchments across the Lower Mekong Basin in Southeast Asia are examined to detect historical changes in their hydrological response via a model-based methodology.
Study focus : Intensive development over the past half century across Southeast Asia’s Lower Mekong B...
Lyon, S.W.
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King, K.
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Polpanich, O.
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Lacombe, Guillaume
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[Assessing hydrologic changes across the Lower Mekong Basin]
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Assessing hydrologic changes across the Lower Mekong Basin
This paper examines the nature of community management of woodlots and investigates the determinants of collective action and its effectiveness in managing woodlots, based on a survey of 100 villages in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. We find that collective management of woodlots generally functions ...
Gebremedhin, Berhanu
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Pender, J.L.
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Tesfay, G.
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[Community natural resource management: The case of woodlots in northern Ethiopia]
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Community natural resource management: The case of woodlots in northern Ethiopia
Soils are a significant source for the secondary greenhouse gas NO and assumed to be a significant source of tropospheric NOx in rural areas. Here we tested the LandscapeDNDC model for its capability to simulate magnitudes and dynamics of soil NO emissions for 22 sites differing in land use (arab...
Molina-Herrera, S.
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Haas, E.
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Grote, R.
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Kiese, Ralf
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Klatt, Steffen
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Kraus, David
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Kampffmeyer, t.
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Friedrich, R.
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Andreae, H.
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Loubet, B.
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Ammann, C.
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Horváth, L.
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Larsen, K.
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Gruening, C.
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Frumau, A.
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Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus
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[Importance of soil NO emissions for the total atmospheric NOx budget of Saxony, Germany]
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Importance of soil NO emissions for the total atmospheric NOx budget of Saxony, Germany
Research on climate change policies can contribute to policy development by building an understanding of the barriers faced in policy processes, and by providing knowledge needed throughout policy cycles. This paper explores the thematic coverage of research on climate change policies related to ...
Locatelli, Bruno
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Aldunce, Paulina
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Fallot, Abigail
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Le Coq, Jean François
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Sabourin, Eric
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Tapasco, Jeimar
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[Research on Climate Change Policies and Rural Development in Latin America: Scope and Gaps]
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Research on Climate Change Policies and Rural Development in Latin America: Scope and Gaps
An age-old conflict around a seemingly simple question has resurfaced: why do we conserve nature? Contention around this issue has come and gone many times, but in the past several years we believe that it has reappeared as an increasingly acrimonious debate between, in essence, those who argue t...
Poverty is a rural dilemma and continues to be a persistent multidimensional problem. It is associated with poor farmers, small farm systems, the landless, resource endowments, the socioeconomic environment and externalities. Over 75% of the poor live and work in rural areas, trapped in a poverty...
Devendra, C.
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Chantalakhana, C.
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[Animals, poor people and food insecurity: Opportunities for improved livelihoods through efficient natural resource management]
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Animals, poor people and food insecurity: Opportunities for improved livelihoods through efficient natural resource management
This review paper discusses the relevance and potential importance of food-feed systems in Asian agricultural systems, and in particular the role and contribution of legumes to these systems. A food-feed system is one that maintains, if not increases, the yield of food crops, sustains soil fertil...
Extending livestock grazing to the steep slopes has led to unstable grazing systems in the East African Highlands, and new solutions and approaches are needed to ameliorate the current situation. This work was aimed at studying the effect of livestock grazing on plant attributes and hydrological ...
Taddese, G.
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Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.
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Astatke, A.
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Ayaleneh, W.
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[Effect of grazing on plant attributes and hydrological properties in the sloping lands of the East African highlands]
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Effect of grazing on plant attributes and hydrological properties in the sloping lands of the East African highlands
The types of technology change catalyzed by research interventions in integrated natural resource management (INRM) are likely to require much more social negotiation and adaptation than are changes related to plant breeding, the dominant discipline within the system of the Consultative Group on ...
Douthwaite, Boru
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Haan, Nicoline C. de
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Manyong, Victor M.
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Keatinge, J.D.H.
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[Blending "hard" and "soft" science: The "follow-the-technology" approach to catalyzing and evaluating technology change]
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Blending "hard" and "soft" science: The "follow-the-technology" approach to catalyzing and evaluating technology change