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Sustainability in the Mekong River Basin: an experiment in transboundary governance
Type: Book Chapter
The sustainable management of international rivers was affirmed as a policy priority in Agenda 21 and figures as a key mandate of the Global Environment Facility. Yet, the institutions needed to translate such sustainability ...
Interactions between changes in marine ecosystems and human communities
Type: Book Chapter
This chapter discusses how small-scale fisheries dependent human communities are interactive with marine ecosystems. It has shown how changes in the marine ecosystems can impact human fishing communities, and also how the ...
Synthesis and lessons learned
Type: Book Chapter
Based on the selected case studies from various chapters in the book "Success stories in Asian aquaculture", this chapter further examined the broader set of lessons learned around successes in aquaculture in Asia with the ...
Aquatic resources and environmental variability in Bac Lieu Province (Southern Vietnam)
Type: Book Chapter
The dynamics of aquatic resources in the canals of Sac Lieu Province, in southern Vietnam, are detailed and synthesized in this study. Nekton and eight environmental parameters were monitored in this province between 2004 ...
Integrated management of aquatic resources: a Bayesian Approach to water control and trade-offs in Southern Vietnam
Type: Book Chapter
The BayFish-Bac Lieu model presented in this chapter is a Bayesian model that aims to identify optimal water control regimes and trade-offs between water uses in order to improve management of water-dependent resources in ...
Urban farming systems in Yaoundé: building a mosaic
Type: Book Chapter
Urban agriculture is prevalent in Cameroon, the first country examined in this book of case studies, yet its role in urban life was little studied until the 1990s. At that time researchers began to look at some aspects of ...
Fish in the tea
Type: Book Chapter
When the rains fail in Malawi, life gets really tough. But in the Thylo district, Friday Limited Nikoloma has discovered integrated agriculture and aquaculture. This allows him to produce more, and to keep his crops green ...
A digital approach to surveys in developing countries
Type: Book Chapter
In this paper, the authors present a methodology developed for gathering socioeconomic and environmental survey data in the field. The system is divided into two interfaces: i) an Android tablet with survey software for ...
Developing youth entrepreneurs: a viable youth employment strategy in Sri Lanka?
Type: Book Chapter
Entrepreneurship training that leads to increased business creation and expansion is considered a viable employment strategy for youth globally. Many organizations in Sri Lanka have provided entrepreneurship training for ...
Increasing water productivity in agriculture
Type: Book Chapter
Increasing water productivity is an important element in improved water management for sustainable agriculture, food security and healthy ecosystem functioning. Water productivity is defined as the amount of agricultural ...