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- This report explains the state of sustainable buildings and the construction industry in India including best practices, successes, barriers and recommendations for further implementation towards mitigation of climate change impacts. This report was published by UNEP in 2010.
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- Priyanka Kochhar
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- United Nations Environment Programme
- http://www.unep.org/pdf/SBCI_State_of_play_India.pdf
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- This study explores the theory and practice of the adaptive management method of water resource management based on a detailed field study of the development and use of water resources for irrigation in the Lower Bhavani Project in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This study was published by IWMI in 2009.
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- Mats Lannerstad; David Molden
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3910/2009.128
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- This case study presents a forest rehabilitation initiative in the tropical dry forests in north-western India, highlights an indirect approach for assessing forest degradation, identification of forest rehabilitation objectives and targets and illustrates lessons learned for future forest rehabilitation in dry land forests. This study was published by FAO in 2009.
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- Michael Kleine; Ghazala Shahabuddin; Promode Kant
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/k7176e/k7176e00.pdf
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- This report evaluates the current use of microirrigation technologies in Maharashtra and Gujarat in India as a method of saving water in irrigated agriculture and averting potential water shortage crises, a strategy to increase farm incomes and reduce poverty and a method of enhancing the food and nutritional security of rural households through an increase in the area of cultivation, better crop yields, enhanced output quality, early crop maturity and reduced cultivation costs. This report was published by IWMI in 2005.
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- R. E. Namara; B. Upadhyay; R. K. Nagar
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3910/2009.094
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- This report summarises the current status of aquaculture assessment tools (AATs) in the Asia and Pacific region through a selection of country case studies focusing on China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Each case study examines the application of existing aquaculture assessment tools in the country, including issues and constraints and recommendations for improvement. This report was published by the FAO in 2013.
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- Miao Weimin; C. V. Mohan; Wyn Ellis; Brian Davy (editors)
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/019/i3438e/i3438e00.htm
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- This report examines the current status of advanced (non-crop, second generation) biofuel production technologies, those that can be grown using a small portion of the world's land area and those grown on arable lands without affecting food supply, and considers the key technical barriers of low conversion efficiency from biomass to fuel, limits on supply of key enzymes used in conversion, large energy requirement for operation and dependence on commercially unproven technology. This report was published by The World Bank in 2010.
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- Jay J. Cheng; Govinda R. Timilsina
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3896
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- This document provides the technical appendices for volume one of this report. It includes nine appendices, including information about disaster risk exposure profiles, disaster risk management profiles and agricultural and microinsurance for ASEAN member states. This report was published by The World Bank in 2012.
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- The World Bank Group
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12628
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- This report evaluates the acute water shortages and pollution problems in North China, specifically in the Yellow (Huang), Hai and Huai (3-H) river basins, and recommends a number of improvements to China's water management practices to better support agriculture, the urban and industrial water supply and ecological resources in this area. It examines changes in the economy and society affecting the water sector, the current water resource situation in the 3-H basins and feasible options for balancing water supply and demand. It includes action plans for each of the key areas including flood control, agriculture, pollution control, wastewater reuse and groundwater management. This report was published by The World Bank in 2002.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15418
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- This collection of papers examines agriculture and rural development in China, linkages between China and The WorldFish Center, aquaculture research and its relation to development in China and the research priorities of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (CAFS). It was published by WorldFish in 2003.
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- L. X. Zhang; J. Liu; S. F. Li; N. S. Yang; P. R. Gardiner
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_348.pdf
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- This report assesses the environmental impacts of the overuse of land and water resources in Hai Duong, Ha Tay and Son La provinces of Vietnam and analyzes the agricultural environmental institutions in North Vietnam to provide information about government institutions responsible for improving these conditions. This report was published by FAO in 2004.
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- Vu Trong Binh et al.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/af334e/af334e00.htm
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- This report attempts to estimate the social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution damage categories: urban air pollution, inadequate water supply and indoor air pollution as well as four natural resource damage categories: agricultural damage, rangeland degradation, deforestation and natural disasters. The report provides estimated costs in Rupees for all of the above categories. This report was published by The World Bank in 2012.
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- Muthukumara Mani; Anil Markandya; Aarsi Sagar; Elena Strukova
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12065
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- This report explores the benefits, risks and threats and negative economic impacts of using fish aggregating devices (FADs) as a method of boosting fish production and increasing food security. Specialist technical information is also included including how to choose a site and how to construct and install an FAD. This report was published by FAO in 2012.
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- Steve Beverly; Don Griffiths; Robert Lee
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/i3087e/i3087e00.htm
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- This report examines the impacts of aquaculture development on poverty, markets and trade research in support of pro-poor aquaculture development, global trends in aquaculture, key issues for reducing poverty and hunger, assuring the growth in aquaculture in Asia generates livelihoods for the poor, assuring higher rates of fish consumption by the poor and emerging priorities for research on markets and trade. This report was published by WorldFish in 2011.
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- A. Gordon; L. Kassam
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2828.pdf
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- This paper identifies how the contribution of fisheries and aquaculture to poverty reduction and food security can be enhanced while maintaining sustainability in over-exploited and over-capitalized capture fisheries and improving environmental performance. This paper was published by WorldFish in 2011.
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2971.pdf
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- This report examines the behaviour of arsenic in food and agriculture, and considers the effects of irrigating with arsenic-contaminated water on crop production and food safety in Asia. It focuses on Bangladesh and on the rice crop. This document, RAP Publication 2006/20, was published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2006.
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- Alex Heikens
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/ag105e/ag105e00.htm
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- This study uses remote sensing, national crop productivity and land use statistics and weather data to analyse the water productivity of rice and wheat in the Indus and Ganges river basins in South Asia. It demonstrates that there is scope for improvement in water and land productivity in the middle to lower areas of the Ganges Basin where water is abundant but the high consumption is not being converted into high crop yields. This report was published by IWMI in 2010.
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- X. Cai; B. R. Sharma; M. A. Matin; D. Sharma; S. Gunasinghe
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5337/2010.232
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- This document defines sustainable development and education for sustainable development (ESD), assesses the current state of ESD in the Asia-Pacific region and outlines a set of exercises which can be used to coordinate discussion between key stakeholders to assess national ESD-related activities, identify gaps in implementation and formulate a plan to move ESD forward. This document was published by UNESCO in 2011.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001930/193013e.pdf
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- This document provides an overview of shrimp and catfish farming in the Mekong River delta of Vietnam, discusses methods for assessing impacts of climate change and economic analysis of adaptation and examines the potential impacts of climate change on aquaculture in the Mekong River delta, costs of adaptation to climate change impacts, policy implications for estimated adaptation costs and cost of climate change adaptation at farm level. This report was published by WorldFish in 2012.
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- Kam S. P.; M-C. Badjeck; L. Teh; L. Teh; N. Tran
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_3395.pdf
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- This report assesses water depletion from the extensive water use of agricultural production in the Moga District of the State of Punjab in India, focusing particularly on the growth in agricultural production and stress on water resources induced by groundwater irrigation. This report was published by IWMI in 2010.
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- Upali A. Amarasinghe; Vladimir Smakhtin; Bharat R. Sharma; Nishadi. Eriyagama
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5337/2010.229
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- This brief report outlines how biodiversity degradation leads to changes in ecosystems which impacts the key components of human health and well-being including provision of food and medicines and disease patterns and suggests ways that biodiversity can be managed to mitigate the impacts. This report was published in 2010.
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- Camille Parmesan; Suzanne Skevington
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001897/189744e.pdf
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- This brief report evaluates the positive and negative environmental effects of biofuel production as a method of improving energy security, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and contributing to rural development. It examines global trends in biofuels, biofuels in relation to the environment, methods of improving biofuel systems and the future for biofuels. This report was published in 2009.
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- R. W. Howarth; S. Bringezu
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001831/183113e.pdf
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- This book contains modules on: the fundamentals of fisheries co-management in Indonesia; the theoretical structure of fisheries co-management in Indonesia; how to start fisheries co-management; and, planning and implementing fisheries co-management. It was prepared to accompany a training course and was published in 2009 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This introductory section, part 1 of 7, contains details of the preparation of the document, the abstract and the contents list. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
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- Dede Irving Hartoto (editor); Luky Adrianto (editor); Daniela Kalikoski (editor); Trian Yunanda (editor)
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i0989e/i0989e00.pdf
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- This book contains modules on: the fundamentals of fisheries co-management in Indonesia; the theoretical structure of fisheries co-management in Indonesia; how to start fisheries co-management; and, planning and implementing fisheries co-management. It was prepared to accompany a training course and was published in 2009 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This section, part 2 of 7, contains the first module on the fundamentals of fisheries of co-management. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
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- Dede Irving Hartoto (editor); Luky Adrianto (editor); Daniela Kalikoski (editor); Trian Yunanda (editor)
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i0989e/i0989e01.pdf
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- This book contains modules on: the fundamentals of fisheries co-management in Indonesia; the theoretical structure of fisheries co-management in Indonesia; how to start fisheries co-management; and, planning and implementing fisheries co-management. It was prepared to accompany a training course and was published in 2009 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This section, part 3 of 7, contains the first part of the module on the theoretical structure of fisheries co-management. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
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- Dede Irving Hartoto (editor); Luky Adrianto (editor); Daniela Kalikoski (editor); Trian Yunanda (editor)
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i0989e/i0989e02a.pdf
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- This book contains modules on: the fundamentals of fisheries co-management in Indonesia; the theoretical structure of fisheries co-management in Indonesia; how to start fisheries co-management; and, planning and implementing fisheries co-management. It was prepared to accompany a training course and was published in 2009 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This introductory section, part 4 of 7, contains the second part of the module on the theoretical structure of fisheries co-management. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
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- Dede Irving Hartoto (editor); Luky Adrianto (editor); Daniela Kalikoski (editor); Trian Yunanda (editor)
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i0989e/i0989e02b.pdf