Transforming disaster risk reduction
This article highlights key areas where efforts to reduce the underlying causes/drivers of vulnerability and risk need to be improved to create more inclusive, equitable and sustainable development.
Mainstreaming Adaptation into Local Development Plans in Vietnam
Climate change adaptation is a relatively new concept for Vietnam, where there is still little awareness of the possible impacts of long-term climate change or how to deal with them...
Utafiti Centre for Research and Technology
NGO based in Nairobi, Kenya. Action Research to address development needs, especially in environmental issues, community development and natural resource governance.
Centre for Sustainable Rural Development
The Center for Sustainable Rural Development (SRD) is a Vietnamese non-profit non-government organization.
NCAP Vietnam: Impacts on Thua Thien Hue Province
Apart from assessing the impacts of climate change on water resources, the project has also looked into the impacts of climate change on other sectors in Thua Thien Hue Province and Phu Vang...
Participation Methods
There is a general suite of methodologies and tools that can be combined and applied in a situation specific manner with some being more participatory than others.
One way...
STAR-AgroEnergy
Funded under the EU FP7 Research Potential theme (Unlocking the potentials of the EU's Convergence regions and Outermost regions) the University of Foggia will target its research towards Agro-...
Normative Agency
Norms, both legal or customary/social norms, work as a coordinating mechanism for society, in that they contain prescriptions for behaviour in view of shared social space.
Norms can be...
Methodology of Vietnam NCAP Project
The project combined various stakeholder approaches with water modeling.The technical tools were selected and deployed by the IMHEN on the basis of the need to provide reliable, scientifically-...
Living on the Margins
In fall 2008, a group of five undergraduate students and three graduate students participated in a seminar led by two faculty members from AESEDA and the Penn State Department of Geography, Dr....
