Khamleuang talks about the market for their crops.

 

Khamon about the crops from the land.

 

Chouvanh's views on being productive with the land.

Meeting symbol/code: ALAWUC/NE/10

Los bosques tropicales albergan la mayor diversidad genética del mundo (Cincotta et al., 2000). Sin embargo, estos ecosistemas están siendo drásticamente transformados especialmente por deforestación y sobrexplotación de especies de importancia comercial. En México, 80 % de los recursos forestales están en manos de ejidos y comunidades (White y Martín 2002), lo que es una fortaleza por lo que el aprovechamiento forestal sustentable resulta en beneficios directos para los pobladores de dichas áreas forestales.

The purpose of this report is to examine development trends in the Southern Gobi Region (SGR) as they affect livestock and wildlife. It provides an overview of the environment and natural resources of the region, discusses existing relationships and interactions among humans, livestock, large herbivore wildlife, and the natural resources on which they are dependent. It then explores the impact that economic development of the region is likely to have if that development does not consider the needs of the current users.

This article is interested in the interface between internationally supported peace operations and local approaches to peace that may draw on traditional, indigenous and customary practice. It argues that peace (and security, development and reconstruction) in societies emerging from violent conflict tends to be a hybrid between the external and the local. The article conceptualizes how this hybrid or composite peace is constructed and maintained. It proposes a four-part conceptual model to help visualize the interplay that leads to hybridized forms of peace.

This study aims are to compare the characteristics of the Greek Polis of Metaponto and Poseidonia water collecting and distribution systems. And also, display the differences and similarities between the water management systems used, as to better understand the criteria developed to orientate the place of settlements and also of certain urban characteristics chosen by the Greeks, between the VIII and IV centuries B.C.

 
* María José Rodríguez
Apocalíptica pero real se ha tornado la lucha por el agua, entre el Estado, los pueblos indígenas, las empresas y otros actores que entran y salen de la escena. Una lucha que tiene como antecedente la larga tensión existente hasta hoy entre gobiernos y población sobre el uso y explotación de los recursos naturales. Y que hoy muestra que el fondo no son los recursos naturales sino los derechos sobre ellos y sobre otros aspectos que encierra el concepto de Estado Plurinacional que, al parecer, por lo menos en Ecuador, deja aún mucha tela para cortar.

Cooperation shall be carried out in the following areas: (a) use of economic methods in nature management with the application of environmental audit; (b) rate setting, standardization, metrology and certification in the field of environmental protection; (c) environmental monitoring; (d) protection of atmospheric air; (e) protection of surface and groundwater; (f) protection of land; (g) protection of wild flora and wild fauna; (h) protection and development of protected natural areas; (i) exploration of mineral deposits with the application of environmental-friendly methods; (j) scientifi

 * Alipio Valdez
El Gran Chaco Americano es una región extensa, ubicada en la parte sur del continente, compartida por cuatro países de América: Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia y una pequeña parte de Brasil. Tiene una extensión de 1.000.000 km2, con un ecosistema muy frágil y el segundo más importante del continente americano.

Nairobi River Basin is a complex of several parallel rivers that flow through the City of Nairobi and empty into a larger river and flow to the Indian Ocean. The rivers are polluted with garbage, industrial liquid effluence, agro-chemicals, petro-chemicals among others. This situation has occasioned spread of water-borne diseases, loss of sustainable livelihoods, loss of biodiversity, reduced availability and access to safe potable water, and the insidious effects of toxic substances and heavy metal poisoning which affects human productivity.