Environment, Energy and Climate Change
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RE Practices in Pakistan - Solar Thermal Technologies
Renewable energy practices and providers in Pakistan
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From Vulnerability to Resilience (V2R)
This documents sets out the key factors that contribute to peoples' vulnerability: exposure to hazards and stresses and fragile livelihoods. It provides detailed explanation of the linkages between these factors, as well as ideas for action to strengthen resilience.
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Solar PV Technologies in Pakistan
Renewable energy practices in Pakistan
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Solar Thermal Technologies in India
Renewable energy practices in India
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Wind Energy in Bangladesh
Renewable energy practices in Bangladesh.
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Uncertain Futures
Community-based adaptation is a new concept whose meaning is still to be fully understood. Most agree that communities should be supported to respond to the challenges they face, and some see this as the goal of community-based adaptation. By contrast, Uncertain Futures proposes that community-based...
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More People, More Trees
Over 20 years ago, concerned famers’ groups in Kenya and Burkina Faso began to adopt new measures to conserve soil and water and to re-establish trees in their fields. Two videos, Looking after our Land and Building on Traditions, recorded the new participatory approaches for land conservation being...
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Expanding Energy Access in Developing Countries
For centuries, water pumping, food processing, and manufacturing , amongst other productive uses, have been enhanced by the application of mechanical power. Recent technological advances in mechanical power have further enhanced productivity and reduced the drudgery of human labour associated with t...
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Capacity Development for Scaling up Decentralized Energy Access
Elisabeth Clemens, Kamal Rijal, Minoru Takada
Micro hydro power is ideally suited to meeting the energy needs of remote communities.A national micro hydro programme has been operating for more than a decade in Nepal. Similarly a fuel-wood-conserving cooking stoves programme has been operating in Nepal for decades. Capacity development for scali...
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Hydraulic Ram Pumps
The technical brief contains the detailed information on hydraulic ram pumps that can be used by communities around the world allowing access to water where the source of water is lower than the compound.