Internal migration and labor mobility issues and policies in China: how has the Covid-19 pandemic affected the status qu...
Kyrgyzstan overview
Delivering context specific, climate informed agro-advisories at scale: A case study of iSAT, an ICT linked platform pil...
The influence of climate and weather-based advisories in planning and managing agricultural systems under highly variable conditions was evaluated to understand the potential benefits and challenges associated with the use of probabilistic climate and weather information. A pilot study, conducted with 720 farmers in Anantapur district of Andhra Pra...
Comparative analysis of local adaptation processes in the future across peri-urban India to support transformations to s...
Peri-urban transformations in emerging economies like India demand scientific attention given their impact on global environmental change processes. Some studies examine past or ongoing peri-urban adaptation processes, but insight into future adaptation needs and aspirations of peri-urban communities is lacking. Also, it is unknown how the high deg...
NATURE+: Moving toward a cyan and sustainable future in India!
Urban areas in rural landscapes – the importance of green space and local architecture for bat conservation
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Urbanization is a highly disperse process, resulting in urban sprawl across landscapes. Within such landscapes, structural heterogeneity may be an important factor for maintaining biodiversity. We investigated the importance of habitat heterogeneity on bats in villages across the Schwäbische Alb, Germany, a progressively urbanized region. Bat activ...
Groundwater governance under climate change in India: lessons based on evaluation of World Bank interventions
Groundwater is the single largest source of water for irrigation and domestic use in India. Climate change further exacerbates the threat of depletion, reducing food security and increasing the vulnerabilities of resource users. Governance is complicated by externalities associated with its attributes as an invisible and fluid resource which create...
A Delphi-based methodology for participatory adaptation pathways building with local stakeholders: methodological consid...
Adaptation pathways is a planning approach used to design flexible, long-term strategies for dealing with future uncertainty. However, emphasis on how to discuss pathways elements with stakeholders during the pathways building process is under-represented in the existing pathways literature. This paper presents a participatory methodology for build...
Constraints and opportunities for groundwater irrigation arising from hydrologic shifts in the Iullemmeden Basin, South-...
In Pavelic, Paul; Villholth, K. G.; Verma, Shilp. (Eds.). Sustainable groundwater development for improved livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge / Land-use-change-induced increases in shallow groundwater levels across parts of the Sahel in recent years have coincided with expanded use of groundwater for irrigation. This s...
Compte rendu de "Retour au village. Jeunesse et pouvoirs en Côte d’Ivoire"
Compte rendu de l'ouvrage de Léo Montaz, "Retour au village. Jeunesse et pouvoirs en Côte d’Ivoire", Paris, Karthala, 2020, 262 pages -- Dans cet ouvrage, l’ethnologue Léo Montaz, questionne les changements sociaux en cours dans l’univers villageois du pays bété (situé dans la zone forestière du Centre-Ouest de la Côte d’Ivoire dans la région de Ga...
