sustainable waterfront development in the great lakes basin

... HDP Promote HDP in line with IWRM approach & WCD guidelines with a view to develop hydropower in sustainable manner Data gathering for tributaries and mainstream, and conduct baseline study on flow ... orkable and in line w ith MRC Agreement, w ith active cooperation among member countries to convince donor for support Joint projects should have high priority in HDP Projects included in the HDP ... Regional: 呑 Limited information exchange 呑 Limited coordination b/t upstream & downstream states WEAKNESSES OPPORTUNITIES Market: 呑 Readiness by investors & lending agencies 呑 Increase in demand after...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 22:21

... farmers to increase their income by increasing and diversifying their agricultural and fishery production Since the past 20 years, the area of cultivable lands have been growing by an expansion the ... in the dry season The shortage of freshwater leads to increasing salinity intrusion throughout the MD coastal provinces (v) The floods: Discharge of the Mekong river during the wet season averages ... and the MD map There are three water quality problems and two water quantity problems that are the principal limit factors of agricultural production in the Delta (i) The salinity intrusion: There...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 17:20

... transferred from the Great Lakes basin into another watershed < interbasin diversion (negative): water transferred from another watershed into the Great Lakes basin < intrabasin diversion (positive): ... managers and the public Interbasin diversions shown in the tables as a positive number (e.g without a minus sign) indicate water leaving the Great Lakes basin; interbasin diversions shown in the tables ... for Illinois are outgoing interbasin diversions—water transferred from the Chicago River in the Great Lakes basin to the Illinois River in the Mississippi River basin Data Quality: Illinois’s...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 22:20

... which the book can be used in courses and in industry, let’s look at the evolution of the concept of sustainable development and how industry has played its role in this evolution The term sustainable ... SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES Cases and Impact Edited by JAN HARMSEN JOSEPH B POWELL A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES ... (www.iisd.org) Financial indicators focused on or including sustainability include the Dow Jones sustainability index, the FTSE4Good environmental index, and the Calvert social index (Cobb et...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 16:26

... analyse the changes currently occurring in terms of the actors involved, the factors driving new developments, and the trends occurring throughout the hydropower planning and approval process Once the ... projects in Cambodia, nine of which are in the 3S basin. 49 In the following sec on, ve of these proposed sites, and an addi onal site on the Cambodia-Vietnam border, are discussed in more detail The ... understanding of the cumula ve impacts of these dams and those in the 3S basins in Laos and Vietnam 87 Asian Development Bank, Se Kong - Se San and Nam Theun Basins Hydropower Study Final Report,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:21

... the builders and the funders, might be to promote the development of the villagers Yet the dam, in the eyes of the villagers, may be interrupting the flow of the river, negatively impacting their ... lost, the shift in specialists thinking about the kind of roles that people can play in development, and associated training and orientation needs, the shift in skills from telling to listening, ... Fisheries Management in the Lower Mekong Basin has joined this front line Fisheries managers, as part of a community within a common river basin, recognize the need for sharing in the effort to alleviate...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 02:20

... the builders and the funders, might be to promote the development of the villagers Yet the dam, in the eyes of the villagers, may be interrupting the flow of the river, negatively impacting their ... lost, the shift in specialists thinking about the kind of roles that people can play in development, and associated training and orientation needs, the shift in skills from telling to listening, ... Fisheries Management in the Lower Mekong Basin has joined this front line Fisheries managers, as part of a community within a common river basin, recognize the need for sharing in the effort to alleviate...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 02:20

... mentioned in the thesis is understood as the investment activities, investment to gain profits; (ii) the thesis doesn’t include researches on sustainable development within the area of FDI businesses, ... direct investment towards the sustainable development in the Northern key economic region 3.1.2.1 Potentials and advantages to foreign direct investment towards the sustainable development in the ... foreign direct investment towards the sustainable development in the Northern key economic region 3.2.1 The generalization of the reality of foreign direct investment attraction in the Northern key...

Ngày tải lên: 14/07/2014, 13:33

... Aquaculture in the Lower Mekong Basin Aquaculture is unevenly developed in the Mekong Basin Most production takes place in the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam and the Korat Plateau in Northeast Thailand There ... identifies some of these links and analyses the role and importance of aquaculture within the wider context of fisheries and rural development in the basin Information on the status of the capture fisheries ... catfish in the Bassac River in the Mekong Delta, and the large integrated fish farms near urban centres in Northeast Thailand However, most aquaculture production in the basin comes from the small-scale...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 03:15

... impacts on the coastal zone in the province include: (1) The shrinking of land and coastal plain due to enlarged wetland and flooded areas in Tam Giang - Cau Hai lagoon would exacerbate the effects ... Conclusions The study has provided a quantitative understanding of the impacts of climate change on water resources in the Huong River basin Climate change will result in an increase in precipitation in ... salinity intrusion during dry season in the Huong River basin due to a series of effect of sea level rise, water reduction and increasing demand of water users is expected to be more serious in...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... dominance in the UAE The share of employment in the service sector increased from 51.91 per cent in 1975, to 56.97 per cent in 1980, and to 57.9 per cent in 1998, corresponding to the increase in ... social factors in the UAE have a great impact in determining the size of the UAE labour force Female participation in the UAE labour force remains small, 16.3 per cent in 1999 However, incentives ... subjects them This partition of the economy into sectors permits greater understanding of the problems of development One clear pattern of the changing economic structure in the course of economic development...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20

... have a significant influence on the rate of innovation in particular industries Among the key industrial policies influencing the innovative process in pharmaceuticals are the public support ... examined in the pre-clinical period make it into human testing Only 20 percent of the compounds entering clinical trials survive the development process and gain FDA approval.9 Furthermore, the full ... considers whether the biotech industry is different than the pharmaceutical industry in terms of R&D costs Section V considers the distribution of returns on R&D in these industries The final section...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 21:59

... resource in the Mekong is not the fishery, nor rice, but the water itself Sustainable development of the Mekong River Basin, which encompasses sustaining the aquatic habitats and the biodiversity they ... declining13 It is true that many fishers report declines in their catches but the problem is that the numbers of fishers are increasing Total catches may therefore be maintained (or be increasing) ... needs In addition to the 1995 Agreement on Sustainable Development of the Mekong River Basin, these instruments include the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries which FAO prepared in 1995, the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 08:46

... identify spawning locations in the basin, and to improve understanding of the life-cycles and dynamics of fish stocks in the basin Significant long-term (1997–2010) trends in the indices were ... 2001) These studies indicate that the species dominating the catch have remained largely unchanged since the 1930s Furthermore that apparent inter-annual variation in species composition and indices ... MRC Fisheries Monitoring Programmes in the Lower Mekong Basin Moreover, comparing variation in these indicators among monitoring sites can potentially provide information on the spatial extent...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 08:47

... Data‑Collection Sites The environmental setting of the McKenzie River basin and a discussion of sampling sites in the basin have been previously reported in McCarthy and others (2009) and Kelly and others (2012) ... Passive Samplers Deployed in the Mckenzie River Basin, Oregon, During 2007 .5 Appendix Data from Passive Samplers Deployed in the Mckenzie River Basin, Oregon, During 2010 ... data as they become available Introduction The McKenzie River is the source of drinking water for approximately 200,000 people in the Eugene area of Oregon (fig 1) To protect this source, the Eugene...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... surface retorting and in- situ retorting Mining and Surface Retorting Oil shale can be mined using one of two methods: underground mining using the room-and-pillar method or surface mining The current ... In- Situ Retorting In- situ retorting entails heating oil shale in place, extracting the liquid from the ground, and transporting it to an upgrading or refining facility Because in- situ retorting ... the Green River Formation Oil Shale and Its Main Basins Stratigraphic Cross Section of the Piceance Basin in Colorado Major Process Steps in Mining and Surface Retorting 11 The Shell In- Situ...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... Shrewsbury, a densely populated town in which all water used in the basin in 1997– 2001 originated in the adjacent Blackstone River Basin In the eight towns in the basin without public-water systems ... streamflow in September in the Assabet River about doubled at the outlet of the Main Stem Headwaters subbasin and increased by about percent at the outlet of the Main Stem Upper subbasin These increases ... practices in the upper part of the basin Description of the Study Area The Assabet River Basin (fig 1) encompasses an area of 177 mi2 within the Merrimack River Basin in eastern Massachusetts The study...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 15:23

... to sustainable development goals within their boundaries, in the region around them and globally By focusing merely on sustainable cities, achieving ecological sustainability within increasingly ... Porter in the book Fuzzy Planning: The Role of Actors in a Fuzzy Governance Environment The idea of ‘fuzzy’ planning comes into the discourse on sustainable development in an urban setting and the ... issues beyond the limits of its formal institutions 41 Sustainable Urban Development and the Chinese Eco-City This chapter examines sustainable development and sustainable development in an urban...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 11:20