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The day-to-day challenges of leadership can be as great as the challenges of vision, strategy and big decisions. However, often these challenges are less obvious. Here we share some advice on working effectively and motivating others in your day-to-day work.
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A review of its use for community-based climate and disaster risk management
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Our shared natural resources are under threat, but we can protect them
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by Julio de la Cruz Torreblanca. The Lindero Ecological Farm (La Granja Ecológica Lindero) is a beautiful place, with a lot of vege­tation and a desirable climate. The farm has productive activities such as breeding cattle and guinea pigs, poultry farming, a restaurant and accommodation facilities.
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STEP 1 Thinking about the local area For most of the activities/questions below, arrange the participants into small groups of five or six. You may decide to split the participants into groups of men, women and children as their answers will reveal a lot about their differences in perspective. After each activity ask the groups to present their ideas and allow plenty of time for general discussion.
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Deforestation is a major problem in Malawi because wood and charcoal are the main sources of fuel for cooking. Fuel efficient stoves provide a practical alternative to traditional cooking methods.
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by RT Rajan. ‘We have not inherited the world from our forefathers but we have borrowed it from our children’. This Kashmiri proverb emphasises our responsibility to look after nature in all its diversity. Human intervention in nature has caused pollution, contributed to climate change and led to the unsustainable use and destruction of natural resources.
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by Anna Wells. Bob Kokonya and his family in north-west Kenya used to rely completely on tin lamps for lighting their home between 6–10pm each day. The lamps used half a litre of kerosene a day, which cost Bob 60 Kenyan shillings (around US $23 each month). Also, the family’s nostrils would be blackened by the morning because of the sooty smoke produced when kerosene burns in the open air. ‘The house was very smoky and we were coughing all the time’, Bob said.
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by Judith Collins. In the past, the way in which people living in the Mosquitia region of Honduras used their natural resources had little lasting impact on the area’s vast expanses of forests and wetlands. However, rapid population growth, the influx of new colonists and a gradual move from subsistence to a market economy are all putting pressure on the area’s fragile ecosystems. Current problems include deforestation, over-fishing, over-hunting, erosion, and soil and water ...
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by Murray Burt. In rural areas, the main water sources are normally groundwater borewells or surface water, rivers and lakes. However, an often overlooked, easily accessible and sustainable source of safe drinking water during the wet season is rain. In tropical and sub-tropical climates the quantity of water collected from rainfall can be substantial.
