Legal Issues Behind Village Autonomy and Village Head Role in Village Governments

Scores for Effective Forest Conservation: A Village-to- Village Approach

Community forestry in Nepal strives for forest conservation and sustainable forest management. Evaluating progress towards this end requires periodic measurements, and currently there are no standard tools for undertaking evaluations in a participatory way. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a standardized way for measuring effective forest conservation through the use of locally set score...

Mountain Village at Sunset.

During my travels to numerous countries over 40 years, I have seen many picturesque mountain villages with elegant and well-preserved houses perched on carefully selected sites on the mountains, and others located by a river or lake at the foot of a mountain. They appear remarkably harmonious with the natural scenery. Fruit trees or tea trees and crops such as rice, wheat, and corn are planted ...

A Village Mosquito-Trap

It takes a village.

Iknow what you’re thinking—“it takes a village” is a hackneyed phrase, and what is it doing in P&T? Perhaps you missed a critically important report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) last winter on an approach for preventing and controlling hypertension.1 It certainly appears that it does take a village to manage high blood pressure in the U.S. As our readers probably know, nearly 73 million...

Eco-Village and Climatic Design

Eco village design is a new field of knowledge still under development. It will be the physical manifestation of the unfolding of the ecovillage dream held by so many. It is generally agreed that concept of sustainability should play an increasing role in future urban development world-wide. In order to ensure ecological sustainability, cities around the world have to decrease their environment...