Environmental flows (e-flows) are powerful tools for sustaining freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services, but their widespread implementation faces numerous social, political, economic barriers. These barriers amplified in water-limited systems where strong trade-offs exist between human water needs protection. We synthesize the complex, multidisciplinary challenges that these to help ide...

INTRODUCTION Chad is one of the countries supported by the GAVI-Alliance that remains with unsatisfactory vaccination coverage. This paper tries to understand the main barriers to better coverage. METHODS These barriers were categorised as up or downstream against the health system building blocks as proposed by WHO and compared with barriers and activities identified by the country in its he...

although the hiv pandemic is witnessing a decline in the number of new infections in most regions of the world, the middle east and north africa (mena) has a rapidly growing hiv problem. while generating hiv data has been consistently increasing since 2005, mena’s contribution to the global hiv literature is just over 1% and the existing evidence often falls behind the academic standards. sever...

Zimbabwe is the best contemporary example of how politics can affect economic development. Equally as significant, and yet under studied, is the effect of politics on Information and Communication Technologies for development (ICT4D). In this case study of government of Zimbabwe’s five year battle to prevent Econet Wireless from operating a mobile phone network, the authors present the fear for...

Political socialization is the process by which the transition of political cultures takes place from one generation to another.In the other words political socialization is continuous in whole of life, in which political personality of people is formed. Many factors affect people political socialization that some of them are; Family, Mass Media, School and Peer Groups. This research represents...

Nepal is a Himalayan country that has surplus potential in hydropower generation. It lies among the largely populated countries such as India, China, Bangladesh and Pakistan. can be to fulfill its demand. However, for few decades, been suffering from domestic power shortages. This review study holds attention intrinsic developmental barriers stem supply, internal governance systems, indigenous ...

The goal of the PRIN2005 “EAH conservation KM system” research project, funded by Italian Ministry of Research, is to establish an advanced integrated approach to conservation of Earthen Architecture Heritage (EAH) that support main design and planning of conservation actions, reducing the technical risk through suitable and compatible measures. Knowledge Management for supporting EAH conservat...