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Contribution of variables to the role performance of char women in maintaining sustainable livelihoods in Bangladesh

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The main purpose of the study was to determine the contributing variables to the role performance of char women in maintaining sustainable livelihoods. The study was carried out in two upazila (administrative units) under Jamalpur district in Bangladesh from November 2006 to March 2007.

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Planning and design of a multi modal transport system for Delhi

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Urban mobility has different dimensions. Mobility is due to various purposes and needs. It encompasses movability by public, private and personalised modes, and manoeuvrability through the facilitations of various transport infrastructure and services provided by the concerned authorities. In this context, the role of various modes of public transport in a city is of paramount importance for the efficient and effective movement, but the same cannot be achieved without the modal integration of public transport in conjunction with non-motorised modes.

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Hydrogen - The future fuel for buses

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To curb carbon dioxide emission and to cope with the crisis over fossil fuel supply, there is a pressing universal need to examine our fuel policy, and determine a new fuel which emits either zero or insignificant levels of exhaust gases. Using hydrogen as a transport fuel is a vision of future for many.

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Causes of forest degradation and implications of JFM in natural forest of Raigarh

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Paper presents the causes of forest degradation and its direct and indirect effects. Preliminary discussion on the issue of tracing the basic research areas, approaches of joint forest management for its role in natural resource conservation. Although felling tree illegally still going on and this is the major cause of decrease in forest cover, increasing number of industrial establishments and fuel wood collection are other causes.

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Ethno botancial studies with reference to wild plants used by the tribals of Sagar District (M.P.)

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The present study has been carried out in Bundelkhand region of Sagar district. Wild edible plants constitute an important source of dietary habit of tribes of this region.

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Community contest over the forest resources

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There are various stakeholders who are poising major threat to the sustainability of the forest resources. The categories of these stakeholders are the state and its agents, capitalist and private contractors and local communities. The present study focuses on the third types of stakeholders and their contest over the forest resources. The communities who are living in the vicinity of the forest are not homogenous, they are hetrogeneous, and their heterogeneity is reflected through caste background, power, ownership of land and ideology.

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Plant diversity assessment under plantations raised on degraded wasteland

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An investigation was carried to understand the density and diversity pattern of the plantation area of Chaur as Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand. A total of 13 trees, 6 shrubs and 14 herb species were encountered in all plantation areas.

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Analysis of carbon and nitrogen storage of dry tropical forest ecosystem using satellite remote sensing and GIS techniques

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Tropical forests are recognized as rich, diverse and highly productive ecosystems of the world. The present study was carried out to assess carbon and nutrient storage of a dry tropical forest ecosystem in Barnawpara Sanctuary, Raipur district of Chhattisgarh through satellite remote sensing techniques and GIS.

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The impact of the global food and financial crises on Sri Lanka's agricultural sector

The purpose of this study is to ascertain the impact of and Sri Lankan policy responses to the global food and financial crises with special emphasis on the country's agricultural sector.

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Grouting for dams under difficult site conditions

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Grout material in recent years has made quantum advancement and researchers have made this material more application friendly. Grouts are finding increasing applications for checking seepage under dams and in repair work for old dams.

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