HEALTH GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Addressing gender within primary health care reformsBox 1. Gender concepts in the context of healthGender equality means equal chances or opportunities for women and men to access and control social, economic and political resources within families, communit[r]

the community and drink unhygienic water, as tube wells frequently become polluted. Pregnant women have diculty with mobility in marooned and slippery conditions and thus are oen forced to stay indoors. Local health-care workers have reported that there are increasing t[r]

DEVELOPMENT OF DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL TARGET PROGRAM NATIONAL TARGET PROGRAM ON CLIMATE CHANGE ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATIONADAPTATIONLEGAL DOCUMENT• Government Decision No 60/2007/NQ-CP Dated 03 Dec. 2007: “Assign Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to b[r]

with soft corals following the 1998 bleaching event, the genus Rhytisma attaining a cover of 28% (Norström et al., 2009). A similar effect involving Cespitularia has been observed on bleached reefs innorthern Mozambique (Schleyer, pers. obs). Once established, allelopathy assists in maintaining such[r]

CLIMATE CHANGE AND VARIABILITYIN VIETNAM AND STRATEGIESTO BE ADDAPTED ON AGRICULTUREFOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTBy Ass.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Van VietAgrometeorologycal research centreINTRODUCTIONAs seen in Figure climate change, desertification and loss of b[r]

VNU Journal of Science, Earth Sciences 27 (2011) 98-106 98 Impacts of climate change on the flow in Hong-Thai Binh and Dong Nai river basins Tran Hong Thai*, Tran Thuc Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment, 23/62 Nguyen Chi Thanh, Hanoi, Vietnam Rece[r]

VNU Journal of Science, Earth Sciences 27 (2011) 98-106 98 Impacts of climate change on the flow in Hong-Thai Binh and Dong Nai river basins Tran Hong Thai*, Tran Thuc Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment, 23/62 Nguyen Chi Thanh, Hanoi, Vietnam Rece[r]

Ago-economic region:+ North mountain and midland + Red river delta + North central + South central + Central plateau + North eat south + Mekong river deltaASSESSMENT CLIMATE CHANGE AND VARIABILITY IN VIETNAM1. Air average temperature.Long term variation and trend o[r]

framing the event. In the actual case, the scien-tists and affected actors were given considerablespace on all three framing themes. As argued byprevious researchers in the field (Weingart et al.,2000; Andreadis and Smith, 2007), climatechange coverage has moved beyond its previousoccup[r]

this article is that it is worthwhile exploring thecomplementary role that financial arrangements220 Botzen and van den BerghENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDScan play in designing comprehensive climatechange adaptation policies that comprise riskprevention, reduction and efficient risk-sharingstrate[r]

from the Murray–Darling system illegally wouldbe committing “an act of terrorism against theAustralian people”’ (The Australian, 16 August2008). The desperation was echoed throughoutfarming society and interest groups connectedto farming. The articles in the sample can bedivided into two type[r]

exhaustive, and students are advised, when appropriate, to consult a goodbilingual dictionary or a reference grammar to further their independent learning.Active learning is promoted by the extensive exercises and answer key for selfchecking. In each chapter, the final exercise takes t[r]

often focus on renewable energy in the transportation andpower sectors. However, renewable-energy infrastructure hasboth long and complex product-development cycles and cap-ital-intensive requirements. Converting vehicle fleets andpower plants is forecast to cost trillions of dollars,[r]

Good practices: Some countries that have started making progress for MDG5 very recently such as India (maternal mortality ratio being down from 327 to 256 in 2009) used additional interventions such as setting up blood storage centres in first referral units (FRUs) and blood banks in district[r]

We parted in 1998 with a handshake and promise to work together inside and outside the administration to persuade and pressure the Army Corps of Engineers to change course and to make it harder for developers to pave over wetlands. A decade later, we are coming tog[r]

SK, Rosenfeld LM, Nash DB, Audet AM, eds. Medicine and Health Care Into the Twenty-First Century.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Academy of Science, 1995:376-392.7Instrumental and intrinsic conceptualizations of health and human rights have differentimplic[r]

year to 1,300 households in 2010. Many of these rural households are led by women. In Ethiopia, Swiss Re has pursued an opportunity to create business value in the long term while assisting those most vulnerable to climate change. Only about 0.4 percent of Ethiopia’s population of arou[r]

and local project development in transition economies aimed at developing 22clean energy funds and energy service companies. All of these efforts are different, yet they rely on similar mechanisms to achieve their goals: notably UNEP’s convening power and proven ability to work in[r]

ACTIVITIES ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN VIET NAMACTIVITIES ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN VIET NAMViet Nam and UNFCCC• Viet Nam signed UNFCCC in June 1992 and ratified in Nov. 1994 ;• Viet Nam signed Kyoto protocol in Dec. 1998 and rectified in Sep. 2002;• The HydroMET[r]

Simmons from UNEP, and Xianli Zhu, John M. Christensen, John M. Callaway from the UNEP Risoe Centre are the authors of Section III.A on “Multilateral Work related to Climate Change: Multilateral action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions”. Hussein Abaza, Chief of the UNEP Economi[r]