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To celebrate the United Nations' declaration of the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, this collection features guidelines, reports, best practices, analytical documents...
This document provides policy guidelines on a multitude of environmental issues, law enforcement capacity and implementation of environmental laws, and environmental education using a whole-of-...
This review focuses on woody bamboos with the highest diversity recorded in the Asia-Pacific region where bamboos play a major role in ecosystem dynamics in many forests.
The document provides description on Structural Characteristics, Durability, Storage and other issues on bamboo written by Dave Hodgkin, Humanitarian Benchmark Consulting, IOM Technical Advisor...
The study advances arguments for considering bamboo stands as forests under UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol, in IPCC reports, and future agreements on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
This presentation covers three aspects of bamboo production and its use in sustainable construction: 1) traditional uses of bamboo architecture 2) challenges to make them mainstream, and 3) good...
The present guidance address the importance of environmental responsibility in humanitarian action. Humanitarian organizations can follow it to reduce their environmental footprint and improve...
This project report sheds light on the plastered bamboo construction to provide a better concept of housing in emergency cases. Bamboo shelters can be made in a day after a disaster to provide...
This project report from Pillar Practical Action, Bangladesh provides insights from the project Vulnerability to Resilience (V2R) which explored ways to harness the unique characteristics and ease...
This report presents detailed information on the bamboo culm, plantation, its biological and mechanical characteristics, its usability in building disaster-withstanding infrastructure and in case...