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Date: Dec 2023
Location: Global

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...

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Publisher(s): UNICEF
Date: Dec 2023

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-...

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Publisher(s): Biodiversity
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Global

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.

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The document provides description on Structural Characteristics, Durability, Storage and other issues on bamboo written by Dave Hodgkin, Humanitarian Benchmark Consulting, IOM Technical Advisor...

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Date: Feb 2014

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.

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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...

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Date: Dec 2023
Location: Global

The present guidance address the importance of environmental responsibility in humanitarian action. Humanitarian organizations can follow it to reduce their environmental footprint and improve...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Indonesia

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...

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Publisher(s): Practical Action
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Bangladesh

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...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Global

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...

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