Forests throughout India are under threat from modern enterprises such as logging, dams, mines, and irrigation schemes, and also from a breakdown in traditional forest-protection systems. Local communities, traditionally dependent on forests, find their livelihoods under chronic strain.
This book tells the story of a forest-protection movement, Friends of Trees and Living Beings, in the state of Orissa, which has grown from spontaneous local action in the mid-1970s into a network of forest-management organizations with respected expertise and widespread influence.
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Forests throughout India are under threat from modern enterprises such as logging, dams, mines, and irrigation schemes, and also from a breakdown in t...
More than 15,000 people have been killed, and 500,000 displaced, during years of low-intensity civil war in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. This book describes the work of the KwaZulu-Natal Programme for Survivors of Violence (KZN-PSV), which (with the support of Oxfam) helps communities to grapple with the complex social, economic, political, and psychological problems posed by the conflict. A framework to guide interventions in such circumstances is outlined, and the application of this framework in work with children, youth, women, and local leadership is described in detail....
More than 15,000 people have been killed, and 500,000 displaced, during years of low-intensity civil war in the South African province of KwaZulu-Nata...
