Das Projekt "Previsional Management of the Urban Environment: Public Policies and Local Dynamics in Intermediary Cities^La gestion previsionelle de l'environnement urbain: politiques publiques et dynamiques locales en villes intermediaires (FRA)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universite de Geneve, Ecole d'architecture durchgeführt. The project wants to provide the local actors and inhabitants with adapted methods for managing community projects. Case studies: Beira (Mozambique), Montero (Bolivia), and Mingora (Pakistan). The first stage of the research has been devoted in Geneva theoretical approaches. The local teams in the south proceeded to a first diagnosis of the case studies. In September a first mission from members of the Geneva staff has visited the three towns taken as case studies. The first results of this mission show the main and most urgent environmental problems: waste management, water supply and air pollution. In the three cases was noted a strong community participation desire in order to find and propose long term sustainable solutions.
Das Projekt "Nachhaltigkeit fuer kuenftige Generationen: der Wert des Wissenstransfers zwischen den Generationen fuer Gesundheits- und Populationsprogramme" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Vögeli-Sörensen durchgeführt. The project will examine the links between gender relations, reproductive health and sustainable development. The overall aim is to foster international research and policy dialogues and to build on partnerships between women researchers in academic, NGO and policy institutions and networks. The field research, based on case studies, will take place in Brazil, Ghana, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, and Tanzania from Sep. '94 - June '95. It will be an interdisciplinary, comparative-qualitative study using participatory methodology. Each case study will examine the intra- and intergenerational transfer of women's knowledge regarding reproductive choice, health care and family planning in the course of their life cycles. An initial workshop held in Zuerich prepared the ground for the initiation of the individual case studies.
Das Projekt "Management von Umweltkonflikten in und zwischen Entwicklungslaendern - Erarbeitung von Methoden und Aufbau eines internationalen Netzwerkes" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), Forschungsstelle für Sicherheitspolitik und Konfliktanalyse durchgeführt. Leading Questions: 1) What new or existing principles and mechanisms of conflict management prove efficient in high tension conflicts induced or exacerbated by environmental degradation? 2) How can bottom-up approaches in conflict resolution which build upon indigenous, cultural and social resources be linked to top-down approaches so that both public participation and state capacity are strengthened? 3) How can principles and methods of environmental conflict management contribute to sustainable resource use? 4) What roles could women play in both conflict resolution mechanisms as well as in sustainable development efforts and how can gender biases in these areas be overcome? Abstract: The pilot project ECOMAN (Environmental Conflict Management and International Network) pursues a threefold goal: 1) to intensify research in the field of environmental conflict management in developing countries; 2) to establish and institutionalize an international network of partners in selected developing countries; 3) to prepare the implementation of environmental conflict management methods in at least one ongoing conflict. By management of environmental conflicts we understand the constructive transformation of ongoing, violent or potentially violent conflicts which are induced by environmental degradation within and among developing countries. This pilot project will help to prepare a project of the same name within the scope of Module 7. The focus of the main project will lay on the implementation of the theoretical results within the framework of a concrete mediation program. The pilot project builds on the current 'Environment and Conflicts Project' ENCOP which looks into the monitoring of environmental conflicts. With the new project, we go a step further. In ECOMAN, it is the theory and practice of environmental conflict management which stands at the center of our interest. Both theory and practice shall be pursued in close and institutionalized cooperation with partner institutes in selected developing countries.