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Regional research on mitigation of global environmental change syndromes in West Africa and Chad. Links between health and in-creasing density of syndromes in urban and peri-urban areas.

Since 1994, the Swiss Tropical Institute (STI) - in collaboration with many local partner organisations has undertaken studies in Ouagadougou, Nouakchott and N'djamena aiming at introducing and validating new approaches in research on the interactions between the environment and the population undergoing urbanization.

Principles, Criteria and Indicators: Applying Ockham's Razor to the People-Forestry Link

This concept paper addresses those elements in the people-forest interface which we perceive as critical to sustainable forest management, based on our own training and experience, as well as two field tests of the conceptual framework (in Kalimantan and Cote d'Ivoire ). Initially, we define our use of important terms, like sustainability, well being/needs, and people; and make clear some of our assumptions.

Integration of physical and social sciences in regional resource modeling in the GLOWA Volta Project.

To address issues of integrated water management of large watersheds in the face of global change, the German Federal Ministry for Science and Education has initiated a large program under the name "GLOWA". GLOWA comprises five research projects along a gradient from North Germany to West Africa. The GLOWA Volta Project concerns itself with the analysis of the water cycle in the Volta Basin and the subsequent development of a decision support system. The research team consists of meteorologists, hydrologists, agronomists, geographers, economists, and institutional analysts.

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