January 2010
Lessons from Japanese environmental reform movement: The risk communication between grass-roots experts and local people
This paper attempts to show the importance of the risk communication between grass-roots experts and local people from Japanese Environmental Reform Movement. The paper also tries to illustrate that this risk communication causes spontaneous education and keeps the local people and environment from risk, as Beck mentioned in his book “Risk Society” (Beck, 1992). Spontaneous education means the...
January 2010
Sujala watershed project and its impact on rural energy management - A study in Hosadurga Taluk of Chitradurga district
Water is a natural resource without which life cannot be sustained. Watershed development is to ensure the availability of drinking water, fuel wood and fodder and helps in raising incomes and employment opportunities for marginal and small farmers, landless laborers and also socially marginalized groups through improvement in agricultural productivity and production (Rao, 2000). It is very certain that the...
January 2010
Wellness attitudes of Secondary School Teachers in Cross River State, Nigeria
This paper examines the wellness attitudes of Secondary School Teachers in Cross River State, Nigeria. A descriptive survey research was adopted. 480 secondary school teachers were selected from both Public and Private Schools in Cross River State using deliberate sampling technique. A researcher- constructed questionnaire (r = .86) was the main instrument for data collection. Percentage frequency was used to...
January 2010
Fertility decline and women’s status- the role of non-government organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh: A micro data analysis
In the last two decades, Bangladesh has achieved considerable fertility decline despite pervasive poverty and under development. Unfortunately, recent statistics suggest that despite continued increase in contraceptive use, the fertility decline has stalled. Thus Bangladesh becomes an interesting case study for exploring the question of what factors are necessary to bring about further fertility decline. In...
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