Public Policy and Local Development : Opportunities and Constraints

Contents: Page. Prologue. About the book. Introduction to local development. I. Local organisations, natural resources management, and livelihood: 1. Opportunities and challenges of community forestry in supporting local livelihood in Nepal/Koji Terakawa. 2. Role of user groups in natural resources management in Kavre District, Nepal/Krishna B. Karki. 3. Performance of local community based institutions in community development in Nepal: deed of local institutions in need/Keshav L. Maharjan and Narendra M. Joshi. 4. Role of cooperatives in rural development in Nepal: a case study of Chandragiri Saving and Credit Cooperative Limited/Ram S. Pathak. 5. Rural development through Self-Help Women Groups in Nepal: a case from Palpa District, Nepal/Pashupati Nepal. 6. Role of NGOs and CBOs in rural livelihoods in Eastern Nepal/Shambhu P. Khatiwada. II. Conflicts, violence and environmental and socio-economic problems: 7. Role of social mobilisation in social upliftment of Badi Community in Western Nepal/Pushpa Bhadel. 8. Causes and consequences of domestic violence against women/Lumanti Shrestha. 9. Patterns of drug abuse in South Asia: an evaluation using Nussbaum\'s capabilities approach/Shaqer R. Rashid. 10. Conflict transformation: emerging socioeconomic problems associated with natural resources policies and practices in Nepal/Bhubaneswar Dhakal and Ramji P. Neupane. 11. The wiping out of indigenous knowledge and the death of the tropical forest: the case of rainforest management in Andaman/Kavita Arora. III. Environment, health and conservation measures: 12. Drinking and irrigation water quality and its impacts on agriculture and health in Tarai Region, Nepal/Bandana Pradhan. 13. Linking ambient air quality and its mitigation measures with local development in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal/Srijana Limbu. 14. Impacts of Harpan Khola on the livelihoods of surrounding communities and its conservation efforts in the Pokhara Valley, Nepal/Shailja Ale-Magar. 15. Sustainability of Mountain environments: micro-level analysis in Eastern Nepal/Hriday L. Koirala. 16. Inner Mongolia: arid land recreational development and uncertainties in new anti-desertification programs/Shii Okuno. IV. Public policies, development approaches, and spatial transformation: 17. The Sirubari Village Tourism Project and local development in Western Nepal/Steven Folmar. 18. Urban agriculture as an approach to urban poverty alleviation in Nepal/Pushkar K. Pradhan. 19. Immigration and public policies: thinking about local development: The Portuguese Case/Fatima V.de Castro. 20. J. Selye University: a dynamically developing institution of higher education in Slovakia/Tamas Sikos T, Ingrid Szabo and Tibor Tiner. 21. State decentralization in Nepal: problems in school governance/Mahesh N. Parajuli. 22. Management of periodic markets for rural development in Nepal: a case study of Saptari District/Umesh K. Mandal. 23. Role of political leaders from indigenous communities in the local development in Nepal/Fatik B. Thapa.