Carbon Dioxide Emissions by the Transportation Sector in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Shrestha, Pramen P.; Shrestha, Kishor; Shrestha, Krishna Prasad

doi:10.1061/9780784412688.011

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“…Currently, though, as Shrestha et al (2016) explain, there is greater potential for local communities to gain "less conflict and greater voice as well as greater ecosystems services" because "benefit sharing is increasingly defined as going beyond the mitigation of project impacts and beyond compliance to a situation where the local affected population directly benefits from the project." [51] (p. 7). A benefits' sharing partnership enables the local population to have an equity stake in the project and to strive for more socially just project outcomes for villagers.…”

Section: Benefits Sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-Linking Governance of Energy with Livelihoods and Irrigation in Uttarakhand, India

Buechler

Sen²,

Khandekar

et al. 2016

Water

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Abstract:Hydropower is often termed "green energy" and proffered as an alternative to polluting coal-generated electricity for burgeoning cities and energy-insecure rural areas. India is the third largest coal producer in the world; it is projected to be the largest coal consumer by 2050. In the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India, over 450 hydroelectric power schemes are proposed or are under development. Hydropower projects ranging from micro hydro (run-of-the-river systems with generating capacity up to 100 kW) to large reservoirs (storage systems up to 2000 MW) such as the Tehri Dam are in various stages of planning, construction or implementation. Run-of-the-river hydropower projects are being developed in Uttarakhand in order to avoid some of the costs to local communities created by large dams. Stakeholders in this rapid hydropower expansion include multiple actors with often diverging sets of interests. The resulting governance challenges are centered on tradeoffs between local electricity and revenue from the sale of hydropower, on the one hand, and the impacts on small-scale irrigation systems, riparian-corridor ecosystem services, and other natural resource-based livelihoods, on the other. We focus on the Bhilangana river basin, where water dependent livelihoods differentiated by gender include farming, fishing, livestock rearing and fodder collection. We examine the contradictions inherent in hydropower governance based on the interests of local residents and other stakeholders including hydropower developers, urban and other regional electricity users, and state-level policymakers. We use a social justice approach applied to hydropower projects to examine some of the negative impacts, especially by location and gender, of these projects on local communities and then identify strategies that can safeguard or enhance livelihoods of women, youth, and men in areas with hydropower projects, while also maintaining critical ecosystem services. By assessing the Bhilangana basin case, we also offer hydropower-livelihoods-irrigation nexus lessons for headwater regions across the Himalayas and globally.

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Section: Benefits Sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-Linking Governance of Energy with Livelihoods and Irrigation in Uttarakhand, India

Buechler

Sen²,

Khandekar

et al. 2016

Water

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“…By using higher derivatives, the idea of a tangent line can be extended to the idea of polynomials of higher degree which are "tangent" in some sense to a given curve. This is accomplished by using a polynomial of high degree, and or narrowing the domain over which the polynomial has to approximate the function, see [5,11,13,14]. Narrowing the domain can often be done through the use of various addition or scaling formulas for the function being approximated.…”

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“…Because of simplicity in form and applicability of well-known algebraical and analytical operational rules, polynomials are often used for such purposes, [1,9,11,13]. For a small interval of x values, differential calculus focuses on the construction and use of tangent lines at various values of x.…”

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Polynomials and Taylor’s Approximations

Tuladhar

2017

J. Inst. Engineering

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“…were the chief minerals exploited and utilized in those days. Subsequently, it was gradually abandoned due to three basic reasons: (a) Exhaustion of easily accessible top deposits (b) Lack of improved techniques (c) Negligence of the then ruling classes (Shrestha, 2004).…”

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A Study on Mining Industry Pollution in Chapagaon, Nepal

Dev¹

2013

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Stone mining industries in Chapagaon, Lalitpur area is in regular operation since more than 35 years. In this long period, the operators of mines and stone crushing have cleared up the vast area of forest for the purpose of stone mining. As a result the fragile forest ecology, biodiversity and scenery beauty of this area have been widely devastated. Environment of Chapagaon indicates that the destruction of forest area has already affected the local population in terms of declining fresh water sources; drying of wells, reduction on ground water level, livestock productivity and loss of scenic beauty of the place. The agriculture crop yield has also decreased vastly and the area is gradually converting into dry land, the top soils have been eroding and crop plants are being covered with pollutants which are effecting directly or indirectly to the local people.In this paper, health impact of local people, environmental and economic impact of locality by mining industries are examined and evaluated considering questionnaire and available data from several sources such as government publications, related researches, websites and other references. This paper concludes with recommendations in order to control environment pollution, to reduce the impact of gravel, sand and stone mines.

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Carbon Dioxide Emissions by the Transportation Sector in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Cited by 31 publications

References 7 publications

Re-Linking Governance of Energy with Livelihoods and Irrigation in Uttarakhand, India

Re-Linking Governance of Energy with Livelihoods and Irrigation in Uttarakhand, India

Polynomials and Taylor’s Approximations

A Study on Mining Industry Pollution in Chapagaon, Nepal

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