Villages of Gorno-Badakshan are at risk from avalanches. Across the river at the border with Afghanistan, there are farmers with the same soil and the...
One of the first development agencies to start work in Tajikistan, beginning already in 1992, was the Mountain Societies Development Support Programme...
When the Soviet Union collapsed, so did Tajikistan. It was left with a crippled economy and an environment unable to support the population. Since the...
Qanats are not only ingenious technical systems, proper usage and maintenance requires a certain social organization. While 90 qanats still exist in S...
Life in Shallalah Shaghirah in Syria is made possible by the discovery of an abandoned Byzantine water tunnel a century ago. But if the tunnel becomes...
The police are the only ones who have the authority to arrest loggers, but chronically underpaid and low on morale, corruption is widespread amongst t...
A timber company, Primorlesprom, claims that the building of the road through the Sikhote-Alin is in the interest of the environment. In the Bikin Ude...
Taiga is also the home of the last indigenous Bikin Udege people. To them, the Taiga means everything. They hunt the animals that live there and fish ...
Bioregional Development Group is an independent environmental organization whose main goal is to "bring local sustainability into the mainstream". And...
BedZED is a "zero energy" development, meaning it will not use more energy than it produces. Everything about the scheme from the layout and the build...