Transversal Package Project: The impact of development intervention disparities on the poverty - environment nexus: contextuality development interventions

Transversal Package Project: The impact of development intervention disparities on the poverty - environment nexus: contextuality development interventions

Partner: The National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South & Zurich University, Switzerland.

Team Members: Dr. Babar Shahbaz

Year: 2008-09

Status: Closed

Introduction: The project addresses the issues of development interventions and power relations within various actors of forestry sector in Pakistan, Tanzania and Laos in the context of poverty-environment nexus. The basic research idea of this project is to contribute to a spatially explicit understanding of the forests-livelihoods nexus (in mountainous areas of Northwest Pakistan) by mapping and studying decision making on environmental ser-vices among involved stakeholders at mesoscale (e.g. district-level) . Insights gained in the Northwest Pakistan are also compared with similar studies carried out in South East Asia (Lao PDR) and East Africa (Tanzania). Based on the research studies, a socio-economic atlas of NWFP is being published by SDPI.