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31 The Chipko movement or Chipko Andolan (chipko literally means " stick to" in
Hindi) is a socio-ecological movement that practised the Gandhian methods of
satyagraha and non-violent resistance, through the act of hugging trees to protect
them from being felled. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipko_movement
32 ADB (2009), ―Preparation of the 2010 Asian Environment Outlook (AEO)‖.
Technical Assistance Report, Project Number: 41273-01, Research and Development
Technical Assistance (RDTA), May 2009. ‗Recent discussions among ADB,
UNESCAP, and the UNEP have stressed the need for the State of the Environment
(SOE) report to become less a descriptive and scientific publication and more an
analytical report to better support policy discussions, planning, and decisionmaking.
As a result, instead of having two separate publications in 2010, the three
organizations have decided to jointly produce the 2010 AEO‘.Available at:
http://www.adb.org/Documents/TARs/REG/41273-REG-TAR.pdf
33 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005): Ecosystems and human well being,
Synthesis. http://www.millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.356.
aspx.pdf
34 Endemic or native exclusively to a particular geographic area.
35 UNESCAP (2010), ―Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2010:
Sustaining Recovery and Dynamism for Inclusive Development‖. United Nations,
Bangkok, Thailand. Available at: http://www.unescap.org/survey2010/download
/survey2010.pdf
36 Resilience in the rural context informs the global context and can be categorised
in three dimensions. (i) The ecological dimension of resilience is the level of
disturbance that an ecosystem can absorb without crossing a threshold to a different
ecosystem structure or state. (ii) The social dimension of resilience is the ability to
face internal or external crises and effectively resolve them. In the best cases it may
allow groups to not simply resolve crises but also learn from and be strengthened by
them. It implies an ability to cohere as a community and to solve problems together
in spite of differences within the community. Social capital and shared sense of
identity and common purpose support this aspect of resilience. (iii) The economic
dimension refers to the ability to recover from adverse economic conditions or
economic shocks. It implies having a variety of economic options available if a
particular economic activity fails or being able to create more options if necessary. It
benefits from being able to call on a wide variety of skill sets and contacts. WRI, WB,
UNEP, and UNDP (2008), ―World Resource: Roots of Resilience: Growing the
Wealth of the Poor‖. WRI, Washington, DC. Available at:
http://pdf.wri.org/world_resources_2008_roots_of_resilience.pdf
37 GC 35, D.2, no.15.
38 Promotio Iustitiae, April 1999, no. 70.
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