(Research theme coordinators: Abid Suleri, Babar Shahbaz)

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Summary

The basic research idea of the project is to contribute to a spatially explicit understanding of the impact of development disparities on natural resource management in different highland-lowland settings of South East Asia (Mekong basin), South Asia (North West Frontier Province, Pakistan), and East Africa (Pangani Basin).

In South Asia, research would be carried out in four steps starting from the analyses of actors, decision making mechanism and developmental disparities; then exploring the linkage between disparities and decision making mechanism as well as decision making with natural resources management. The third step would be to study the pattern of development disparities on natural resource through spatial regression analysis; the final step is to propose mitigation techniques for overcoming these disparities.

The outputs will on the one hand respond to concrete needs of policy-makers in the concerned regions (databases and maps, policy recommendations, etc.). On the other hand, we expect to produce scientific insights on the gap between ideographical and generalised knowledge on development issues.



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