Literary Brand Village (by the Example of Village Dyachkino)

Scores for Effective Forest Conservation: A Village-to- Village Approach

Community forestry in Nepal strives for forest conservation and sustainable forest management. Evaluating progress towards this end requires periodic measurements, and currently there are no standard tools for undertaking evaluations in a participatory way. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a standardized way for measuring effective forest conservation through the use of locally set score...

The Village of Le Chambon

The first big Nazi raid on the village of Le Chambon came in the summer of 1942. The villagers had already been warned about what would happen if they tried to hide Jews from the Nazis, and it was no surprise when squads of police descended on the village looking for the hundreds of Jews that were in fact hidden in the village and the surrounding countryside. The police vans were followed by a ...

Incentivizing the global wireless village

The wireless community networking paradigm shows great promise in achieving a global status. However, in creating a ‘‘global wireless village’’, both user participation and support from traditional Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are key ingredients; for this end a viable incentive system is essential. In this paper we investigate the economic interactions in global wireless community network...

Mountain Village at Sunset.

During my travels to numerous countries over 40 years, I have seen many picturesque mountain villages with elegant and well-preserved houses perched on carefully selected sites on the mountains, and others located by a river or lake at the foot of a mountain. They appear remarkably harmonious with the natural scenery. Fruit trees or tea trees and crops such as rice, wheat, and corn are planted ...

A Village Mosquito-Trap