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Development worldwide has increasingly involved displacement. Ethiopia is no exception; population displacement resulting from development as well as conflict, drought and conservation has been on the increase since the 1960s. The recent history of confli

This article aims to reflect on culminating crises by analysing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters, wars and conflicts and political-economy and discuss how these crises have affected sustainable development efforts with a view to suggesting some strategies. Drawing mainly from the secondary data and the author's reflections, each of the four crises is analysed in terms of its negative and positive consequences. Then how these crises have affected sustainable development efforts, particularly the achievement of the sustainable development goals, is discussed. In the final section, seven strategies are suggested to culminate these crises.

Bangladesh has more than halved its incidence of poverty over the past 25 years—surpassing one of its core Millennium Development Goals. The country gained lower-middle income status in 2015, and qualified for graduation from Least Developed Country in March 2018. Its economic growth has been robust over the past decade, reaching 7.3% in the previous fiscal year that ended on 30 June 2017, the highest growth rate in the country's history. Since 1973, ADB has approved $20.4 billion for 279 loans, $258.4 million for 432 technical assistance projects, and $787.1 million for 35 grants to Bangladesh. The country is a major recipient of ADB concessional resources and, for 2017–2018, received a higher amount of these resources compared with other countries with similar operations size.

European Union accepted a new climate- and energy package in 2008. As a consequence of the new and quite challenging strategy the whole electricity industry has to evolve, concerning also electricity distribution sector, especially as the role of electricity as an energy carrier increases. At the same time the expectations of the society as well as a single customer increase towards electricity supply, voltage quality and the whole network service. Smart Grids can integrate the existing network infrastructure with advanced automation and ICT- technology enabling more efficient and flexible use of the network by opening up new possibilities for additional services. For this reason, a need for the development of "smart" solutions and their introduction increase continuously. DSOs are in a crucial role concerning the development of the network infrastructure. Network business is a regional monopoly business sector which is regulated by authorities. As the operation environment changes also the regulation model need to be developed into a right direction. The model should allow DSOs to have such economic conditions, that the grid development with "smart" solutions becomes possible which is a prerequisite in order to reach the political targets as well. Significance of the directing signals of regulation and potential incentives are crucial from Smart Grid perspective. This has to be taken into account when developing the future regulation models. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the "smartness" of electricity distribution networks from different perspectives. The recognition of the most important "smart" solutions is a prerequisite when evaluating the level of "smartness" in a network. Therefore the focus is on analyzing the benefits of "smart" solutions by reflecting them with the ultimate objectives of Smart Grids (EU 20/20/20 targets). Based on analyzes carried out during the work, there has been developed an approach for determining the level of "smartness" in a network. The approach includes the most important aspects of "smartness" suitable to be used especially in the Nordic countries. The approach has been applied in practice by performing a case study of Vattenfall's distribution networks in Finland and in Sweden. Based on analyzes carried out during the work, the most important challenges concerning future development have been identified and discussed. In addition, consideration of ways to ensure the development of network business into a right direction has been made. As an enabler for Smart Grid development there is a regulation model, which takes into account the needed innovative solutions by providing advanced incentives for the DSOs to overcome the increasing challenges. Potential incentives related to "smart" solutions and Smart Grids have been discussed briefly in the work. Review of how the approach created to evaluate the level of "smartness" could be used in the future regulation models on a larger scale, is however left for further research proposal. /Kir11

Beschreibung der Gründung, Entwicklung, Arbeitsweise, Zielsetzung und Erfolgsbilanz der 'Small Business Development Corporation' in der RSA. Betonung der Notwendigkeit des unternehmerischen Denkens, wie der Starthilfe und der Überbrückung schwieriger Finanzsituationen. Notwendig sind weiter Abbau von bürokratischen Hemmnissen sowie eine Neubewertung der Chance von Firmengründungen und der Rolle des informellen Sektors. (DÜI-Wsl)

Through change and development, human service organizations can promote the well-being of their clients more effectively. This important book describes and analyzes recent research on organizational change and development in the social and human services. It is particularly relevant in light of the significant changes in these organizations during the last decade and the lack of literature in the area. Organizational Change and Development in Human Service Organizations brings together the work of scholars who deal with social welfare administration and change in human services, combining rese

There is little bit of environmental knowledge which the students of Political Science have not studied in earlier time, but after 1970s, environmentalism became an important dimension of it. In the contemporary Political theory, the issue of environment, gender, political ecology, green politics, eco feminism, development and multiculturalism issues have come up in recent times. Therefore, the nature and scope of Political Science is widened. The reason is that issues of environment and natural resources have become one of the new emerging aspects of politics today. Environmental protection in India is involves by the local poor people, activists and disadvantages masses that have been directly affected the ecological environment. None of the academic researcher and protesters was undertaken on the construction of large Dams in the seismic active region of Assam and elsewhere in the Northeast India. The projects which have been affected the livelihood of the local people and even floods. The earnest concern of marginalisation by the tribal people of India and north east which has affected the life and livelihoods of the dam region. Many tribal people of the Northeast affect due to environment destruction because their cultural materials are associated with it. Now with the coming of industries and semi urban in the ecosystem region all the functional system of the ecosystem sites has been decreasing day by day. The paper tries to focus on the seismic active region and violation of environmental laws of Assam. This paper aim that development project dam affect the environment of Assam. The paper also focuses on the marginalisation of the tribal people of Assam. Mohon Rongphar "Development Project Affect the Environment of Assam" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-3 , April 2018, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd10913.pdf

The share of renewable energies in electricity production is still low in Europe but there is a political will to increase it in the future by the development of solar and wind energies but also by the development of electricity production from biogas. Biogas production from solid waste is developing in Europe but with important differences between countries. Germany is from far the country where biogas industry is the most developed with 62% of the European biogas plants. However, the latest support schemes implemented in Germany (2012 and 2014) have strongly slowed down the German biogas market. Italy is number two for the number of anaerobic plants. Biogas industry developed very rapidly till 2013 when Italy had the highest feed-in tariff in Europe. However Italy has revised its support scheme to redirect the biogas market towards small size plants based on animal and agricultural waste. The development of biogas in France started significantly at the end of the years 2000 with the implementation of the first support scheme. However, the biogas market is developing rather slowly due to the rather low feed-in tariffs implemented in France. The example of Germany shows clearly that biogas market dynamism is directly linked to the support schemes and the feed-in tariffs implemented. Indeed, biogas industry in Europe was performing rather well since recently, but negative changes or cuts in the support schemes in some countries during the last two years, particularly in Germany and Italy, have slowed down a lot the biogas market, phenomenon which should last in the coming years though some countries like UK or France are maintaining their policies in favor of biogas.However, several factors could favor the development of the biogas market: The acceptance of digestate as a fertilizer, the possible ban of land-filling and the limitation of incineration of organic waste.