Environmental programmes with refugees: abandon the blanket approach?

Environmental programmes with refugees: abandon the blanket approach?

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HOT CHOC SIMPLY DARK Approaches to environmental problems in refugee emergencies have traditionally focused on two main areas: promotion of tree planting and dissemination of fuel-efficient stoves.This is done with the intention of increasing wood supply and simultaneously reducing the level of demand.Such activities are relatively easy for non-specialists to implement.They also produce two visible (and hence quantifiable) assets in a short space of time: trees and stoves.

A case study from western bridle and breastplate Tanzania illustrates the diminished utility of such approaches where natural resources are locally abundant.