The ICDP enhanced interactions between health service 'approachability' and the corresponding abilities of communities and individuals to 'perceive the need for care'.
People from across the Pacific, including those most recently affected by Cyclone Pam, have told us that the voices, expertise and abilities of communities must be heard and respected when it comes to emergencies.
Despite the value pastoralist land uses provide to the growing wildlife tourism industry, Tanzanian policies, particularly wildlife policy and legislation, continue to place constraints on pastoralist land uses, particularly in terms of the maintenance of communal land uses and ability of communities to capture revenues from tourism.
This is disappointing because it reduces the ability of communities to hold the government and big business to account and to protect their local interests.
"It affects the ability of communities, countries and regions to meet their own social development goals, and it stunts their economic prosperity.
Where changing worldviews, reforms and the ability of communities to adapt are out of synchronisation then friction ensues, as was seen in the Murray Darling Basin when proposed reforms have resulted in widespread disputes between reformers and irrigation communities.
I also appreciate his strong belief in the ability of communities and 'communitarians' to self-regulate and maintain their own ecosystems while adopting new technologies.
The persistent gap, termed the "adaptation deficit," between the assumed ability of communities to adapt to climate change and the on-the-ground evidence of their progress to adapt is well-documented.
The test case illustrates that high levels of information integration are practical to achieve, and that the SDSS can significantly enhance the ability of communities to conduct elaborate, geographically-specific climate change adaptation planning.
We adopted a complex systems approach to explore how landscape pattern affected the critical biodiversity threshold (Sc) and the ability of communities to self-organize in heterogeneous random and fractal landscapes representing a gradient of spatial contagion.
It gives local people consultation rights over how land is used, strengthens the ability of communities to buy land, improves the position of tenant farmers, removes the business rate exemption, tries to discover who the owners are, seeks to reduce the ridiculous densities at which deer are maintained for stalking, and creates a land commission to keep the issue alive.
