"When you've been such an excluded community, then religion can provide a form of kinship, direction and strength.
Although community and nature maintain a close bond historically, policy makers tend to exclude community understanding of the nature and execute the top down water development approach.
At the design level, the REDD+ project maintained the commonly critiqued top-down intervening approach as used by the ICDPs by excluding community input into its globally-linked design.
Therein lies an intellectual, progressive but painfully excluded community of people who decide for themselves what to indulge in.
The task force, which excluded community groups, emerged with a plan to shrink the city's population sacrificing the hardest hit neighborhoods to protect upscale areas from future flooding.
Excluding community controls did not substantially change estimates.
Mr. Singh narrates a bitter truth about life in Lalapur: "People in this hamlet belong to a socially excluded community.
To further assess potential selection bias in analyses of data, we routinely compare results including and excluding community controls.
Excluding HRT users, community controls or DCIS cases also did not alter the main conclusions, although the OR for recent drinking compared with non-drinkers among postmenopausal women changed from 0.78 to 0.64 when excluding community controls (data not shown).
