The fight against Climate Change (mainly attributed to man-made activities) is increasingly becoming more intense as a result of its continuous adverse impact on people’s source of livelihood and survival. Climate change effects such as rising sea levels, changing weather patterns, heat wav Readmore

A survey of rural communities in the Offin River Basin suggests the value of blending traditional and scientific knowledge in strategies for coping with climate change and variability

The complexity of assessing the impact of climate change (CC) on hydrology requires the use of reliable methods and high quality data. In this study, we provide a brief review of basis and key factors requires for assessing the hydrologic impact of climate change before using hydrologic models. Readmore

For many years Northern Region of Ghana has been in a state of turmoil and atrophy due to intermittent interethnic conflicts over a broad layer of issues. In 1991 and 1992, Kpandai and its surrounding areas in present-day Kpandai District in Northern Ghana were enmeshed in inter-ethnic conflict Readmore

The theory about missing links of economic growth often lags behind the empirical estimations of such links. A consensus has emerged that ethnic fractionalization has a negative impact on growth, also when controlled for income inequality. Often, although implicitly, the assumed channel is social Readmore

This article presents a synthetic review of impact evaluations examining the effectiveness of community-driven development (CDD) and curriculum interventions in improving social cohesion in sub-Saharan Africa.

The review found weakly positive impacts of CDD and curriculum interventions o Readmore

Do adversarial environmental conditions create social cohesion? We provide new answers to this question by exploiting spatial and temporal variation in exposure to earthquakes across Chile. Using a variety of methods and controlling for a number of socio-economic variables, we find that exposure Readmore

SCORE South Sudan is a response to the demand to better understand the complexity of restoring social cohesion and building peace in the country. The project seeks to provide high level policy advice to decision-makers in the Government and the donor community on what kind of peacebuilding and re Readmore

This study contributes in the literature by investigating the impact of social cohesion on economic growth using a panel data of 44 OIC countries over the period 1986–2010. The study has employed a comprehensive measure of social cohesion that covers a large number of social indicators such Readmore

This Discussion Paper is part of IDOS’s research project “Policies for Social Cohesion in Africa”. Social cohesion – or social solidarity – within societies is a key success factor for sustainable development in Africa. Social cohesion is particularly under-pressure Readmore