Meeting minutes

Restructuring  of Environment section of Online Burma Library.

Draft 1 (March 6, 2012) 

Please add/subtract/comment - David

ECOLOGY

Environment of Burma/Myanmar

Eco-regions
Climate
(1)  Cyclones etc.
Geography
  (1) Topography (2) Land   (3) Water bodies  (4) Atmosphere

Fauna
Flora
Environment of States & Regions (14 sub-sections)

Human ecology
(1) Rural economy/environment  [links to Agriculture/Economy/Food security /Civil war etc] (2) Forestry (3) Urban economy/environment  (4) Traditional, mega-commercial, alternative

Threats to the environment
 (1) Dams  (2) mining  (3) Commercial exploitation of land (4) Militarisation/civil war  (5) Road building (6) Undermining of traditional patterns of livelihood
(7) Climate change

[OR  STRUCTURE THIS SECTION ON LAND, WATER BODIES,  ATMOSPHERE etc.]

Protection of the environment/sustainability
 (1) Sustainable/organic agriculture (2) Renewal of Myanmar selection system     (forestry) (3) Resistance to dams, land grabbing (rural and urban), unskillful urbanization etc.

Environmental law
(1) International environmental law (2) Burma/Myanmar environmental legislation (texts and commentary)

Environmental resources
(1) Citizen groups  (2) Academic research  (3) International bodies (4) publications

Environmental education
(1) training in sustainable agriculture etc.