Fwd: [pacwin] Book Launch: Utilising Temporary Special Measures to Promote Gender Balance in Pacific Legislatures: A Guide to Options

2009-03-05 Thread Ruba Marshood
FYI - a resource that may be of interest to some of you! -- Forwarded message -- From: Charmaine Rodrigues charmaine.rodrig...@undp.org Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:10 PM Subject: [pacwin] Book Launch: Utilising Temporary Special Measures to Promote Gender Balance in Pacific

informal education and social action

2009-01-26 Thread Ruba Marshood
Hello all, I came across this web-based encyclopedia of informal education. It is full of some very informative resources. Though you might find it a useful tool as well. Best wishes, ruba

Re: informal education and social action

2009-01-26 Thread Ruba Marshood
oops! here is the link: http://www.infed.org/ sorry about the error! ruba On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Ruba Marshood ruba.marsh...@gmail.comwrote: Hello all, I came across this web-based encyclopedia of informal education. It is full of some very informative resources. Though you might

volunteer opportunity - share your courses

2008-12-04 Thread Ruba Marshood
Hello folks! I just came across this opportunity through the UNV Online program - thought some of you might find it an interesting opportunity to explore. http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/vol/opportunity/opportunity_form.html?id=8752 Write, edit political science courses for development PEOI

ICZM course in PNG

2008-10-30 Thread Ruba Marshood
Dear All - On fairly last minute request, my partner, Daniel, has been asked to teach a one-day session on ICZM at the University of Papua New Guinea. We both have some background in ICZM, but are interested in your suggestions for the design of the one-day course. After a general overview of

Re: Environmental Policy Failures compiled list

2008-06-10 Thread Ruba Marshood
I would suggest adding - to the note on sharks - that they are not only harmed via by-catch, but also in targetted fisheries. the biggest threat is practice in which they are treated after being caught (whether incidentally or not) - in that they are finned and dumped back to sea. Essentially,

Re: GEF funding

2008-04-16 Thread Ruba Marshood
Hi Phillip, Sorry to say that my reply may not directly serve your query. However, your note did remind me of a group I recently came across- the Poverty Action Lab at MIT, which ultimately assesses the effectiveness of development aid spending (does it fall short of what is really needed? does

fishing hooks - industry research

2007-05-09 Thread Ruba Marshood
Hi All, I am trying to understand the industry for fishing hooks - particularly circle hooks. Am interested to know the system from production to market and costs. . .Does anyone have an idea of where I might find such information? Many thanks! ruba

Mark Kurlansky

2007-05-01 Thread Ruba Marshood
Hi All, Shot in the dark here, but does anybody happen to know Mark Kurlansky, author of *Cod *and *Salt*? He's a former commercial fisherman turned journalist. . .I'd like to contact him about his research and approach him as a potential speaker at an upcoming event. Many thanks, ruba

Re: Mark Kurlansky

2007-05-01 Thread Ruba Marshood
, Ruba Marshood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Shot in the dark here, but does anybody happen to know Mark Kurlansky, author of *Cod *and *Salt*? He's a former commercial fisherman turned journalist. . .I'd like to contact him about his research and approach him as a potential speaker at an upcoming

Fwd: California Climate Change Policy Forum

2007-03-13 Thread Ruba Marshood
This may be of interest to the group! best, ruba -- Forwarded message -- From: William H. Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mar 7, 2007 8:39 PM Subject: [Everyone] Fwd: Climate Change To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version

Carbon fasting for the holidays; faith-based environmental action

2007-02-13 Thread Ruba Marshood
Fyi. This information was forwarded to me from a colleague at Duke U's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences... Best, ruba -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 13, 2007 12:36 PM Subject: [Profstudents] Tired of missing your

Re: GEP - Wikipedia

2006-09-14 Thread Ruba Marshood
As a graduate student...and one who remembers spending endless hours in the library making sure to copy exactly all the relevent information from variousbooks in order to hand write papers in my earlyschool years and an avid Googler, I'd like to suggest Wikipedia as an optional starting point for

Re: developing countries GEP

2006-02-01 Thread Ruba Marshood
Dear Beth, Lilian, Kia and All: In your searches, may I recommend that you also look for (eco)-tourism establishment, protected areas and conflict in the less developed countries. Generally, I find issues of developing countries and GEP to be ingrained in such issues as outside interest in the

shark finning

2005-03-26 Thread Ruba Marshood
Hello Again Everyone! I am looking at the issue of shark finning post-the ICCAT recommendation to ban the activity. I'm interested in the response of the bigger shark finning nations, (i.e. China, Korea) to the ICCAT ban (will they accept the ban?) as well as nations that have developed an

Haiti - Coastal Management

2004-09-19 Thread Ruba Marshood
Dear All- I am enrolled in a mini-seminar,"Land Management Plannning in LDC and Transition Countries,"and have been asked to present a short brief on any issue describing the planning problem, key stakeholders and their perspectives along with an assessment and suggestions for moves towards the