Bhutan´s hydropower potential and its attraction for tourists are key resources. Model education, social, and environment programs are underway with support from multilateral development organizations. Each economic program takes into account the government´s desire to protect the country´s ...
Bhutan's small economy is based largely on hydropower, agriculture, and forestry, which provide the main livelihood for more than half the population. Because rugged mountains dominate the terrain and make the building of roads and other infrastructure difficult and expensive, industrial production is...
Although the current PAN in Bhutan protects a wide array of ecosystems, it omits some areas of critical biodiversity value that are increasingly at risk due to expanding infrastructure, hydropower and other developments. While our study provides a comprehensive multi-species and multi-scale approach ...
If hydropower projects drives the country’s macroeconomics, the medicinal plants programs can be considered the microeconomics that improves farmers’ socio-economic status. Farmers have expressed that due to the medicinal plant collection program, they could afford good houses, horses, household ...
hydropower investments spurring economic development; Gross National Happiness economy; sharp poverty declines; low inflation; strong monetary and fiscal policies; stable currency; fairly resilient response to COVID-19; key economic and strategic relations with India; climate vulnerabilities ...
we'll be exporting enough electricity to offset 17 million tons of carbon dioxide. And if we were to harness even half our hydropower potential, and that's exactly what we are working at, the clean, green energy that we export would offset something like 50 million tons of carbon dioxide ...
As an example of the links between forests and economy, the productivity of a hydropower plant is affected by the sediment load of the river feeding it, and that sediment load depends on upstream land cover and land use systems to retain soil [14]. In many ways, thus, the natural ...