Refugees and Host Environments -- A Review of Current and Related Literature
Publisher: University of Oxford
Author(s): Thomas Hoerz
Date: 1995
Topics: Humanitarian Assistance, Land, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programming, Renewable Resources
Countries: Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania
The natural environment of refugee hosting areas - or better: the neglect of it - is not only a sad chapter in the annals of humanitarian aid, it is also a fascinating field for research and action. It is the area where, in contrast to the supply of 'survival needs', manageability as exercised by the humanitarian regime meets it's limits, unless lessons from development work learned in the 1980s are taken serious and new lessons in development work of the 1990s are kept abreast with.