Nice one. Good luck with the expanded household.
Just type RÉGÉNÉRATION NATURELLE ASSISTÉE into google. Most of the work is in French but there was a paper by chris reij in English, possibly in Land degradation and development 2005 or so. Chris argues, with lots of data, that people are now letting tree roots and suckers grow in fields in the sahel, to provide shade and moisture retention and fuelwood. It has become a bit of a cause celebre. World vision (Tony Rinaudo, an Australian) was supplying some support for this. Niger, Burkina, senegal, happening all over really.
I am heading to melb in a week or so from uk - I will find out what is going on. There has no announcement of who is to replace nigel as head and thus who would have the p[ower to appoint any honorary fellows - heard it was not me though!
Dr. Simon Batterbury, Associate Professor, (on research leave)
Dept. of Resource Management and Geography,
University of Melbourne, 3010 VIC, Australia
http://www.simonbatterbury.net/
Director, Office for Environmental Programs (on leave)
http://www.environment.unimelb.edu.au
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Subject: Melbourne's Bike scheme failure: helmets
Simon
You wrote "I don't agree with Bicycle Victoria that helmets are not an issue."
It's also our belief that helmet laws interfere with bike scheme usage.
We're always looking for data and sound arguments to use to fend off helmet law proposals. 17 out of 31 of our national cycling club members have told us that they see helmet law proposals threatening, I'd like to ask if you can expand on your position a bit specifically with regard to Melbourne?
as ever
Randy
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