A Case Study of Taiz Yemen. Using a study of the water shortage crisis in Taiz, Yemen by way of an illustration, this book assesses water stress in an integrated, interdisciplinary and holistic way, from modelling the environmental cost of the deplet...Daugiau...
The Three Gorges Project. The Three Gorges dam, currently being constructed on the Yantgze River in China, is controversial both inside and outside China due to the population in the area and the environmental impacts. Using material previously unava...Daugiau...
This book meets the needs of teachers and students of agriculture and rural development project and programme planning, planners employed by governments in developing countries and by external financing agencies. Project planners must understand th...Daugiau...
How can we explain the over-exploitation and degradation of natural resources in the countries of the South? Population growth, poverty and problems associated with common property resource management have been common themes in this debate, yet insu...Daugiau...
In the mid-1990s, the state government of Maharashtra introduced an innovative strategy of slum redevelopment in its capital city, Mumbai (Bombay). Based on demolishing existing slums and rebuilding on the same sites at a higher density, it is very...Daugiau...
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Combining field research with synthesis of the existing literature from governmental and non-governmental sources, Kebbede (Mount Holyoke College) surveys the state of the urban environment in Ethiopia. Field research was carried out in Addis Abba, A...Daugiau...
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In contrast to how the term is applied in West Africa, in Tunisia the Sahel is the coastal plain on the eastern side of the country separating desert to the south from a wetter climate to the north. Harris and Koser (both geography, U. College London...Daugiau...
The Three Gorges damn being constructed on the Yangtze River will displace over a million people and will certainly have a major environmental impact on the reservoir area. Heggelund (The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway) examines issues of resettle...Daugiau...
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Which processes bring about the shifts in thinking about and in the commonalities of practical, sustainable development planning and managing of its results? The authors reflect on their own experiences to present a selective, exploratory perspectiv...Daugiau...
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During the late 1960s through the 1980s, scientific research resulted in the rediscovery of a lost technology the raising of the soil into long ridged cultivation platforms around Lake Titicaca and led to efforts to reintroduce this technology to the...Daugiau...
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Anthropologists, geographers, historians, and political scientists, all but one from the Netherlands or the US, explore the environment and development in Africa. They consider both topics that have received a lot of attention recently, such as commu...Daugiau...
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Abridging his May 2000 doctoral dissertation, Baken (Free U. Amsterdam) describes and analyzes the allocation of residential land across income groups in Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam, India, and deals with the growth of the two cities from 1900 to 19...Daugiau...
Akroyd worked with the African Development Bank Group for 17 years, and draws on that experience to provide guidance for teachers and students of agriculture and rural development project and program planning, practicing planners employed by national...Daugiau...
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Beginning with the perspectives of experts, economists, political scientists and sociologists, this study then explores the insiders perspective on what hunger really is. Finally, the author compares the two perspectives to stare real hunger in the...Daugiau...
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Drawing on empirical research from Pakistan, Davidson (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Ahmad (Agricultural University, Pakistan) examine the comparative effectiveness of public and private extension services from the perspective of farm...Daugiau...
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When development non-governmental organizations (NGOs) engage in poverty programs based on the concept of community participation, the images and expectations the two groups have of the other and themselves conditions the responses and actions they t...Daugiau...
How can we explain the over-exploitation and degradation of natural resources in the countries of the South? Population growth, poverty and problems associated with common property resource management have been common themes in this debate, yet insu...Daugiau...
Cameroon, having been colonized at various times by Germany, Britain, and France, has adopted spatial structures, land use policies, and urban management systems that have largely depended on Western models of planning. Njoh (U. of South Florida) exp...Daugiau...
Mukhija (U. of California at Los Angeles) examines a program undertaken by the government of the Indian state of Maharashtra in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The program involved the tearing down of slum dwellings and replacing them with higher- density...Daugiau...
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Drawing on recent research carried out in the area, Dixon (University of Huddersfield) examines the importance of wetlands to local communities in south-west Ethiopia and looks at how indigenous wetland management practices contribute to sustainable...Daugiau...
