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Hydropolitics in the Third World: Conflict and Cooperation in International River Basins
Arun P. Elhance Manufacturer: United States Institute of Peace Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1878379909 |
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With 50 percent of the world's landmass covered by shared river basins, competition over water resources has always had the potential to spark violence. And the burgeoning populations and fast-developing industries of today's Third World are putting ever greater pressures on already scarce water resources.Elhance explores the hydropolitics of six of the world's largest and most turbulent river basins. In each case, he examines the basin's physical, economic, and political geography; the possibilities for acute conflict; and efforts to develop bilateral and multilateral agreements for sharing water resources.
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Poor writing too hard to overcome.......2007-03-21
Looking through a magnifying lens.......2000-07-28
Looking through a magnifying lens.......2000-07-28
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Rural Planning in Developing Countries: Supporting Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Livelihoods
Barry Dalal-Clayton , David Dent , and Olivier Dubois Manufacturer: Earthscan Publications Ltd. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1853839388 |
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Rural planning is fundamental to the development of Third World countries and this book shows how effective planning of land use and natural resource management can provide jobs and lasting economic benefits. It is essential reading for development, planning, land use, agricultural and natural resource professionals in developing countries
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The Genealogist's Internet: Third Expanded Edition
Peter Christian Manufacturer: National Archives of England ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 190336583X |
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There is a wealth of data on the Web for those researching a family tree. However, the sheer volume of information and diversity of websites can make starting your search confusing and time-consuming. Help is at hand with this clear and authoritative guide from The National Archives. The Genealogist's Internet starts by explaining how the internet works for the beginner. It continues by detailing the major sources of primary data available to family historians on-line and highlights the most helpful directories and gateways. Use it to contact others with the same surname or to access the numerous forums, discussion groups, mailing lists and newsgroups focusing on genealogy. This edition includes new information on fully-updated URLS as well as covering: * developments in the indexes to births, marriage and deaths on-line * the expansion in the census and wills data available on-line * the new websites of the National Archives and General Register Office * new sites with historical maps and photographs * the Online Parish Clerk schemes (for putting parish data on the Web) * lottery-funded projects relating to historical material which have come to fruition since the previous edition * sites on the use of DNA testing in genealogy and DNA surname studies * genealogy blogs, a type of on-line journal which has become popular * major changes in the world of search engines * future developments in on-line genealogy * a timeline of on-line genealogy resources for the British Isles The Genealogist's Internet is accompanied by its own website with updates on all the information covered in the book.Customer Reviews:
Black-and-white photographs and computer screenshots illustrate this hands-on, highly accessible guide.......2007-05-12
a good resource.......2007-03-24
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Information Management for Development Organizations (Oxfam Development Guidelines)
Mike Powell Manufacturer: Oxfam Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 085598483X |
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If information flows well between and within organizations, it empowers people by enabling them to make evidence-based choices; it promotes efficiency; and it enables creativity. Information does not flow well by chance, the process needs to be managed - by everyone concerned. This book introduces tools to analyze how information is used in an organization. It discusses both strategic and practical options for improvements, in the context of the broader information-related changes and debates currently taking place in the world.
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Sustainable Development Strategies: A Resource Book
Barry Dalal-Clayton , and Stephen Bass Manufacturer: Earthscan Publications Ltd. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1853839477 |
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This book is a cornerstone resource for a wide range of organizations and individuals concerned with sustainable development at national and local levels, as well as for international organizations concerned with supporting such development. While the focus is on integrated strategies for sustainable development, the approaches and methods covered are equally relevant to poverty reduction, environmental and sectoral strategies, program development and review. Agenda 21 called for all countries to develop sustainable development strategies. For such strategies to be effective there needs to be a real commitment. In every country, government at all levels, the private sector and civil society must work together in a true partnership, in transparent ways which enable genuine stakeholder participation. The necessary mechanisms and processes need to be coordinated to enable continuous learning and improvement. This resource book provides flexible, non-prescriptive guidance on how to develop, assess and implement national sustainable development strategies. It sets out principles and ideas on process and methods, and suggests how these can be used. It is based on an analysis of past and current practice, drawing directly from experience in both developed and developing countries. Following a discussion of the nature and challeges of sustainable development and the need for strategic responses to them, the heart of the book covers the main tasks in strategy processes. Individual chapters offer a rich range of guidance, ideas and case studies on: * The nature of sustainable development strategies and current practice * Key steps in starting, managing and improving sustainable development strategies * Analysis of and for sustainable development * Participation for sustainable development * Information, education and communications * Strategy decision-making frameworks and procedures * The financial basis for strategies * Monitoring and evaluation systems.
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Managing Diversity in Public Sector Workforces
Norma M. Riccucci Manufacturer: Westview Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 081339838X |
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As we enter the twenty-first century, America's workforce looks markedly different than it ever has before. Compared with even twenty years ago, more white women, people of color, disabled persons, new and recent immigrants, gays and lesbians, and intergenerational mixes now work in America. The way in which government employers embrace this opportunity of diversity will clearly distinguish effective and efficient organizations from those which are unproductive and unable to meet the demands and necessities of the American people in the new century. This book addresses the demographic changes to the labor force and workplace and the ways in which government employers are managing the imminently diverse populations that now fill public sector jobs. It addresses the specific management strategies and initiatives relied upon by public sector employers as well as the implications of effectively managing variegated workforces for the overall governance of American society.
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Comanagement of Natural Resources: Local Learning for Poverty Reduction (In Focus)
Stephen R. Tyler Manufacturer: IDRC Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1552503283 |
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The developing world's poorest people live in marginal, often harsh rural environments—environments which tend to be fragile and highly vulnerable to overexploitation. These rural people depend directly on their local ecosystems for access to the food, forage, fuel, fiber, water, medicines and building materials. What types of natural resource management (NRM) can improve the livelihoods of these poor people while protecting or enhancing the natural resource base they depend on? New approaches to NRM are needed: ones that move beyond the earlier narrow focus on productivity (such as crop yields), to include social, institutional and policy considerations.
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Agri-Culture: Reconnecting People, Land and Nature
Jules Pretty Manufacturer: Earthscan Publications Ltd. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1853839205 |
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Something is wrong with our agricultural and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in the last century, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished. Can nothing be done or is it time for the expansion of another sort of agriculture, founded on more ecological principles, and in harmony with people, their societies and cultures?
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Transitions: Development Through Symbolic Resources (Advances in Cultural Psychology) (Advances in Cultural Psychology)
Manufacturer: Information Age Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1593112262 |
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A volume in Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human DevelopmentSeries Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Clark University
What do young people do with the novels they read, the films they see, the music they hear and sing? How do these cultural products act as symbolic resources in the process of development? And what can we, as researchers, learn by studying peoples uses of fiction?
This monograph approaches development through the study of transitions and the processes of exploration that follow ruptures in peoples lives. Specifically, it examines young peoples symbolic responsibility as they have to choose among the wide range of cultural products societies exposes them to. The book thus examines the books, films and music that young people mobilize when they need to redefine their identity, learn informal know-how, or have to confer meaning to what happens to them in transitions. The book has a theoretical scope. It draws on cultural psychology and psychoanalysis to formulate the importance of semiotic mediation in thinking, feeling and acting. Its main contribution is to propose a model for analyzing uses of symbolic resources, such as books and films, in everyday life. It thus shows how uses of symbolic resources can enable new forms of experiences and conduct. It finally highlights social and personal conditions that might facilitate or hinder developmental uses of symbolic resources.
The book, based on in-depth case studies, is addressed to scholars, professional and students in the fields of youth, culture and the media, cultural and developmental psychology, and life-long education.
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Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management: Renegotiating the Commons
Graham Marshall Manufacturer: Earthscan Publications Ltd. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1844070956 |
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* Includes lessons from Africa, Central America, North America and Asia, and detailed coverage of collaborative management in irrigated environments of Australia's Murray Darling BasinBooks:
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