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Book Integration of Population  Environment Equitable and Sustainable Development Issues Into the Curriculum of the Demographic Training and Research Centre of the Institute of Development Research at Addis Ababa University  April 18 19  1995  Wabe Shebelle Hotel  Addis Ababa  Ethiopia

Download or read book Integration of Population Environment Equitable and Sustainable Development Issues Into the Curriculum of the Demographic Training and Research Centre of the Institute of Development Research at Addis Ababa University April 18 19 1995 Wabe Shebelle Hotel Addis Ababa Ethiopia written by Aklilu Kidanu and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Accessions List  Eastern and Southern Africa

Download or read book Accessions List Eastern and Southern Africa written by Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, Kenya and published by . This book was released on with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Causes of Tropical Deforestation

Download or read book The Causes of Tropical Deforestation written by Katrina Brown and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents econometric analysis of tropical deforestation, quantifying and examining its local and underlying global causes, with discussion of factors such as population, debt, income and poverty, the timber trade, and agricultural development, and regional and country case studies focusing on Asia and Latin America. Of interest to students and professionals in economics, environmental science, and development studies. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Management of Pastoral Development in the Third World

Download or read book Management of Pastoral Development in the Third World written by Stephen Sandford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1983 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of agricultural development and rural development among indigenous communitys that derive their livelihood from raising livestock on rangeland in developing countries - discusses nomadism, migration to find better grazing, and land settlement; covers the development of water supply, agricultural management, land utilization, productivity, improvements in animal production, agricultural marketing, and meat processing; considers agricultural policy options. Bibliography.

Book A Land Use and Land Cover Classification System for Use with Remote Sensor Data

Download or read book A Land Use and Land Cover Classification System for Use with Remote Sensor Data written by James Richard Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Management of Tropical Moist Forest Lands

Download or read book The Management of Tropical Moist Forest Lands written by Duncan Poore and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1991 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive guide to fundamental ecological principles in tropical moist forest lands. This edition has been revised to encompass our increased knowledge and understandings of the complexities of forest management. It addresses the cross-cutting issues: the effects of government policies, land allocation and infrastructure development in forest lands. An analysis is made regarding various forest uses: forests for wood, forests for agriculture and forests for nature conservation and environmental protection.

Book A Neotropical Companion

    Book Details:
  • Author : John C. Kricher
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780691009742
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book A Neotropical Companion written by John C. Kricher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely praised, "A Neotropical Companion" is an extraordinarily readable introduction to the American tropics, the lands of Central and South America, their rainforests and other ecosystems, and the creatures that live there. 177 color illustrations.

Book Ethiopia

Download or read book Ethiopia written by Siegfried Pausewang and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Causes and Progression of Desertification

Download or read book The Causes and Progression of Desertification written by Helmut Geist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an examination into the causes and prospects of desertification through a systematic review of 132 sub national case studies. It uses a meta-analytical model to determine whether proximate causes and underlying driving forces fall into any patterns, to identify mediating factors, feedbacks, cross-scalar dynamics and typical pathways. It shows a limited set of recurrent core variables in varying combinations to drive desertification. Most prominent root causes are climatic factors, institutions, national policies, population growth and remote economic influences that lead to local cropland expansion, overgrazing and infrastructure extension, associated with desertification as a potential but not necessary outcome. Some factors are geographically robust; most of them are region and time specific.

Book Food 2000

    Book Details:
  • Author : World Commission on Environment and Development. Advisory Panel on Food Security, Agriculture, Forestry, and Environment
  • Publisher : London ; New Jersey : Zed Books
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Food 2000 written by World Commission on Environment and Development. Advisory Panel on Food Security, Agriculture, Forestry, and Environment and published by London ; New Jersey : Zed Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writing Women s Worlds

Download or read book Writing Women s Worlds written by Lila Abu-Lughod and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extrait de la couverture : " In 1978 Lila Abu-Lughod climbed out of a dusty van to meet members of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community. Living in this Egyptian Bedouin settlement for extended periods during the following decade, Abu-Lughod took part in family life, with its moments of humor, affection, and anger. As the new teller of these tales Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography. She explores how the telling of these stories challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women. Writing Women's Worlds is thus at once a vivid set of stories and a study in the politics of representation."

Book Pastoralism in Africa

Download or read book Pastoralism in Africa written by Michael Bollig and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the southwest and northeast regions. Unraveling the complex prehistory, history, and contemporary political ecology of African pastoralism, results in insight into the ingenuity and flexibility of historical and contemporary herders.

Book Pastoral Politics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vasant K. Saberwal
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Pastoral Politics written by Vasant K. Saberwal and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vasant Saberwal explores the origins of the alarmist rhetoric on land degradation in the western Himalaya, which he finds to be unsubstantiated according to empirical evidence and ecological theory.

Book Domination and the Arts of Resistance

Download or read book Domination and the Arts of Resistance written by James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Play fool, to catch wise."--proverb of Jamaican slaves Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, laborers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power. These subordinate groups instead create a secret discourse that represents a critique of power spoken behind the backs of the dominant. At the same time, the powerful also develop a private dialogue about practices and goals of their rule that cannot be openly avowed. In this book, renowned social scientist James C. Scott offers a penetrating discussion both of the public roles played by the powerful and powerless and the mocking, vengeful tone they display off stage--what he terms their public and hidden transcripts. Using examples from the literature, history, and politics of cultures around the world, Scott examines the many guises this interaction has taken throughout history and the tensions and contradictions it reflects. Scott describes the ideological resistance of subordinate groups--their gossip, folktales, songs, jokes, and theater--their use of anonymity and ambiguity. He also analyzes how ruling elites attempt to convey an impression of hegemony through such devices as parades, state ceremony, and rituals of subordination and apology. Finally, he identifies--with quotations that range from the recollections of American slaves to those of Russian citizens during the beginnings of Gorbachev's glasnost campaign--the political electricity generated among oppressed groups when, for the first time, the hidden transcript is spoken directly and publicly in the face of power. His landmark work will revise our understanding of subordination, resistance, hegemony, folk culture, and the ideas behind revolt.

Book Music and Ritual

Download or read book Music and Ritual written by Keith Howard and published by Semar Publishers Srl. This book was released on 2006 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Writing. Published through Muske, whose purpose is to research, recover, document and conserve the world's ethnomusicological heritage and to disseminate it across a wide audience, the papers in MUSIC AND RITUAL "were first prepared for a panel...at the 2005 annual conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology....At the conference, it seemed timely to return to how performance informs, illustrates and interpenetrates ritual, without setting a clear, narrow, agenda in our call for papers...[These papers] explore questions raised by the performance of music and movement, and their interrelationships, in artistic practice beyond the European art and popular music canons"--from the Introduction by Keith Howard.

Book Weapons of the Weak

Download or read book Weapons of the Weak written by James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weapons of the Weak is an ethnography by James C. Scott that studies the effects of the Green Revolution in rural Malaysia. One of the main objectives of the study is to make an argument that the Marxian and Gramscian ideas of false consciousness and hegemony are incorrect. He develops this conclusion throughout the book, through the different scenarios and characters that come up during his time of fieldwork in the village. This publication, based on 2 years of fieldwork (1978-1980), focuses on the local class relations in a small rice farming community of 70 households in the main paddy-growing area of Kedah in Malaysia. Introduction of the Green Revolution in 1976 eliminated 2/3 of the wage-earning opportunities for smallholders and landless laborers. The main ensuing class struggle is analyzed being the ideological struggle in the village and the practice of resistance itself consisting of: foot-dragging, dissimulation, desertion, false compliance, pilfering, feigned ignorance and sabotage acts. Rich and poor are engaged in an unremitting if silent struggle to define changes in land tenure, mechanization and employment to advance their own interests, and to use values that they share to control the distribution of status, land, work and grain.

Book Statistical Techniques in Geographical Analysis

Download or read book Statistical Techniques in Geographical Analysis written by Gareth Shaw and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1994-07-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistical Techniques in Geographical Analysis Second Edition Gareth Shaw Department of Geography, University of Exeter and Dennis Wheeler Department of Geography, University of Sunderland The second edition of this widely-used undergraduate textbook is shorter than its predecessor, but now contains a thorough treatment of computational methods. It aims to cover degree students’ needs in statistical methods from their first to final years. Assuming no more than basic secondary or high school mathematics, the authors provide coverage of a range of techniques, from simple descriptive to parametric and non-parametric methods in bivariate and multivariate settings. Almost invariably, each techniques is introduced ‘manually’, followed up by the appropriate application using either the SPSS or MINITAB software packages — the two statistical packages most widely used by geographers. Topics are introduced in an orderly sequence, reinforced by worked examples, so that the book can be equally valuable as part of a teaching scheme, as an aid in distance learning or as an accessible reference source on the different techniques. Fulton textbooks for geography students The Middle East: a Geographical Study, Second Edition Peter Beaumont, Gerald Blake and Malcolm Wagstaff 1-85346-093-1 640 pages Paperback Cities in Space: City as Place David Herbert and Colin Thomas 352 pages 1-85346-109-1 Paperback 1-85346-138-5 Hardback The European City: a Western Perspective, Second Edition David Burtenshaw, Michael Bateman and Gregory Ashworth 1-85346-030-3 324 pages Paperback Retailing: Shopping, Society, Space Larry O’Brien and Frank Harris 1-85346-122-9 160 pages Paperback