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Sets out how to ensure that adaptation efforts are socially and environmentally sustainable, contributing... Læs mere
This revised and updated edition provides a reference guide to the environmental economics of development projects. All techniques are given a detailed exposition, supported by extensive case studies illustrating a range of applications.
At a time of rapid global change, development NGOs are having to scale up their impact, diversify their activities, respond to long-term crises and improve their performance on all fronts. This title offers an analysis to how NGDOs can fulfill these demanding expectations.
The world's population is ageing. The majority of older people live in the developing world, where unprecedented... Læs mere
Presents simple, non-technical indicators for assessing land degradation. This handbook shows how to calculate indicators such as those of soil... Læs mere
Using an innovative theoretical approach based on 'networks of conventions', the book investigates the 'regionalisation' of the English countryside through case studies of the 'preserved', the 'contested' and the 'paternalistic' countryside.
This volume provides a critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. It focuses on... Læs mere
Through accounts of ethnographers’ various exits from the field, this book draws attention to an overlooked but essential part of the research process, and contributes to more general discussions of ethnography. -- .
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book reframes the debate about children's work and harm in rural Africa with the aim of shifting research, public discourse and policy so that they better serve the interest of rural children and their families.
Despite three decades of preoccupation with development in Africa, the economies of most African nations are still stagnating or regressing. For most Africans,... Læs mere
Why is it so hard for international development organizations—even ones as well-resourced and influential as the World Bank—to generate and sustain change in the way things are done in those countries where they work? This book provides an answer to the question.