Practical Action Publishing
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Wicking Beds: A practical guide for sustainable gardening in challenging environments
A practical guide to building and using wicking beds, which are ideal for growing food in areas with limited access to water and land, such as urban areas in hot countries. Re-Alliance is a coalition of field practitioners, policymakers, educators, community leaders and humanitarian and development...
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Community-Based Response to Collective Trauma: A guide for community responders providing initial psychosocial support in times of crisis
This guide is for trainers and community practitioners who may provide a first response to groups affected by crisis or disaster. It introduces the concept of collective trauma, that can be experienced by groups as well as individuals, and the importance of providing emotional support in the immedia...
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10 Lessons in Localisation
Many, if not most, international NGOs say they want to ‘localise’, to promote greater leadership and delivery by local and national actors. But are they serious and do they know how to do it? This book presents ten lessons on localisation from the author’s 25 year career to date, working in and o...
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The Congress of the Disappeared
‘They came from all corners of the country. At last the Brazil of the disappeared revealed itself.’ In Kucinski’s novella, the ghosts of those disappeared by Brazil’s military dictatorship come together and organize a congress. Together, these ghosts tell the story of what happened to them, refle...
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Climate Change and Threatened Communities
A groundbreaking follow-up to the 2012 Climate Change and Threatened Communities book, this collection revisits the 15 original case studies, offering fresh insights from the authors on their research sites as they examine parallel developments in their academic fields over the past 13 years. Thr...
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Untold Stories of Disablement and Displacement
Untold Stories of Disablement and Displacement provides a compelling look at the authentic experiences of Syrian refugees with disabilities. Their stories of migration and disability are often ignored in public discussions and academic research. These families were forced to leave their homes due to...
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Two Ideas to Regain the Power Otherwise Lost in Run-off River Schemes with Elevated Powerhouses
For run-off schemes, floods often require powerhouses to be set back from the riverbanks. This raising of the level of the powerhouse frequently curtails much of the potential head. Two low-cost proposals for such run-off schemes are presented. One proposal is a draft tube combined with a longitudin...
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Young and Female
Sharada Srinivasan, Lu Pan, Aprilia Ambarwati
Women’s roles in sustaining and the revival of farming are indispensable. Based on research in Canada, China, India and Indonesia, the book offers a global perspective on young women’s pathways into farming. It responds directly to concerns about the generational sustainability of smallholder farmin...
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Development and Disasters
Good development could − and should − be the driving force for averting disasters by reducing vulnerability. But conversely, in many cases, development itself becomes a major cause of vulnerability and disasters. This new edition describes the complex relationship between disasters and developmen...
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Sustaining and Scaling Up Community Managed Water
Jeff Tan, Stephen M. Lyon, Attaullah Shah
Community-based water management (CBWM) remains the leading model for implementing and sustaining rural water supply services in low- and middle-income countries despite the lack of sustainability. Moreover, measures centred on providing external support to communities directly and through a wider p...