Development studies
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Into the Unknown
Development is about change, and lives immersed in researching international development should be prepared for exploration, for discovering the unexpected, and for questioning the direction that ‘development’ is taking. Robert Chambers reflects on experiences, which led him to examine personal bias...
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Scaling Up Multiple Use Water Services
Barbara van Koppen, Stef Smits, Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio, John Thomas
Poor people in developing countries need water for many purposes: for drinking, bathing, irrigating vegetable gardens, and watering livestock. However, responsibility for water services is divided between different government agencies, the WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) and irrigation sub-sect...
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Training for Transformation in Practice
Training for Transformation is an approach to community organization encompassed in three books which enables people to ‘read their reality and write their own history’ using a combination of group processes, socio-economic analysis and organizational development processes. Since its inception 40...
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Community Well-being in Biocultural Landscapes
Bas Verschuuren, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Wim Hiemstra
There is a growing recognition that living well must go beyond economic and material plenty to encompass social and spiritual well-being. But what do we understand by these wider aspects of well-being? Community Well-being in Biocultural Landscapes provides an introduction to the concept of human w...
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Briquette Production Process
This is a poster that illustrates both carbonised and non carbonised briquette production process.
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Solar PV Energy in Nepal
Renewable energy practices in Nepal
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Stone Arch Bridges
Construction of stone arch bridges.
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Peanut Roaster
The design and construction of a peanut roaster
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Removing Arsenic From Water
This brief outlines the different arsenic removal methods and technologies that are available for use with small-scale supplies in developing countries.
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A Collection of Contemporary Toilet Designs
This collection is the result of the findings of EOOS research which was supported by Sandec, the Department of Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag). It covers a wide range of contemporary toilet designs along with a va...