Sustainable Industrial Development

Marilyn Carr

Successful, established AT projects: forestry in Swaziland, Kenyan stoves, micro-hydro in Nepal, boats and cement plants in India, industries in Ghana and small grain production in Botswana and Zimbabwe. Can the benefits be sustained beyond the project?

Groundwater Dams for Small-Scale Water Supply

Åke Nilsson

Looking at inexpensive methods for water supply schemes in rural areas of developing countries, this book examines the suitable conditions and economic factors for different types of groundwater dam and describes planning and investigation methods.

Forest Farm Husbandry

Matthew Fedden

Based on experience at Ghana's Technology Consultancy Centre, this handbook describes successful methods of minimum tillage farming and alley cropping. It suggests that alley cropping offers great promise as a soil conservation and enriching technique.

Making Microplans

Nabeel Hamdi, Reinhard Goethert

Microplanning is a community-based process which enables local people to prepare and implement programmes for settlement upgrading. Local participants contribute to both the content and structure of programmes. Case studies from Chile and Sri Lanka.

Mobilizing Appropriate Technology

Matthew Gamser

Discusses the role of AT in a national aid programme. If AT enters the project cycle at too late a stage it has little influence over the technological choice and the grassroots organizations that play a key role in development and change in rural areas.

One Hundred Innovations For Development

Sten Joste, Een Gillis

Technical problems require technical solutions that are innovative, simple, cheap, robust and easy to maintain. This book lists 100 winning inventions in the first International Inventors Award competition, organized in Stockholm.

Operation and Maintenance of Small Irrigation Schemes

Peter Stern

A companion volume to Small-scale Irrigation, this manual deals with the problems of operation and maintenance at sources of supply, the conveying of water, its distribution, and also advises on drainage, health and general management problems.

Power from the People

Matthew Gamser

Through the example of the analysis of forest energy technology development the author illustrates the importance of user participation in developing technologies, and discusses the management of technological change.

Solar Water Heating

Solar water heaters generally employ a solar collector and a storage tank and provide hot water for washing and heating.

The Poor And The Powerless

Clive Thomas

Foreign interests have dominated the economic development of the Caribbean since the first arrival of Europeans in the region five centuries ago. From the plantation system and slavery to the exploitation of oil and bauxite by the multinational corporations, the history of the Caribbeau people is o...