SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Rural Transport Services
For policymakers and planners, it draws on a wide range of sources, developing methodologies for cost evaluation of spot improvements, stage construction of water crossings, and analysis of the organizational framework for decentralized road maintenance.
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Fight for the Forest 1st Edition
"They would have to kill us all to destroy our movement and they can't. I don't get that cold feeling anymore. I am no longer afraid of dying."-Chico Mendes, November 1988 Chico Mendes, the charismatic founder of the Brazilian rubber tappers union, was murdered by a hired assassin on 22 December 198...
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Wealth Ranking in Smallholder Communities
A guide on how to carry out a wealth ranking exercise. The technique allows researchers to understand quickly the nature of wealth differences in a community and to determine the approximate wealth status of each community member.
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Cutting Edge Technologies and Microcomputer Applications for Developing Countries
Explains and assesses the uses of computers in record-keeping, accounting, education, CAD-CAM, expert systems and geographic information systems, and provides a methodology for attacking the problems of resource assessment, utilization and communication.
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Design and Manufacture of Low-Cost Motorized Vehicles
For planners and manufacturers, this book contains detailed technical information on the design and manufacture of vehicles which can be produced locally and can compete with capital-intensive technologies originating from industrialized countries.
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Barefoot Revolution
Calls for a redirection of the economic strategy of the last twenty years. Identifies and measures the impact of an alternative approach through small-scale development projects run by non-governmental organizations.
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The Copy Book
Over 100 pages of drawings drawn and donated by the British Association of Illustrators. Covers food, water, health, shelter and work. For use by and of help to fieldworkers active in communication and education work, and to encourage local artists.
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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.
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Mobilizing Appropriate Technology
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.
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Low Cost Printing for Development
For development and education workers, guidance on do-it-yourself printing methods which are simple and can be used with home-made equipment. Suggests when it is easier to go to a commercial printer and includes advice on setting up a print shop.