SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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No Condition Permanent
The struggles and successes in achieving acceptance of new, small-scale technologies in Ghana.
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The Design and Manufacture of Animal Drawn Carts
A manual on the design and manufacture of animal drawn carts based on existing experience with suggestions for improvements.
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The Design of Bicycle Trailers
An illustrated guide to the use and design of cycle trailers in urban and rural areas. Contains new material and updates the information in the earlier edition.
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Equipment for Rural Workshops
A guide for anyone who wishes to equip a workshop, from the basic tools required for a one or two person carpentry workshop without power, to the more sophisticated power equipment for both wood and metal working.
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Financing Small Enterprise
Proceedings of a Seminar Organized by The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO)
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Rainwater Harvesting
This book emphasizes the importance of social, economic, and environmental considerations when planning and implementing projects. For rural development workers, it aims to fill the gap in existing literature on the gathering and storage of rainwater.
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Rural Vulnerability to Famine in Ethiopia
Prescriptions for rural development abound, but ‘what is frequently lacking is not so much ideas or techniques as the will and the commitment’ to improve conditions. The author describes how, in the complex case of Ethiopia, man can be held responsible for famine –and suggests how he can act to prev...
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Rural Transport in Developing Countries
An important and wide-ranging survey of transport policies in developing countries, illustrated by nine case-studies.
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Small Hydro Power in China
An account of how the Chinese achieved a long-term programme to provide rural areas with electricity. Contains lessons for other countries faced with energy provision problems.
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Solar Water Pumping
A 'state of the art' survey, with guides to costs and criteria for choice of pumping methods.