Wall to Wall Design

Ruth Najda

Wall to Wall Design provides teachers with an opportunity to explore issues surrounding the appropriate design and application of technology in the building of homes in both Kenya and the UK. The resource pack uses the IT Kenya's Masaai housing project as a practical case study, where women are resp...

The Permanent Magnet Generator (PMG)

This guide describes how to make a small permanent magnet generator for wind turbines.

Best Practice in Solid Waste Management

This guide demonstrates successful waste management in Nepal.

Construction Manual for Earthquake-Resistant Houses Built of Earth

The solutions proposed in this manual concentrate on low-cost single-story houses, built from earth in rural areas of earthquake-prone zones. They are based on research projects carried out at the Forschungslabor für Experimentelles Bauen (Building Research Laboratory) of the University of Kassel,...

King Sugar

Michelle Harrison

The Caribbean's history is inseparable from sugar, and the crop is still an important feature in the economics of many islands, from Cuba to Barbados. In Jamaica entire communities depend on the sugar industry, earning a precarious living on old-fashioned plantations. What is life like on a sugar pl...

Evaluating Empowerment

Peter Oakley

Evaluating Empowerment is the fourth book in a series based on International Workshops on the Evaluation of Social Development and is based on the Fourth International Workshop held in Oxford in April 2000. It includes a number of commissioned papers by Anisur Rahman, Musimbi Kanyoro, Frits Wils and...

We will not Dance on our Grandparents' Tombs

Kintto Lucas, Dinah Livingstone

Although "levantamientos indigenas" (Indian uprisings) have taken place for 500 years, the contemporary indigenous movement in Latin American was signaled by mobilizations in Ecuador, the first in 1990, as resistance to celebrations of the 500th anniversary of Columbus' "discovery" of the Americas....

Managing Small-Scale Fisheries

Fikret Berkes

Managing Small-Scale Fisheries: Alternative directions and methods

Mejorando el desempeño de las organizaciones

Charles Lusthaus

Mejorando el desempeño de las organizaciones: Método de autoevaluación

Operation, Maintenance and Sustainability of Services for the Urban Poor: Findings, lessons learned and case studies summary and analysis

M Sohail

This book presents the preliminary findings of the case studies completed to date (in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India). The report provides an assessment of the operation and maintenance status within the communities illustrated in the studies and has sought to highlight the success and failure of the...