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....

Information Design and Distance Learning for International Development

Margaret Ince, Rod Shaw

This book presents an investigation by research into the ways in which distance learning is affected by the physical design of printed study materials. In particular, it examines the use of engineering drawing systems for illustrated, instructional texts concerned with technical aspects of infrastru...

Responsibility to Protect

ICISS

Responsibility to Protect: Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

Responsibility to Protect

Thomas Weiss, G Thomas, Don Hubert

Responsibility to Protect: Research, bibliography, background. Supplementary volume to the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

Responsabilité de Protéger

CIISE

Responsabilité de Protéger: Rapport de la Commission internationale de lintervention et de la souveraineté des états

Mejorando el desempeño de las organizaciones

Charles Lusthaus

Mejorando el desempeño de las organizaciones: Método de autoevaluación