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Author : Shankariah Chamala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Participative Approaches for Landcare written by Shankariah Chamala and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan de Graaff
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482280256
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Monitoring and Evaluation of Soil Conservation and Watershed Development Projects written by Jan de Graaff and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides diverse information and critical know-how to implement appropriate methodology and cost-efficient monitoring and evaluation systems better suited to assess the impacts of soil conservation and wastershed multi-sectoral development activities. It draws on a worldwide experience of specialists and a large array of ground-truthing projects and programmes. This book will meet its objective if it contributes to convince financing institutions and project managers that integrated watershed management activities have the potential to generate highly desirable impacts for the society at large, which have to be accurately measured by adequate M&E systems.
Author : Claudia Baldwin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031342259
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Rural Development for Sustainable Social-ecological Systems written by Claudia Baldwin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of interdisciplinary approaches that have applied social science to research focused on issues around food, agriculture and natural resource management. The book demonstrates that those who work in rural sociology either as researchers or practitioners apply community development and participatory techniques to socio-environmental interaction. The book discusses how the evolving concept of interconnected social and ecological systems (SES) emerged, recognizing the inherent complexity, adaptive nature, and resilience of such systems. This book engages with contemporary theory, as well as new cutting-edge transdisciplinary research evidenced in case studies from three continents.
Author : Mohammad Alauddin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349276316
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Development, Governance and Environment in South Asia written by Mohammad Alauddin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions elsewhere in South-East Asia and South America may soon suffer a similar fate. Venomous Earth is the story of this tragedy: the geology, the biology, the politics and the history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down in today's North America and takes in William Morris, alchemy, farming, medicine, mining and a cosmetic that killed two popes.
Author : Sanjeev Kumar Singh
Publisher : New India Publishing Agency
ISBN 13 : 9789380235233
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Extension Techniques For Livestock Development written by Sanjeev Kumar Singh and published by New India Publishing Agency. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Livestock sector plays a significant role in the Indian economy particularly in reducing poverty among the weaker sections of the society. Livestock not only provides a continuous stream of income but also acts as natural capital assets for the poor in adverse conditions. India is having huge population of livestock but their production potential is below the global average. Besides this, a continuous rise in the demand of livestock products opens door for dissemination of latest innovative methods among livestock owners, farmers, farm women, etc in order to enhance livestock production potential. This requires a strong extension support with trained extension professionals, who may help farmers in identifying their problems, help them to find out solutions to these problems and provide them the required technical know-how with plenty of information. The primary objective of this book is to increase the proficiency of extension workers as well as improve their proficiency competence by acquainting them with the latest developments in livestock sector and enabling them in better understanding of the existing problems in the villages. This book is also helpful for graduate, postgraduate and doctorate students pursuing studies in veterinary dairy, agriculture, fisheries, and other related sciences and provides them a first hand information on important aspects related to contribution of livestock to national income, community development, panchayati raj, livestock development programmes, audio-visual aids, extension teaching methods, programme planning, adoption and diffusion process, livestock marketing as well as animal husbandry management and administration. We are sure that this book will be beneficial for professors, teachers, trainers, researchers and extension professionals engaged in veterinary and animal husbandry extension and other professional courses.
Author : Harinder P. Singh
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482293595
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Sustainable Weed Management written by Harinder P. Singh and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative Strategies for Managing Weeds in an Environmentally Protective Manner Successfully meeting the challenge of providing weed control without relying on dangerous chemicals that endanger the ecosystem or human lives, this compendium focuses on management strategies that reduce herbicidal usage, restore ecological balance, and increase food production. It also provides new insights and approaches for weed scientists, agronomists, agriculturists, horticulturists, farmers, and extentionists, as well as teachers and students. In the Handbook of Sustainable Weed Management, experts from Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia organize in one resource information related to weeds and their management from different ecosystems around the world that has been until now been scattered throughout the literature.. The text captures the multifaceted impacts of and approaches to managing weeds from field, farm, landscape, regional, and global perspectives. Generously illustrated with tables and figures, this book not only describes the various techniques for weed management but shows you what methods work best in a given region, or in response to a specific, invasive weed or invaded crop. Covering the full scope of modern weed science the handbook examines different aspects of weed management, including— • Cultural practices • Cover crops • Crop rotation designs • Potential of herbicide resistant crops • Bioherbicides • Allelopathy • Microorganisms • Integrated weed management In spite of advancement in technologies and procedures, weeds continue to pose a major ecological and economical threat to agriculture. Handbook of Sustainable Weed Management takes a broad view of weeds as a part of an agricultural system composed of interacting production, environmental, biological, economic, and social components all working together to find balance. This comprehensive book is a vital addition to the debate over how global weed management is changing in the 21st century. Also available in soft cover
Author : C. Milton Coughenour
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470290005
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation written by C. Milton Coughenour and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sociological study of changing farming methods, Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation investigates those techniques that have gradually continued to replace the plow culture. With thorough documentation of the conservation tillage and cropping revolution, this book features chapters on: The Social Construction of Innovative Networks; Planning Conservation Cropping: Implications for Research, Development, and Extension; The New Agriculture of Conservation Cropping: Present and Future.
Author : Joanne Abbot
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 9781904035817
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Changing Views on Change written by Joanne Abbot and published by IIED. This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Pannell
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643102272
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Changing Land Management written by David Pannell and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a rich and extensive history of research into factors that encourage farmers to change their land management practices, or inhibit them from doing so. Yet this research is often under-utilised in practice. Changing Land Management provides key insights from past and cutting-edge research to support decision-makers as they attempt to influence or assist rural communities adapting to changed circumstances, such as new technologies, new environmental imperatives, new market opportunities or changed climate. Understanding the process of practice change by rural landholders is crucial for policy makers, agricultural researchers, extension agents, natural resource management bodies, non-government organisations and agricultural consultants. For example, such understanding can assist with the design and implementation of environmental programs, with the prioritisation of agricultural research and with commercial ventures. Common themes are the need for an appreciation of the diversity of land managers and their contexts, of the diversity of factors that influence land-management decisions, and of the challenges that face government programs that are intended to change land management.
Author : Jocelyn Davies
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 190403523X
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Sustaining Eden written by Jocelyn Davies and published by IIED. This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report focuses on Australian indigenous peoples' use and management of terrestrial vertebrates and some marine species.
Author : Bruce Morgan Campbell
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 0851997317
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Integrated Natural Resource Management written by Bruce Morgan Campbell and published by CABI. This book was released on 2003 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which contains 15 separately authored chapters, discusses both the principles and applications of an integrated approach to natural resource management. Such an approach must embrace the complexity of systems and redirect research towards the greater inclusion of issues such as participatory approaches, multi-scale analysis and an array of tools for system analysis, information management and impact assessment. Case studies, particularly from developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, are included. This book is of interest to a wide range of readers in many disciplines, including forestry, soil and management sciences, agriculture, and development studies.
Author : Burton E. Swanson
Publisher : Fao
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Improving Agricultural Extension written by Burton E. Swanson and published by Fao. This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on Improving Agricultural Extension: a Reference Manual offers a critical review and inventory-analysis of the "State of the Art" in agricultural extension theory and best practices written by internationally known agricultural extension practitioners, educators and scholars. A total of 38 authors from 15 countries contributed to the 23 chapters of this book and thus they provided broad international perspectives, covering both theory and practice, as well as micro and macro issues related to agricultural extension. It is the third edition of a classic reference manual on agricultural extension published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Aimed at agricultural extension planners, managers, trainers, educators, and field practitioners, this book could be useful in improving the quality of agricultural extension and in generating new ideas and methods for increasing further the cost-effectiveness of agricultural extension programmes. It provides many sound and practical suggestions for developing and improving the conceptual, technical, and operational methods and tools in order to strategically plan, efficently manage, and scientifically evaluate a problem-solving, demand-driven and needs-based agricultural extension programmes.
Author : Jim Woodhill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781875345397
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (453 download)
Download or read book Participatory Evaluation for Landcare and Catchment Groups written by Jim Woodhill and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Burch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042982744X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Restructuring Global and Regional Agricultures written by David Burch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this collection of papers represents the latest thinking on the effects of globalisation and agri-food restructuring from a regional and peripheral perspective. The book breaks new ground in our understanding of the relationship between the global, regional and local levels in the sphere of agri-food production. While Australia and New Zealand are important components of the agri-food system, the economic and political decisions which impact at the regional and local level are usually made elsewhere - often in the boardrooms of global companies and the political institutions of Europe and North America. At the same time, however, Australia and New Zealand have sought to establish some independent room for manoeuvre. In Australia this can be seen in the targeting of consumers in South East Asia, and New Zealand has experienced both sweeping deregulation and niche marketing of goods such as organic produce. The success or failure of these strategies cannot currently be determined, but this invaluable collection presents and discusses some possible future scenarios. Featuring 31 specialists in sociology, geography, social anthropology, veterinary science, environmental studies and sustainable development, it is a product of the Agri-Food Research Network. The volume includes 19 essays which attempt to conceptualise a series of global trends and their local ramifications, explore Australian and New Zealand experiences of agri-food restructuring in historic, ideological and discursive terms, and analyse local policy and politics and the influence on rural producers, along with studying four key concepts underpinning agri-food research and the possibilities for their application in new areas. .
Author : Karen Healy
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 144623679X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Social Work Practices written by Karen Healy and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-11-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Karen Healy has written a very interesting and worthwhile book that explores the relevance and significance of postmodern theory to social work. It provides a well-argued account of recent developments in social work theory... However, it is not simply an account of theory, as considerable effort goes into making links between the theory and its implications for practice. ...[I]t offers a sound foundation for exploring issues of theory and practice. A major strength of the book is that it shows that some of the significant flaws in earlier attempts to develop critical approaches to practice should not lead us to assume that radical approaches are necessarily oppressive in themselves, or doomed to failure... It should serve its purpose well in prompting educators, policy-makers and practitioners to begin to take on board the critique of dominant approaches to social work theory and to help us guard against the dangers of dogmatism and orthodoxy′ - European Journal of Social Work `Karen Healy profoundly challenges, in the context of the postmodernity of late capitalism, many of the assumptions upon which the critical tradition in social work has been founded. This is a book which interrogates not only the emancipatory metanarratives of left perspectives from her position within the left, but also questions many of the received ideas about her professional power and identity, and about the kinds of social work practices necessary in order to continue to pursue welfare as an emancipatory project under transformed ideological and material circumstances. This is a most significant contribution to the debates which confront social work, worldwide, at the present time′ - Peter Leonard, McGill University, Canada How should social workers be responding to the crises which beset the welfare states of the 21st century? Could postmodern theory provide some of the answers? This original and stimulating book provides a critical review of contemporary social work theory and considers its relevance for professional practice. Karen Healy outlines critical theoretical perspectives - including feminist, Marxist and radical social work - and indicates their implications for social work practice. She explains contemporary debates on post-structuralism and postmodernism and shows how their application to everyday social work practice would point to a new pragmatism focused on local, contextual and incremental proposals for change. By referring to actual examples, she invites the reader to consider the potential for relevant and diverse forms of social work practice informed by postmodern theory. This accessible and engaging book makes an important contribution to contemporary debates on social work theory and practice. It will be important reading for students and academics in social work and social policy.
Author : Shankariah Chamala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Working Together for Land Care written by Shankariah Chamala and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy Bessette
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book People, Land, and Water written by Guy Bessette and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In natural resource management research, best practice implies the participation of community members, research or development teams and other stakeholders to jointly identify research and development parameters and contribute to decision making. Ideally, the research or development process itself generates a situation of empowerment in which participants transform their vision and become able to take effective action. Used increasingly widely in resource management, this process is known as Participatory Development Communication (PDC).This book presents conceptual and methodological issues r.
