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Author : Jan Lundqvist
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400954581
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Strategies for River Basin Management written by Jan Lundqvist and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thayer Ted Scudder
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849773904
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)
Download or read book The Future of Large Dams written by Thayer Ted Scudder and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewed by some as symbols of progress and by others as inherently flawed, large dams remain one of the most contentious development issues on Earth. Building on the work of the now defunct World Commission on Dams, Thayer Scudder wades into the debate with unprecedented authority.Employing the Commission's Seven Strategic priorities, Scudder charts the 'middle way' forward by examining the impacts of large dams on ecosystems, societies and political economies. He also analyses the structure of the decision-making process for water resource development and tackles the highly contentious issue of dam-induced resettlement, illuminated by a statistical analysis of 50 cases.
Author : Devoira Auerbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Regional Development Plans, Programmes, and Projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America written by Devoira Auerbach and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Devesh Kapur
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815720140
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The World Bank written by Devesh Kapur and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This effort constitutes the most comprehensive and authoritative work to date on the history of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or the World Bank. Author-editors John Lewis, Richard Webb, and Devesh Kapur chronicle the evolution of this institution and offer insights into its successes, failures, and prospects for the future. The result of their intense labors is an invaluable resource for other researchers and a fascinating study in its own right. The work is divided into two volumes. The first is organized thematically and examines the critical events and policy issues in the World Bank's development over the last fifty years. Chapter topics include poverty alleviation, structural adjustment lending, environmental programs, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Development Association (IDA), and the evolution of the Bank as an institution. The second volume contains case studies written by experts with experience in the various regions in which the Bank operates. There are chapters on the Bank's activities in Korea, Mexico, Africa, South Asia, and Eastern Europe. Volume 2 also contains essays on the World Bank's relationship with the United States, Japan, and Western Europe, and its partnership with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). By special arrangement, the authors have had wide-ranging access to confidential documents at the World Bank, making this work a unique source of information on the internal workings of this critical institution. They have also drawn on extensive interviews with current and past Bank officials. Moreover, publication could not be more timely, coming as it does when many in the development community and in the U.S. Congress are questioning the Bank's track record and even its reason for existence. The World Bank: Its First Half Century will be of great interest not only to development practitioners but also to students of international relations, development economics, and global finance. During the course of the project, John P. Lewis and Richard Webb were nonresident senior fellows, and Devesh Kapur was a program associate, in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Mahaweli, Projects & Programme written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rose
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9782881247477
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Water & the Environment written by Rose and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-09-05 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of previously published papers provides insight into the differing approaches to water quality issues and the diversity of strategies in water quality management worldwide. The book is divided into two parts; the first deals with aspects of water quality in various countries and suggests remedies for the inadequacies of the current situation. Theoretical and practical topics are considered, including policy and resource management. The second part looks to the future with an emphasis on water as a world problem in both developed and developing countries. Aspects of the problem relating to seas, deserts, forests and freshwater are examined with special reference to planning, development and environmental impact analysis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : William Ascher
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822310495
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries written by William Ascher and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on case studies developed over a two-year period, 1987–1989, by Fellows in the Program in International Development Policy at Duke University, including experienced representatives from developing countries, the World Bank, and scholars, the authors integrate the growing interest in environmental protection and resource conservation into the existing body of knowledge about the political economy of developing countries. This book is about the links that tie resource use, environmental quality, and economic development, and the way in which those links are affected by the distribution of income and resource ownership. The links may be relatively simple, as in the case of peasant farmers too poor to conserve resources for the future and with nothing to gain from sound environmental practices. Or they may be very complex—as the authors find when they demonstrate how achievement of higher incomes by the rich can increase environmentally destructive behavior by the poor. Many of the links in some way involve rural land use, whether for agriculture or forestry.Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countriesargues that the policies that matter are not merely those dealing with resources and the environment, but a much broader set that includes income distribution and asset ownership.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Related Agencies (1981-1987)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Foreign assistance and related programs appropriations for 1988 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Related Agencies (1981-1987) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 9789211311075
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Annotated Bibliography on Regional (subnational) Development Plans, Programmes, and Projects in Developing Countries with Special Emphasis on Settlement Issues, 1980-1990 written by United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 1990 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Muggah
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848137699
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Relocation Failures in Sri Lanka written by Robert Muggah and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, millions of people are internally displaced and resettled in the wake of wars and floods or to make way for large-scale development projects, and this number is increasing. Humanitarian and development specialists continue to struggle with designing and executing effective protection strategies and durable solutions. Relocation Failures explains how internal displacement and efforts to engineer resettlement are conceived and practiced by policy makers and practitioners. The author argues that policies for internally displaced peoples are weak and diluted by narrow interpretations of state sovereignty and collective action dilemmas, and in the case of Sri Lanka, unintentionally intensified ethnic segregation and ultimately war. This unique new book considers the origins and parameters of internal displacement and resettlement policy and practice and proposes an explanation for why it often fails. In highlighting the ways that development assistance can exacerbate smoldering conflicts, the volume provides an important caution to the aid community.
Author : Ragnhild Lund
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317966376
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The Tsunami of 2004 in Sri Lanka written by Ragnhild Lund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on empirical research in Sri Lanka conducted after the catastrophic tsunami which hit the country in December 2004. The aims of the research have been to develop new knowledge on post-crisis reconstruction and recovery work, on how to bridge the knowledge gap between researchers and practitioners, as well as trying to use past research experiences from Sri Lanka to learn about the present day situation. The chapters use a common analytical frame related to the ‘policy narratives’ of post-tsunami recovery in the shadow of war, and deal with housing reconstruction, livelihoods, internally displaced, humanitarian interventions and protracted conflicts. The authors represent various social scientific fields and they have experience from different geographical areas of Sri Lanka. This book was published as a special issue of Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift.
Author : Ryo Fujikura
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317748549
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Resettlement Policy in Large Development Projects written by Ryo Fujikura and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hydropower generation by construction of large dams attracts considerable attention as a feasible renewable energy source to meet the power demand in Asian cities. However, large development projects cause involuntary resettlement. Of the world’s forty to eighty million resettlers, many resettlers have been unable to rebuild their livelihood after relocation and have become impoverished. This book uniquely explores the long-term impacts of displacement and resettlement. It shows that long-term post-project evaluation is necessary to assess the rehabilitation and livelihood reconstruction of resettlers after relocation. It focuses on large dam projects in a number of Asian countries, including Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Turkey, Sri Lanka and Vietnam, which are often ignored in Displacement studies in favour of China or India. Drawing on a wealth of empirical data over ten years, it presents crucial factors for successful resettlement by analysing lessons learned. The range of countries allow for a diverse and complex set of factors and outcomes to be analysed. Many of the factors for successful resettlement recur despite the cases being different in implementation period and location. The book presents highly original findings gathered by local researchers in the field directly talking to resettlers who were relocated more than a decade ago. This original book is a unique resource for researchers and postgraduate students of development studies, environment, geography, sociology and anthropology. It also makes policy recommendations for future resettlement programs that are of great value to development policy makers, planners, water resources engineers and civil society protest groups.
Author : Bertram Hughes Farmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521249423
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (494 download)
Download or read book Understanding Green Revolutions written by Bertram Hughes Farmer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-05-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical examination of the truth behind the stereotype that there is a Green Revolution in agricultural technology. Twenty-one specialists in the field of development studies look at the reality of agrarian change, either through historical analysis, or through in-depth village field-work, or from their experience as development planners.
Download or read book U.S. AID Programs in Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Participatory Management in Sri Lanka's Irrigation Schemes written by and published by IWMI. This book was released on with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thayer Scudder
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811325502
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Large Dams written by Thayer Scudder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Following the Foreword by Professor Asit K. Biswas, the first section covers the 1956–1973 period, when the author believed that large dams provided an exceptional opportunity for integrated river basin development. In turn, the second section (1976–1997) reflects the author’s increasing concerns about the magnitude of the socio-economic and environmental costs of large dams, while the third (1998–2018) discusses why large dams are in fact not cost-effective in the long term.
Author : Samuel Hale Butterfield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313085072
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book U.S. Development Aid--An Historic First written by Samuel Hale Butterfield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-08-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive account of U.S. development aid policies and implementation operations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this work is a unique contribution to world history and to the extensive literature on Third World development. Butterfield begins with the remarkable story of why, in 1949, President Truman surprised Americans with his unprecedented development aid policy. He then describes the major alterations in U.S. development aid strategy and operations from 1950 to 2000. Drawing upon his long experience both in Washington and in country aid missions, Butterfield puts a human face on the story by weaving real world vignettes into his narrative. The survey addresses the role of Congress, important program foundations established in the 1950s, creative initiatives of the 1960s, frustrated promises in Vietnam. It explores the Third World's unexpected population explosion; America's evolving technical assistance work in the core sectors such as agriculture, education, health, and administration; and initiatives to reach the rural poor and promote the development role of women. It also comments upon linkages between policy dialogue and financial aid to promote market-oriented policy reforms, Africa's lagging development, and the decline of U.S. development aid in the 1990s.
