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A Casebook of Social Change in Developing Areas
ISBN: 9780202362175 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most early approaches to encouraging social development focused on economic and technical issues. This volume begins from the premise that economic and technical patterns are embedded in cultural patterns. These patterns of custom and belief are sometimes elaborate, and they can act as barriers to technical or economic change. This volume presents case studies of social change, developing a model for analysis and action. An analytic guide is presented for each case history, and the editor points out factors that influenced the outcome of the project. The volume ais designed for people in... Most early approaches to encouraging social development focused on economic and technical issues. This volume begins from the premise that economic... |
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228,18 zł |
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Privatization for the Public Good?: Welfare Effects of Private Intervention in Latin America
ISBN: 9781597820608 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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147,15 zł |
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Youth and the City in the Global South
ISBN: 9780253219695 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The innovative, multi-site Youth and the City Project examined the effects of globalization and neoliberalism on the everyday experiences and future prospects of urban youth in the developing world. The economic and demographic trends that are transforming cities and widening the gap between North and South are also making it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, for young people to establish themselves as independent, self-sufficient adults in many parts of the world. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, Vietnam, and Zambia, this volume integrates youth studies with urban... The innovative, multi-site Youth and the City Project examined the effects of globalization and neoliberalism on the everyday experiences and futur... |
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103,69 zł |
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Human Health and Forests : A Global Overview of Issues, Practice and Policy
ISBN: 9781844075324 / Angielski / Twarda / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hundreds of millions of people live and work in forests across the world. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the issues surrounding the health of people living in and around forests, particularly in Asia, South America and Africa.
Hundreds of millions of people live and work in forests across the world. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the issues surrounding th...
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700,25 zł |
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The Last Taboo : Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis
ISBN: 9781844075430 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Except in schoolboy jokes, the subject of human waste is rarely aired. We talk about water-related diseases when most are sanitation-related - in short, we don t mention the shit.A century and a half ago, a long, hot summer reduced the Thames flowing past the UK Houses of Parliament to a Great Stink, thereby inducing MPs to legislate sanitary reform. Today, another sanitary reformation is needed, one that manages to spread cheaper and simpler systems to people everywhere.In the byways of the developing world, much is quietly happening on the excretory frontier. In 2008, the International Year...
Except in schoolboy jokes, the subject of human waste is rarely aired. We talk about water-related diseases when most are sanitation-related - in shor...
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700,25 zł |
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The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis
ISBN: 9781844075447 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Except in schoolboy jokes, the subject of human waste is rarely aired. We talk about water-related diseases when most are sanitation-related - in short, we don t mention the shit. A century and a half ago, a long, hot summer reduced the Thames flowing past the UK Houses of Parliament to a Great Stink, thereby inducing MPs to legislate sanitary reform. Today, another sanitary reformation is needed, one that manages to spread cheaper and simpler systems to people everywhere. In the byways of the developing world, much is quietly happening on the excretory frontier. In 2008, the International...
Except in schoolboy jokes, the subject of human waste is rarely aired. We talk about water-related diseases when most are sanitation-related - in shor...
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171,12 zł |
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Managing Humanitarian Relief
ISBN: 9781853396694 / Angielski / Miękka / 431 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Responding effectively to humanitarian disasters is far from straightforward, and relief workers often find themselves working in competitive situations or at cross purposes with other agencies.
Managing Humanitarian Relief is aimed at relief workers charged with putting together a program of action to help people in extreme crisis. It provides humanitarian relief managers with a single comprehensive reference for all the management issues they are likely to encounter in the field. The book is organized in two parts. First, it provides an outline of different relief... Responding effectively to humanitarian disasters is far from straightforward, and relief workers often find themselves working in competitive situatio...
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260,60 zł |
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Disaster Risk Management and Reconstruction in Latin America: A Technical Guide
ISBN: 9781853396724 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent earthquakes worldwide have highlighted the importance of good disaster planning. Adequate risk assessment and risk reduction strategies, and improved response and reconstruction work have all benefited from the documentation of past disasters.
This practical manual prepared by staff members from Practical Action's regional office in Lima offers an up-to-date resource covering both methodological and technical aspects of disaster mitigation. Rooted in the experiences of the authors and their colleagues of disaster response over the last 20 years, and incorporating... Recent earthquakes worldwide have highlighted the importance of good disaster planning. Adequate risk assessment and risk reduction strategies, and im...
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173,66 zł |
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How Do Children with Disabilities Experi
ISBN: 9781919798622 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report is based on information gathered in participatory workshops held with children who have disabilities around South Africa: in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, Limpopo, the Western Cape, and the North West. Emerging themes of the workshops were children's experiences of poverty, disability, abuse, social security, health care, service provision, participation, discrimination and access to socio-economic rights. The study provides information on government programmes, budget allocations and spending on children with disabilities.
This report is based on information gathered in participatory workshops held with children who have disabilities around South Africa: in KwaZulu-Natal...
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163,10 zł |
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Social Change and Health in Tanzania
ISBN: 9789976604061 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Africa is experiencing dramatic processes of social change, with evident consequences for health. This collection of papers examines the impacts of modern developments on health in Tanzania with a view to establishing patterns at a continental level. The contributors consider how social change is impacting on young people's health, HIV/AIDS and mental health. It further considers the implications of poverty and social inequalities for health, concluding that the poorest suffer the adverse health effects of social change disproportionately; and that the effects of globalisation, if unchecked...
Africa is experiencing dramatic processes of social change, with evident consequences for health. This collection of papers examines the impacts of mo...
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337,40 zł |
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'Lusofonia' em Africa
ISBN: 9782869781740 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative work is the first CODESRIA has published in Portuguese, and the first scholarly work the institution has published on the politics, economics and societies of the Portuguese-speaking African countries, authored by social scientists from those countries. In its engagement with the Portuguese-speaking social science communities in Africa, the publication represents an important milestone for CODESRIA, and a symbolic moment in the development of Lusophone studies on the continent.
This innovative work is the first CODESRIA has published in Portuguese, and the first scholarly work the institution has published on the politics, ec...
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269,91 zł |
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Wellbeing and Development in Peru: Local and Universal Views Confronted
ISBN: 9780230608696 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents findings of systematic research into the contested meanings of development and wellbeing from a country, Peru, which has recently experienced both rapid economic growth and deep social conflict.
This book presents findings of systematic research into the contested meanings of development and wellbeing from a country, Peru, which has recently e...
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192,74 zł |
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Housing Phenomena in Abuja, Nigeria: A Case Study
ISBN: 9781434369666 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a spin-off from an award-winning published dissertation microfilmed and recorded into ProQuest, EBSCOhost, and Thomson Gale PowerSearch electronic libraries worldwide. Informative materials in this phenomenological qualitative study supported and complemented through quantitative analyses are also accessible in the library of the United States Congress. Pedagogically, this book enhances and contributes to scholarly knowledge. Doctoral learners or students obtaining their terminal degrees will find this book helpful. Various theories were conceptualized from over 12, 000...
This book is a spin-off from an award-winning published dissertation microfilmed and recorded into ProQuest, EBSCOhost, and Thomson Gale PowerSearch e...
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155,14 zł |
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World Hunger Series: Hunger and Health
ISBN: 9781844075461 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hunger and Health explores the multiple relationships between hunger and poor health, and how they affect the growth of individuals, physiologically and psychologically, constraining the development of nations both socially and economically. Examining the profound effect that hunger has on health, including disease prevention and treatment, it gives special attention to access to quality food and healthcare, in particular for the marginalized and poor. It also identifies critical junctures in the human life cycle when the benefits of reducing hunger and improving poor health have a profound...
Hunger and Health explores the multiple relationships between hunger and poor health, and how they affect the growth of individuals, physiologically a...
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129,62 zł |
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World Hunger Series: Hunger and Health
ISBN: 9781844075515 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hunger and Health explores the multiple relationships between hunger and poor health, and how they affect the growth of individuals, physiologically and psychologically, constraining the development of nations both socially and economically. Examining the profound effect that hunger has on health, including disease prevention and treatment, it gives special attention to access to quality food and healthcare, in particular for the marginalized and poor. It also identifies critical junctures in the human life cycle when the benefits of reducing hunger and improving poor health have a profound...
Hunger and Health explores the multiple relationships between hunger and poor health, and how they affect the growth of individuals, physiologically a...
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451,22 zł |
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African Agriculture and The World Bank: Development or Impoverishment?
ISBN: 9789171066084 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. African smallholder family farming, the backbone of the continental economy throughout the colonial and early post-colonial period, has been destabilized and eroded over the past thirty years. Despite the World Bank 's poverty alleviation concerns, agrarian livelihoods continue to unravel under the impact of economic liberalization and global value chains. Can African smallholders bounce back and compete? The World Development Report 2008 argues they can and must. How realistic is this given the history of World Bank conditionality in Africa? This essay explores the productivity and welfare...
African smallholder family farming, the backbone of the continental economy throughout the colonial and early post-colonial period, has been destabili...
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68,17 zł |
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Social Exclusion and Community Capital: The Missing Link in Global Partnerships of Health for All
ISBN: 9780761839859 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is social exclusion? Why is social exclusion the most daunting threat to global health and development? Social Exclusion and Community Capital has created a new theory and offers a multi-equitable partnership model to resolve global health challenges. This new theory offers readers a valuable insight into the use of critical links and community capital to improve global development. The book also illustrates the urgent need to address exclusion as a collective undertaking in the form of innovative partnerships. The new multi-equitable model provides an integrated framework for charities,...
What is social exclusion? Why is social exclusion the most daunting threat to global health and development? Social Exclusion and Community Capital ha...
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371,39 zł |
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Globalization and the Least Developed Countries: Potentials and Pitfalls
ISBN: 9781845933081 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most notable changes in the world economy during the past three decades has been the diverging trends in the growth of the developing countries. Compared to East Asian countries that have integrated well into the global economy, those of Sub-Saharan Africa have remained stagnant and have become the world's least developed area. The policies and programs of international organizations have failed to improve the situation while the global economy becomes dominated by trans-national corporations. A review of the suitability of globalization as an economic strategy for these...
One of the most notable changes in the world economy during the past three decades has been the diverging trends in the growth of the developing count...
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629,81 zł |
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The Role of Social Capital in Development: An Empirical Assessment
ISBN: 9780521065795 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social capital can be defined as the institutions and networks of relationships between people, complemented by the attitudes, norms and values that underlie them. Based on a large volume of newly collected data from ten countries, this is the first book to provide a rigorous empirical testing of the link between social capital and economic development. It documents the pervasive role of social capital in accelerating poverty alleviation and rural development, facilitating the provision of goods and services, and easing political transition and recovery from civil conflicts.
Social capital can be defined as the institutions and networks of relationships between people, complemented by the attitudes, norms and values that u...
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320,67 zł |
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The Invisible Cage: Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon
ISBN: 9780804758253 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Invisible Cage uncovers the hidden history of the cycle of labor migration and return of hundreds of thousands of un- and semi-skilled Syrian workers in Lebanon. It traces how Syrians came to comprise a significant proportion of Lebanon's workforce during the 1950s and 1960s, the ways in which these Syrians lived through Lebanon's civil wars, and their prolonged unsettlement and exile through both the reconstruction of the 1990s and instability since 2005. Offering both social history and ethnography, John Chalcraft challenges the commonly held view that a more benign form of...
The Invisible Cage uncovers the hidden history of the cycle of labor migration and return of hundreds of thousands of un- and semi-skilled Syri...
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472,02 zł |
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