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“theo schilderman”

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  • Still Standing? eBook

    Looking back at reconstruction and disaster risk reduction in housing

    Edited by Theo Schilderman, Eleanor Parker ...
    Huge levels of aid are spent on reconstructing housing after disasters. Have these houses withstood the test of time and hazard? Just as important from the point of view of their owners, has the reconstruction process played a part in restoring their livelihoods and social networks? Unfortunately, aid agencies rarely go back to assess the impact of reconstruction in the longer term. The research ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Still Standing?

    Edited by Theo Schilderman ...
    Huge levels of aid are spent on reconstructing housing after disasters. Have these houses withstood the test of time and hazard? Just as important from the point of view of their owners, has the reconstruction process played a part in restoring their livelihoods and social networks? Unfortunately, aid agencies rarely go back to assess the impact of reconstruction in the longer term. The research ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Lessons from Aceh

    Edited by Matthew Clarke, Ismet Fanany, Sue Kenny ...
    On Sunday 26 December 2004, a tsunami of up to 30 metres high hit the northern tip of Sumatera in Indonesia, causing immediate destruction and the deaths of at least 130,000 in Indonesia alone. The scale of the devastation and ensuing human suffering prompted the biggest response endeavour to any natural disaster in history.Post-Disaster Reconstruction will be the first major book that analyses ... Read more

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  • How to Be a Better Birder

    Travel Stories

    by Michael A. Ketover ...
    With his first book, Better Birder, Michael Ketover emerges as an exciting voice in travel writing. Ketover, an expert in poverty reduction and social justice, chronicles inspiring, outrageous, and mundane assignments in international development work and his reflections on the resilience of the poorest of the poor. These interactions reveal his flaws and slowly remake him into someone better than ... Read more

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  • Failing to Protect

    The UN and the Politicization of Human Rights

    by Rosa Freedman ...
    Every year tens of millions of individuals suffer grave abuses of their human rights. These violations occur worldwide, in war-torn countries and in the wealthiest states. Despite many of the abuses being well-documented, little seems to be done to stop them from happening. The United Nations was established to safeguard world peace and security, development, and human rights yet it is undeniable ... Read more

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  • Communication for Another Development

    Listening before Telling

    by Wendy Quarry, Ricardo Ramirez ...
    This lively book argues that in the development process, communication is everything. The authors, world experts in this field as teachers, practitioners and theorists, argue that Communication for Development is a creative and innovative way of thinking that can permeate the overall approach to any development initiative. They illustrate their argument with vivid case studies and tools for the ... Read more

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  • Dynamic Sustainabilities

    Technology, Environment, Social Justice

    Edited by Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Andy Stirling ...
    Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies and economies, and globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing international ... Read more

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  • Women and Disasters in South Asia

    Survival, security and development

    Edited by Swarna Rajagopalan, Linda Racioppi ...
    South Asia is one of the most vulnerable areas of an increasingly disaster-impacted world, with cyclones, earthquakes, floods and droughts causing several casualties and disrupting lives and livelihoods every year. Yet the impacts of disasters are not equally distributed across the peoples of the region.Women and men experience disaster differently, and their needs in the aftermath of disaster ... Read more

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  • The Global Hunger Crisis

    Tackling Food Insecurity in Developing Countries

    by Majda Bne Saad ...
    For billions across the world, the daily challenge is to find enough to eat to survive. Hunger is on the rise globally with more than 1.2 billion people suffering from food insecurity and poverty and rising food prices increasingly jeopardising access to food. But what are the causes for global hunger? And as the global population soars, what are the key food challenges?In this deeply informative ... Read more

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  • The New Development Management

    Critiquing the Dual Modernization

    Edited by Bill Cooke, Associate Professor in Interdisciplinary Global Management Sadhvi Dar ...
    'Development management' is an idea that blends the seemingly innocuous claims of managerialism with notions of modernity and utopian ideals of 'third world' progress. This book views both phenomena as problematic and modernizing interventions. In doing so, it overturns and reclaims such ideas as participation, community, governance, NGOs, and civil society. The contributors argue that the ... Read more

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  • Africa's Return Migrants

    The New Developers?

    Edited by Lisa Åkesson, Maria Eriksson Baaz ...
    Series series Africa Now
    Many African migrants residing abroad nurture a hope to one day return, at least temporarily, to their home country. In the wake of economic crises in the developed world, alongside rapid economic growth in parts of Africa, the impetus to 'return' is likely to increase. Such returnees are often portrayed as agents of development, bringing with them capital, knowledge and skills as well as ... Read more

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  • Black Africa 1945-1980

    Economic Decolonization and Arrested Development

    by D K Fieldhouse ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    In what ways did economic considerations affect the decision by Britain and France to make their Black African colonies independent? Why were early expectations that independence would lead to rapid and sustained economic development in Africa for the most part disappointed? This title, originally published in 1986, seeks to tackle these two important and strongly debated issues.The main aim and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD