Author : Gavin M. Hilson
Publisher : Practical Action
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Critical assessment of initiatives in the development of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in ECOWAS countries (Economic Community of West African States). Emphasises the need to understand the socioeconomic conditions, environmental and policy issues in order to achieve sustainable development. Gives case studies from selected Anglophone and Francophone countries.
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Page : 860 pages
File Size : 32,23 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Africa
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Page : 724 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Mineral resources in submerged lands
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Author : Leslie Rainer
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1606060430
Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building tradition for centuries. Sites range from ancestral cities in Mali to the palaces of Abomey in Benin, from monuments and mosques in Iran and Buddhist temples on the Silk Road to Spanish missions in California. This volume's sixty-four papers address such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, the conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, the conservation and management of archaeological sites, research advances, and training.
Author : Serbin, Sylvia
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 2015-11-09
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ISBN : 9231001302
Author : Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520066960
"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
Author : Bihini won wa Musiti
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 2831706904
This bilingual publication results from a four-day symposium aimed at capturing the general directions and analytical issues that characterize approaches to sustainable use in Africa. The papers included in this work are organized under four major headings: modes of use, devolution, scale issues and external issues. Authors explore these themes through the use of case studies and the description of specific regional experiences. External issues are further explored in a series of commissioned policy papers which have also been included.
Author : Nasser Ennih
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781862392519
Author : John M. Stopford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 1991-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521423861
In this theoretically original work, two distinguished authors explore the mutual interdependence of states and firms throughout the world. They show how global structural changes - in finance, technology, knowledge and politics - often impel governments to seek the help and cooperation of managers of multinational enterprises. Yet, as Professors Stopford and Strange demonstrate, this is constrained by each country's economic resources, its social structures and its political history. Based on grass-roots research into the experience of over 50 multinationals and more than 100 investment projects in three developing countries- Brazil, Malaysia and Kenya - the authors develop a matrix of agendas. They present the impact on projects of the multiple factors affecting the bargaining relationships between the government and the foreign firm at different times and in a variety of economic sectors. In conclusion they offer some guidelines for actions to both governments and firms and some points to future interdisciplinary research.
Author : Olivier Barrière
Publisher : Springer
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319781111
This second volume is the work of more than 55 authors from 15 different disciplines and includes complex systems science which studies the viability of components, and also the study of empirical situations. As readers will discover, the coviability of social and ecological systems is based on the contradiction between humanity, which adopts finalized objectives, and the biosphere, which refers to a ecological functions. We see how concrete situations shed light on the coviability’s determinants, and in this book the very nature of the coviability, presented as a concept-paradigm, is defined in a transversal and ontological ways. By adopting a systemic approach, without advocating any economic dogma (such as development) or dichotomizing between humans and nature, while emphasizing what is relevant to humans and what is not, this work neutrally contextualizes man’s place in the biosphere. It offers a new mode of thinking and positioning of the ecological imperative, and will appeal to all those working with social and ecological systems.
