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1983/01/19 Cities of the World catches the changing mood of geography in the 1980s in an exciting way. The authors use a wide-angle lens to sweep across the emerging world urban patterns, surveying from continent to continent. It is a study in comparative world urban development. The great interest today in...
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Through a set of case studies, this study attempts to examine the interplay of many factors--domestic policies as well as exogenous events such as changes in the price of oil and severe fluctuations in rainfall. the remained of this chapter looks at population growth, environmental stress, and...
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Key Resource 1990/01/01 Income generation schemes in urban areas of the Third World are many and varied. However, too often such schemes fail to achieve sustainable economic viability and depend on continued funding by development agencies. This book examines the reasons for failures or successes and stresses that those...
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2008/01/20 Poverty, IIED, Karachi, Orangi Pilot Project, Urban Resource Centre, Pakistan, Karachi Mass Transit Project, grassroots organizations This is a condensed version of a paper prepared for an IIED initiative on “Learning from Local Organisations for Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management”....
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This report deals with the environmental aspects of the study of health, environment and socioeconomic aspects of irrigation with untreated wastewater. The objectives of the study were to identify the environmental impacts of wastewater use in a small town in Pakistan, and to estimate water and...
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Key Resource1996/01/01 What can a family do if the national unemployment rate is over 50%, wages are a dollar or two a day, prices of food are increasing and may at times be even higher than in the USA, they have neither savings nor credit and there is no governmental safety net? For many, an option of last resort is...
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