Author: Angela Bessant Publisher: Heinemann ISBN: 0435455435 Category : Business Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
This is a book for anyone who really wants to make the most of Office 97. The book helps students build on their knowledge of Office 97 applications including word processing, spreadsheets and databases as well as introducing them to automated presentatio
Author: Orvika Rosnes Publisher: World Bank Publications ISBN: 0821384554 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 352
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Africa's Power Infrastructure: Investment, Integration, Efficiency is based on the most extensive data collection exercise ever undertaken on infrastructure in Africa: the Africa Country Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD). Data from this study have provided new insights on the extent of a power crisis in the region, characterized by insufficient capacity, low electricity connection rates, high costs, and poor reliabilityùand on what can be done about it. The continent faces an annual power sector financing gap of about $21 billion, with much of the existing spending channeled to maintain and operate high-cost power systems, leaving little for the huge investments needed to provide a long-term solution. Meanwhile, the power crisis is taking a heavy toll on economic growth and productivity. This book asserts that the current impediments to economic growth and development need to be tackled through policies and investment strategies that renew efforts to reform state-owned utilities, build on the lessons of private participation in infrastructure projects, retarget electrification strategies, expand regional power trade, and mobilize new funding resources. Further development of regional power trade would allow Africa to harness larger-scale and more cost-effective energy sources, reducing energy system costs by US$2 billion and carbon dioxide emissions by 70 million tons annually. But reaping the promise of regional trade depends on a handful of major exporting countries raising the large volumes of finance needed to develop generation capacity for export; it also requires a large number of importing countries to muster the requisite political will. With increased utility efficiency and regional power trade in play, power costs would fall and full cost recovery tariffs could become affordable in much of Africa. This will make utilities more creditworthy and help sustain the flow of external finance to the sector, which is essential to close the huge financing gap.
Author: Carol McKenzie Publisher: Heinemann ISBN: 0435454323 Category : Microsoft Word Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
"Extending Word 2000 for Windows" offers step-by-step explanations, theory topics, structured exercises, keyboard, menu and toolbar options, a glossary of Word 2000 commands and mock examination papers at the end of each section.
Author: Elli Louka Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139459198 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 478
Book Description
This book analyzes the law and policy for the management of global common resources. As competing demands on the global commons are increasing, the protection of environment and the pursuit of growth give rise to all sorts of conflicts. It also analyzes issues in the protection of the global commons from a fairness, effectiveness and world order perspective. The author examines whether policymaking and trends point to a fair allocation of global common resources that is effective in protecting the environment and the pursuit of sustainable development. The author looks at the cost-effectiveness of international environmental law and applies theories of national environmental law to international environmental problems. Chapters include analysis on areas such as marine pollution, air pollution, fisheries management, transboundary water resources, biodiversity, hazardous and radioactive waste management, state responsibility and liability.
Author: Publisher: UNEP/Earthprint ISBN: 9789280725759 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 168
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In Africa, most major rivers, freshwater lakes, and aquifers are shared by two or more countries. These nations are becoming increasingly vulnerable to conflict, and their vulnerabilities are made more acute by climatic variations in precipitation, increasing urbanization, industrialization and environmental degradation. The concept of resilience and vulnerability as it relates to water resources is tackled in this report within the framework of sustainability and relates to the ability of the human and bio-physical systems to adapt to change.
Author: Bernard Kane Publisher: Nelson Thornes ISBN: 9780748765010 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 344
Book Description
Comprehensive coverage of Microsoft Office 2000 for all CLAIT and IBTII students. This accessible textbook ensures your students acquire the knowledge, skills and ability to succeed in CLAIT and IBTII qualifications.
Author: Tiffany Fawn Jones Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136473254 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 273
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In the late 1970s, South African mental institutions were plagued with scandals about human rights abuse, and psychiatric practitioners were accused of being agents of the apartheid state. Between 1939 and 1994, some psychiatric practitioners supported the mandate of the racist and heteropatriarchal government and most mental patients were treated abysmally. However, unlike studies worldwide that show that women, homosexuals and minorities were institutionalized in far higher numbers than heterosexual men, Psychiatry, Mental Institutions and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa reveals how in South Africa, per capita, white heterosexual males made up the majority of patients in state institutions. The book therefore challenges the monolithic and omnipotent view of the apartheid government and its mental health policy. While not contesting the belief that human rights abuses occurred within South Africa’s mental health system, Tiffany Fawn Jones argues that the disparity among practitioners and the fluidity of their beliefs, along with the disjointed mental health infrastructure, diffused state control. More importantly, the book shows how patients were also, to a limited extent, able to challenge the constraints of their institutionalization. This volume places the discussions of South Africa’s mental institutions in an international context, highlighting the role that international organizations, such as the Church of Scientology, and political events such as the gay rights movement and the Cold War also played in shaping mental health policy in South Africa.
Author: Publisher: World Bank Publications ISBN: 0821386182 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 436
Book Description
Africa's Water and Sanitation InfrastructureùAccess, Affordability, and Alternatives integrates a wealth of primary and secondary information to present a quantitative snapshot of the state of the WSS sectors in Africa. It explains the sectoral institutional structures and utility performance and articulates the volume and quality of financing available over time. The authors also evaluate the challenges to the WSS sectors and explore the factors that govern the expansion of coverage over time. Finally, the authors estimate spending needs for WSS, arriving at a funding gap for meeting the MDGs. The proposed directions for the future draw on lessons learned from best practices and present the menu of choices available to African countries, bearing in mind that the challenges differ to a significant extent among countries and solutions must be tailored to national or regional conditions. --Book Jacket.
Author: Angela Bessant Publisher: Heinemann ISBN: 0435452347 Category : Microsoft Office Languages : en Pages : 357
Book Description
This text contains a range of instructions and exercises to assist the reader in learning Office 2000 to the standard required for CLAIT and IBT II, including skills such as databases, word processing and spreadsheets. Includes a CD-ROM containing all the material needed for the work in the book.
Author: Emilie Lavie Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319507494 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 260
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This book is a reference work about the study of oases in the context of globalization. It is based on selected papers presented at the international colloquium entitled Oases in the Globalization, Ruptures and Continuities in Paris (December 16-17th, 2013). The main issue was to understand how oases have been excluded from or included into the process of globalization. In this context, the present book proposes firstly a discussion about the definition(s) of oasis and secondly several case studies analysing socio-spatial mutations in the oasis structure. The third part deals with the compelling globalization at different spatial scales, using two entries: the water management and local impacts of external control.
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