Author: Publisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9789211311037
Category : Building materials industry
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Economic and Technical Viability of Various Scales of Building Materials Production
Author: Publisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9789211311037
Category : Building materials industry
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Accessions List, Eastern Africa
Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, KenyaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Number 6 includes cumulative main and added entry index for the monographs listed in that year.
Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Employment, Technology and Construction Development
Author: Sivaguru GanesanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351736132
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This title was first published in 2000: An in depth analysis of employment and technology issues in the housing and construction industries of developing countries, in the context of globalization of economies and increased opportunities for advanced technology transfer. Supported by case studies from Asia including the misallocation of resources that led to the Asian crisis of 1997 and the experience of Shanghai in advanced technology transfer. Ganesan advances a number of strategies to achieve higher employment creation, a proper mix of resources and sustained growth.
Housing Systems Proposals for Operation Breakthrough
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Building Research Advisory BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Books in Print of the United Nations System
Author: United Nations. Advisory Committee for the Co-ordination of Information SystemsPublisher: New York : United Nations
ISBN: 9789211003796
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Charcoal, Food, and Water Production in the Tropics: Applying Nexus Thinking to Improve Research and Policy Approaches in Complex Landscapes
Author: Tuyeni Heita MwampambaPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889632474
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Editorial: Tuyeni H Mwampamba, Rob Bailis, Adrian Ghilardi Urbanization, food, and water consumption trends in many tropical countries show that demand for charcoal (as a source of cooking energy), meat, grain and water will rise to proportions that surpass the ability of existing ecosystems to supply these services simultaneously and at desired qualities. Consequently, drastic changes to policy and practice are needed to improve ecosystem potential and/or alter demand trends. Traditional charcoal production in sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and Latin America often competes or co-exists with livestock keeping and agriculture and has a tendency to occur in water-limited woodlands. The co-occurrence of charcoal and food production results in complex landscapes characterized by strong interactions between subsystems, managed by multiple sets of actors, with potentially competing objectives. These social-ecological systems provide goods and services that are essential to millions of people throughout the global south. Nevertheless, there have been very few detailed studies of such systems, particularly on the individual and combined effects of charcoal, crop, and livestock production on the hydrological system that maintains them and vice versa. As a result, these multi-use landscapes are typically managed by short-sighted, highly generalized, mono-sectorial policies that ignore important tradeoffs and undercapitalize on synergies. A system-level approach could provide important insights that improve and expand current understanding of this energy-food-water nexus. Tackling urgent and complex problems composed of multiple and interrelated factors lies at the heart of nexus thinking - an approach that “examines the inter-relatedness and interdependencies of environmental resources and their transitions and fluxes across spatial scales and between compartments” (UNU-FLORES 2015) and relies on interdisciplinary research and multi-sector policy teams. It has attracted significant interest from international organizations, the private sector and governments as a way to develop integrated equitable solutions that involve inputs from multiple stakeholders. However, this approach is notably absent in the research arena. Identifying appropriate interventions for achieving sustainable charcoal and food production and maintaining the underlying hydrological system on which they depend requires that the systems are considered simultaneously and that their biophysical, social, and political inter-relations are well understood. Taking charcoal as the nexus entry-point, this Research Topic aims to generate new understanding of charcoal production systems by incorporating agriculture and hydrology into the matrix. We were interested in empirical articles, reviews, meta-analytical articles and perspective papers that address at least two of the three nexus components and which offer provocative and insightful perspectives into the nexus as a whole. We hope that this Research Topic will 1) facilitate identification of research gaps, policy opportunities and priorities for the nexus, 2) kick-start the development of a community of researchers and practitioners working on the nexus, and 3) permit the development of a research agenda that explores the nexus globally across multiple study sites.
Structures and Architecture. A Viable Urban Perspective?
Author: Marie Frier HvejselPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000786102
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Structures and Architecture. A Viable Urban Perspective? contains extended abstracts of the research papers and prototype submissions presented at the Fifth International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA2022, Aalborg, Denmark, 6-8 July 2022). The book (578 pages) also includes a USB with the full texts of the papers (1448 pages). The contributions on creative and scientific aspects in the conception and construction of structures as architecture, and on the role of advanced digital-, industrial- and craft -based technologies in this matter represent a critical blend of scientific, technical, and practical novelties in both fields. Hence, as part of the proceedings series Structures and Architecture, the volume adds to a continuous exploration and development of the synergetic potentials of the fields of Structures and Architecture. With each volume further challenging the conditions, problems, and potentials related to the art, practice, and theory of teaching, researching, designing, and building structures as vehicles towards a viable architecture of the urban environment. The volumes of the series appear once every three years, in tandem with the conferences organized by the International Association of Structures and Architecture and are intended for a global readership of researchers, practitioners, and students, including architects, structural and construction engineers, builders and building consultants, constructors, material suppliers, planners, urban designers, anthropologists, economists, sociologists, artists, product manufacturers, and other professionals involved in the design and realization of architectural, structural, and infrastructural projects.
Global Report on Human Settlements
Author: An Urbanizing World
Author: United Nations Centre for Human SettlementsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
This is a review of conditions and trends in cities around the world and in the urbanization process. Prepared by Habitat (United Nations Centre for Human Settlements) the book shows the positive and negative side of cities while stressing the crucial impo