Author: Michael Nelson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135993653 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 334
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First Published in 2011. Latin America today is similar to Canada in the early 1900s-a sleeping giant, basically underpopulated, whose potential rests on the exploitation of enormous land, forest, mineral, and water reserves. This study, carried out over the period 1967-69, has involved travel throughout much of Latin America north of the Tropic of Capricorn and discussions with people in many different fields, including highway construction, forestry, colonization, and agricultural industries in the forest frontier regions and capital cities of the continent. The collection of data required about twelve months of the author in the field.
Author: Michael Nelson Publisher: Baltimore : Published for Resources for the Future by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 336
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Monograph on land utilization development and development policy in the humid tropical zone of Latin America - includes an evaluation of a survey of 24 tropical road construction projects, and analyzes the administrative aspects, technical aspects, social implications and economic implications contributing to their success or failure. Graphs, maps, references and statistical tables.
Author: Peter D. Little Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429712537 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 419
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This book presents case studies highlighting social, economic, political, and biological dimensions of environmental degradation in the Third World. It uses local data to examine, test, and refine larger explanatory models and theories. .
Author: Colin MacAndrews Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies ISBN: 9814377368 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 73
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This paper initially examines the evolution of land settlement policies in Malaysia and Indonesia, and in particular, looks at which models or types of schemes have or have not been successful. It then tries to isolate in both cases the factors - political, economic and cultural - that have either aided or impeded success. Finally, drawing on these two examples, it examines the kind and levels of government inputs that have been necessary for the successful implementation of these settlement policies in these two countries.
Author: Colin Stoneman Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351725769 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 199
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This title was first published in 2000. Drs Tanya Bowyer-Bower and Colin Stoneman compile the views of top researchers, members of Government, civil society, NGOs, funders, and Zimbabwe’s three farmers’ unions. The history of land reform in Zimbabwe is addressed and the current proposed reform policies, comparison between programmes elsewhere in Southern Africa, and implications including for rural and urban welfare, the economy, the environment, the law, and for women. The result is an invaluable overview of this crucial and contentious issue, including constructive suggestions for consensual ways forward.
Author: T.P. Burt Publisher: Geological Society of London Memoirs ISBN: 1786205645 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 435
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Co-published with British Society for Geomorphology This volume is the fifth in the definitive series, The History of the Study of Landforms or the Development of Geomorphology. Volume 1 (1964) dealt with contributions to the field up to 1890, Volume 2 (1973) with the concepts and contributions of William Morris Davis and Volume 3 (1991) covered historical and regional themes during the ‘classic’ period of geomorphology (1890–1950). Volume 4 (2008) concentrated on studies of geomorphological processes and Quaternary geomorphology between 1890 and 1965; by the end of this period, process-based studies had become dominant. Volume 5 builds on this platform, covering in detail the revolutionary changes in approach that characterized the study of geomorphology in the second half of the twentieth century. It is divided into three sections: the first deals with changes in approach and method; the second with changes in ideas and the broader scientific context within which geomorphology is studied; and the final section details advances in research on processes and landforms. The volume’s objective is to describe and analyse many of the developments that provide a foundation for the rich and varied subject matter of twenty-first century geomorphology.
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