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Renewable energy is becoming crucially important, as concern over burning fossil fuels is increasing and the price of oil continues to rise. Biogas technology has undergone great developments since...

Learning from others in the form of fusion and adaptation of existing tools and approaches is very much part of evolving new participatory methods, and is a key component of the process of creating...

Two years on from the Gleneagles G8: What has been achieved? What has changed? In July 2005 the first edition of Matthew Lockwood's The State They're In asked the key questions of the moment: What...

This book describes the stories of the project beneficiaries and how their houses have changed, within contexts that have kept changing too. Still Standing? is essential reading for architects and...

Local production provides food for more than 70 per cent of the world's population and secures a livelihood for well over 2 billion. In local food webs the distance between producer and consumer is...

TERRE FERTILE : generaliser l'aagroecologie en partant du terrainAuthor: NAPublisher: Practical Action PublishingPublication Date: Feb 29, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: FrenchBinding:...

This study examines whether the existing aid processes widely used by donors and NGOs are effective in tackling poverty and exclusion and shows how the fast changing aid sector has encouraged the...

This is a practical, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wanting to help organisations to function and to develop in more healthy, human and effective ways as they strive to make their...

Why is it that so many organizations, seeking to do good in the world, miss opportunities to do so - and indeed sometimes exacerbate the very problem they seek to address? The Business of Doing Good...

This book describes an attempt to create modern, multi-storey urban dwellings that incorporate ecological sanitation into their design and highlights the experience of implementing the Erdos Eco-Town...

Written by an experienced food technologist and author, this book provides comprehensive technical and business information on all aspects of small-scale food processing in a single text. It is...

The Economies of Small describes the origins and development of the appropriate technology movement, and analyses both its changing concerns at the different stages of development, and also its...

Understanding and demonstrating the effectiveness of efforts to improve the lives of those living in poverty is an essential part of international development practice. But who decides what counts as...

Building on the huge acclaim that followed its first publication, this second edition brings readers up to date with microfinance developments; SHGs, village banks, and microfinance. The book's...

Most people are now aware of their eco-footprint and the need to cut carbon emissions. Local councils have set up recycling schemes and people are encouraged to reduce travel emissions, but this is...

Este libro presenta ejemplos de organizaciones agricultoras familiares que actúan como agentes de cambio. Los vemos contribuyendo a la creación de sistemas agrícolas y alimentarios más saludables,...

This book provides examples of toilets that provide a safe sanitation option and recycle nutrients in excreta to produce compost. The designs are suitable for regions where there is no high water...

Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation is an introductory resource for development and humanitarian practitioners working with populations at risk of...

Training for Transformation in Practice brings together the experiences of 17 activists who have adapted these materials to their own social and cultural contexts. The book starts by describing the...

This book argues that as greenhouse gas emissions continue to accumulate, a 'business as usual' approach to development practice is increasingly inadequate and securing adaptive capacity becomes more...

Under Development: A Journey Without MapsAuthor: IAN. SMILLIEPublisher: Practical Action PublishingPublication Date: Jul 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10:...

Poor people bear the brunt of climate change since they live in those regions most affected by fluctuating temperatures, sea level rise, flooding and drought. Far from behaving as victims, however,...

Describes the work of Practical Action in introducing consensus-based planning approaches in villages that are poor even by Bangladesh standards, where 90 per cent of people live under the poverty...

Voices of Activists and Academics: Working with Children in CommunitiesAuthor: Vicky JohnsonPublisher: Practical Action PublishingPublication Date: Nov 15, 2024Number of Pages: 326 pagesBinding:...

A safe, adequate water supply within easy reach is still a dream for many people living in rural Africa. This book examines why such a basic service is not yet universally available by studying in...

Earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, disease outbreaks as well as conflicts are all crises that result in death as well as profound disruption to those left behind, and to those communities who...

Wellbeing and Quality of Life Assessment is a practical resource for people working in social or development policy and practice who are thinking about integrating wellbeing or quality of life in...

Well-being Ranking describes the successful use of ranking tools over large populations and the value of using multi-dimensional models of well-being and briefly explores the ideas used to make...

Poverty reduction has become the central goal of development policies over the last decade but there is a growing realization that the poorest people rarely benefit from poverty reduction programmes...

The book contains over 1,200 drawings relating to a wide range of educational and health issues, along with advice on copying, enlarging, changing illustrations to make them appropriate to a...