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The Micro-Hydro Pelton Turbine Manual: Design, Manufacture and Installation for Small-Scale Hydro-Power מאת Jeremy Thake Micro-hydro is a useful way of providing power to houses, workshops or villages that need an independent supply. For many remote areas beyond the reach of a national grid, micro-hydro is the only economic option. Where flow is limited, but high heads are available, the Pelton wheel is one of the mos...

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Toilets That Make Compost: Low-Cost, Sanitary Toilets That Produce Valuable Compost for Crops in an African Context מאת Peter Morgan Most people in rural Africa do not have access to safe toilets, and their health and well-being suffers as a consequence. There is an urgent need for the construction of simple, low-cost, affordable toilets that are easy to build and maintain.Toilets That Make Compost provides practical examp...

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Methods for Community Participation: A Complete Guide for Practitioners מאת Somesh Kumar This book combines the concept, practice and application of participatory rural appraisal (PRA) in a comprehensive manner. The author views PRA as a means of opening up new ways of approaching various problems within the development process. He defines it as a growing body of methods to enable local...

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A Practical Guide to Solar Photovoltaic Systems for Technicians: Sizing, Installation and Maintenance מאת Jean-Paul Louineau An ideal addition to the toolkit of anyone involved in the installation of solar powered photovoltaic systems, this practical guide provides step by step explanations of the process by which technicians can estimate the requirements of PV systems and guides the reader through the set-up and running ...

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Small-Scale Water Supply: A Review of Technologies מאת Brian Skinner "Small-scale Water Supply" provides non-specialists with an overview of the technologies available for water supply in low-income communities in rural areas of developing countries. Focusing chiefly on "point supplies" such as wells, boreholes, springs and rainwater catchment systems, the book also ...

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Just One Planet: Poverty, Justice and Climate Change מאת D. Mark Smith * A call to arms to take care of the earth—because we have “just one planet”* Climate change threatens the survival of cultures, species and whole ecosystems* Demonstrates that if we fail to take action on climate change, we run the risk of failing on poverty reduction, which means abandoning ...

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Managing Humanitarian Relief: An Operational Guide for NGOs מאת Eric James Responding effectively to humanitarian disasters is far from straightforward, and relief workers often find themselves working in competitive situations or at cross purposes with other agencies.Managing Humanitarian Relief is aimed at relief workers charged with putting together a program of action ...

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Communities, Livelihoods, and Natural Resources: Action Research and Policy Change in Asia מאת Stephen R. Tyler This book synthesizes results from a 7-year program of applied research on community-based approaches to natural resource management in Asia. By presenting field reports of innovative approaches to poverty reduction and sustainable resource use, it provides practitioners with models of "good practi...