This book documents a decade of research, methodological innovation, and lessons learned in an eco-regional research-for-development program operating in the eastern African highlands, the African Highlands Initiative (AHI). It does this through reflections of the protagonists themselves-AHI site teams and partners applying action research to development innovation as a means to enhance the impact of their research. The book summarizes the experiences of farmers, research and development workers and policy and decision-makers who have interacted within an innovation system with the common goal of implementing an integrated approach to natural resource management (NRM) in the humid highlands.
This book demonstrates the crucial importance of "approach" in shaping the outcomes of research and development, and distils lessons learned on what works, where and why. It is enriched with examples and case studies from five benchmark sites in Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, whose variability provides the reader with an in-depth knowledge of the complexities of integrated NRM in agro-ecosystems that play an important role in the rural economy of the region. It is shown that the struggle to achieve sustainable agricultural development in challenging environments is a complex one, and can only be effectively achieved through combined efforts and commitment of individuals and institutions with complementary roles.
Описание: Although long considered to be a barren region on the periphery of ancient Chinese civilization, the southwest massif was once the political heartland of numerous Bronze Age polities. Their distinctive material tradition--intricately cast bronze kettle drums and cowrie shell containers--has given archaeologists and historians a glimpse of the extraordinary wealth, artistry, and power exercised by highland leaders over the course of the first millennium BC. In the first century BC, Han imperial conquest reduced local power and began a process of cultural assimilation. Instead of a clash between center and periphery or barbarism and civilization, this book examines the classic study of imperial rule as a confrontation between different political temporalities. The author provides an archaeological account of the southwest where Bronze Age landscape formations and funerary traditions bring to light a history of competing warrior cultures and kingly genealogies. In particular, the book illustrates how mourners used funerals and cemetery mounds to transmit social biographies and tribal affiliations across successive generations. Han incorporation thus entangled the orders of state time with the generational cycles of local factions, foregrounding the role of time in the production of power relations in imperial frontiers. The book extends approaches to empires to show how prehistoric time frames continue to shape the futures of frontier subjects despite imperial efforts to unify space and histories.
Автор: Bodley Lorraine Byrne, Horton Julian Название: Rethinking Schubert ISBN: 0190200103 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190200107 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 11405.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Rethinking Schubert offers a conspectus of issues in Schubert scholarship, a reappraisal of key debates, and an exploration of new avenues of research. It brings together twenty-two essays by some of today`s most important Schubert scholars, which provide new insights into this composer, his music, his influence and his legacy.
Автор: Joseph Alfred Zinck; Otto Huber Название: Peatlands of the Western Guayana Highlands, Venezuela ISBN: 3642270514 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642270512 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 19589.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book reviews the properties, age record and paleogeographic significance of peatlands, covering geology, geomorphology, vegetation and soils that characterize the biophysical environment of tepui summits in the western Guayana Highlands.
Автор: Harker Название: The West Highlands and the Hebrides ISBN: 1107536774 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107536777 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1941, this book presents a guide to the geology of the West Highlands and the Hebrides. Aimed at the general reader, it begins with a brief discussion of types of rock before moving through different regions discussing their geological characteristics. Illustrative figures are incorporated throughout.
Описание: This 1868 publication is comprised of extracts from Queen Victoria`s diary, detailing the exploits of her private summer holidays in the Highlands. Recorded over thirteen years, Victoria`s journal entries paint an idyllic portrait of family life away from the political and public pressures of London life.
Автор: Strathern Название: Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies ISBN: 0521107849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521107846 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Strathern`s illuminating study of the inequalities amongst the Highland societies of Papua New Guinea is now reissued with a new preface. The five papers in this volume seek to set these inequalities into a context of long-term and recent social changes that aim to develop schemes of analysis which will permit discussion of the societies over extended periods of time.
Описание: Florencia E. Mallon examines the development of capitalism in Peru`s central highlands, depicting its impact on peasant village economy and society. She shows that the region`s peasantry divided into an agrarian bourgeoisie and a rural proletariat during the period under discussion, although the surviving peasant ideology, village kinship networks,
Описание: Lawrence S. Grossman explores the far-reaching implications of the conflicts between subsistence and commodity production in developing countries. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
Автор: Byrne Bodley Название: Schubert`s Late Music ISBN: 1107111293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107111295 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 19008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This overview of current issues in Schubert studies captures the interdisciplinary diversity of contemporary scholarship on the composer`s late works. Contributions offer a revised exploration of Schubert`s compositional style including a close examination of the topical issue of `late` style.
Автор: Gaselee Название: Petronii Codex Traguriensis ISBN: 1107691427 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107691421 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1901.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Morality at the Ballot examines the ability of direct democracy (the process of deciding policy through the ballot) to increase turnout. In contrast to previous studies, this book shows that this ability is much more limited than currently thought. Daniel R. Biggers demonstrates how and when direct democracy can increase participation, affect who votes, and influence electoral and policy outcomes.
Автор: Kemble Название: Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici ISBN: 110803585X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108035859 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5861.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Published in six volumes between 1839 and 1848, this was the first collected edition of the surviving corpus of Anglo-Saxon charters. It includes both Latin and Old English documents, collected from many different archives and arranged chronologically. Volume 1 (1839) contains texts from the seventh, eighth and early ninth centuries.
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