A key lesson from history is that most irrigation-based civilizations fail. As we enter the third millennium A.D. Read more...
The paper defines participation as a form of partnership between government and service user communities which may be promoted in the context of... Read more...
This report examines the degree to which pollution adversely affected human health, putting it in the context of other health determinants such as... Read more...
This paper, directed to policy makers at the national, state, and local levels of government, presents widely used strategies and policy instruments... Read more...
Due to rapid population growth, urbanization, and no substantial improvement in their environmental management, many Asian cities could become the... Read more...
The dominant water resources issues and the principles and practices proven effective in dealing with the issues have been placed in four categories... Read more...
The Global Environment Facility (GEF), which began its three-year pilot phase in 1991, was envisioned as a collaborative international effort to... Read more...
This paper reviews the World Bank's role in international water affairs. It was initiated to address the concerns expressed by the delegates to an... Read more...
This book proposes a more holistic and human-centered approach to information management, defined by the authors as information ecology. It draws on... Read more...
This report outlines an action program for securing early and concrete improvements in the daily lives of the Palestinian people and for laying the... Read more...
By the end of the century, the cities of Latin America will hold almost two-thirds of the region's total population. Read more...