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By applying a unified framework, this book examines the impact of
land tenure reforms on poverty reduction and natural resource
management in countries in Africa and Asia with highly diverse
historical contexts. These land tenure reforms include
Land-to-the-tiller policies, Market assisted land redistribution
reforms, Tenure security enhancing low-cost reforms, Forest tenure
reforms and the Needed future reforms related to the recent sharp
increase in demand for agricultural land in Africa. The
Land-to-the-tiller reforms did not produce the intended impacts but
rather enhanced tenure insecurity, undermined the efficiency of
land rental markets and access to land for land-poor households.
Market-assisted land redistribution reforms face many design and
political challenges and have in many cases not been scaled up in a
good way. Low-cost tenure security enhancing reforms have recently
been scaled up in a number of countries with positive initial
impacts. Individual ownership of forestland is preferred in some
contexts while communal tenure manages forest resources effectively
in other contexts.
A fresh new treatment written by industry insiders, this work gives
readers a remarkably clear view into the world of chemical
separation. The authors review distillation, extraction,
adsorption, crystallization, and the use of membranes – providing
historical perspective, explaining key features, and offering
insights from personal experience. The book is for engineers and
chemists with current or future responsibility for chemical
separation on a commercial scale – in its design, operation, or
improvement – or for anyone wanting to learn more about chemical
separation from an industrial point of view. The result is a
compelling survey of popular technologies and the profession, one
that brings the art and craft of chemical separation to life. Ever
wonder how popular separation technologies came about, how a
particular process functions, or how mass transfer units differ
from theoretical stages? Or perhaps you want some pointers on how
to begin solving a separation problem.  You will find clear
explanations and valuable insights into these and other aspects of
industrial practice in this refreshing new survey.
Rural poverty remains widespread and persistent in South Asia and
Sub-Saharan Africa. A group of leading experts critically examines
the impact of land tenure reforms on poverty reduction and natural
resource management in countries in Africa and Asia with highly
diverse historical contexts.
The world is peopled by victims; everyone has a story. However,
victimhood is just the beginning of the story. This book is about
the endings of at least some of those stories, the stories of
victims who strive to overcome and even triumph in the end. This
book is a collection of research perspectives and personal stories
exploring the various pathways for overcoming victimhood. It is
hoped that they might offer an inspiration for others and encourage
others to stay on the path to find a positive ending. Victim
Victorious is an examination of the ways in which victims come to
rise above the challenges that they face. Victims may be innocent
bystanders, and in no way responsible for their victimhood.
Nonetheless, they can -- and indeed we argue need to -- take
responsibility for finding a personal solution. To assist in this
task, this book chronicles the pathway of prejudice and how the
pain and the damage experienced by individual victims may be
overcome by effort, by and on their own behalf. The first half of
the book features outsider views of victimhood. A range of
professionals, philosophers, psychologists, criminologists and
critical theorists offer their thoughts on how people might
overcome victimhood. The second half of the book features insider
views of victimhood; in this section, the victims speak for
themselves about their experience and how they have endeavoured to
break through their victimhood. This book is less about identifying
and proscribing the behaviours of perpetrators and more about the
efforts that victims can undertake to heal themselves as they
journey towards resilience and victory.
THE OTHER GLASS CEILING offers an insightful male perspective to a
debate on the lack of work-family balance in modern day families.
Based on research and full of entertaining anecdotes, this book
challenges the predominant gender roles that expect a mother to
care for her family and doubt her commitment to a career, while at
the same time requiring a father to provide for his family
financially and doubting his ability to look after his own
children. This is the other glass ceiling -- the one reflected in
gender inequity in the family home and preventing equality in
parenting. The book is perpetuated by both genders equally, and the
solution requires compromises from both sides. Charles Areni and
Stephen Holder encourage dads to 'step up', to take on a bigger
share of the burden of home duties. They encourage mums to 'let
go', to let dad get involved in child-rearing, and to bring to the
task his own skills and approaches. Breaking through the other
glass ceiling will be good for mum, good for dad - oh, and good for
the children too! "This book is an important contribution to our
understanding of modern-day families in that it explores a topic
that is pervasive in society: the lack of work-family balance." --
Rosina McAlpine, Author of "Inspired Children"
The world is peopled by victims; everyone has a story. However,
victimhood is just the beginning of the story. This book is about
the endings of at least some of those stories, the stories of
victims who strive to overcome and even triumph in the end. This
book is a collection of research perspectives and personal stories
exploring the various pathways for overcoming victimhood. It is
hoped that they might offer an inspiration for others and encourage
others to stay on the path to find a positive ending. Victim
Victorious is an examination of the ways in which victims come to
rise above the challenges that they face. Victims may be innocent
bystanders, and in no way responsible for their victimhood.
Nonetheless, they can -- and indeed we argue need to -- take
responsibility for finding a personal solution. To assist in this
task, this book chronicles the pathway of prejudice and how the
pain and the damage experienced by individual victims may be
overcome by effort, by and on their own behalf. The first half of
the book features outsider views of victimhood. A range of
professionals, philosophers, psychologists, criminologists and
critical theorists offer their thoughts on how people might
overcome victimhood. The second half of the book features insider
views of victimhood; in this section, the victims speak for
themselves about their experience and how they have endeavoured to
break through their victimhood. This book is less about identifying
and proscribing the behaviours of perpetrators and more about the
efforts that victims can undertake to heal themselves as they
journey towards resilience and victory.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.
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