We examine the distributional impact of major dams on cropland productivity in Africa. As our unit of analysis we use a … areas. Our econometric analysis shows that while regions downstream benefit from large dams, cropland within the vicinity … tends to suffer productivity losses during droughts. Overall our results suggest that because of rainfall shortages dams in …

This article analyzes the different phases the Information Systems--Sociology relationship has gone through and points … an historical analysis of sociology itself. It shows the great comeback of the Object within the sociological field at … the beginning of the 80s. Different models have been developed from the generalized kinds of sociology to those that have …