Sustaining soil fertility is essential to the prosperity of many households in the mid-hills of Nepal, but there are concerns that the breakdown of the traditional linkages between forest, livestock, and cropping systems is adversely affecting fertility. This study used triangulated data from...

Para que la reseña de un libro sirva como guía útil a los lectores potenciales uno esperaría que proporcionara la siguiente información: i)identificar el próposito central del libro y evaluar el marco teórico en el que se emprende el análisis; ii)evaluar el análisis mismo; esto...

Although economic issues have been featured significantly in the urban literature since Habitat I in 1976, they have usually been related to sector issues or to applications in urban microeconomic analysis. At the mid stage between Habitat I and Habitat II, urban specialists increasingly made...

States, created with the central purpose of defending national independence, resist the process of macro-economic reform since it appears to limit their power to pursue this aim. The states of the former Centrally Planned Economies were marked out by their extreme subordination to the military...

Forests and Livelihoods: The Social Dynamics of Deforestation in Developing Countries. By Solon L. Barraclough and Krishna B. Ghimire. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1995. Pp.xiii + 259. £45 and £14.95. ISBN 0 333 62889 6 and 62890 X Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa. Edited by...

In this debate, Nigel Harris and David Coleman discuss the pros and cons of migration. Taking the case of Britain, they address issues such as the desirability or otherwise of migration controls, gains and losses from migration, the ‘optimum’ size and composition of the...

Comprender la economía de la ciudad se ha convertido en un componente vital de su administración. Esta situación ha surgido de dos procesos interrelacionados: a) La globalización. Es la integración, en un solo sistema económico que exhibe patrones cambiantes según la especialización...