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UNINA9910452794803321 |
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Browne Stephen |
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The United Nations Development Programme and System / / Stephen Browne |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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1-280-87302-7 |
9786613714336 |
1-136-65828-9 |
1-136-65827-0 |
0-203-80685-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (193 p.) |
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Routledge global institutions series ; ; 57 |
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Humanitarian assistance |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; The United Nations Development Programme and System; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword by the series editors; Foreword by Craig Murphy; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The origins of UNDP; 2 The 1980s and 1990s; 3 UNDP in the twenty-first century; 4 Performance and results; 5 The future of the UN development system; Notes; Select bibliography; Index |
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This volume provides a short and accessible introduction to the organization that serves as the primary coordinator of the work of the UN system throughout the developing world -the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The book:traces the origins and evolution of UNDP, outlining how a central UN funding mechanism and field network developed into a more comprehensive development agencyevaluates the UNDP's performance and results, both in its role as system coordinator and as a development organization in its own rightconsiders the return of the UNDP to a |
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UNINA9910788467603321 |
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King F. H (Franklin Hiram), <1848-1911.> |
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Farmers of forty centuries, or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan [[electronic resource] /] / F.H. King |
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Folkestone, : Global Oriental, 2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (457 p.) |
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Agriculture - China |
Agriculture - Korea |
Agriculture - Japan |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Originally published 1911 by Rodale Press, Pennsylvania. |
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- First Glimpses of Japan -- Grave Lands of China -- To Hongkong and Canton -- Up The Si-Kiang, West River -- Extent of Canalizatiox and Surface Fitting of Fields -- Some Customs of the Common People -- The Fuel Problem, Building and Textile Materials -- Tramps Afield -- The Utilization of Waste -- In the Shantung Province -- Orientals Crowd both Time and Space -- Rice Culture in the Orient -- Silk Culture -- The Tea Industry -- About Tientsin -- Manchuria and Korea -- Return to Japan -- Index. |
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First published in 1926, this classic survey, which includes nearly 250 photographs, examines the traditional farming methods of the densely populated lands of China, Korea and Japan and shows how fertility can be maintained over many centuries through conserving and utilizing natural resources. In the Introduction, the author notes: ‘The United States as yet a nation of but few people widely scattered over a broad virgin land with more than twenty acres to the support of every man, woman and child, while the people whose practices are to be considered are toiling in fields tilled more than three thousand years and who have scarcely more than two acres per capita, more than one-half of which is uncultivable land.’ Researchers and scholars in the fields of human geography, regional studies and earth sciences, as well as social and economic history will welcome this landmark study being |
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