1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798190203321

Titolo

Eastern and Southern Africa : development challenges in a volatile region / / edited by Deborah Potts and Tanya Bowyer-Bower

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-317-90491-5

1-315-84778-7

1-317-90490-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Collana

DARG regional development series ; ; Number 4

Altri autori (Persone)

Bowyer-BowerT. A. S (Tanya A. S.)

PottsDeborah (Deborah Helen)

Disciplina

330.9676

Soggetti

Africa, Eastern Economic conditions

Africa, Southern Economic conditions

Africa, Eastern Politics and government 1960-

Africa, Southern Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

At head of title: Developing Areas Research Group, the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).

First published 2004 by Pearson Education.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; List of Contributors; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Publisher's Acknowledgements; 1 Development challenges and debates in eastern and southern Africa; Introduction; Eastern and southern Africa: defining a diverse region; Global political economy changes: regional perspectives; Development challenges in the region; Development theory and development debates; 2 Demographic change in eastern and southern Africa; Introduction; Population size; Mortality; Age-sex structure

Family structureConcluding remarks; 3 Structural adjustment in eastern and southern Africa: the tragedy of development; False dawn: a brief history of the first two decades; Triumph of market-Leninism over Marxist-Leninism; Stabilisation or adjustment?; A taxonomy of countries in the region; Conclusion; 4 The persistence of poverty; Poverty in context; Poverty measurement; Poverty trends; Food and



hunger; Healthcare; Education; The debt issue; Conclusions; 5 Natural resources: use, access, tenure and management; 'Wild' plant and animal resources: biophysical determinants of availability

7 Water resources and development challenges in eastern and southern AfricaPhysical setting; Estimation of renewable water resources; Use of water resources; Supply and demand - the water stress index; Quality of water resources; Hydropolitics of transboundary watercourses; Alleviating water scarcity - interbasin water transfers and 'virtual water'; Concluding discussion - future challenges; 8 Desertification in eastern and southern Africa; Introduction; Developments in the understanding of desertification; Desertification today

Contemporary implications of desertification for development in eastern and southern AfricaCauses of desertification; Conclusion; 9 Geographies of governance and regional politics; Introduction: geographical analysis and African politics; Key themes and issues in national, regional and international (geo)politics; States and regional (dis)integration: imagining 'development' communities; Democratisation and conflict resolution in global political and economic context; Conclusions: Co-operation, corruption and complexity in African politics

10 International and regional trade in eastern and southern Africa



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910829953503321

Autore

Robertson Bernard

Titolo

Interpreting evidence : evaluating forensic science in the courtroom / / Bernard Robertson, G. A. Vignaux and Charles E. H. Berger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

United Kingdom : , : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

9781118492475

1-118-49246-3

1-118-49245-5

1-118-49247-1

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

347.067

Soggetti

Evidence, Expert

Evidence, Criminal

Forensic sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Interpreting scientific evidence -- The alternative hypothesis -- What questions can the expert deal with? -- Explaining the strength of evidence -- The case as a whole -- Forensic science methodology -- Assigning likelihood ratios -- Errors of thinking -- Frequentist statistics and database matching -- Implications for the legal system.