1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963382903321

Autore

Baumler Alan <1965->

Titolo

The Chinese and opium under the Republic : worse than floods and wild beasts / / Alan Baumler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c2007

ISBN

9780791480755

0791480755

9781429463768

1429463767

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

363.45095109041

Soggetti

Opium trade - China

Drug traffic - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- The Chinese and Opium under the Republic -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Worse Than Floods and Wild Beasts: Opium, Politics, and Society in Republican China -- 1. Establishing a Meaning for Opium -- 2. The Narrative of Addiction in China and the West -- 3. The International Campaign against Opium -- 4. Warlords and Opium -- 5. Opium, the Nation,and the Revolution -- 6. Hankou, the Anti-Opium Inspectorate, and Control of the Opium Trade -- 7.Purifying the People andDefending the State: The Six Year Plan to Eliminate Opium -- 8. Defining Drugs -- 9. War, Poppies, and the Completion of the Plan -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines China's attempts to control the opium economy in the early twentieth century.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955008703321

Autore

Dalal-Clayton D. B (D. Barry)

Titolo

Rural planning in developing countries : supporting natural resource management and sustainable livelihoods / / Barry Dalal-Clayton, David Dent, and Olivier Dubois

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Sterling, Va. : , : Earthscan, , 2003

ISBN

1-136-54698-7

1-136-54699-5

1-282-78918-X

9786612789182

1-84977-427-7

1-4175-2247-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DentDavid

DuboisOlivier <1957->

Disciplina

307.1/412/091724

Soggetti

Rural development - Environmental aspects - Developing countries

Natural resources - Developing countries - Management

Sustainable development - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Published in association with the International Institute for Environment and Development.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rural Planning in Developing CountriesSupporting Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Livelihoods; Copyright; Contents; List of figures, boxes and tables; About the authors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Authors' note; List of acronyms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Lessons from experience; Rural planning: perspectives, concepts and the objectives and roles of government; Experience of regional planning; A move to decentralized rural and regional planning; Focus on poverty and rural livelihoods; Sustainable livelihoods; Stakeholders; Land tenure; Security of tenure

Coordinating tenure incentives and disincentivesRural-urban linkages; Income diversification; Migration; Implications for planning; The dilemma of planning for the urban-rural interface; 2 Conventional, technical planning approaches; Resource surveys for planning; Land



evaluation; Land capability classification; The USBR system; FAO framework for land evaluation; Parametric indices; Process models; Financial and economic evaluation; Strategic land evaluation; Land use planning; Sectoral plans; Land allocation procedures; Multiple criteria analysis; Resource management domains

Land use planning experience in developing countriesFAO guidelines for land use planning; Faith in negotiation; Impact assessment; Decentralized district planning; Some planning responses to the challenge of sustainable development; Techniques; National and regional planning exercises; Sustainable development strategies; National strategies; Sub-national strategies; Local-level strategies; Some common features of existing strategic planning processes; Guidance on strategies for sustainable development; A continual learning approach; Sustainable development indicators

Pros and cons of conventional approachesCommon limitations of natural resource surveys; Terms of reference; Comprehension; Usefulness; Inappropriate planning methods and inappropriate data: a failure of institutions; 3 Approaches to participation in planning; The need for participation; Perceptions of participation; Horizontal and vertical participation; Participatory learning and action; Participatory planning; Examples of local-level resource planning; Scaling-up and linking bottom-up and top-down planning; Regional rural development; Rapid district appraisal (RDA)

Participatory approaches in large-scale projectsThe catchment approach; NGOs as catalysts; The gestion de terroir approach in francophone West Africa; Participatory planning in Latin America; Approaches in the forestry sector; Landcare in Australia; Limitations of participation; The quality of information; Costs of participation; Great expectations; Dealing with power; Conclusions; 4 A basis for collaborating; The natural resources battlefield; Constraints and opportunities for collaboration; Concepts and methods in collaborative management of natural resources; Stakeholders

Donors as stakeholders

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides an international perspective on rural planning, focused on developing countries. It examines conventional development planning and innovative local planning approaches, drawing together lessons from recent experience of rural planning and land use. The authors examine past and current practice and ways that land use planning and management of natural resources can underpin sustainable local livelihoods. They draw on case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America to present findings relevant throughout the developing world.