Code of Federal Regulations

Code of Federal Regulations

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Published: 1993

Total Pages: 852

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Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.


Social and Environmental Consequences of Natural Resources Policies, with Special Emphasis on Biosphere Reserves

Social and Environmental Consequences of Natural Resources Policies, with Special Emphasis on Biosphere Reserves

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Published: 1981

Total Pages: 64

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The objective of this seminar was to promote international co-operation among natural resources policy makers, scientists, and educators within the framework of the international Man and the Biosphere program. The 20 papers cover a variety of topics including nature conservancy, wildlife, land use and resource policies. The effects of tourism on natural resources is touched on in many of the papers.


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Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE

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Total Pages: 236

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The Democracy Development Machine

The Democracy Development Machine

Author: Nicholas Copeland

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1501736078

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Nicholas Copeland sheds new light on rural politics in Guatemala and across neoliberal and post-conflict settings in The Democracy Development Machine. This historical ethnography examines how governmentalized spaces of democracy and development fell short, enabling and disfiguring an ethnic Mayan resurgence. In a passionate and politically engaged book, Copeland argues that the transition to democracy in Guatemalan Mayan communities has led to a troubling paradox. He finds that while liberal democracy is celebrated in most of the world as the ideal, it can subvert political desires and channel them into illiberal spaces. As a result, Copeland explores alternative ways of imagining liberal democracy and economic and social amelioration in a traumatized and highly unequal society as it strives to transition from war and authoritarian rule to open elections and free-market democracy.The Democracy Development Machine follows Guatemala's transition, reflects on Mayan involvement in politics during and after the conflict, and provides novel ways to link democratic development with economic and political development. Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.


Social Funds and Reaching the Poor

Social Funds and Reaching the Poor

Author: Anthony G. Bigio

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780821342091

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This paper reports on proceedings from an international workshop on social funds, held on May 21-24, 1997, in Washington, DC. The objectives of the workshop were to take stock of a decade's implementation experience of social funds with a view to assessing their impact on poverty reduction; establish a broad consensus on their main achievements, weaknesses, and risks; generate a set of recommendations for improving existing operations as well as for the design of future social funds; and facilitate the integration of international and regional networks of social funds.


The Road to the Land of the Mother of God

The Road to the Land of the Mother of God

Author: Stephen G. Perz

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2023-05

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1496236300

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The Interoceanic Highway is many things to many people: an emblematic project during a period focused on integration, a dream realized for an isolated region, a symbol of the profound fragility of state institutions, a key cause of political corruption, and a major driver of ecological and cultural devastation. This highway links the Andean highlands with the Amazonian lowlands in southern Peru, offering an outlet for Brazil's emergent economy. While it finally brought an end to the isolation of Madre de Dios and other parts of southern Peru and the western Amazon, it was made possible by political corruption revealed in the Lava Jato scandal, and it permitted the spread of criminal business activities. But the Interoceanic Highway's deeper history must be appreciated in order to fully understand why it was built and the impacts it has generated. The Road to the Land of the Mother of God explores more than five hundred years of the history of Peru's Interoceanic Highway, showing how the purposes, portrayals, and importance of roads change fundamentally over time, and thus how roads bring significantly more impacts and costs than their advocates and critics generally anticipate. By taking a deeper look at infrastructure history, Stephen G. Perz and Jorge Luis Castillo Hurtado portray infrastructure as an integrative optic for understanding changes in local livelihoods, regional development, and social conflicts.