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Alphabetical listing of the titles

African agriculture: The critical choices
Edited by Hamid Aït Amara and Bernard Founou-Tchuigoua

Agricultural Expansion and Pioneer Settlements in the Humid Tropics
Edited by Walter Manshard and William B. Morgan

Agroforesterie en Afrique tropicale humide
Edited by L.H. MacDonald

Agroforestry in the African Humid Tropics
Edited by L.H. MacDonald

Agroforestry in the Pacific Islands: Systems for Sustainability
Edited by W.C. Clarke and R.R. Thaman

Amazonia - Resiliency and Dynamism of the Land and its People
By Nigel J.H. Smith, Emanuel Adilson S. Serrão, Paulo T. Alvim, and Italo C. Falesi

Arid Zone Settlement in Australia: A Focus on Alice Springs
By D.N. Parkes, I. H. Burnley, and S. R. Walker

Bedouins, Wealth, and Change: A Study of Rural Development in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman
By Rainer Cordes and Fred Scholz

Bioconversion of Organic Residues for Rural Communities

Central Eurasian water crisis: Caspian, Aral, and Dead Seas
Edited by Iwao Kobori and Michael H. Glantz

Cloud Forests in the Humid Tropics: • A Bibliographic Review
By Thomas Stadtmüller

Colonization and Environment: Land Settlement Projects in Central America
Edited by Jeffrey R. Jones

Compiling Data for Food Composition Data Bases
By William M. Rand, Jean A.T. Pennington, Suzanne P. Murphy, and John C. Klensin

Compte rendu du Séminaire sur la gestion des terres arides en Afrique de l'Ouest
[Report of the Seminar on Arid Lands Management in West Africa]

Edited by Jean Gallais

Conflict over Natural Resources in South-East Asia and the Pacific
Edited by Lim Teck Ghee and Mark J. Valencia

Conservation and Development in Northern Thailand
By Jack D. Ives, Sanga Sabhasri, and Pisit Voraurai

The crisis in African agriculture - Studies in African political economy
Mohamed Lamine Gakou

Development Projects in the Sudan: An Analysis of Their Reports with Implications for Research and Training in Arid Land Management
Edited by Heinz-Ulrich Thimm

Eco-restructuring: Implications for sustainable development
Edited by Robert U. Ayres

Ecology and the Politics of Survival
By Vandana Shiva and J. Bandyopadhyay

Ecology in Development: A Rationale for Three-Dimensional Policy
By Brian Spooner

Economics of the Philippine Milkfish Resource System
By Kee-Chai Chong, Ian R. Smith, and Maura S. Lizarondo
Resource Systems Theory and Methodology Series, No. 4

Effective Communications for Nutrition in Primary Health Care
Edited by Jean E. Andersen and Aree Valyasevi

Emerging world cities in Pacific Asia
Edited by Fu-chen Lo and Yue-man Yeung

Environment, Biodiversity and Agricultural Change in West Africa: • Perspectives from Ghana •
Edited by Edwin A. Gyasi and Juha I. Uitto

Environment, energy, and economy: Strategies for sustainability
Edited by Yoichi Kaya and Keiichi Yokobori

Environmental change and international law: New challenges and dimensions
Edited by Edith Brown Weiss

Environmental Changes on the Coasts of Indonesia
By Eric C.F. Bird and Otto S.R. Ongkosongo

Estrategias para mejorar el manejo de las regiones áridas de América Latina
Edited by J. A. Mabbutt, H. J. Schneider, and R. Nava

Ethnicity and power in the contemporary world
Edited by Kumar Rupesinghe and Valery A. Tishkov

Expanding access to science and technology
Edited by Ines Wesley-Tanaskovic, Jacques Tocatlian, and Kenneth H. Roberts

Exporting Africa: technology, trade and industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Edited by Samuel M. Wangwe

Food and Energy: Strategies for Sustainable Development
Edited by Ignacy Sachs and Dana Silk

Food Composition Data: A User's Perspective
Edited by William M. Rand, Carol T. Windham, Bonita W. Wyse, and Vernon R. Young

Food Price Policies and Nutrition in Latin America
Edited by Giorgio Solimano and Lance Taylor

Forests, Climate, and Hydrology:• Regional Impacts
Edited by Evan R.C. Reynolds and Frank B. Thompson

The Fragile Tropics of Latin America: • Sustainable Management of Changing Environments •
Edited by Toshie Nishizawa and Juha I. Uitto

Freshwater Resources in Arid Lands
Edited by Juha I. Uitto and Jutta Schneider

The Global Greenhouse Regime: Who Pays?
Edited by Peter Hayes and Kirk Smith

The Himalayan Dilemma: Reconciling Development and Conservation
Jack D. Ives and Bruno Messerli

Human rights and scientific and technological development
Edited by C.G. Weeramantry

Hydropolitics along the Jordan River: • Scarce Water and its Impact on the Arab-Israeli Conflict •
Aaron T. Wolf

Identification of Food Components for INFOODS Data Interchange
By John C. Klensin, Diane Feskanich, Victor Lin, A. Stewart Truswell, and David A.T. Southgate

The impact of economic development on rural women in China
All-China Women's Federation

The impact of technology on human rights: global case-studies
Edited by C.G. Weeramantry

The Impacts of Opencast Mining on the Rivers and Coasts of New Caledonia
By Eric C.F. Bird, Jean-Paul Dubois, and Jacques A. Iltis

In Place of the Forest: Environmental and Socio-economic Transformation in Borneo and the Eastern Malay Peninsula
Harold Brookfield, Lesley Potter, and Yvonne Byron

In pursuit of science and technology in Sub-Saharan Africa: The impact of structural adjustment programmes
J. L. Enos

Industrial Metabolism: Restructuring for Sustainable Development
Edited by Robert U. Ayres and Udo E. Simonis

Industrial pollution in Japan
Edited by Jun Ui

INFOODS Food Composition Data Interchange Handbook
By John C. Klensin

Information technology in selected countries
(Reports from Ireland, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania)
Edited by Eileen P. Drew and F. Gordon Foster

Interfaces between Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Science
Edited by K. T. Achaya

Intra-Household Resources Allocation: Issues and Methods for Development Policy and Planning
Edited by Beatrice Lorge Rogers and Nina P. Schlossman

The Japanese experience in technology
Takeshi Hayashi

Land Policy and Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa
Edited by J.W. Arntzen, L.D. Ngcongco, and S.D. Turner

Land Resources of the People's Republic of China
Edited by Kenneth Ruddle and Wu Chuanjun
Resource Systems Theory and Methodology Series, No. 5

Long-Distance Water Transfer: A Chinese Case Study and International Experiences
Edited by Asit K. Biswas, Zuo Dakang, James E. Nickum, and Liu Changming

The long road to recovery: Community responses to industrial disaster
Edited by James K. Mitchell

Maldevelopment - Anatomy of a global failure
General Editor: Samir Amin

Man in the Mangroves: The Socio-economic Situation of Human Settlements in Mangrove Forests
Edited by Peter Kunstadter, Eric C.F. Bird, and Sanga Sabhasri

Managing Water for Peace in the Middle East: Alternative Strategies
Masahiro Murakami

Maternal Diet, Breast-feeding Capacity, and Lactational Infertility
Edited by R.G. Whitehead

The mega-city in Latin America
Edited by Alan Gilbert

Methods for the Evaluation of the Impact of Food and Nutrition Programmes
Edited by David E. Sahn, Richard Lockwood, and Nevin S. Scrimshaw

Mining in Africa today - Strategies and prospects
General Editor: Samir Amin

Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture: Principles and Examples with Reference to Hot Arid Climates
By Hassan Fathy

Natural Resources and Development in the Sahel: The Role of the United Nations System
Edited by Lee H. MacDonald

Natural Resources and Rural Development in Arid Lands: Case Studies from the Sudan
Edited by H.R.J. Davies

New technologies across the Atlantic: US Leadership or European Autonomy?
Mario Pianta

The North the South and the Environment: Ecological Constraints and the Global Economy
Edited by V. Bhaskar and Andrew Glyn

Nutritional Evaluation of Protein Foods
Edited by Peter L. Pellet and Vernon R. Young

Obstacles to Tree Planting in Arid and Semi-arid Lands: Comparative Case Studies from India and Kenya
By Jeffrey Burley

Ocean governance: sustainable development of the Seas
Edited by Peter Bautista Payoyo

Perception of Desertification
Edited by R. L. Heathcote

Population, land management, and environmental change
Edited by Juha I. Uitto and Akiko Ono

Positive Deviance in Child Nutrition: with emphasis on Psychosocial and Behavioural Aspects and Implications for Development
Edited by Marian Zeitlin, Hossein Ghassemi, and Mohamed Mansour

Proceedings of the Jakarta Workshop on Coastal Resources Management
Edited by Eric C.F. Bird and Aprilani Soegiardo

Proceedings of the Khartoum workshop on arid lands management
Edited by J.A. Mabbutt

Protein-Energy Requirements of Developing Countries: Evaluation of New Data
Edited by Benjamin Torún, Vernon R. Young, and William M. Rand

Protein-Energy Requirement Studies Developing Countries: Results of International Research
Edited by William M. Rand, Ricardo Uauy, and Nevin S. Scrimshaw

Regions at risk: comparisons of threatened environments
Edited by Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, and B. L. Turner II

Research and Training for Management of Arid Lands: With Special Reference to Anglophone Africa and the University of Khartoum
Edited by J. A. Mabbutt

Research Methods in Nutritional Anthropology
Edited by Gretel H. Pelto, Pertti J. Pelto, and Ellen Messer

Rural Development in White Nile Province, Sudan: A Study of Interaction between Man and Natural Resources
Edited by H. R. J. Davies

Science and technology in the transformation of the world
Edited by Anouar Abdel-Malek, Gregory Blue, and Miroslav Pecujlic

Science and technology in the transformation of the world - Volume I
Edited by Miroslav Pecujlic, Gregory Blue, and Anouar Abdel-Malek

Science, hegemony and violence
Edited by Ashis Nandy

Shifting Cultivation in Northern Thailand: Possibilities for Development
By Terry B. Grandstaff
Resource Systems Theory and Methodology Series, No. 3

Social and Environmental Aspects of Desertification
Edited by J. Mabbutt and A. Wilson

Social, Economic, and Institutional Aspects of Agro-forestry
Edited by J. K. Jacobson

South-East Asia's Environmental Future: The Search for Sustainability
Edited by Harold Brookfield and Yvonne Byron

Spatial Analysis for Regional Development: A Case Study in the Bicol River Basin of the Philippines
By Dennis A. Rondinelli
Resource Systems Theory and Methodology Series, No. 2

Steering business toward sustainability
Edited by Fritjof Capra and Gunter Pauli (Eds.)

Strategies for Improved Management of Latin American Drylands
Edited by J. A. Mabbutt, H. J. Schneider, and R. Nava

Strengthening the family - Implications for international development
Marian F. Zeitlin, Ratna Megawangi, Ellen M. Kramer, Nancy D. Colletta, E.D. Babatunde, and David Garman

Sustainable management of soil resources in the humid tropics
By Rattan Lal

Sustaining the Future: Economic, Social, and Environmental Change in Sub-Saharan Africa •
Edited by George Benneh, William B. Morgan, and Juha I. Uitto

Technological independence - The Asian experience
Edited by Saneh Chamarik and Susantha Goonatilake

Technology and innovation in the international economy
Edited by Charles Cooper

Transforming Natural Resources for Human Development: A Resource Systems Framework for Development Policy
By K. Ruddle and D. A. Rondinelli
Resource Systems Theory and Methodology Series, No. 1

The urban challenge in Africa: Growth and management of its large cities
Edited by Carole Rakodi

The Use of Organic Residues in Rural Communities
Edited by Cyril A.Shacklady

Who's hungry? And how do we know? Food shortage, poverty, and deprivation
Laurie DeRose, Ellen Messer, and Sara Millman

Women encounter technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World
Edited by Swasti Mitter and Sheila Rowbotham

Women, households and change
Edited by Eleonora Masini and Susan Stratigos

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