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Managing Water Demand
Managing Water Demand provides a comprehensive account of the tools used to manage water demand in the MENA region. The vast arid and semi-arid regions of the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) constitute 85% of the region's land area and are home to approximately 60% of the region's population. Limited water resources pose severe constraints on people's economic and social progress, testing their resilience and threatening their livelihoods. Rainfall is not only scarce and unpredictable, but the region is also subject to frequent and severe droughts. Available surface water is declining and the over-pumping of groundwater beyond natural recharge rates is occurring, lowering the wate...
La gestion de l'eau selon l'Islam
Au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord, l'eau devient l'enjeu crucial du développement. La région est caractérisée par l'un des taux moyens de croissance démographique les plus élevés du monde et par des ressources en eau peu abondantes. Dans cette région et dans d'autres, les responsables des politiques ont souvent proposé, voire tenté de mettre en œuvre, des politiques de gestion de la demande en eau, par exemple des tarifs plus élevés ou la privatisation, sans prendre en compte la culture et les valeurs locales. Pourtant, la culture, largement marquée par la religion, influence manifestement.
La gestion de l'eau selon l'Islam
Cet ouvrage présente le point de vue de l'Islam sur la gestion de l'eau, notamment la demande en eau, la réutilisation des eaux usées et la hausse des tarifs. Il ouvre la voie à un meilleur dialogue entre les chercheurs intéressés par la gestion de l'eau; il enrichit nos connaissances sur les influences qui s'exercent sur la politique officielle et la pratique officieuse, puis il propose ces idées à un public élargi. Il montre concrètement l'intérêt d'examiner le développement dans le contexte des valeurs et de la culture. Il dissipe aussi des malentendus liés à la conception musulmane de la gestion de l'eau, telles la vente de l'eau et la réutilisation des eaux usées. Cet ouvrage intéressera les chercheurs, les érudits et les étudiants de divers domaines.
What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?
Explorations of science, technology, and innovation in Africa not as the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge. In the STI literature, Africa has often been regarded as a recipient of science, technology, and innovation rather than a maker of them. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines show that STI in Africa is not merely the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but the working of African knowledge. Their contributions focus on African ways of looking, meaning-making, and creating. The chapter authors see Africans as intellectual agents whose perspectives constitute authoritative knowledge and whose strategic ...
Stolen Lives
A gripping memoir that reads like a political thriller--the story of Malika Oufkir's turbulent and remarkable life. Born in 1953, Malika Oufkir was the eldest daughter of General Oufkir, the King of Morocco's closest aide. Adopted by the king at the age of five, Malika spent most of her childhood and adolescence in the seclusion of the court harem, one of the most eligible heiresses in the kingdom, surrounded by luxury and extraordinary privilege. Then, on August 16, 1972, her father was arrested and executed after an attempt to assassinate the king. Malika, her five younger brothers and sisters. and her mother were immediately imprisoned in a desert penal colony. After fifteen years, the last ten of which they spent locked up in solitary cells, the Oufkir children managed to dig a tunnel with their bare hands and make an audacious escape. Recaptured after five days, Malika was finally able to leave Morocco and begin a new life in exile in 1996. A heartrending account in the face of extreme deprivation and the courage with which one family faced its fate, Stolen Lives is an unforgettable story of one woman's journey to freedom.
The Issues and Challenges of Reducing Non-Revenue Water
Improving the efficiency of water utilities and reducing water losses are becoming top priorities in Asia, with its often-limited water resources and rapidly increasing urban population. This publication provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject matter, highlights the complexity of managing non-revenue water (NRW), offers guidance on NRW assessment, and recommends appropriate performance indicators. It is, to a large extent, based on the work of the Water Loss Specialist Group of the International Water Association in the last decade, and is amply complemented by the authors' practical experiences in Asia and in other countries around the world.
Doing Business in 2004
A co-publication of the World Bank, International Finance Corporation and Oxford University Press
Water Management in Islam
This book presents Islamic perspectives on a number of proposed water-management policies, including water demand management, wastewater reuse, and higher tariffs. The book opens avenues for a wider dialogue amongst researchers working at identifying the most promising water management policies, adds to our knowledge of some of the influences on formal policy and informal practice, and makes these ideals available to a broader public.
Transient Workspaces
An account of technology in Africa from an African perspective, examining hunting in Zimbabwe as an example of an innovative mobile workspace. In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in from outside, but is also something that ordinary people understand, make, and practice through their everyday innovations or creativities—including things that few would even consider technological. Technology does not always originate in the laboratory in a Western-style building but also in the society in the forest, in the crop field, and in other places where knowledge is made and turned into pra...
