Author: Keith M. Lewin
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: strategies, financing, sustainable, world, bank, paper, series, working, saharan, secondary, education, sub, africa
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0821371150
ISBN-13: 9780821371152

Investment in secondary schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa has been neglected since the World Conference on Education for All at Jomtien. The World Education Forum in Dakar began to recognize the growing importance of post-primary schooling for development. Only 25 percent of school-age children attend secondary school in the region-and fewer complete successfully, having consequences for gender equity, poverty reduction, and economic growth. As universal primary schooling becomes a reality, demand for secondary schools is increasing rapidly. Gaps between the educational levels of the labor force

Authors:Galen J. Suppes, Truman Storvick,
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: sustainable, world, nuclear, power
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-12-22
List price: $72.95
ISBN-10: 0123706025
ISBN-13: 9780123706027

Sustainable Nuclear Power provides non-nuclear engineers, scientists and energy planners with the necessary information to understand and utilize the major advances in the field. The book demonstrates that nuclear fission technology has the abundance and attainability to provide centuries of safe power with minimal greenhouse gas generation. It also addresses the safety and disposal issues that have plagued the development of the nuclear power industry and scared planners and policy makers as well as the general public for more than two decades. In addition, the authors provide a Companion we

Author: Huey D. Johnson
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: sustainable, earth, future, blueprint, revised, plans
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0803260202
ISBN-13: 9780803260207

“Green plans” are the most effective strategies yet developed for moving from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability. In this definitive overview of green plans today, Huey D. Johnson provides a detailed and accessible examination of their theory, implementation, and performance across the globe, highlighting the challenges and successes of green plans in the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Austria, the United Kingdom, Germany, the rest of the European Community, and Singapore. Green plans will serve future generations as models of creative collabo

Author: Tony George Puthucherril
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff
Keywords: sustainable, aspects, development, legal, recycling, ship, shipbreaking
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2010-03-08
List price: $163.00
ISBN-10: 9004174915
ISBN-13: 9789004174917

Author: Worldwatch Institute
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd
Keywords: sustainable, ideas, opportunities, economies, economy, global, world, towards, state
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1844074986
ISBN-13: 9781844074983

Author: Mary Ann PalmaMartin Tsamenyi and William Edeson
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff
Keywords: sustainable, development, aspects, fisheries, promoting, legal
Number of Pages: 342
Published: 2010-05-31
List price: $156.00
ISBN-10: 900417575X
ISBN-13: 9789004175754

Author: Bihini Won Wa Musiti
Publisher: World Conservation Union
Keywords: sustainable, iucn, specialist, group, africa, natural, african, symposium, pan, resources
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 2003-06-28
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 2831706904
ISBN-13: 9782831706900