New sources on development/environment (Eldis)

Eldis Project (mailto:P.Ferguson@sussex.ac.uk)
Mon, 15 Dec 1997 15:34:30 +0000 

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Date:         Mon, 15 Dec 1997 15:34:30 +0000
From: Eldis Project <mailto:P.Ferguson@sussex.ac.uk>
Subject:      New sources on development/environment (Eldis)
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NEW ADDITIONS TO THE ELDIS DIRECTORY OF INFORMATION
SOURCES ON DEVELOPMENT OR ENVIRONMENT
December 1997


Highlights this month are three new databases hosted on the
ELDIS/Devline
service


        * AHRTAG Library Catalogue: materials on management and
       practice of primary health care and disability
        in developing countries


        * Overseas Development Institute Library Catalogue:
       development  literature, including journal articles and
       grey literature on  agricultural management (extension,
       participatory research, community forestry)


        * British Library for Development Studies (BLDS/IDS) Library
       Catalogue: new easy to use WWW version


Here is a "Top Twenty" of new entries added to the directory
(selected from some 400 recent additions):


       * Low priced English language titles for developing countries:
       book  catalogue


       * Women's Work and the Household in Latin America. A
       discussion of the literature (CDR)


       * Agricultural Technology Development Transfer in Africa:
      Impacts  Achieved and Lessons Learned (USAID)


       * IFADEVAL / Office of Evaluation and Studies, IFAD:
       evaluation  reports on microcredit projects


       * State of the Climate Report (WWF)


       * El Nino: information sources on impact and prediction (NOAA)


       * The potential of wildlife management for devlopment
       cooperation  (GTZ)


       * Stimulating Indigenous Agribusiness Development in Zimbabwe:
       A Concept Paper (USAID)


       * State of India's Environment: a quantitative analysis (TERI)


       * Relationships between Education and Child Labour: issues
       paper    for the International Conference on Child Labour,
       Oslo, 27-30  October 1997 (UNICEF)


       * The Importance of Engagement: A Strategy for Reconstruction
         in the Great Lakes Region, October 1997 (Oxfam)


       * Strategies for Eliminating Child Labour: prevention,
          removal and rehabilitation: synthesis paper for
         International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)
         (ILO)


       * Three Gorges Dam campaign (IRN)


       * An assessment of the soil resources of Africa in relation to
       productivity (USDA)


       * State of world fisheries and aquaculture (FAO)


       * Child Labor Study Office, USA International Programme on the
       Elimination of
       Child Labour (IPEC), ILO


       * FAO Hypermedia Collection on Desertification


       * Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous
       Resources (CAMPFIRE)


       * Global overview of forest conservation: statistical analysis
        of  global forest conservation (CIFOR/WCMC)


       * Green Globe Yearbook of International Co-operation on
       Environment and Development


Full information on these is available from the ELDIS What's New
page:


       * http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wnew.htm




Contact:
Peter Ferguson / Tracy Zussman
ELDIS Project
British Library for Development Studies
at Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RE, UK
Email: mailto:blds.eldis@sussex.ac.uk
Fax: +44 1273 621202  Tel: +44 1273 606261
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis