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Guide to Environment and Development Sources of Information on CD-ROM and the Internet

Information is the glue that binds our complex and fast changing world together and it is the key to changing long established patterns of social behaviour. Information, especially on environmental management for sustainable development, can provide support to countries and communities for an improved and sustainable quality of life for all their citizens.

Bibliography on Women in Nicaragua

Published by: IDS

This bibliographic search was prepared by BRIDGE for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DANIDA). The bibliography is intended as...

Bibliography on Women in Nepal

Published by: IDS

Collective Efficiency: A Way Forward for Small Firms

Published by: IDS

There is mounting evidence that clustering and networking help small firms to compete and grow. By working together, firms can gain the benefits of collective efficiency, enabling them to challenge larger competitors and break into national and global markets.

Agricultural Intensification and Rural Sustainable Livelihoods: A ‘Think Piece’

Published by: IDS

This paper examines agricultural intensification as a strategy for achieving sustainable livelihoods, comparing evidence from a number of areas that have undergone such a process - in particular, the introduction of Green Revolution methods.

Social Difference and Water Resources Management

Published by: IDS

The article focuses on the interface between water resources management and social and power relations. It shows that the propagators of...

Societies, polities and capitalists in developing countries: a literature survey

This survey critically examines the development studies literature dealing with the connections between social structure, politics and...

The identity of capitalists and the legitimacy of capitalism: Sri Lanka since independence

In many Asian countries, the early decades of independence after World War II were marked by tension between ‘indigenous’ political...

Water and Sanitation for All: Partnership and Innovations, Proceedings of the 23rd WEDC Conference

Who Needs [Sex] When You Can Have [Gender]? Conflicting Discourses on Gender at Beijing

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Gender', understood as the social construction of sex, is a key concept for feminists working at the interface of theory and policy. This article examines challenges to the concept which emerged from different groups at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 1995, an important arena for struggles over feminist public policies.