Promoting the use of local building materials in Nigerian housing construction: the problems and the prospects
These two articles (cf. FARID (S. M.), Public enterprises in Nigeria), are useful to a geographer studying economic conditions in developing Nigeria. Public enterprises are not so far successful| local building materials should be substituted
Longitudinal variations in the size and sorting of bed material along six arid-region mountain streams in Arid and semi-arid environments. Geomorphological and pedological aspects.
of sorting depends most strongly on the size of the bed material. Local variations in parent material also have significant influences on mean grain size and sorting within some of the streams.
The A. uses regression analysis to investigate downstream patterns in mean grain size and sorting of bed material along six small ephemeral streams in a mountain watershed. Mean grain size declines exponentially along four of the six streams
The role of rock properties in the development of bedrock-incised rills and gullies : examples from Southern Africa in Soil erosion and host materials in Africa.
Preliminary data on the influence of rock physical properties on the development of bedrock-incised rills and gullies examines at four localities in southern Africa : Mpafane, Lugxogxo, Mgqumeni, Loteni.
The article is a description of the SDT (Sulinet Digital Knowledge Base) which is available via a locally designed and developed Education Portal. The Portal has functionalities of storing and searching materials made of and stored as elements
, editing materials, publishing, collaboration and communication. - (AM)
Rozmisteni manufakturni vyroby v Cechach kolem r. 1790 (Materialy). Distribution of manufactory production in Bohemia around the year 1790. Materials)
Review of manufactory localities in Bohemia at the end of 18th century is completed by an appended map. They are divided by linen, wool, cotton, iron, non-ferrous metals, glass, chemical, paper and sugar industries.
Management and change in northern Nigerian local government
Two sections of this article, « Management of material resources », and « Management of human resources » could be useful in the study of rural development.―(EMS)
Biomass ; Development ; Energy ; Energy source ; Farm ; Local government ; Poland ; Pomerania ; Raw materials ; Renewable energy ; Rural area
Biomasse ; Collectivité locale ; Développement ; Energie ; Energie renouvelable ; Espace rural ; Exploitation agricole ; Matière première ; Pologne ; Pomorze ; Source d'énergie
Development of renewable sources of energy creates a chance for local communities, for local communities, for local agribusiness development and new employment in rural area. There are many advantages showing the need of development of energetics
using renewable farming raw materials as energy sources - these are factors of social, economic, agricultural and ecological character. Potential biomass used to energetistic have to be suitable conditions to be created to be able to use the existing
A Color Maturity Index based on measurements using a colorimeter is proposed. The color of the sand appears to be mainly related to the nature of the source material. Evidence indicates that eolian sand in most dune fields have only moved locally.
Promoting the use of local building materials in Nigeria house construction: problems and prospects
Changement social ; Ciment ; Coût du logement ; Dépendance économique ; Géographie de l'Afrique ; Importation ; Industrie du bâtiment ; Logement ; Matériaux de construction ; Matériaux locaux ; Nigéria ; Politique du logement ; Politique économique
Le volume des importations de matériaux de construction (ciment, etc.) montre la dépendance de l'industrie du bâtiment et explique les coûts élevés du logement dans ce pays. Des solutions alternatives utilisant les matériaux locaux (bois par ex
Tarsadalmi szervek feladatai az ipartelepitésben. (Tasks of social organizations in industrial localization)
As for industrial level, Hungary is among the developed countries of the world, but as indicated by qualitative indices, she is among the medium developed ones. The general conditions of the operation of industry/raw material and energy supply
THE WEATHERING OF ZEOLITIC AND NON-ZEOLITIC CALCAREOUS MATERIALS IN A LACUSTRINE PLAIN IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ITALY
L'ALTERATION ET LA FORMATION DES SOLS SONT ETUDIEES SOUS CLIMAT MEDITERRANEEN DANS UNE REGION DE DEPOTS LACUSTRES. LES DIFFERENCES LOCALES DANS LES CONDITIONS LITHOLOGIQUES ET HYDROLOGIQUES SONT LES CAUSES DES DIFFERENCES DE PEDOGENESE. ON RELEVE
Communauté ; Connaissance ; Géographie urbaine ; Politique locale ; Sociologie urbaine ; Société urbaine ; Structure urbaine
Community ; Knowledge ; Local policy ; Urban geography ; Urban society ; Urban sociology ; Urban structure
Comunidad ; Conocimiento ; Estructura urbana ; Geografía urbana ; Política local ; Sociedad urbana ; Sociología urbana
based on habitualized experience arise in every city. Intrinsic logic captures the hidden structures of cities as locally well-established, operative processes of sense-making along with their physical, material manifestations.
Gender and class identities in process and in place: the local state as a site of gender and class formation
Administration locale ; Canada ; Classe sociale ; Communauté ; Conflit ; Différence entre sexes ; Ontario ; Politique locale ; Pratique sociale ; Relations sociales ; Société
Canada ; Community ; Conflict ; Gender difference ; Local administration ; Local policy ; Ontario ; Social class ; Social practice ; Societal relations ; Society
The A. argues that gender and class formation within local states involves processes of conflict, accomodation, co-optation, and transformation. Variations in material conditions of struggle contribute to fragmented or contradictory experiences
of gender and class relations in and against local states. Two Canadian examples are used. The first is that of recent feminist and working-class struggles within Ontario's legal-aid clinic system. The second is that of the development of a women-only
Choix du site ; Collectivité locale ; Déchet ; Gestion ; Gouvernance ; Royaume-Uni ; Société ; Traitement des déchets
Governance ; Local government unit ; Location choice ; Management ; Society ; United Kingdom ; Waste ; Waste treatment
Colectividad local ; Gestión ; Gobernancía ; Residuo ; Selección del sitio ; Sociedad ; Tratamiento de los residuos
Collectively, the four papers gathered here show not just that materiality matters to the development of waste scholarship but that a focus on industrial waste matters to the development of work on materiality. Ranging across diverse geographically
Activism ; Community ; Comparative study ; Customers ; Germany ; Local economy ; Money ; Shopkeeper ; Social geography ; United Kingdom ; United States of America ; Urban economy
Activismo ; Alemaña ; Clientela ; Comerciante ; Comunidad ; Economía local ; Economía urbana ; Estados Unidos ; Estudio comparativo ; Geografía social ; Moneda ; Reino Unido
material practices: for whom do the currencies work, and who struggles to use them? It argues that economic actors in similar positions respond to the same stimuli in different ways, and local business owners and activists can form productive alli-ances
was assessed and statistical processing of the material involved the comparison of the local faunas on the basis of the Jaccard and Steinhaus index of similarity and the Szymkiewicz index of relatedness. - (DG)
Belgium ; Building materials ; Inventory ; Natural resources ; Quarry ; Rock ; Sandstone
Ferruginous sandstone has locally been used extensively in mostly late-medieval religious and civilian architecture. An inventory of recognizable exploitation sites is presented. Genesis and related characteristics of the different types of building
The probability of the adoption of modern rice varieties (MVs) in Lowland Bangladesh. Case study in a backswamp located in the south eastern part of the country. In a large part of the lowland the MVs will be able to replace local mixed-sown tall
varieties only when the material cost of irrigation is reduced to a reasonable level. In the lower part of the area floating rice cultivation will remain. - (SGA)