Title & Author:

Capacity development : approaches for future megacities / Bernd Mahrin (editor).

Publication:

Berlin : Jovis, [2014]
©2014

Description:

207 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Future megacities ; vol. 3

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction. Capacity development approaches: what to expect from this book / Bernd Mahrin -- How to change structures: gevernance-related capacity development. The LPG project: collective action for fuel transition among the urban poor / Bibhu Prasad Nayak ... [and others] -- EnerKey Long-term Perspective Group (ELPG): a format to introduce long-term thinking in today's decision-making / Michael Knoll, Johannes Rupp -- Building local capacities to improve the quality of electricity for agriculture and to enhance energy efdfficiecy / Julian Sagebiel, Christian Kimmich -- Mobile learning containers (MLC) for improving the qualification of workers at construction sites / Nadia Poor Rahim, Bernd Mahrin
Training practice and theoretical instruction. Integrating street food in a sustainable food distribution system: food safety training for, and with, street vendors / Anne Dahmen, Christoph Dittrich, Mamidi Bharath Bhushan -- Waste management: practical training and capacity building / Andreas Schultheis ... [and others] -- On-site construction workshops inIran / KarenSchmidt, Bernd Mahrin -- Wastewater treatment: international workshops and online learning platform / Artur Mennerich -- Multidisciplinary research/design/build summer schools: alternative solutions for a water-scarce future in metropolitan Lima, Peru / Antje Stockman, Rossana Poblet, Eva Nencova
Education for sustainable lifestyles: ESL / Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf, Fritz Reusswig -- Training on the way to the first passive house in western China / Bernd Franke ... [and others] -- Capacity development through media and counselling. Trying to persuade rather than force people: the approach of the handbook for green housing / Michael Waibel -- Urban agriculture in Casablanca: overview of the capacity development approaches / Gisela Prystav, Frank Helten -- Meteorological measurement / Ines Langer -- Complementary digital and printed learning media on construction topics / Bernd Mahrin.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9783868592757 (paperback)
386859275X (paperback)

Subject:

Economic development projects Developing countries.
Absorptive capacity (Economics) Developing countries.
City planning Economic aspects Developing countries.
Absorptive capacity (Economics)
City planning Economic aspects.
Economic development projects.
Developing countries.

Added entries:

Mahrin, Bernd, editor.
Future megacities ; v. 3.

Approaches for future megacities

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287649
Call No.: BIB 228879
Status: Available