World Bank Series on Integrated Resource Recovery
| Autor: | Mark F. Cantley |
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| Rok vydání: | 1986 |
| Předmět: |
Global and Planetary Change
Environmental Engineering Sanitation Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Environmental resource management Developing country Water supply Public relations Reuse Terminology Urban planning Agency (sociology) Economics Project management business Water Science and Technology |
| Zdroj: | Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. 28:25-29 |
| ISSN: | 1939-9154 0013-9157 |
| Popis: | In 1981 a three-year global research and development project of Integrated Resource Recovery (waste recycling) was initiated by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The World Bank, through its Water Supply and Urban Development Department, acted as executing agency. The goal of the project was to explore ways for achieving economic and social benefits through sustainable resource recovery activities in developing countries by the recycling and reuse of solid and liquid wastes. The project has also been included in the formal activities of the UN International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade. The first four of the UNDP project management reports on integrated resource recovery have been published. In spite of the diversity of the authors and their backgrounds, the World Bank style is reflected in each report. It is reflected in a certain quiet pragmatic approach: a care for numbers, practical experience and experiment, and an absence of ideological language and value-laden terminology or assumptions. Underlying this quiet style is an implicit assumption about the desirability of development and the possibility for improvement; but it is Popperian, piecemeal engineering, rather than grandiose illusions about the perfectibility of humans or society. These are practical reports by knowledgeable people aimed atmore » readers with serious interests and responsibilities. This paper reviews these reports. 6 references.« less |
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