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Development / third world
Recommended reading
Many of the titles below are available from Amazon.co.uk, and can be ordered by clicking on the ISBN number. Any purchases from Amazon made in this way will earn PAN UK a small commission, so using these links is another way to support our work. Thank you.
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Food for All: Can Hunger Be Halved,John Madeley; Paperback - 192 pages (April 2002) Zed Books; ISBN:1842770195 Madeley's book looks at the barriers to providing enough food for everyone in the world & at how much food is needed; & asks whether trade liberalisation is helping or hindering efforts to feed the world. It also examines the policies & practices surrounding farming, from environmental constraints to international agreements like TRIPS & TRIMS. Click here for full review |
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The Health Impacts of Peri-urban Natural Resource Development, Martin Birley and Karen Lock; Paperback (Jan 2000); Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine ISBN 0 9533566 1 2 Urban & peri-urban projects are a focus of development strategies in poor countries. This excellent new publication illustrates how changes to the physical and social environment, including agriculture and fisheries, can have significant positive or negative effects on public health. Primarily directed at natural resource specialists planning to change the peri-urban environment of cities in developing countries. Click here for full review |
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Bhopal: the inside story, Carbide workers speak out on the world’s worst industrial disasterT.R. Chouhan; The Apex Press, US, or Jon Carpenter, UK: Paperback - 212 pages (25 May, 1995) ISBN: 0945257228 This remarkable book is written by a worker at the methyl isocyanate plant which leaked to such devastating effect in Bhopal in December 1984. He tells for the first time the inside story of what it was like to work in the Union Carbide chemical plant. Click here for full review |
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The Bhopal Legacy: toxic contaminants at the former
Union Carbide factory site, Bhopal, India. I Labunska, A Stephenson, K
Brigden, R Stringer, D Santillo, PA Johnston; (Nov 1999); Greenpeace
International ISBN 90 73361 591.
The Indian government is asking for tenders to turn the site of the former Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal into a technical park, craft village & tourist centre. Greenpeace Research Laboratories have analysed samples of solid wastes, soils & groundwater in and around the site. Their report on contamination lends scientific weight to the victims outrage that the plans ignore the extent of damage caused by the factory; closed since the disastrous methyl isocyanate leak in 1984. Click here for full review |