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|  | | 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
The forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will be held from 28 February to 11 March 2005 at the UN Headquarters in New York.
URL: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/49sess.htm |
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| | | Abstract of a presentation at the "Multistakeholder Diplomacy Conference", February 2005, Malta
This paper shows how UN summits provided political space for civil society stakeholders. How are NGOs from all regions of the world using the wider open doors that the UN summits offer? Who is actually taking part at the world conferences?
URL: http://www.diplomacy.edu/Conferences/MSD/abstracts.asp |
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| | | AIDS and Older Persons: The View from Thailand, by John Knodel and Chanpen Saengtienchai
PSC Research Report, Report No. 02-497, February 2002
URL: http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/papers/rr02-497.pdf |
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| | | ALHSUD Chile
Asociacion Latinoamericana de Hidrologia Subterranea para el Desarrollo
URL: http://www.alhsudchile.cl |
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| | | Best Practices & Local Leadership Programme
This is a global network of institutions dedicated to the identification and exchange of successful solutions for sustainable development. The site contains information on initiatives in such areas as housing, urban development and governance, the environment, economic development, social inclusion, crime prevention, poverty reduction, women, youth, infrastructure and social services identified by the BLP partners' network. The site also contains a useful list of links to other best practices sites.
URL: http://www.sustainabledevelopment.org |
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| | | BRIDGE (Briefings on Gender and Development)
Provides tailor-made briefings on gender issues on request. The briefings present state of the art research findings, review current policy debates, synthesize best practice and evaluate strategies for translating gender policies into practice.
URL: http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge |
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| | | Capacity Development in Water and Environmental Services (CADWES)
Scientific Research Group at TUT, IEEB, for the Institutional Development of Water Services
URL: http://www.tut.fi/units/ymp/bio/staff/katko/research.htm |
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| | | Centre for Science and Environment
Carries out policy research and publication, advocacy and network building on issues related to natural resource management and pollution management.
URL: http://www.cseindia.org |
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| | | Commission for Social Development
At its special session in 1996, the United Nations Commission for Social Development was given primary responsibility for follow-up to the Social Summit. At its Thirty-Seventh Session (9-19 February 1999), three valuable documents were produced: Follow-Up to the World Summit for Social Development, E/CN.5/1999/2; Further Initiatives for the Implementation of the Outcome of the WSSD, E/CN.5/1999/3; and Report of the Secretary-General on the Outcome of the WSSD, E/CN.5/1999/4. All are available on line.
URL: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev.html |
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| | | Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa
The Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance is a UN system-wide initiative, launched in February 2003 by (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan to complement the vital work on transmission and prevention being done by UN and other agencies with a rigorous agenda that charts the way forward on HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa.
URL: http://www.uneca.org/CHGA/about.htm |
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| | | DAW
United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women is the focal point for gender issues in the UN system. DAW services the main UN policy-making body on women's issues and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
URL: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/ |
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| | | Development in Practice
Journal published by Oxfam
URL: http://www.developmentinpractice.org |
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| | | ECA (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa)
The ECA has held a series of sub-regional follow-up conferences to the Social Summit. These collaborative efforts between various UN agencies have taken up the following themes: Progress in Poverty Reduction; Progress in Employment Creation; Progress in Achieving the Objectives of the Social Sectors; and Progress in Governance. Background, objectives, indicators and other information on the conferences are featured on the ECA's Web site in a section entitled The Sub-regional Follow-up Conferences to the World Summit for Social Development.
URL: http://www.uneca.org/ |
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| | | ECLAC-CEPAL
La Comisión Económica para América Latina (CEPAL) fue establecida por la resolución 106(VI) del Consejo Económico y Social, del 25 de febrero de 1948, y comenzó a funcionar ese mismo año. En su resolución 1984/67, del 27 de julio de 1984, el Consejo decidió que la Comisión pasara a llamarse Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe.
La CEPAL es una de las cinco comisiones regionales de las Naciones Unidas y su sede está en Santiago de Chile. Se fundó para contribuir al desarrollo económico de América Latina, coordinar las acciones encaminadas a su promoción y reforzar las relaciones económicas de los países entre sí y con las demás naciones del mundo. Posteriormente, su labor se amplió a los países del Caribe y se incorporó el objetivo de promover el desarrollo social.
URL: http://www.eclac.cl
http://www.cepal.org |
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| | | ESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific)
The ESCAP web site includes complete documentation of ministerial conferences, recent ESCAP resolutions and publications relevant to Summit follow-up. Relevant information can be found in the Activities section of the site, under Implementation of the Agenda for Action on Social Development in the ESCAP Region.
URL: http://www.unescap.org |
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| | | Estado mundial de las personas mayores 2002, HelpAge International
HelpAge International es una red mundial de organizaciones sin fines de lucro con la misión de trabajar con y para las personas mayores en desventaja en todo el mundo, a fin de lograr una mejora perdurable en la calidad de sus vidas.
URL: http://www.helpage.org/images/pdfs/SOTWOPspan.pdf |
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| | | European Forest Ecosystem Research Network
A pan-European network initiative which aims to promote co-ordination of forest ecosystem research and to improve communication among scientists working in that field.
URL: http://ifff.boku.ac.at/efern/ |
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| | | Gateway to Social Policy and Development
The Gateway to Social Policy and Development, the Web site of the United Nations Division for Social Policy and Development (DPSD), contains information on Summit follow-up, with a focus on country-level actions.
URL: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/ |
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| | | Gender Analysis: Alternative Paradigms, by Carol Miller and Shahra Razavi
(GIDP Monograph Series No. 6, United Nations Development Programme, New York, May 1998)
URL: http://www.undp.org/gender/resources/mono_06.htm |
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| | | Gender and Water Alliance
Mainstreaming Gender in integrated water resources management
URL: http://www.genderandwateralliance.org/ |
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| | | Gender in Development Programme
Provides an overview of the policies and programmes of the United Nations Development Programme for gender equality and the advancement of women at the global, regional and national levels.
URL: http://www.undp.org/gender/ |
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| | | Gender Justice and Neoliberal Ortodoxy, by Shahra Razavi, DAWN INFORMS, Nov. 2001
This DAWN INFORMS contains news and analysis on Fundamentalism and Globalisation; Financing for Development; WCAR; World Social Forum; World Summit on Sustainable Development; and WTO Dispatches from Doha.
URL: http://www.dawn.org.fj/publications/docs/DI2001novfinal.pdf |
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| | | Gendered Poverty and Well-being, Development and Change, Special Issue, Vol 30, Issue 3
This Special Issue of the journal of Development and Change brought together some of the papers prepared for the UNRISD project on Gender, Poverty and Well-being.
URL: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/Book.asp?ref=0631217932 |
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| | | Género y Agua
Discussion Group about success and failure of gender mainstreaming at every level of the integrated management of water resources.
URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/genero-agua/ |
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| | | Global Fund for Women
Global Fund for Women is the only US-based organization that exclusively supports international women's rights groups. GFW's three areas of concern are female human rights, women's access to media and communications technology and women's economic autonomy.
URL: http://www.globalfundforwomen.org |
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| | | HIV/AIDS and Food Security in Africa
This paper summarises existing evidence and experience concerning HIV/AIDS and food security in Africa. It deals with two major issues, namely (a) the impact of HIV/AIDS on agrarian livelihoods and how this can be mitigated and (b) the implications of a concurrent generalised HIV/AIDS epidemic and an episode of acute food insecurity, what is termed ‘new variant famine’.
URL: http://www.sarpn.org.za/documents/d0000235/P227_AIDS_Food_Security.pdf |
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| | | ILO Gender Equality Tool
The Bureau for Gender Equality advocates ILO policies, instruments, work and activities on gender and gender equality. It disseminates information about gender issues in the world of work to ILO staff, constituents, and the international community. It acts as liaison in relations concerning gender issues with the UN system, NGOs, and academic and women's organizations. In addition, the Bureau acts as liaison with the ILO Governing Body concerning gender issues within the organization.
URL: http://www.ilo.org/gender |
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| | | InfoChange News & Features
InfoChange India is a daily development news channel, providing news, views, perspectives and debates on India 's social sector. It highlights issues crucial to the development of South Asia , and brings into sharp focus agents and avenues of change.
URL: http://www.infochangeindia.org |
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| | | International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW)
ICRW is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting social and economic development for women in developing and transition countries.
URL: http://www.icrw.org |
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| | | International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW)
ICSW is an NGO promoting social welfare, social development and social justice through training, research and advocacy, maintains a Web site that lists regional, national and international meetings that have taken place since the Social Summit, as well as other inter-governmental, governmental and NGO follow-up initiatives.
URL: http://www.icsw.org/ |
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| | | International Institute for Environment and Development
This is an independent, non-profit organisation that promotes sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, consensus building and public information.
URL: http://www.iied.org |
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| | | International Institute for Sustainable Development
Try to move sustainable development from concept to practice in business, trade, community adaptation and security.
URL: http://www.iisd.org/default.asp |
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| | | Is Poverty Gendered, by Shahra Razavi (United Nations Chronicle, online edtion, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, 1999)
Global estimates of poverty, especially those comparing its incidence among men and women, are based on very shaky data; per capita and "adult equivalent" measures do not offer answers to questions which they were not designed to address. Intra-household distribution issues need to be specifically built into questionnaire design. But there is persisting reticence on the part of administrative structures to probe this arena.
URL: http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/1999/issue3/0399p35.htm |
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| | | Journal of Agrarian Change
The Journal of Agrarian Change is a journal of agrarian political economy. It will promote investigation of the social relations and dynamics of production, property and power in agrarian formations and their processes of change, both historical and contemporary. It will encourage work within a broad interdisciplinary framework, informed by theory, and serve as a forum for serious comparative analysis and scholarly debate.
URL: http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/journals/JAC/ |
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| | | LEAD (Leadership for Environment And Development)
Intends to inspire a course of development that is defined as environmentally responsible, culturally acceptable, economically viable and politically feasible. The LEAD Program trains mid-career professionals using a combination of interdisciplinary methods, interactive skills building and global networking.
URL: http://www.lead.org/ |
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| | | London School of Economics and Political Science Gender Institute
London School of Economics and Political Science Gender Institute provides information about the Institute, its courses, staff, research interests and postgraduate programmes. Established in 1993, the Institute addresses the major intellectual challenges posed by contemporary changes in gender relations.
URL: http://www.lse.ac.uk/depts/gender/ |
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| | | Maharashtra Water Supply and Sanitation Department
In Maharashtra, the Ministry of Water Supply and Sanitation along with the department of Water Supply and Sanitation was created in 1996 to exclusively concentrate on the poor coverage and access to these essential services in both urban and rural areas. The Ministry is responsible for setting the policies for the State in this sector and coordinate with the Central Government and other key institutions.
URL: http://www.mahawssd.gov.in |
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| | | Observatoire sur les Systèmes d'Information, les Réseaux et les Inforoutes au Sénégal
A monthly newspaper supplement (in French, appearing over an eight-month period) containing four pages of analysis, news and views on the programme topic. The supplement has drawn upon material generated within the main research project. It also includes articles written by journalists specifically for the supplement
URL: http://www.osiris.sn |
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| | | Oikos
Oikos is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm in natural resource management and rural development. Oikos is a member of the Global Water Partnership and Gender and Water Alliance.
URL: http://www.oikosindia.org |
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| | | On the Functions of Livelihood Losses in Rwanda, by Justin MacDermott
EDC News, 21/12/2001
URL: http://www.edcnews.se/Feedback/MacDermott011221.html |
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| | | PRINWASS
Research project funded by the EU on private sector involvement in water and sanitation practices
URL: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prinwass |
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| | | Social Watch
Social Watch is an NGO watchdog system that monitors the performance of governments in meeting the targets of social progress to which they subscribed at United Nations summits. The Web site includes information found in the Social Watch Reports that have been published to date.
URL: http://www.socwatch.org.uy/ |
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| | | State of the World's Older People 2002, by HelpAge International
This report, prepared by HelpAge International, provides new evidence on the situation of older people in developing countries and in eastern and central Europe, drawing on recent statistics and research by the global network. Its unique feature is to reflect older people's views and experience, recorded in consultations held in 32 countries during 2001/2 in preparation for the Second World Assembly on Ageing.
URL: http://www.helpage.org/images/pdfs/SOTWOPeng.pdf |
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| | | The Copenhagen Centre
New Partnerships for Social Responsibility (TCC) is an autonomous international institution that focuses on social cohesion as a fundamental precondition for the prosperity of society. TCC strives to promote voluntary partnerships between business, government and civil society in order to provide opportunities for the less privileged to be self-supporting, active and productive citizens.
URL: http://www.copenhagencentre.org |
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| | | The Livelihood Conflicts Approach on Trial in Rwanda: Towards a political critique, by Justin MacDermott
DESTIN Working Paper 21, December 2001
URL: http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/destin/workpapers/justinmacdermott.pdf |
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| | | The Nexus of Economic Growth, Employment and Poverty during Economic Transition
Countries ranging from Central Europe to Central Asia have embarked upon a process of economic transition from planned to market oriented economies. The socio-economic implications of the transition have included enormous declines in economic growth, employment and wage levels and significant increases in poverty and inequality.
URL: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/recon/poverty/download/disc13.pdf |
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| | | The Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division (SEPED)
Following the Social Summit, the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) launched a programme to assist countries in their efforts to comply with the Copenhagen commitments, by supporting the formulation of national strategies and action plans to fight poverty. The Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division (SEPED) of UNDP's Bureau for Development Policy supports these efforts.
URL: http://www.undp.org:80/seped/ |
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| | | The Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division (SEPED) - Poverty
Following the Social Summit, the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) launched a programme to assist countries in their efforts to comply with the Copenhagen commitments, by supporting the formulation of national strategies and action plans to fight poverty.
URL: http://www.undp.org/poverty/ |
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| | | The UC Atlas of Global Inequality
The Atlas of Global Inequality explores some aspects of inequality using online, downloadable maps and graphics. All these materials can be used freely providing they are attributed to the UC Atlas of Global Inequality.
URL: http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/ |
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| | | Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
A Editora da UFRRJ, EDUR, vinculada ao Decanato de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação, tem por metas estimular a publicação de livros, a reedição de títulos já publicados, a transformação de apostilas em livros e a identificação de tópicos de interesse para publicação de livro dentro de coleções, além da publicação de revistas científicas.
URL: http://www.ufrrj.br |
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| | | War-Torn Societies Project
The War Torn Societies Project was set up as an experimental project in Geneva in 1994 with the general objective of assisting the international community and national actors to better respond to the challenge of countries emerging from war.
URL: http://www.wsp-international.org/ |
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Research project funded by the EU on decision making in water
URL: http://www.watertime.net |
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The World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) mandate is to undertake multidisciplinary research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the living conditions of the world's poorest people. To provide a forum for professional interaction and the advocacy of policies leading to robust, equitable and environmentally sustainable growth. To promote capacity strengthening and training for scholars and government officials in the field of economic and social policy making.
URL: http://www.wider.unu.edu |
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| | | Women and International Development Program
Women and International Development Program, Michigan State University (WID-MSU) carries out teaching, research and service by bringing together faculty and students from a broad spectrum of university departments and units interested in processes of global transformation and relations of gender, class, race and nationality.
URL: http://www.isp.msu.edu/wid/ |
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| | | Women and Population
Women and Population is part of the Sustainable Dimensions Web site, which is a service of the Sustainable Development Department of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. This page focuses on women in rural development.
URL: http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/
SUSTDEV/WPdirect/WPhomepg.htm |
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| | | World Water Institute
World Water Institute’s mission is to promote pro-poor water sector reforms and policy at local, national, regional and global levels for livelihood and food security.
URL: http://www.worldwaterinstitute.org |
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| | | "Can Poverty be Reduced? Experience with Poverty Reduction Strategies in Latin America", by Rob Vos (coord), Maritza Cabezas and María Victoria Avilés Blanco
Evaluation and Monitoring of Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS) in Latin America
URL: http://www.iss.nl/prsp/reports/RegionalPRSP2003eng.pdf |
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| | | "Pensions for life?", id21 insights #42, June 2002
INSIGHTS is published every ninety days as a research reporting service to makers and reformers of development policy, development professionals and other stakeholders. It offers a cross-section of policy-relevant social and economic research findings from UK-based researchers and institutes, organised around topical themes.
URL: http://www.id21.org/insights/insights42/index.html |
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| | | "Privatizing Cape Town Service Delivery and Policy Reforms Since 1996", by David A McDonald and Laila Smith
Occasional Paper for the Municipal Services Project
URL: http://www.queensu.ca/msp/pages/Project_Publications/Series/PapersNo7.pdf |
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| | | "Testing the limits of market-based solutions to the delivery of essential services: the Nelspruit Water Concession" by Laila Smith, Shauna Mottiar and Fiona White
Research paper prepared for the Center for Policy Studies
URL: http://www.cps.org.za/cps%20pdf/RR99.pdf |
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| | | "The reform of the utilities sector in Argentina", by J. Delfino and A. Casarin
United Nations Universities /World Institute of Development Economic Research (UNU / WIDER). Helsinki, 2001. Discussion Paper 2001/74
URL: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/dps/dp2001-74.pdf |
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| | | "The struggle to deliver water services to the indigent: A case study on the public-public partnership in Harrismith with Rand Water", by Laila Smith and Ebrahim Fakir
Research paper prepared for the Center for Policy Studies
URL: http://www.cps.org.za/cps%20pdf/RR103.pdf |
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| | | "The urban political ecology of water in Cape Town, South Africa" by Laila Smith
Background paper for the Municipal Services Project
URL: http://www.queensu.ca/msp/pages/Project_Publications/Papers/Water.pdf |
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