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  • ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN THIRD WORLD CITIES
    JORGE E. HARDOY / DIANA MITLIN / DAVID SATTERTHWAITE
    Describes and analyses the environmental problems of Third World cities, showing how they affect human health and the local ecology. The authors show how readily available practical solutions are, if the political means can be found. ...

    $659.00

  • NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF RESERVOIR MIXTURES
    VLADIMIR MITLIN
    Nonlinear Dynamics of Reservoir Mixtures provides an overview of modeling techniques for solving nonlinear problems in hydrodynamics, with an emphasis on compositional flows in porous reservoirs. The volume focuses on nonlinear wave techniques for simulating and predicting fluid dynamic processes in petroleum reservoirs and discusses general applications of these models for oth...

    $1,999.00

  • FUNDING COMMUNITY INITIATIVES
    SILVINA ARROSSI / FELIX BOMBAROLO / JORGE E HARDOY / DIANA MITLIN / LUIS PEREZ COSCIO / DAVID SATTERTHWAI
    Despite four decades of development planning, at least one third of the urban population of Africa, Asia and Latin America remains poor. Over 600 million live in 'life and health threatening' homes and neighbourhoods because of poor housing and inadequate or no piped water, sanitation and health care. But even as the shortcomings of government and development programmes become ...

    $659.00

  • EMPOWERING SQUATTER CITIZEN
    DIANA MITLIN / DAVID SATTERTHWAITE
    With the rapid growth in urban poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America, most cities now have 30 to 60 per cent of their population living in shanty towns. The civil and political rights of these people are either ignored or constantly contravened. They face multiple deprivations, including hunger, long hours working for inadequate incomes; illness, injury and premature deaths...

    $999.00

  • URBAN POVERTY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
    DIANA MITLIN / DAVID SATTERTHWAITE
    One in seven of the world’s population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South – mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate water, sanitation, health care and schools provision. This book explains how and why the scale and depth of urban poverty is so frequently under-estimated by governments and international agen...

    $1,379.00

  • PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
    VLADIMIR MITLIN
    Because fine-tuning the parameters of a system is critical to a developer's success, Performance Optimization of Digital Communications Systems examines particular optimization problems in digital communications, presenting analytical techniques in combination with SystemView and MATLAB simulations. Consisting of ten chapters, this monograph presen ...

    $1,499.00

  • REDUCING URBAN POVERTY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
    DAVID SATTERTHWAITE / DIANA MITLIN
    Urban areas in the Global South now house most of the world’s urban population and are projected to house almost all its increase between now and 2030. There is a growing recognition that the scale of urban poverty has been overlooked – and that it is increasing both in numbers and in the proportion of the world’s poor population that live and work in urban areas. This is the f...

    $1,379.00

  • ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN AN URBANIZING WORLD
    JORGE E. HARDOY / DIANA MITLIN / DAVID SATTERTHWAITE
    New edition of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America contain some of the world's most life- and health-threatening human environments. Environment-related diseases and injuries cause millions of preventable deaths each year. In many squatter settlements, children are 40 to 50 times more likely to die before the age of five than th...

    $1,099.00

  • EL BINGO DE LAS EMOCIONES
    MITLIN
    Agotado

    $4,760.00