Introduction: Cooperative Finance and Sustainable Local Development Yiorgos Alexopoulos and Silvio Goglio Part 1: Stakeholder-Oriented versus Profit-Maximizing Banks 1. Cooperative Banking: A Minskyan Perspective Elisabetta De Antoni 2. Governance and Performance: Reassessing the Pre-Crisis Situatio...
R. L. Welcomme, Ian G. Baird, David Dudgeon, A.S. Halls et al.
The lower, potamonic parts of the Ganges–Brahmaputra, the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy), the Salween, the Chao Phraya and the Mekong and Lancang Rivers are among the longest and most productive rivers for inland fisheries in the world. Except for the Chao Phraya, they arise on the Tibetan Plateau. All have...
Nigel Haggan, Claire Brignall, Louisa J. Wood
This Report documents the presentations given at the World’s first international conference on the management value of the resource knowledge of small scale, indigenous and commercial fishers. The conference was inspired by Dr Robert (Bob) Johannes, whose 1981 Book ‘Words of the Lagoon’, was the fir...
Nelson F. McManus, David S Bellinghouse
Preface Pelagic Sharks, Fisheries Management and Conservation: Past, Present and Future A Comparative Review of the Fisheries Management Systems in New Zealand and in the European Union Towards New Approaches to Fisheries Management in the Mediterranean Sea Final Report on Economic Valuation of Wate...
David Lewis
Although tractors have long been regarded by policy makers in Bangladesh as being technologically ‘inappropriate’ to local conditions, they have nevertheless been in use in Comilla district for several decades. The failure of cooperative institutional arrangements for farm mechanization in the 1960s...
Matthew Gamser, Helen Appleton, Nicola Carter
Part 1 Africa: regional overview, J.G.M.Massaquor the coffee pulper in northern Tanzania, Simon R.Nkonoki residue stoves in Kenya, Mohammed Mwamadzingo the grate cooking system in Zimbabwe, Mthuli Ncube salt from silt in Sierra Leone, J.G.M.Massaquoi cassava processing innovations in Nigeria, R.O.Ad...
Md. Shariar Kabir Zeehad, Md. Monirul Islam Mridul, Dipankar Chakrobortty, Sarower Mahfuj et al.
Abstract The major carp Rohu ( Labeo rohita ) is a prime freshwater aquaculture species across the Indian subcontinent that faces various production‐related issues associated with water quality parameters. The present study examined the effects of three different doses of NH 3 ( T 1 = 1 mg/L, T 2 = ...
Joanna Kirkpatrick
On Wings of Diesel is a comprehensive ethnography of the entire socio-cultural regime of Pakistani trucking—owners, drivers, designers and painters—as well as of the colorful, elaborate truck decorations and handwork. After Partition in 1947 and the formation of the new nation, what was left of the ...
Book reviewed in this article: THE HUTCHINSON HISTORY OF THE WORLD. By J. M. Roberts. GENERAL: History of mankind: cultural and scientihc development, volume v: the nineteenth century, 1775–1905. Edited by Charles Morazé. GENERAL: jules michelet: nature, history and language. By Linda Orr. GENERAL: ...
Alexis Bruno-McKinney
This project examines three contemporary re-creations of Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, exploring how modern depictions of the same image and story return to and change Botticelli’s vision. I juxtapose the fifteenth-century painting with three contemporary re-creations: Larry Moss’ Birth of...
Harold Kirkham, Mihaela Albu, Matt Engels, Guglielmo Frigo et al.
While it has always been true that measurements are made to guide decision-making, there is abundant evidence that not all measurement results are meaningful. We give examples of fully-functional, tested and trusted measurement systems producing nonsensical results. A common characteristic of such s...
David A. Shamma, Jude Yew, Brian P. Bailey
Welcome to CC2017 and to Singapore! We have an amazing array of artwork and technical content for this year's conference program. The program includes 25 full papers and 2 notes (94 submissions), 5 pictorials (12 submissions), 5 posters (15 submissions), 6 technology demonstrations (11 submissions),...
David Shook
may–june 2013 • 43 cover feature Bangladesh on the World Stage Featuring K. Anis Ahmed, Tahmima Anam, Maria Chaudhuri, Farah Ghuznavi, Sudipta Chakma Mikado, and Mahmud Rahman Guest-edited by David Shook photo : getty images / channdan mitra cover feature 44 World Literature Today B eneath the twin ...
Md. Shariar Kabir Zeehad, Md. Monirul Islam Mridul, Dipankar Chakrobortty, Sarower Mahfuj et al.
Kabir Zeehad, Md. Shariar, Mridul, Md. Monirul Islam, Chakrobortty, Dipankar, Mahfuj, Sarower et al.
The major carp Rohu (Labeo rohita) is a prime freshwater aquaculture species across the Indian subcontinent that faces various production-related issues associated with water quality parameters. The present study examined the effects of three different doses of NH3 (T1 = 1 mg/L, T2 = 2 mg/L and T3 =...
Chris Moffat
What would Walter Benjamin have made of Pakistan? One might imagine the German critic, a famous collector, in one of Saddar's busy bazaars, his arms full of handicrafts and other souvenirs. We know from Benjamin's archives that he regularly sent postcards—would he be drawn to purchase images of Maza...
Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor, Kirsten Harris, Christian P. Haines, Stephanie Peebles Tavera et al.
This issue of Utopian Studies represents a journal milestone: thirty-five years of publication. Our gift to ourselves is the expansion of our editorial team, with Associate Editor Christian P. Haines overseeing the CRITICAL FORUM section of the journal. He is already at work on the FORUM for the upc...
Roslyn S. Fraser
Several scholars, and even a few journalists,1 have written about the figure of the international tourist who uses South Asia as a canvas upon which one can create and recreate the self. Perhaps the most discernable example in the pop culture imagination is Elizabeth Gilbert’s trip to an ashram in I...
Md. Shariar Kabir Zeehad, Md. Monirul Islam Mridul, Dipankar Chakrobortty, Sarower Mahfuj et al.
Nafisa A. Iqbal
Let's start here: A few days after we watch the movie, Maa unearths a fragile thing from the depths of the old mahogany armoire. It is small, palm-sized. We hold this very old thing like a just-born hatchling between our hands, pass it between us with eggshell caution. It is her nana's diary. I imag...