This report investigates the tolls that overpopulation and poverty often take on historic cities and sacred sites. More importantly, it demonstrates that taking care of humanity's cultural heritage can...
This book grew out of the keynote address delivered to the 1996 ninth World Congress of Rural Sociology, organized by the International Rural Sociology Association in Bucharest, Romania, July 22, 1996...
At the dawn of a new millennium, by Ismail Serageldin. IRRI (International Rice Research Institute) celebrates 40 years of discovery. TAC (Technical Advisory Committee) charts course for system change...
Social capital has quickly entered the common vernacular of our discussions about the connectedness of citizens to their community. It remains, however, a concept that is not easily defined. This is the...
Social capital has quickly entered the common vernacular of our discussions about the connectedness of citizens to their community. It remains, however, a concept that is not easily defined. This is the...
The protection of cultural heritage is an essential part of protecting a sense of identity. It underlines the present as a link from a well-defined past to a future. This essay focused on the built environment...
This forum is associated with the Fifth Annual World Bank Conference on Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, held at the Bank, October 9-10, 1997. How to maximize the potential of biotechnology...
The theme for the 1997 conference was the scientific, legal, and economic requirements of global ecosystem management. Although international agreements are but one element of addressing global environment...
Rome celebrates millennium, by Christian Jubilee. US-Mexico identities: culture at the border. Asia pacific discussion: heritage network on-line. Geographic Information System: historical town analyses...
At the threshold of the third millennium, the world is in the throes of unprecedented globalization. Many individuals, especially in the developing countries, feel themselves increasingly powerless against...
The CGIAR nurtures an evaluation culture. China-CGIAR Forum ushers in closer partnership. Message from the Chairman: the CGIAR calls for moratorium, by Ismail Serageldin. CGIAR happenings. Highlights of...
Culture includes not only arts and letters but also modes of life, the fundamental rights of human beings, value systems, traditions, and beliefs. It is a culture that has contributed to the heritage of...
The Fourth Annual World Bank Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Development was convened in September 1996, with the aim to pursue four key goals: 1) poverty reduction; 2) widely shared growth;...
This report is the proceedings of a concurrent meeting of the Fifth Annual World Bank Conference on Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, entitled "Partnerships for Global Ecosystem Management:...
Solving the Rubik's Cube: cultural heritage in cities of the developing world. Forward to the past:cultural heritage a trigger for renewal. The politics of heritage: the culture war in urban India. Preservation...
This volume brings to public scrutiny and discussion one of several analytical tools, or research strategies, employed by sociologists and anthropologists to help shape the orientation, content, and ultimate...
Agricultural science forum strengthens global agricultural research system. CGIAR honors six world food prize laureates. Editorial - The global forum - an agricultural science summit. Global challenges...
The policy statements in this compilation were made by Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Chairman Ismail Serageldin at International Centers Week 1996.' Together, they define...
The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), established in 1971, is an informal association of governments, international and regional organizations, and private foundations...
This volume contains a summary of the proceedings of the Sustainability and Self-Empowerment Seminar held in conjunction with the World Bank's Third Annual Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Development...