TITLE: |
Rural structures in the tropics : design and development / Geoffrey C. Mrema ... [et al.]. |
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Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011. |
DESCRIPTION: |
xii, 481, [4] p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm. |
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Also available online. |
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"This book is an effort by FAO to compile an up-to-date, comprehensive text on rural structures and services in the tropics, focusing on structures for small- to medium-scale farms and, to some extent, village-scale agricultural infrastructure. The earlier edition, entitled Farm structures in tropical climates: a textbook for structural engineering and design |
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, published in 1986, has been used for over two decades as a standard textbook for teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on rural structures a |
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nd services in universities throughout sub-Saharan Africa. This second edition will help to improve teaching - at all educational levels - on the subject of rural buildings in developing countries in the tropics and it will assist professionals currently engaged in providing technical advi |
ELEC. ACCESS: |
Design and construction
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ce on rural structures and services, from either agricultural extension departments or non- |
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governmental rural development organizations. This book will also provide technical guidance in the context of disaster recovery and rehabilitation, for-- rebuilding the sound rural structures and related services that are key to development and economic sustainability. While this book is intended primari |
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ly for teaching university |
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--and collegelevel agricultural engineering students about rural structures and services, resources might be made available to produced textbooks based on |
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-- this material for this for teaching at other educational levels. Although parts of the background material relate specifically to East and Southeast r |
SUBJECT: |
Farm buildings |
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Design and construction. |
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Developing countries |