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Water &
Sanitation
Resources
Sustainable
Sanitation
Alliance
SUSANA
Sandec
APPROPEDIA
GIZ
Village
Earth
Rural Water
Supply
Practical
Action
WHO
HEALTH
Climate
Change
SSWM
IRC
Appropriate
Technology
Guradian
Resources
Podcasts
WELL
Resources
Global Water
Partnership
Media
Resources
SPHERE
STANDARDS
Renewable
Energy
Sandec
Innovation
Climate
Change
IPCC
Energy
EWB UK
Tag 03
Climate
Change
Climate
Sandec
Change
Climate
Change
Bill McKibben
Planetary
Boundaries
James
Hansen
DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION RESOURCE LIBRARY
James
Lovelock
The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance is an
open international alliance dedicated to
understanding viable sanitation solutions.
Sustainable
Sanitation
Alliance
It links practitioners, academics, policy
makers, communities etc. with the aim of
promoting innovation and best practices in
policy, programming and technology.
It publishes a useful email digest of current
practice, users can request a copy at:
[email protected]
www.susana.org/en
SANDEC
Water & Sanitation
in Developing
Countries
Sandec is the Department of Water and
Sanitation in Developing Countries at the
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science
and Technology (Eawag).
Their work in five research fields takes
place in close collaboration with
international and local organisations. These
collaborations contribute to increasing
research
capacity
and
professional
expertise in partner countries.
It publishes a useful newsletter of current
practice online.
http://www.sandec.ch/index_EN
GIZ is a useful resource for two primary
sources of information as follows: .
GIZ
It publishes a useful newsletter of current
practice relating to climate change,
subscription by contacting:
[email protected]
It also contains a useful resource library
which can be freely accessed on:
http://www.giz.de/en/mediacenter/publica
tions.html
SSWM provides a number of useful
sanitation
and
water
management
resources which can be accessed through:
Sustainable
Sanitation
& Water
Management
SSWM
http://www.sswm.info/home
It also publishes a useful newsletter of
current practice which can be subscribed to
as follows:
http://www.sswm.info/mailchimp/subscrib
e
A collection of the brilliant, innovative,
appropriate and sometimes daft:
APPROPEDIA
http://www.appropedia.org/
Useful for prompting ideas and researching
simple applications of technology.
Check out the section on open source 3D
printing – could this be the “appropriate
technology of the future”
Village Earth –
Appropriate
Technology
Library
This is the original of the species – a collection
of over 1050 books dealing with do it yourself
technology. Some useful info buried inside.
Some of the resources however, seem quite
dated and most are now either available freely
on the internet or replaced by youtube or
vimeo. Still worth a search.
http://www.villageearth.org/appropriatetechnology/appropriate-technology-library
Rural Water
Supply Network
This is a very useful network which connects
professionals in a range of disciplines working in
the supply of safe affordable water.
The website can be accessed on:
http://www.rural-water-supply.net/en/
There is also a very useful newsletter which can
be obtained by contacting:
[email protected]
A useful introduction to global development
containing a collection of multi-media resources
http://www.theguardian.com/globaldevelopment
Guardian
Global
Development
The section climate change provides a useful
starting point for this topic:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment
/climate-change
Finally we recommend George Monbiot’s blog
on climate change for some stimulating info
which you may not totally agree with but will
provoke some debate.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment
/georgemonbiot+climate-change
A useful introduction to global development
containing a collection of multi-media resources
http://www.theguardian.com/globaldevelopment
Podcasts for
Global
Development
The section climate change provides a useful
starting point for this topic:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment
/climate-change
Finally we recommend George Monbiot’s blog
on climate change for some stimulating info
which you may not totally agree with but will
provoke some debate.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment
/georgemonbiot+climate-change
WELL Resource
Centre
Well resource centre for water and sanitation &
environmental
health,
Loughborough
University. The WELL website is a focal point for
providing access to information about water,
sanitation and environmental health and
related issues in developing and transitional
countries.
www.lboro.ac.uk/well
Global Water
Partnership
GWP was founded in 1996 by the World Bank,
the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), and the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) to
foster integrated water resource management
(IWRM).
The network is open to all organisations
involved in water resources management. The
website is useful for strategy rather than
practical action based resources.
http://www.gwp.org/en/About-GWP/
IRC International
Water & Sanitation
Centre
This is a useful website which gives an overview
of both practical projects and wash strategy
http://www.ircwash.org/
Practical Action
“Schumacher’s groundbreaking book ‘Small is
Beautiful’ is as relevant today as it was in the
1970s. We are still living in a world where
economic
growth
and
technological
advancements offers little for the two billion
people living in abject poverty. And we still treat
our planet as expendable – exploiting it beyond
its natural capacity – with global warming being
one such devastating result”.
This website gives an excellent overview of how
Schuamcher’s
philosohpy
has
been
implemented in todays post-climate changing
world.
http://practicalaction.org/welcome-topractical-action
World Health
Organisation
The World Health Organisation publishes a
series of guidelines and standards for water,
sanitation and environmental health related
topics.
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/en/
The Sphere
Standards
The Sphere Project – or ‘Sphere’ – was initiated
in 1997 by a group of humanitarian nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and the
International Red Cross and Red Crescent
Movement. Their aim was to improve the
quality of their actions during disaster response
and to be held accountable for them.
The minimum standards describe conditions
that must be achieved in any humanitarian
response in order for disaster-affected
populations to survive and recover in stable
conditions and with dignity.
http://www.spherehandbook.org/en/what-is-sphere/
Renewable
Energy
Innovation
Renewable Energy Innovation specialise in
electrical and electronic systems for renewable
energy projects, mainly solar, wind and microhydro. We focus on renewable energy based
stand-alone power supply systems (off-grid
systems). This includes power and energy
monitoring, battery charge control and wiring
systems.
We have not worked with them ourselves but
their website appears to have a number of free
to download resources and they also offer predeparture training courses for field based
engineers.
http://www.reinnovation.co.uk/web12/index.php/en/
Energy
For Engineers
The overall aim of the Energy book is to provide a
cohesive, concise and practical guide to help field
practitioners (such as Engineers Without Borders
placement volunteers) maximise the positive
impact of energy-related projects .
The authors have made the book free to
download and express the opinion that it should
be used, added to and distributed to assist those
working in the field. The resources and reference
list is useful for those working in this area.
https://thewindyboy.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/en
ergy-book-final-for-press.pdf
Engineers Without
Borders UK
This site contains an overview of EWB uk and
includes references to current and past projects,
and useful publications and resources.
http://www.ewb-uk.org/
Climate Change
IPCC
The IPCC is a scientific body under the
auspices of the United Nations (UN). It
reviews and assesses the most recent
scientific, technical and socio-economic
information produced worldwide relevant
to the understanding of climate change. It
does not conduct any research nor does it
monitor climate related data or parameters.
Its most recent report is available at:
http://www.ipcc.ch/
Health
The Hesperian Foundation began in the
1970s in Ajoya, Mexico. There, an
expanding group of volunteers working
with villagers created a simple manual to
use medically accurate knowledge in a
culturally appropriate way to address
community health needs.
They published this manual in 1973 as
Donde No Hay Doctor.
In 1977, to share it with the world,
Hesperian published the English language
version Where There Is No Doctor, now the
most widely used health book in the world.
http://hesperian.org/
Climate Change
James Lovelock
James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS is an
independent scientist, environmentalist
and futurist who lives in Dorset, England.
He is credited with the concept of Gaia, the
living planet.
www.jameslovelock.org/
Climate Change
Bill McKibben
William Ernest "Bill" McKibben is an
American environmentalist, author, and
journalist who has written extensively on
the impact of global warming
www.billmckibben.com/
Climate Change
Planetary Boundaries
In 2009, a group of 28 internationally
renowned scientists identified and
quantified a set of nine planetary
boundaries within which humanity can
continue to develop and thrive for
generations to come. Crossing these
boundaries could generate abrupt or
irreversible environmental changes.
Respecting the boundaries reduces the
risks to human society of crossing these
thresholds
http://www.stockholmresilience.org/21/res
earch/.html
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgqtrli
xYR4
Climate Change
James Hansen
James Edward Hansen is an American
adjunct professor in the Department of
Earth and Environmental Sciences at
Columbia University.
www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/