Natural Resources In Afghanistan

Author : John F. Shroder
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128005453

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Natural Resources in Afghanistan by John F. Shroder Pdf

Natural Resources in Afghanistan: Geographic and Geologic Perspectives on Centuries of Conflict details Afghanistan's physical geography — namely climate, soils, vegetation, water, hazards, and basic geologic background and terrain landforms — together with details of its rich natural resources, ethnic problems, and relevant past histories. The book couples these details with the challenges of environmental degradation and new environmental management and protection, all of which are considered finally in both pessimistic and optimistic modes. The reader comes away with a nuanced understanding of the issues that are likely to have great affect for this pivotal region of the world for decades to come. With an estimated $1-3 trillion dollars of ore in the ground, and multiple cross-reinforcing cancellations of big Asian power machinations (China, India, Iran, Pakistan), Afghanistan has an opportunity to gain more economic independence. At the same time, however, historic forces of negativity also pull it back toward the chaos and uncertainty that has defined the country and constrained its economic progress for decades. Authored by the world’s foremost expert on the geology and geomorphology of Afghanistan and its lucrative natural resources Aids in the understanding of the physical environment, natural hazards, climate-change situations, and natural resources in one of the most geographically diverse and dangerous terrains in the world Provides new concepts of resource-corridor development in a country with no indigenous expertise of its resources

Author : Ali Azimi,David McCauley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015052654210

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Afghanistan's Environment in Transition by Ali Azimi,David McCauley Pdf

Includes statistics.

Author : Action Aid International
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788131753897

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Natural Resource Management in South Asia: by Action Aid International Pdf

Natural Resource Management in South Asia deals with the problems in the management of natural resources in South Asia. It raises reasonable concerns and queries the manner in which developmental polices are implemented, without undermining the importance of the economic development process. The topics include energy, land, biodiversity, water and the atmosphere, challenges faced by people in Afghanistan. The book examines options to ensure food and water security in South Asia and an alternative policy framework for a sustainable environment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : IND:30000054675651

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Securing Afghanistan's Future, Accomplishments and the Way Forward by Anonim Pdf

This paper outlines the current status, accomplishments, and key issues in the natural resources management sector, and presents the Government's sector development programs and investment budgets.

Author : Steve Ludington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1437935060

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Preliminary Mineral Resource Assessment of Selected Mineral Deposit Types in Afghanistan by Steve Ludington Pdf

In Feb. 2002, a detailed proposal addressing natural resources issues critical to the reconstruction of Afghanistan was prepared. Afghanistan has abundant metallic and non-metallic resources, but the potential resources had never been assessed using modern methods. This assessment reviewed the geology of Afghanistan and selected appropriate deposit models. Then delineated permissive tracts for each type of deposit was prepared. Geologic maps and location maps showing the distribution and types of existing mineral deposits and occurrences were used in outlining these tracts. Geophysical and geochemical maps, as well as knowledge about the exploration history, were used in tract delineation and estimation. Illus.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Jewelry trade
ISBN : LCCN:92214303

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Precious Metals, Gems, and Jewellery by Anonim Pdf

Author : Allan T. Kelly
Publisher : Asian Development Bank Books
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015052878231

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Rebuilding Afghanistan's Agriculture Sector by Allan T. Kelly Pdf

This report outlines sector strategies and needs, summarizes the subsectorreport findings, and highlights the programming aspects for rebuilding Afghanistan's agriculture sector.

Author : John F. Shroder,Sher Jan Ahmadzai
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128018613

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Transboundary Water Resources in Afghanistan by John F. Shroder,Sher Jan Ahmadzai Pdf

Transboundary Water from Afghanistan: Climate Change, and Land-Use Implications brings together diverse factual material on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources. It is the outgrowth of long-term deep knowledge and experience gained by the authors, as well as the material developed from a series of new workshops funded by the Lounsbery Foundation and other granting agencies. Afghanistan and Pakistan have high altitude mountains providing vital water supplies that are highly contentious necessities much threatened by climate change, human land-use variation, and political manipulation, which can be managed in new ways that are in need of comprehensive discussions and negotiations between all the riparian nations of the Indus watershed (Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan). This book provides a description of the basic topographic configuration of the Kabul River tributary to the Indus river, together will all its tributaries that flow back and forth across the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the basic elements that are involved with the hydrological cycle and its derivatives in the high mountains of the Hindu Kush and Himalaya. Synthesizes information on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources Offers a basic topographic description of the Indus River watershed Provides local water management information not easily available for remote and contentious border areas Delivers access to the newest thinking from chief personnel on both sides of the contentious border Features material developed from a series of new workshops funded by the Lounsbery Foundation and other granting agencies

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789292547592

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Central Asia Atlas of Natural Resources by Asian Development Bank Pdf

This atlas brings together a wealth of information related to living and nonliving natural resources in the five countries of Central Asia---Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It contains an array of maps based on geographic information systems and remote sensing images, numerous photographs, tabulations of important data, and extensive descriptive text that together illustrate and describe the region's bountiful natural resources, its diversity of peoples, and their progress toward sustainable development. Highlights include geographic and climatic features; environmental, economic, and social profiles; energy, minerals, and water resources; ecoregions and ecosystems; major fauna and flora; agriculture and fisheries; peoples and cultural traditions; and economic and social statistics.

Author : Astri Suhrke
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849041645

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When More is Less by Astri Suhrke Pdf

The Western-led efforts to establish a new post-Taliban order in Afghanistan are in serious trouble, and in this book Suhrke sets out to explain why. She begins with the dynamic of the intervention and its related peace-building mission. What were the forces shaping this grand international project? What explains the apparent systemic bias towards a deeper and broader international involvement? Many reasons have been cited for its limited achievements and ever-growing difficulties, the most common explanation being that the national, regional, and international contexts were unfavourable. But many policies were misguided while the multinational operation itself was extraordinarily and unnecessarily complex. Astri Suhrke's main thesis is that the international project itself contains serious tensions and contradictions that significantly contributed to the lack of progress. As a result, the deepening involvement proved dysfunctional: massive international support has created an extreme version of a rentier state that is predictably weak, corrupt and unaccountable; US-led military operations undercut the peacebuilding agenda, and more international aid and monitoring to correct the problems generate Afghan resentment and evasion. Continuing these policies will only reinforce the dynamic. The alternative is a less intrusive international presence, a longer time-frame for reconstruction and change, and negotiations with the militants that can end the war and permit a more Afghan-directed order to emerge.

Author : Carl Bruch,Carroll Muffett,Sandra S. Nichols
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 909 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136272066

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Governance, Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding by Carl Bruch,Carroll Muffett,Sandra S. Nichols Pdf

When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order. Meeting these needs while sustaining peace requires more than simply having governmental structures in place; it requires good governance. Natural resources are essential to sustaining people and peace in post-conflict countries, but governance failures often jeopardize such efforts. This book examines the theory, practice, and often surprising realities of post-conflict governance, natural resource management, and peacebuilding in fifty conflict-affected countries and territories. It includes thirty-nine chapters written by more than seventy researchers, diplomats, military personnel, and practitioners from governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental organizations. The book highlights the mutually reinforcing relationship between natural resource management and good governance. Natural resource management is crucial to rebuilding governance and the rule of law, combating corruption, improving transparency and accountability, engaging disenfranchised populations, and building confidence after conflict. At the same time, good governance is essential for ensuring that natural resource management can meet immediate needs for post-conflict stability and development, while simultaneously laying the foundation for a sustainable peace. Drawing on analyses of the close relationship between governance and natural resource management, the book explores lessons from past conflicts and ongoing reconstruction efforts; illustrates how those lessons may be applied to the formulation and implementation of more effective governance initiatives; and presents an emerging theoretical and practical framework for policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and students. Governance, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. The project has generated six books of case studies and analyses, with contributions from practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. Other books in this series address high-value resources, land, water, livelihoods, and assessing and restoring natural resources.

Author : Qureshi, A. S.
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Watershed management
ISBN : 9789290904953

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Water resources management in Afghanistan: The issues and options by Qureshi, A. S. Pdf

This report presents the analysis of current status of water resources management in Afghanistan and identify steps for maximizing the use ofavailable water resources to enhance crop productivity and environmental sustainability.

Author : M. J. Gohari
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195795608

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The Taliban by M. J. Gohari Pdf

A 1999 overview of Taliban rule in Afghanistan that describes the country's history; mujahideen; the Taliban's theological and political infrastructure; the economy, social order, and human rights; relations with neighboring countries; and the background and beliefs of Osama bin Laden.

Author : Gary W. Bowersox
Publisher : GeoVision, Inc.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN : 0945005199

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Gemstones of Afghanistan by Gary W. Bowersox Pdf

A richly illustrated volume directed to gemologists and serious gem collectors.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251309360

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15 years in Afghanistan by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Emerging from decades of war in 2002, Afghanistan and its rich agricultural history were in need of urgent repair and reinvigoration. Since that time, FAO has been operating in the country to rehabiliate irrigation infrastructure, build new dairy and wheat seed industries, improve livestock health, help smallholders diversify their crops and add higher-value products, halt deforestation and help the country adapt to climate change. This report presents highlights from the work carried out over the past 15 years, featuring stories and testimonials from satisfied FAO beneficiairies. It is organized to reflect the priorities that the Government of Afghanistan has outlined in its current agricultural development plan, while also showing how FAO's work cuts across many sectors of agriculture. The report demonstrates that, despite some setbacks, FAO has brought increased prosperity, sustainability and self-reliance to the farmers, pastoralists and farm product processors of Afghanistan.