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		Special Public Works Programmes - SPWP - Soil Conservation - Project Design and Implementation Using Labour Intensive Techniques (ILO - UNDP, 1982, 220 p.)
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			PREFACE
			INTRODUCTION
			CHAPTER A. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
			CHAPTER B. EROSION PROTECTION TECHNIQUES
			CHAPTER C. REHABILITATION TECHNIQUES FOR WATERLOGGED SOILS
			CHAPTER D. METHODOLOGY FOR SETTING UP A SOIL CONSERVATION PROJECT
			CHAPTER E. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION1
			APPENDICES
			BACK COVER

BACK COVER

The phenomenon of soil conservation is not new. Plato, as early as four centuries before our age, deplored mountain erosion in Greece, but the phenomenon has now reached unprecedented proportions, and, should it continue at the current rate, one third of the world’s arable land will be depleted within the next twenty years.
Inclusion of soil conservation schemes in SPECIAL PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMMES offers the two-fold advantage of responding to an obvious economic imperative and of promoting the intensive use of unskilled labour for implementing works.
This manual, written for engineers and higher-level technicians provides instructions for the design and construction of soil conservation projects using the «labour investment».
It presents in the following order the fundamental notions applying to various sorts of erosion and the possible remedies, a standard methodology for project design and preparation, and guidelines for the organisation, implementation and supervision of works.

Price: 20 Swiss francs
ISBN 92-2-103395-3