Housing, Sustainable Development and the Rural Poor: A Study of Tamil Nadu"This book should be required reading for Ph.D. students in the social sciences. The village schedule questionnaire and household schedule questionnaire have been thoughtfully reproduced in the appendices that follow the text. All those interested in rural housing, appropriate technology and sustainable development will be richly rewarded by a careful reading of this book." --The Hindu "A commendable study that breaks fresh ground. The book can be read at two levels; as a manual providing guidelines in the use of appropriate technology for constructing low cost houses and as a scientific treatise grounded in empirical data which explores systematically the application of ecodevelopment concepts to habitat problems. At either level, the reader will derive considerable knowledge and benefit." |
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List of Tables | 13 |
Scope and Overview | 21 |
An Economic Social | 29 |
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According to House activities agricultural Andhra Pradesh appropriate technology average bamboo biogas blocks Brahmin building materials building technology caste cement cent Chapter Chengalpattu coconut concrete cooking cow-dung crops drinking water dung ecodevelopment ecological economic energy environmental fertility Figure firewood green manuring Harijans Hindu house construction house types household Housework implementation improve income group India inhabitants innovation capacity interviewed investigated area Kendall's tau kerosene kg/cm² kitchen-garden Kovalam Kovalam Kupam Kupam kutcha house owners labour land Madras Mangalore manure mud walls mud-block press Natang NBO and ESCAP needs NGOs North Arcot organic palm leaves Percentage plant plaster population programmes Propensity to Invest pucca houses Pucca Kutcha Rent a Mud-Block repair costs respondents result roof repairs rural areas rural housing Scheduled Castes Section self-reliance social socio-cultural soil Source Table Tamil Nadu thatched roof thermal comfort Total traditional urban vegetables wall repair women