Farmer-based financing of operations in the Niger Valley irrigation schemes.

Irrigation management / Irrigation systems / River basin development / Sustainability / Water resources development / Low-lift irrigation / Low-lift pumps / Farmer managed irrigation systems / Farmers' associations / Institution building / Privatization / Performance evaluation / Constraints / Case studies / Financing / Costs / Climate / Food production / Niger

Toward A Model Of Vocational Persistence Among Seminarians: Part 1

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Whither Church Planting?

Church planting is a clear response to the gospel command to spread the good news. While the term “church plant” may not be shared across Christian traditions, its meaning and goal are universally embraced. What is also clear, however, is the fact that the establishment of a new plant does not guarantee its success. Likely the critical factor in denomination, free, or independent church expansion is the nature of the individual or team assigned or commissioned to spread the good news

Whither Church Planting?

Church planting is a clear response to the gospel command to spread the good news. While the term “church plant” may not be shared across Christian traditions, its meaning and goal are universally embraced. What is also clear, however, is the fact that the establishment of a new plant does not guarantee its success. Likely the critical factor in denomination, free, or independent church expansion is the nature of the individual or team assigned or commissioned to spread the good news

Unique Characteristics of Church Planters: A Research Proposal

This article is the second and concluding article derived from the doctoral research project on young, male church planters initiated by Hertzberg with statistical and analytical support by Lonsway. Its goal is to recap the major initiatives in the research on church planters in the evangelical tradition and to cite their strengths and limitations, to summarize the research design and findings from Hertzberg’s research using the researcher’s Church Planter Questionnaire and the Stage II Casebook of the ATS Profiles of Ministry Program, and to offer a set of recommendations to strengthen and broaden the research in this vital area of church growth

The Experience of a Lifestyle

This essay traces the evolution of themed environment design from theme parks to a series of new architectural types – Urban Entertainment Destinations, Lifestyle Enhancement Centers, and Lifestyle Villages – as a chronicle of spatial mediation from urban décor to urban design technique. Culled partly through semiotic deconstruction and partly through ethnographic investigation, this history examines the environmental design techniques employed in these spaces in order to better understand the relationship of design practice to the cultural practices of work and leisure. From spatialized branding strategies to the neo-urbanist configurations of location-based entertainment, leisure/entertainment ventures use these narratively motivated techniques to produce space according to a discreet set of behavioral guidelines. They introduce a kind of micro-managed spatial articulation through environment design techniques like cognitive mapping, entertainment capacity design, and leisure strategy planning. Learned originally from a positivist strain of urban theory (primarily North American, circa 1950’s-1960’s) and subsequently, from theme park designers who adopted the work of these theorists, these techniques serve to simultaneously create a new commercial narrative of ‘proper’ leisure time expenditure and embed this commercial narrative into the experience of space. No longer contained within the physical limits of a theme park or shopping mall, these spatial modulations are spawning a widely copied architectonic of leisure: a system of constructing, reproducing, and marketing spatial design techniques at the service of highly controlled “leisure.

Skywalking in the city: Glass platforms and the architecture of vertigo

The paper explores the ambivalent concept of vertigo and its significance for contemporary architecture. It examines in particular the rise of elevated glass platforms through concepts of transparency, experience, and kinaesthesia. Proposes that these emerging design features constitute a kind of ‘sixth façade’. Discusses this phenomenon as a spatial manifestation of the experience economy. Concludes by highlighting the rise of ‘architectures of vertigo’ in relation to wider social imperatives

Rape myths: A theoretical and empirical re-examination

Thesis (B.S.) in Psychology--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 29-31)Microfiche of typescript. [Urbana, Ill.]: Photographic Services, University of Illinois, U of I Library, [1992]. 2 microfiches (56 frames): negative.s 1992 ilu n