Rural Energy in Developing Countries: A Challenge for Economic Development
▪ Abstract The energy problems of the developing world are both serious and widespread. Lack of access to sufficient and sustainable supplies of energy affects as much as 90% of the population of…
Urban change in Iran, 1920–1941
The reforms initiated by Reza Shah's urban modernization drive led to changes not only in cultural patterns of urban life in Iran and the economic structure of the country, but even in spatial…
Public Health In Qajar Iran
- W. Floor
- Medicine
- 2003
Introduction Main Diseases Public Hygiene Medical Knowledge Medical Institutional Infrastructure - Spiritual Healers, Islamic-Galenic Physicians, Traditional Healers The Progress of Modern Medicine…
The Niger Household Energy Project: Promoting Rural Fuelwood Markets and Village Management of Natural Woodlands
- G. Foley, W. Floor, G. Madon, E. M. Lawali, P. Montagné, K. Tounao
- Economics
- 1 May 1997
A radical new strategy for dealing with the problems of energy and the environment in the Sahel is being implemented in Niger. Rather than have urban wood traders go into the countryside to cut the…
Tackling the rural energy problem in developing countries.
- D. Barnes, R. V. D. Plas, W. Floor
- Economics
- 1997
A Social History of Sexual Relations in Iran
- W. Floor
- Economics
- 4 August 2008
This study illuminates the 2,500-year social history of sexual relations in Iran. Marriage, temporary marriage, prostitution, and homosexuality are all discussed, as well as the often unintended…
Dutch Relations with the Persian Gulf
- W. Floor
- History
- 2009
Although the Dutch did not arrive in the Persian Gulf until 1623, Dutch interest in that part of the world began much earlier. Prior to that date Dutchmen had come to the Gulf as part of Portuguese…
The Bandar ?Abbas-Isfahan Route in the Late Safavid Era (1617-1717)
- W. Floor
- Art
- 1999
Cet article traite de la route caravaniere qui va de Bandar Abbas a Isfahan, en Iran, a la fin de l'epoque des Sefevides. L'A aborde ici la question du ravitaillement, en nourriture et autres…
Iran and the world in the Safavid age
- W. Floor, Edmund M. Herzig
- History
- 2012
The Safavid era is of special significance in the history of Iran. Under the Safavids - between the sixteenth and the mid-eighteenth century - Iran was transformed and a state emerged which was the…
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