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Another Way (Stichting Bakens Verzet), 1018 AM
Edition
02: 24 May, 2010
01. E-course : Diploma in
Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev)
SECTION A : DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS.
Study value :
04 points out of 18.
Indicative
study time: 112 hours out of 504.
Study points
are awarded only after the consolidated exam for Section A : Development
Problems has been passed.
First block : Poverty and quality of life.
Study value :
02 points out of 18.
Indicative
study time: 57 hours out of 504.
Study points
are awarded only after the consolidated exam for Section A : Development
Problems has been passed.
First block : Poverty and quality of life. [57 hours]
First Block : Section 1.
Analysis of the causes of poverty. [26.50 hours]
First Block : Section 2. Services needed for a good quality of
life. [26.50 hours]
First Block : Exam. [ 4 hours each attempt]
First Block : Section 2. Services needed for a good quality of
life. [26.50 hours]
Part 1 :
Introduction to the services needed for a good quality of life. [06.50 hours]
01. The bases of a good
quality of life.
05. Typical drawing of a
well/borehole area.
09. Complete system for waste
recycling.
Part 1 :
Introduction to the services needed for a good quality of life. [06.50 hours]
Look at slide :
Shelter.
Most
animals, including man, need shelter.
Gorillas,
food gatherers, are always in movement. Each day, they build nests to sleep in,
according to the materials they have available. They may use grasses, mixtures
of grass and wood, nests made entirely from wood, and nests made from wood
built in trees. (Blom A et al, A
Survey of Apes in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central African Républic,
African Journal of Ecology 39, pp.98-105, East African World Life Society,
2001.) Gorillas sleep «on » and «in » their nests. Babies
sleep with their mothers in their early years, but learn the art of nest
construction before becoming independent. The nests protect the gorillas
against cold ground, and stop them from falling out of trees or sliding down
slopes in their sleep.
Gorillas
are intelligent. Their natural habitat is mild and generous on condition man
does not destroy it.
Nomadic
groups when looking for means of survival under conditions (where applicable,
which have become) more extreme than those endured by gorillas, also need
shelter, just as our forefathers in the long distant past. Think of Touareg and Bedouin and their tents in the desert, of the
Ger of nomadic Mongols, of the Inuit
tents before the development of igloos, of the Pygmies in
the French equatorial forest.
Think of:
- temporary and renewable shelters.
- dismountable and transportable shelters.
- transportable and not dismountable shelters.
1. Opinion.
Make a one page analysis covering the
following points :
What was (where applicable, is) the
purpose of these shelters ? (Try to make a list with at least 5 items.)
Why have some nomadic groups remained nomadic until our
days ?
What is the relationship between nomadic
groups and sedentary societies ?
More permanent
shelter.
To
set up a permanent shelter (for the
whole year or at least for an major part of the year) some things are necessary,
amongst them drinking water and food not too far away, and a reasonable degree
of personal safety.
Natural
shelter in the form of caves was available in just a few areas. More often,
even near to or at the entrance to caves, shelters or artificial caves were
built in pre-historic times using a
circle of wooden poles (in the case
of Cro-Magnon, mammoth bones were used
as well) covered with animal skins and branches. Sometimes they were
half-embedded in the ground. (Refer to the French reference Prehistoric
Man.)
A residence of this kind has
been found in the
Look at the illustration (in French) «Open air
dwellings » taken from website Nethistoire.free and published under Copyleft Licence of the Licence Art Libre.
Modern shelters.
2. Opinion.
On two pages, explain which, if any, are
the essential differences between the function of a modern dwelling such as an
average house in the capital town of your country, an apartment in
◄ First block :
Poverty and quality of life.
◄ Index : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip.Int.Dev)
