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Edition 04: 22 April, 2011

 

01. E-course : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev)

 

Quarter 1.

 

 

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.

02. Physical safety.

03. Shelter.

04. Drinking water.

05. Typical drawing of a well/borehole area.

06. Typical water point.

07. Food security.

08. Health and sanitation.

09. Complete system for waste recycling.

10. Dry composting toilet.

11. Education for all.

12. Work for all.

13. Social security system.

 


 

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. (At least 30 minutes)

 

Sustainable consumption involves: “The use of services and related products which respond to basic needs and bring a better quality of life while minimising the use of natural resources and toxic materials as well as the emissions of waste and pollutants over the life-cycle of the service or product so as not to jeopardise the needs of future generations.” (Towards Sustainable Consumption : An Economic Conceptual Framework, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Working Party on National  Environmental Policy, Paris, 2002. p.9 citing  The Norwegian Ministry of the Environment.)

 

"Probably the best place to be in this situation [economic collapse precipitated by peak oil and a changing climate] would be on a subsistence farm in a village in Sub-Saharan Africa or someplace that's not much effected by what happens in the rest of the world. ” (Brown L., The Planet’s Scarcest Resource is Time, film Videonation, The Nation, New York, 22nd March, 2011, at minute 1.27).

 

Look at this slide:

 

11. The bases of a good quality of life. 

 

The role of the state, police, and military forces.

 

The role of  the state and local structures.

 

In this period, Europe and the United States are discussing the purchase of new American combat aircraft known as the JSF (Joint Strike Fighter), the unit price of which can reach Euro 100.000.000. The manufacture of a  JSF aircraft calls for a lot of specialisation. Aircraft and other war machines enable us to take part in conflicts at a distance, with serious consequences over vast territories. Despite the great military advances of the past, including the domestication of horses, the invention of stirrups, the English bow with a range greater than 200m, and in the 16th century, the invention of firearms, battles were in the past local in nature. Until modern times they were mostly fought person against person.

 

1. Research.

 

Make a two-page analysis of the consequences of the following developments on the physical security of individuals and communities :

 

a) The development of tribal organisations comprising several hundred people  (Mesopotamia, +/- 11.000 BC)

b) The development of centrally administered social organisation (chosen or hereditary chiefs) comprising a few thousand people  (Mesopotamia, +/- 5.500 BC ;Central- and South America  +/- 1000 B.C )

c)  The development of «states »  with several tens of thousands of people (Mesopotamia, +/- 3.700 BC ; Central-America +/- 300- B.C. ; South America, China, South-East Asia +/- 0 .A.D. ; Africa +/- 1000 A.D.  )

d) The development of modern means of destruction.

 

Take the degree of specialisation of activities at each level into account, as well as the need to solve conflicts within the groups and between the groups.

 

The tasks of an integrated development project.

    

The smallest societies are nomad groups, typically with 5 to 80 members. It is thought that people lived in such groups until about  40.000 years ago. Most people were living in nomadic groups 11.000 years ago.  There are still some nomadic groups in New Guinea and the Amazon area today. The sad fate of other groups such as the Pygmies, the Bushmen, the Inuits, and the Australian Aborigines is known to all.

 

2. Opinion.

 

On one page, make a list of the basic requirements for the survival of nomad groups.

 

General resource : Diamond, Jared,  Guns, germs and steel, Vintage, London, 1998, ISBN 0 09 930278 0.

 



 First  block : Poverty and quality of life.


Index : Diploma in Integrated Development  (Dip.Int.Dev)

 List of key words.

 List of references.

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