AT Sourcebook/Part II

Energy: Biogas[edit | edit source]

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• The Anaerobic Digestion of Livestock Wastes to Produce Methane
• Biogas and Waste Recycling
• The Biogas-Biofertilizer Business Handbook
• Biogas Handbook
• Biogas Plants in Animal Husbandry
• Biogas Systems in India
• Biogas Technology in the Third World
• Compost Fertilizer and Biogas Production from Human and Farm Wastes in the People's Republic of China
• A Chinese Biogas Manual
• Fuel Gas from Cow Dung
• Renewable Sources of Energy: Biogas
• Report on the Design and Operation of a Full-Scale Anaerobic Dairy Manure Digester
• Running a Biogas Programme

Housing and Construction[edit | edit source]

• Direct link to AT Sourcebook Chapter
• AT Sourcebook/Adobe as a Socially Appropriate Technology for the Southwest (Solar-Adobe Sundwellings):John Timothy Mackey. Washington, USA: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, January,1980.
• Adobe Craft Manual : Karl V Schultz. California, USA: Adobe Craft, (c) 1983.
• Appropriate Building Materials
• Bamboo as a Building Material
• Bambu—Su Cultivo y Aplicaciones
• The Book of Bamboo
• Brickmaking in Developing Countries
• Build a Yurt
• Building to Resist the Effect of Wind: A Guide for Improved Masonry and Timber Connections in Buildings
• Building with Earth
• Chawama SelfHelp Housing Project
• Comparison of Alternative Design Wheelbarrows for Haulage in Civil Construction Tasks
• Construction of Trail Suspended Bridges in Nepal
• Construction Reference Manual
• Construire en Terre
• Earth for Homes
• Earth Sheltered Housing Design
• Farm Structures in Tropical Climates
• Ferrocement a Versatile Construction Material
• Ferrocement: Applications in Developing Countries
• The $50 and Up Underground House Book
• Fireplaces
• Grasses—Their Use in Building
• Handbook for Building Homes of Earth
• House Form and Culture
• Housing by People
• How to Build a House Using Self-Help Housing Techniques
• The Kenyan Low Cost Modular Timber Bridge
• La CETARam
• LowCost Country Home Building
• LowCost Housing: Prefabricated Panel System
• Making Building Blocks with the ClNVARam Block Press
• Making the Adobe Brick
• Manual for Building a Rammed Earth Wall
• A Manual of Building Construction
• Manual of Rural Wood Preservation
• Manual para la Construccion de la CETARam
• Mud Brick Roofs
• Mud Mud
• Nuevas Tecnicas de Construccion con Bambu
• 1000 to 3000 Capacity Brick Kiln
• The Owner Builder's Guide to Stone Masonry
• The Owner Built Home
• The Owner Built Homestead
• Painting Inside and Out
• Plastic Sheeting for Emergency Shelter and Other Purposes
• Pole Buildings in Papua New Guinea
• Popular Manual for Wooden House Construction
• Rice Husk Ash Cement
• Roof Constructions for Housing in Developing Countries
• Roofing in Developing Countries
• Rural Building: Basic Knowledge
• Rural Building: Construction
• Rural Building: Drawing Book
• Rural Building: Reference Book
• Selection of Materials for Burnt Clay Brick Manufacture
• Self-Help Construction of 1-Story Buildings
• Self-Help Practices in Housing
• A Series of Articles on the Use of Bamboo in Building Construction
• Shaft Lime Kiln
• Shelter
• Shelter II
• Simple Bridge Structures
• Small Scale Brickmaking
• Small Scale Lime Burning
• Small Scale Manufacture of Burned Building Brick
• Small-Scale Production of Cementitious Materials
• Soil Block Presses
• Soil Cement
• Standard Trail Suspended and Suspension Bridges
• Thatching
• The Timber Framing Book
• Traditional Bridges of Papua New Guinea
• Traditional Suspension Bridges in Taplejung District
• The Use of Bamboo and Reeds in Building Construction
• The Use of Wheelbarrows in Civil Construction
• When You Build a House
• Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material
• Wood Frame House Construction
• Wooden Bridges
• The Yurt

Transportation[edit | edit source]

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• Appropriate Industrial Technology for Low Cost Transport for Rural Areas
• A.T. in Rural Development: Vehicles Designed for On and Off Farm Operations
• Automotive Operation and Maintenance
• The Backyard Mechanic Volume 1
• The Backyard Mechanic Volume 2
• The Backyard Mechanic Volume 3
• Better Tools for the Job
• The Bicycle Builder's Bible
• Bicycle Resource Guide
• Bicycles and Tricycles
• Bicycles: A Case Study of Indian Experience
• Bicycling Science
• Boatbuilding Manual
• Boats from Ferrocement
• The Design and Manufacture of AnimalDrawn Carts
• The Design and Manufacture of LowCost Motorized Vehicles
• The Design of Bicycle Trailers
• The Dory Book
• Earth Roads
• Electric Vehicles
• Fishing Boat Designs: Flat Bottom Boats
• Gasoline Engine Tune Up
• Guide to Tools and Equipment for Labour Based Road Construction
• Handbook of Artisanal Boatbuilding
• Installation and Maintenance of Engines in Small Fishing Vessels
• Low Cost Transportation
• Low Cost Vehicles
• Maintaining Motorcycles
• The Management of Animal Energy Resources and the Modernization of the Bullock Cart System
• Manual on the Planning of Labour lntensive Road Construction
• The Manufacture of Low Cost Vehicles in Developing Countries
• New Working Watercraft
• Notes on Simple Transport in Some Developing Countries
• Proceedings of ITDG Seminar "Simple Vehicles for Developing Countries"
• Roads and Resources
• The Rural Access Roads Programme
• Rural Roads Manual
• Rural Transport in Developing Countries
• Small Boat Design
• Sails as an Aid to Fishing
• Three Wheeled Vehicles in Crete

Health Care[edit | edit source]

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• Alternative Limbmaking
• Anaesthesia at the District Hospital
• Animals Parasitic in Man
• A Barefoot Doctor's Manual
• Better Care in Leprosy
• Better Child Care
• Communicable Diseases
• Dermatological Preparations for the Tropics
• Disabled Village Children
• Establishing a Refugee Camp Laboratory
• General Surgery at the District Hospital
• Handbook on the Prevention and Treatment of Schistosomiasis
• Health by the People
• Health Care and Human Dignity
• Health Care in China
• Health Records Systems
• Health: The Human Factor
• Helping Health Workers Learn
• How to Look After a Refrigerator
• How to Make Basic Hospital Equipment
• Independence Through Mobility
• Low Cost Physiotherapy Aids
• Manual of Basic Techniques for a Health Laboratory
• Medical Care in Developing Countries
• A Medical Laboratory for Developing Countries
• Medicine and Public Health in the People's Republic of China
• A Model Health Centre
• More With Less
• Mosquito Control
• Nutrition for Developing Countries
• Nutrition Rehabilitation
• Pediatric Priorities in the Developing World
• Personal Transport for Disabled People
• Philippine Medicinal Plants in Common Use
• The Principles and Practices of Primary Health Care
• The Provision of Spectacles at Low Cost
• Rattan and Bamboo
• Reference Material for Health Auxiliaries and Their Teachers
• Simple Dental Care for Rural Hospitals
• The Tooth Trip
• The Village Health Worker
• What is AIDS?
• Where There Is No Dentist
• Where There Is No Doctor

Science Teaching[edit | edit source]

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• Adventures with a Hand Lens
• AntiPollution Lab
• Construction and Use of Simple Physics Apparatus
• Development and Production of School Science Equipment
• Guidebook to Constructing Inexpensive Science Teaching Equipment
• How to Make Tools
• Low Cost Science Teaching Equipment
• A Method for Cutting Bottles Light Bulbs and Fluorescent Tubes
• New UNESCO Source Book for Science Teaching
• Preserving Food by Drying
• The Production of School Science Equipment

Nonformal Education[edit | edit source]

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• Towards Scientific Literacy
• Bridging the Gap
• Demystifying Evaluation
• Doing Things Together
• From the Field
• Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
• Perspectives on Non formal Adult Learning

Small Enterprises[edit | edit source]

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• Basic Control of Assets
• Basic Finances
• Basic Marketing
• Blacksmith Baker Roofing Sheet Maker
• Business Arithmetic for Cooperatives and Other Small Businesses
• The Business Plan
• The Business Review
• A Complete Cash Analysis Accounts System for Businessmen
• Consultancy for Small Businesses
• Cooperative Accounting 1: Thrift and Credit Cooperatives
• Cooperative Accounting 2: Consumer Cooperative Societies
• Cooperative Accounting 3: Marketing Cooperative Societies
• Cooperative Bookkeeping
• Cooperative Organization
• Credit and Savings for Development
• Developing Small Scale Industries in India
• Entrepreneur's Handbook
• Financial Management of a Small Handicraft Business
• Guidelines for Management Consulting Programs for Small Scale Enterprises
• A Handbook for Cooperative Fieldworkers in Developing Nations
• How to Grow a Shop
• Improve Your Business: Handbook
• Improve Your Business: Workbook
• Josbarko Enterprise
• Managing Time and Personnel
• Manual for Commercial Analysis of Small Scale Projects
• The Practice of Entrepreneurship
• Refugee Enterprise
• Rural Credit
• Single Entry Bookkeeping System for Small Scale Manufacturing Businesses
• Small Business in the Third World
• Small Business Promotion
• Small Enterprises in Developing Countries
• Stock Taking
• Training Village Entrepreneurs

Local Communications[edit | edit source]

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• Communicating with Pictures
• The Copy Book
• Experiences in Visual Thinking
• 57 How to Do It Charts on Materials and Equipment and Techniques for Screen Printing
• Grass Roots Radio
• How to Do Leaflets Newsletters and Newspapers
• Illustrations for Development
• Low Cost Printing for Development
• The Low Cost Wooden Duplicator
• The Organization of the Small Public Library
• The Photonovel
• Plain Talk
• Print: How You Can Do It Yourself
• Rural Mimeo Newspapers
• Small Technical Libraries
• Visual Communication Handbook
• The StenScreen
• Visual Literacy in Communication
• Women and Graphics

Beekeeping[edit | edit source]

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• The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture
• The Beekeeper's Handbook
• Beekeeping Guide
• A Beekeeping Handbook
• Beekeeping in Rural Development
• Golden Insect
• Home Honey Production
• A Homemade Honey Extractor
• Making and Using a Solar Wax Melter
• Plans for a Complete Beekeeping System
• Small Scale Beekeeping
• Tropical and SubTropical Apiculture

Small Industries[edit | edit source]

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• The Backyard Dairy Book
• Barbs Prongs Points Prickers and Stickers
• Basic Sewing Machine Repair
• Book of Tempeh
• Cane Sugar
• Community Canning Centers
• Dye Plants and Dyeing
• Dyeing and Printing
• Environmentally Sound Leather Tanning
• Glassware Manufacture for Developing Countries
• Handloom Construction
• How to Make Soap
• Introduction to Soapmaking
• The Kiln Book
• Making Homemade Soaps and Candles
• Manual on the Production of Rattan Furniture
• Medleri Charkha
• Natural Plant Dyeing
• The Preparation of Soap
• Remanufacturing
• Rural Tanning Techniques
• The Self Reliant Potter
• Silkworm Rearing
• Simple Methods of Candle Manufacture
• Small Scale Manufacture of Footwear
• Small Scale Papermaking
• Small Scale Recycling of Plastics
• Small Scale Weaving
• Small Scale Gold Mining
• Small Scale Mining
• Small Scale Soapmaking
• Soap Pilot Plant
• Stone
• Tanning of Hides and Skins
• Traditional Cheesemaking
• Vegetable Dyeing
• The Village Texturizer
• Work from Waste
• Yay Soybeans!

Disaster Preparedness[edit | edit source]

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• Building to Resist the Effect of Wind: Overview
• Building to Resist the Effect of Wind: Estimation of Extreme Wind Speeds and Guide to the Determination of Wind Forces
• A Methodological Guide
• and Architectural Considerations
• Disaster Mitigation
• Economic Issues in Housing Reconstruction
• Emergency Health Management after Natural Disaster
• Emergency Vector Control after Natural Disaster
• Environmental Health Management after Natural Disaster
• Establishing Needs after a Disaster
• How to Build a House of Modern Adobe
• Improving Building Skills
• The Management of Nutritional Emergencies in Large Populations
• Medical Supply Management after Natural Disaster
• Minimum Standards for Cyclone Resistant Housing Utilizing Traditional Materials
• Materials
• Program Planning Guide
• Program Planning Options for the Reconstruction of Disaster Resistant Housing
• Shelter After Disaster
• Shelter after Disaster: Guidelines for Assistance
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Handbook for Emergencies: Field Operations
• What is a Hurricane?
• What is a Tidal Wave?
• Wind Resistant Block Houses
• Background Reading

References[edit | edit source]