The United States Agency for International Development and forest loss: A cross-national analysis of environmental aid

PurposeThis paper provides a cross-national analysis of PhD supervision models, milestones and examination procedures in order to compare PhD programs and their practices.Design/methodology/approachA comparative approach is employed, which systematically interrogates PhD supervision models, milestones and examination procedures in the United Kingdom, South Africa and the United States via a comprehensive review of the practices and literature.FindingsThe findings indicate the ramifications of the different approaches and highlight the benefits and drawbacks associated with the different models.Originality/valueBy making explicit the dominant supervision models, milestones and examination procedures that exist in the United Kingdom, South Africa and the United States, the authors shed light on the somewhat obscure path to earning a PhD degree.

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“From factory to field”: USAID and the logistics of foreign aid in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1177/0263775817711182 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 36 (4) ◽

pp. 719-738 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Wesley Attewell

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Foreign Aid ◽

International Development ◽

The United States ◽

Market Forces ◽

Life And Death ◽

Cross Border ◽

Critical Scholarship ◽

Agency For International Development

Emerging critical scholarship on logistics has shown how the field is implicated in a broader necropolitics of violence, disposability, and exploitation. While much has been made of logistics’ historical linkages to military and market forces, this paper, in contrast, explores how logisticians have played an increasingly central role in development and humanitarian missions to theatres of conflict and emergency. It focuses on the effort of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to supply mujahideen forces in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan with the non-lethal materiel necessary for their insurgency. It argues that USAID understood its relief and rehabilitation mission as a problem of logistics. By sketching the shifting contours of USAID’s cross-border programming, this article offers a more nuanced diagnosis of how logistics has become essential to the management of life and death across multiple temporalities, spaces, and scales.

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THE ARCHITECTURE OF ENVIRONMENT: BUILDING HOUSES ALONG THE GREAT RIFT VALLEY IN JORDAN

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743818000776 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 50 (3) ◽

pp. 513-536 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bridget L. Guarasci

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Comparative Analysis ◽

International Development ◽

Rift Valley ◽

Biosphere Reserve ◽

The United States ◽

Home Building ◽

Agency For International Development ◽

Tourist Economy ◽

Great Rift Valley

AbstractThis article analyzes the restoration of Jordan's UN Dana Biosphere Reserve cottages for ecotourism and home building in the neighboring village of Qadisiyya as competing land projects. Whereas a multimillion-dollar endowment from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) restores Dana's houses as a “heritage” village for a tourist economy, families in Qadisiyya build houses with income from provisional labor to shore up a familial future. Each act of home building articulates a political claim to land. This article argues for attention to the architecture of the environment in the comparison of two, once-related villages. A comparative analysis of Dana and Qadisiyya reveals the competing socio-political objectives of home building for the future of Jordan and the implications of environment in that struggle.

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