Tony Beck
Biographic Data
| ID | 664378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Beck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Beck |
| SIGNATURE | BECK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-4184-4026 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Wood under the lens: Unveiling ancient Egyptian heritage
We present WoodScope, a structured and interdisciplinary workflow that integrates wood identification techniques while prioritising object preservation and contextual interpretation. • Applied to 187 ancient Egyptian wooden objects, WoodScope bridges conservation ethics and scientific accuracy. • We report the first documented use of grape wood in an ancient Egyptian funerary model, revealing new material choices. • The approach combines expertis…
Building on Poor People's Capacities: The Case of Common Property Resources in India and West Africa
Development Intervention and Programme Evaluation: Concepts and Cases
Introduction - Vijay Padaki Towards an Alternative Methodology in Programme Evaluation PART ONE: CONCEPTS The Development Context - Vijay Padaki and Vanaja Ramprasad Exploring Alternatives in Methodology - Vijay Padaki Readings Lessons from ASTRA's Experience of Technologies for Rural Development - Amulya Kumar N Reddy Social Institutions in Development Strategy - Vijay Padaki PART TWO: CASE STUDIES Introduction - Vijay Padaki The National Adult …
The Experience of Poverty: Fighting for Respect and Resources in Village India
India: Recent Economic Developments and Prospects
How the Poor Fight for Respect and Resources in Village India
This paper analyses strategies used by the poor in three villages of West Bengal, India, as they attempt to improve their quality of life. The strategies are: use of the natural resource base, sharerearing of livestock, and organization and mutual support. These strategies for the most part are carried out by or involve poor women, and have often been invisible to or undervalued by ‘outsiders.’ Taken together, these strategies add substantially t…
Development Policy of a Communist Government: West Bengal Since 1977
Experience of Poverty
Part 1 Poor people love to eat fish. Part 2 Beyond enumeration - the construction of poverty in 19th-century Britain and 20th-century India: introduction the construction of poverty in 19th-century Britain measurement and morality - Charles Booth and Joseph Rowntree solutions to poverty and regulation of the poor poverty measurement in India contemporary poverty measurement and poverty-line language the construction of the poor in contemporary po…
Managing Rural Development: Health and Energy Programmes in India
Introduction - Klass W Van der Veen Management and the Socio-Cultural Context SECTION ONE HEALTH PROGRAMMES The Distribution of Health Care An Introduction Scaling-up for Child Survival - J K Satia Key Issues Management and Utilisation of Immunisation and Oral Rehydration Therapy in Rural Gujarat - Pieter H Streefland Government and Private Health Care - Klass W Van der Veen Two Competing Institutions Centralised and Decentralised Rural Drinking …
Nepal: Poverty and Incomes: A World Bank Country Study
Social security in developing countries
Survival Strategies and Power amongst the Poorest in a West Bengal Village
Focusing on ‘people's history’ challenges the assumption that poor people are passive, followers, or apolitical, by identifying ways in which poor people are makers of their own histories. By adapting a ‘people's history’ approach to the geographical study of one village in West Bengal, and concentrating particularly on survival strategies used by poorest women and children, this article shows that the rural poorest are active in an informal econ…
Crisis and recovery from crisis: The poor in South Asia Report on a workshop held at Soas in May, 1989
Building on Poor People's Capacities: The Case of Common Property Resources in India and West Africa
Survival Strategies and Power amongst the Poorest in a West Bengal Village
Focusing on ‘people's history’ challenges the assumption that poor people are passive, followers, or apolitical, by identifying ways in which poor people are makers of their own histories. By adapting a ‘people's history’ approach to the geographical study of one village in West Bengal, and concentrating particularly on survival strategies used by poorest women and children, this article shows that the rural poorest are active in an informal econ…
Social security in developing countries
Survival Strategies and Power amongst the Poorest in a West Bengal Village
Focusing on ‘people's history’ challenges the assumption that poor people are passive, followers, or apolitical, by identifying ways in which poor people are makers of their own histories. By adapting a ‘people's history’ approach to the geographical study of one village in West Bengal, and concentrating particularly on survival strategies used by poorest women and children, this article shows that the rural poorest are active in an informal econ…
Crisis and recovery from crisis: The poor in South Asia Report on a workshop held at Soas in May, 1989
Social security in developing countries
Nepal: Poverty and Incomes: A World Bank Country Study
Experience of Poverty
Part 1 Poor people love to eat fish. Part 2 Beyond enumeration - the construction of poverty in 19th-century Britain and 20th-century India: introduction the construction of poverty in 19th-century Britain measurement and morality - Charles Booth and Joseph Rowntree solutions to poverty and regulation of the poor poverty measurement in India contemporary poverty measurement and poverty-line language the construction of the poor in contemporary po…
Managing Rural Development: Health and Energy Programmes in India
Introduction - Klass W Van der Veen Management and the Socio-Cultural Context SECTION ONE HEALTH PROGRAMMES The Distribution of Health Care An Introduction Scaling-up for Child Survival - J K Satia Key Issues Management and Utilisation of Immunisation and Oral Rehydration Therapy in Rural Gujarat - Pieter H Streefland Government and Private Health Care - Klass W Van der Veen Two Competing Institutions Centralised and Decentralised Rural Drinking …
How the Poor Fight for Respect and Resources in Village India
This paper analyses strategies used by the poor in three villages of West Bengal, India, as they attempt to improve their quality of life. The strategies are: use of the natural resource base, sharerearing of livestock, and organization and mutual support. These strategies for the most part are carried out by or involve poor women, and have often been invisible to or undervalued by ‘outsiders.’ Taken together, these strategies add substantially t…
Development Policy of a Communist Government: West Bengal Since 1977
The Experience of Poverty: Fighting for Respect and Resources in Village India
India: Recent Economic Developments and Prospects
Development Intervention and Programme Evaluation: Concepts and Cases
Introduction - Vijay Padaki Towards an Alternative Methodology in Programme Evaluation PART ONE: CONCEPTS The Development Context - Vijay Padaki and Vanaja Ramprasad Exploring Alternatives in Methodology - Vijay Padaki Readings Lessons from ASTRA's Experience of Technologies for Rural Development - Amulya Kumar N Reddy Social Institutions in Development Strategy - Vijay Padaki PART TWO: CASE STUDIES Introduction - Vijay Padaki The National Adult …
Building on Poor People's Capacities: The Case of Common Property Resources in India and West Africa
Wood under the lens: Unveiling ancient Egyptian heritage
We present WoodScope, a structured and interdisciplinary workflow that integrates wood identification techniques while prioritising object preservation and contextual interpretation. • Applied to 187 ancient Egyptian wooden objects, WoodScope bridges conservation ethics and scientific accuracy. • We report the first documented use of grape wood in an ancient Egyptian funerary model, revealing new material choices. • The approach combines expertis…
Political science (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Socioeconomics (7 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Poverty (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (4 works)