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Transitions to Sustainable Development
New Directions in the Study of Long Term Transformative Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency,...
Knowledge Brokerage for Sustainable Development
Innovative Tools for Increasing Research Impact and Evidence-Based Policy-Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The menace of a post-truth era challenges conventional policy-making and science. Instead of fighting an uphill battle against populist solutions, those involved in both policy-making and science have to find innovative ways to collaborate, and make use of the vast amounts of knowledge that are already...
by Michael Burton
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
The updated edition of the bestselling guide to Android app development
If you have ambitions to build an Android app, this hands-on guide gives you everything you need to dig into the development process and turn your great idea into a reality! In this new edition of Android App Development...
Controversies in Local Economic Development
Stories, Strategies, Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals. Many such analysts argue that competitive advantage can be fostered within local economies, complimenting the advent of a more globalised economy. Intensified efforts...
by Brian Bell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Tuvalu, the fourth smallest country in the world, with an estimated population of 10,440, is an isolated and resource-poor country that relies mainly on royalties received for access to its exclusive economic zone and remittances as its main sources of foreign exchange. This case study describes how...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
Whilst many books on the European economy have focused on the analysis of its industrial sectors, this book draws attention to the often ignored contribution made by the development of European agriculture over the past two centuries. In doing so, the authors adopt a revisionist perspective on the...
by Carol A. Wellington
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2006
This is the eBook version of the printed book. A Practical Framework for Gaining Agility’s Benefits Without the Risk Agile methodologies, such as XP, Scrum, Crystal, and Lean Software Development enable development organizations to deliver higher-quality software far more rapidly. However, for...
Global Financial Development Report 2014
Financial Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Financial inclusion has become a major subject of interest among policymakers, researchers, and other financial sector stakeholders. Many countries, for example, have recently adopted explicit financial inclusion strategies with targets for financial inclusion. The interest reflects an increased recognition...
The Community Economic Development Movement
Law, Business, and the New Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2002
While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades. The new style is reflected in a panoply of Community Economic Development (ced) initiatives—efforts led by locally-based organizations to develop housing, jobs, and...
Global Report on Islamic Finance 2016
A Catalyst for Shared Prosperity?
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Income inequality has increased considerably in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007†“08 to the extent that one percent of global population possess almost half of the global assets. Whereas the development community is unanimous to tackle growing inequality and imbalance in the distribution...
Future Business Software
Current Trends in Business Software Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
What will business software look like in the future? And how will it be developed?
This book covers the proceedings of the first international conference on Future Business Software – a new think tank discussing the trends in enterprise software with speakers from Europe’s most successful...
Water and Development
Good Governance after Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Water has always been a crucial catalyst for human development. In Africa, competition among different sectors for this scarce resource remains a critical challenge to water managers and decision-makers.
Water and Development examines a range of issues, from governance to solar distillation,...
Sustainable Development
An Introductory Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
'Sustainable development' is the catchphrase of the 1990s. Governments around the world, international institutions, local organizations and NGOs have committed themselves to its principles and have adopted policies to promote it. But 'sustainable development' is difficult to define - let alone implement...
Engineering Education for Sustainable Development
A Capabilities Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book demonstrates how the theoretical concepts of the capabilities approach can be applied in the context of engineering education, and how this could be used to add nuance to our understanding of the contribution higher education can make to human flourishing. In demonstrating the usefulness...