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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Targeting regional economic development (TRED) has a long and rich tradition among academic economists and in the world of economic development practitioners. This book builds on a series of workshops and papers organized by The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development (NERCRD) at the Pennsylvania...
Children and the Geography of Violence
Why Space and Place Matter
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Violence sabotages development, both children’s development and the development of the communities and neighbourhoods they rely on. There is abundant evidence of the deep and lasting harm that can be done. Violence breaks bodies and minds and exerts an insidious influence at every level. The effects...
25 Years on the Ground
ADB-Nepal Partnership for Inclusive Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
This publication commemorates the 25 years of the opening of the Nepal resident mission, and provides an overview of how ADB's operation in Nepal has evolved over the years. ADB has provided assistance in several sectors, including agriculture and natural resources, transport and information and communication...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The role secondary cities play in the global space economy and national urban hierarchies is increasingly receiving attention from scholars and international agencies, most notably the Cities Alliance.
Secondary Cities and Development considers the role of secondary cities through the lens...
Meta-Programming and Model-Driven Meta-Program Development
Principles, Processes and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Meta-Programming and Model-Driven Meta-Program Development: Principles, Processes and Techniques presents an overall analysis of meta-programming, focusing on insights of meta-programming techniques, heterogeneous meta-program development processes in the context of model-driven, feature-based and...
Software Design and Development
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Innovative tools and techniques for the development and design of software systems are essential to the problem solving and planning of software solutions. Software Design and Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications brings together the best practices of theory and implementation...
Sustainable Hospitality and Tourism as Motors for Development
Case Studies from Developing Regions of the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
It is now widely agreed that the climate is changing, global resources are diminishing and biodiversity is suffering. Developing countries – many of them considered by the World Tourism Organization to be 'Top Emerging Tourism Destinations' (UNWTO, 2009) – are already suffering the full frontal...
The Emergence of Pacific Urban Villages
Urbanization Trends in the Pacific Islands
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This publication seeks to explain the nature of settlements termed “urban villages” as set within the context of growing levels of urbanization in contemporary Pacific towns and cities. It investigates the meaning and conceptualization of myriad forms of urban villages by examining the evolution...
Agile Software Architecture
Aligning Agile Processes and Software Architectures
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Agile software development approaches have had significant impact on industrial software development practices. Today, agile software development has penetrated to most IT companies across the globe, with an intention to increase quality, productivity, and profitability. Comprehensive knowledge is...
by Orit Hazzan, Yael Dubinsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2009
Overview and Goals The agile approach for software development has been applied more and more extensively since the mid nineties of the 20th century. Though there are only about ten years of accumulated experience using the agile approach, it is currently conceived as one of the mainstream approaches...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
The concept of green growth, coupled with one of green economy and low carbon development, is a global concern especially in the face of the multiple crises that the world has faced in recent years - climate, oil, food, and financial crises. In East Asia, this concept is regarded as the key in transforming...
Harnessing the Data Revolution to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Enabling Frogs to Leap
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Before launching its second round of global goals—the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—the United Nations convened a High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. As part of its final report, the Panel called for a “data revolution” and recommended the formation...
Economic Development of Emerging East Asia
Catching Up of Taiwan and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Economic Development of Emerging East Asia presents economic studies of Taiwan and South Korea, compares them chiefly with Japan and the United States and finds that these East Asian countries are still in the process of emerging in the world economy. A timely quantitative and econometric analysis...
Coordination in Large-Scale Agile Software Development
Integrating Conditions and Configurations in Multiteam Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
This book explores coordination within and between teams in the context of large-scale agile software development, providing readers a deeper understanding of how coordinated action between teams is achieved in multiteam systems. An exploratory multiple case study with five multiteam systems and a...