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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
The early 21st century has seen a prolonged price boom in non-fuel commodities, coupled with a volatile performance in fuel prices. This new collection presents the latest research on commodity prices and economic development in the context of this changing globalized economy.
Global Commodity...
Asia’s Fiscal Challenge
Financing the Social Protection Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Developing countries in Asia have expanded their social protection programs. One of the key challenges is creating sustainable financing---considered the bedrock for success of the social protection agendas of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda and Strategy 2030 of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2008
This book reflects current developments in the economics of agrobiodiversity and focuses its attention on the role agrobiodiversity can have for economic development. As a new and rapidly expanding subfield at the interface of environmental/ecological, agricultural and development economics, the editors...
Sustainable Development
Economics and Environment in the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Blueprint for a Green Economy put the economics of the environment onto the public agenda. Its authors have now widened the issue by applying the principles of their earlier, ground-breaking work to the tangled issue of sustainable Third World development. They offer a definition of sustainable development...
Business and the Sustainable Development Goals
Measuring and Managing Corporate Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
This innovative and engaging book discusses the contribution of business to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2015. It critically analyses selected impact measurement and management tools to highlight their respective benefits and limitations, and also provides...
The Political Ecology of Climate Change Adaptation
Livelihoods, agrarian change and the conflicts of development
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation within the field of international development. Drawing on a reworked political ecology framework, it argues that climate is not something ‘out there’ that we adapt to. Instead, it is part of the social...
Contemporary Parenting
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Through a global, multidisciplinary perspective, this book describes how four factors influence parenting practices: a countries historical and political background, the parent’s educational history, the economy and the parent’s financial standing, and advances in technology. Case studies that...
Awakening Integral Consciousness
A Developmental Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This is the second of four volumes in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series, focused on CARE: Community activation, Awakening consciousness, innovation driven institutionalized Research and transformative Education. In this book, the author focuses on ways and means of developing, in an explicitly...
by Dr. Neil J. Salkind
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2004
An Introduction to Theories of Human Development provides a comprehensive view of the primary theoretical models of human development including those from the biological, psychoanalytic, behavioral, and cognitive developmental perspectives. Along with a brief discussion of a historical background...
Managing Risk
Methods for Software Systems Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 1998
"The increasing rate of technological change we are experiencing in our lifetime yields competitive advantage to organizations and individuals who are willing to embrace risk and the opportunities it presents. Those who choose to minimize or avoid risk, as opposed to managing it, set a course...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Agile is a relatively recent methodology used in the development process of a project. Therefore, it is important to share new emerging knowledge with researchers and professionals interested in adopting an agile mindset. Emerging Innovations in Agile Software Development focuses on the use of agile...
by Bruno Losch, Sandrine Freguin-Gresh, Eric Thomas White
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
This book makes a compelling case for reintegrating structural issues into agricultural and rural development policies, which have for the last 30 years over-focused on short-term issues. It shows how the liberalization of agriculture in many late developing countries has not in fact led to the development...
by Claire Auplat
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Public institutions, academic researchers and financial analysts among others hail nanotechnologies as one of the most promising sectors of social and economic development. Calculations predict that it will become a trillion euro industry by 2015 and that it will bring about economic change of at...
Beyond Relocation
The Imperative of Sustainable Resettlement
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
This collection addresses critical issues of development-induced displacement and resettlement by offering empirical evidence from various countries, mainly in Asia and Africa. By presenting a comparative approach, it helps the reader understand and theorise about the nature and characteristics of...