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Urban Informality
Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends. The contributions...
Managing Fragile Regions
Method and Application
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
This book gathers the work of leading scholars from several disciplines on fragile regions, especially those regions seeking to preserve, strengthen or create processes to restore or reestablish security and effective social and economic management. It tackles the multifarious issues that shape and...
by Md. Fakrul Islam
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
This book is the outcome of empirical research on the sharing of water of the Teesta River, which flows through India and Bangladesh. The main purpose is to show how regional cooperation between India and Bangladesh regarding sharing of Teesta River water can ensure optimal benefits for people living...
by Peter Nijkamp, Adriaan Perrels
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Worldwide, urbanization is steadily increasing, yet many modern cities are becoming less and less able to accommodate the growth in their population. Congestion, pollution, low-quality housing, social fragmentation, noise, crime and inadequate social services all contribute to a declining quality...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
A more integrated, harmonious, prosperous, and equitable Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) requires agriculture to be the lead contributing sector. Regional cooperation in the agriculture sector is guided by the Core Agriculture Support Program (CASP), which is implemented by the Working Group on Agriculture....
National Identity and Economic Interest
Taiwan's Competing Options and Their Implications for Regional Stability
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
The book covers the legal, economic, socio-political and international aspects of economic integration and the contending forces of national identity and economic interests after the economies between Taiwan and China are integrated and the trading bloc is emerging across the Taiwan Strait.
Growth Management in the US
Between Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Urban sprawl is one of the key planning issues facing many US cities, leading to the creation and adoption of a variety of approaches to control growth. However, many growth management ideas do not align well with the growth-promoting planning traditions of the US, which historically have been dominated...
Wine and Tourism
A Strategic Segment for Sustainable Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The aim of this book is to show how wine tourism can be used as a model for sustainable economic development, driving economic growth and social development in some locations. It will explore the interaction between tourism and viticulture in wine tourism destinations, while also explaining some of...
Knowledge-creating Milieus in Europe
Firms, Cities, Territories
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
This book introduces a radically spatialised approach to knowledge creation and innovation. Reflecting on an array of European urban and regional developments, it offers an updated notion of milieu as the conceptual and material space of knowledge and innovation in line with the interpretative turn...
Northeast Asia
Ripe for Integration?
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Can regional mechanisms better institutionalize the increasing complexity of economic and security ties among the countries in Northeast Asia? As the international state system undergoes dramatic changes in both security and economic relations in the wake of the end of the Cold War, the Asian financial...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This publication is a historical summary of progress made in energy cooperation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) since the beginning of the economic cooperation program in 1992. It highlights a two-pronged and phased approach to develop the GMS power market to realize the full benefits of synchronous...
Who stole the town hall?
The end of local government as we know it
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
In this provocative new book, Peter Latham argues that the UK Conservative Government’s devolution agenda conceals their real intention: to complete the privatisation of local government and other public services. Using illustrative examples from across the UK, including the so-called ‘Northern...
Texas Gardening for the 21st Century
Planning, Constructing, Planting, Embellishing, and Maintaining Your Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Offering both in-depth information and practical gardening tips, here is the latest information on organic gardening and use of native plants, specific gardening tips for each type of plant in the garden and hardscaping ideas. Organized by the state's 12 gardening regions, describing regional climate...
Gardening with Native Plants in the Upper Midwest
Bringing the Tallgrass Prairie Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Want to have a garden that is both beautiful and biodiverse, satisfying and sustainable? In this book, long-time landscape designer Judy Nauseef shows gardeners in the upper Midwest how to restore habitat and diversity to their piece of the planet by making native plants part of well-designed, thoughtfully...