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The New Chinese Economy
Dynamic Transitions into the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
The most recent account of what is going on in the fast changing world and Chinese economics. Topics in the book include economic development, banking and finance, education reform, consumption patterns, the impact of social networking, population dynamics, policy making, and the challenges ahead for the rising economic global superpower.
Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia
Identity, Ethnic Cooperation and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to merchants’...
Economic Transformation of a Developing Economy
The Experience of Punjab, India
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Foreword by Prof. Kaushik Basu
This book traces the development experience of one of India’s most dynamic and prosperous states, Punjab, which has provided the country with a much-needed degree of food security. The relative regression of Punjab’s economy in the post-economic reforms period...
by Andrei Besedin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Starting a farm and rural business is an exciting and challenging undertaking. But a good business plan is often one of the keys to a successful business start-up. The real value of creating a business plan is not in having the finished product in hand; instead, the value lies in the process of researching...
Urban-Rural Interactions
Towns as Focus Points in Rural Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Modern Europe has rural roots. Even today, as much as 90 per cent of Europe (EU25) consists of rural areas in which half of the population lives. While different rural areas often face different challenges, the shift from agricultural production towards a multifunctional landscape and the increasing...
Sustainability Assessment
Applications and opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Current and expanding human activities are moving us towards ever deeper unsustainability. While there is no single, simple means of reversing the invidious biophysical trends and redirecting the distribution of benefits, one necessary step is to approach every new and renewed undertaking as an opportunity...
Poverty, Hunger, and Democracy in Africa
Potential and Limitations of Democracy in Cementing Multiethnic Societies
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s.These policies must go beyond economic reforms and seek a solution to the entrenched political problems that divided the continent.
by Gareth Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
With growing public pressure and increasingly stringent environmental legislation, the waste industry is now being called upon to develop more sustainable methods of dealing with refuse. Coupled with moves to reduce reliance on landfill as a disposal route, biological treatment will increasingly become...
Rethinking Place Branding
Comprehensive Brand Development for Cities and Regions
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
As Place Branding has become a widely established but contested practice, there is a dire need to rethink its theoretical foundations and its contribution to development and to re-assert its future. This important new book advances understanding of place branding through its holistic, critical and...
Complexity, Cognition, Urban Planning and Design
Post-Proceedings of the 2nd Delft International Conference
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
This book, which resulted from an intensive discourse between experts from several disciplines – complexity theorists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, urban planners and urban designers, as well as a zoologist and a physiologist – addresses various issues regarding cities. It is a first step...
Asian Alterity
With Special Reference to Architecture and Urbanism through the Lens of Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
Asian Alterity is an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis that vigorously contests the homogeneity of the mainstream Eurocentric values. Part I argues for the need for an alternate perspective to be introduced so as to understand the diversity of Asia's cultural differences at their varied development...
by Bruce Hayllar, Tony Griffin, Deborah Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Over the last decade, commentaries and research on urban tourism precincts have predominantly focused on: their role in the tourism attractions mix; their physical and functional forms; their economic significance; their role as a catalyst for urban renewal; their evolution and associated development...
by Richard Florida
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new preface
In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping...
Creating a Eurasian Union
Economic Integration of the Former Soviet Republics
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Creating a Eurasian Union offers a detailed analysis of the economies of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan and the proposed Eurasian Union. The authors employ econometric analysis of business cycles and cointegration analysis to prove the fragility of the union's potential economic...