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Strategic Environmental Assessment
A Sourcebook and Reference Guide to International Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This unique sourcebook provides a global, state-of-the-art review of the rapidly evolving field of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) that is intended to serve as a baseline for the work of an OECD Task Team on SEA and a UNEP initiative on integrated planning and assessment. It describes trends...
by P. Tridico
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
This book analyses the development path of transition economies in European Countries and former Soviet Republics that have experienced the transformation from planned economies to market economies since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. It examines economic growth, institutional change and human development performance.
by Axel Baeumler, Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Shomik Mehndiratta
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
The continuing rapid growth and development of China's cities brings many complex challenges. Tasked with supporting strong economic development that provides jobs and a good quality of life for its growing number of residents, China's cities also must ensure sustainable development in line with national...
by J. Stephan
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Foreign direct investment (FDI) assumed a prominent role in Central East Europe (CEE) early on in the transition process. Foreign investors were assigned the task of restructuring markets, providing capital and knowledge for investment in technologically outdated and financially ailing firms.
by Gary Paul Green, Anna L. Haines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
***A comprehensive approach focused on sustainable change ** *
Asset Building and Community Development, Fourth Edition examines the promise and limits of community development by showing students and practitioners how asset-based developments can improve the sustainability and quality of...
Foreign direct investments in Poland since 1989 - Theoretical background, specific advantages and recent developments
Theoretical background, specific advantages and recent developments
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,00, University of Abertay Dundee (Economics Department), course: Mini-Project on Europe, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The collapse of communism has started a dramatic change in the...
by Michelle Holder
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book analyzes the status and position of African American men in the U.S. labor market prior to, during, and after the Great Recession. Using a model of occupational crowding, the book outlines how the representation of African American men in major occupational categories almost universally...
The Saudi Arabian Economy
Policies, Achievements, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
The Saudi Arabian economy has changed almost beyond recognition since the oil boom days of the 1980s, and the Kingdom itself has changed too economically, socially, and demographically. In the second edition of The Saudi Arabian Economy, Mohamed Ramady uses several overlapping themes to establish...
The Dynamics of Local Learning in Global Value Chains
Experiences from East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
This book investigates the process and mechanism of the capability development of East Asian local manufacturers, which has underpinned their phenomenal rise in the world's competitive landscape of industrial production during the last few decades.
Cities as Engines of Sustainable Competitiveness
European Urban Policy in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Reflecting on two decades of ’competitiveness-oriented’ urban policies in Europe, this book investigates the current challenges cities face to sustain their economic position and how this can be balanced with social progress and environmental improvements. Complementing previous surveys on local...
Memphis and the Paradox of Place
Globalization in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. It is also a place of conflict and tragedy--the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination--and a city...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Diwan and Galal looks at the structure and prospects of the Middle East economies after the 2011 Uprisings, focusing on issues of economic growth, inequality, the impact of oil, and the unfolding political transitions.
On the growth question, the book looks into the extent of structural transformation...
The Organization of Cities
Initiative, ordinary life, and the good life
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book focuses on the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities. It reviews and reinterprets fundamental theoretical models that explain how the operation of markets in equilibrium shapes the scale and organization of the commercial city in a mixed market economy within...
Measuring Wellbeing
A History of Italian Living Standards
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
In 150 years Italy transformed itself from a poor and backward country into one where living standards are among the highest in the world. In Measuring Wellbeing, Giovanni Vecchi provides an innovative analysis of this change by drawing on family accounts that provide engaging insights into life and...