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by Cedric Pugh
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This text addresses the difficulties of balancing the imperatives of sustainability with the pressing challenges facing some of the world's most underdeveloped areas. Various perspectives are brought to bear on issues from economics and theories of health through to the foundations of sustainability....
Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges
From Local to Global and Back
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
�Think globally, act locally� emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not how to factor it in. This major new book focuses on the spatial dimensions of urban environmental burdens, showing how important it is to take these into account when pursuing environmental...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
ASEAN+3 Bond Market Guide is a comprehensive explanation of the region's bond markets. It provides information such as the history, legal and regulatory framework, specific characteristics of the market, trading and transaction (including settlement systems), and other relevant information. The Bond...
by Zhou Yongmei
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
The question of whether political, fiscal, and administrative decentralization improves government effectiveness is hotly debated among researchers and policy makers. Decentralization, Democracy, and Development contributes to the empirical literature on decentralization and the debate on whether it...
Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System
An Examination of Oakland's Minority Districts
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System is a comprehensive analysis of the barriers and opportunities confronting minority communities’ ability to access healthy, fresh foods. It exposits the meaning of marginalization through several measurement indicators examined from the cross sections...
by Terry Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion. However, there is a growing insight that there are limits to the urban expansion into rural areas. Signs of a new position are the awakened interest in the nature, the authentic and the simple way of...
Arsenic Mitigation in Rural Bangladesh
A Policy-Mix for Supplying Safe Water in Badly Affected Areas of Meherpur District
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Based on micro-level empirical research, this book uniquely addresses the problem of arsenic contamination in ground water in Bangladesh in a comprehensive way. At the outset, the book puts forward the opinions of experts regarding the cause of arsenic contamination in ground water in Bangladesh,...
Quality of Life in Cities
Equity, Sustainable Development and Happiness from a Policy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live. In addition to the aim of improving quality of life, sustainable and equitable development is also often included in the policy agendas of decision makers.
This...
by Joseph Ato Forson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: A, , course: Fiscal and Monetary Policy Analysis and Management, language: English, abstract: This paper attempts to test the validity of public welfare spending theories (compensation theory, system...
Creating Rain Gardens
Capturing the Rain for Your Own Water-Efficient Garden
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
“A beautifully-written, practical guide to planning and creating your own rain garden.” —Green Upgrader
You probably spend hundreds of dollars watering your yard, but there is an easy way to save money and resources—by collecting rain to reuse in front and backyards. In Creating Rain...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
ASEAN+3 Bond Market Guide is a comprehensive explanation of the region's bond markets. It provides various information such as the history, legal and regulatory framework, specific characteristics of the market, trading and transaction, and other relevant information. The Hong Kong, China Bond Market...
by Kenneth B. Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Concise yet comprehensive, Product Planning Essentials, Second Edition, addresses the complex, interdisciplinary nature of product development and product management. It covers strategic issues that emerge during the product life cycle, including identifying opportunities, idea generation and evaluation,...
How Great Cities Happen
Integrating People, Land Use and Transport
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Urban planners in developed countries are pushing hard for closer integration of land use and transport. At the same time, gaps in knowledge and understanding are becoming more apparent, as the traditional focus has been on the shape of the city, rather than how it functions as a place to live and visit....
Regionalism Contested
Institution, Society and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
As we move further into the 21st century, the prominence of regions can no longer be taken for granted. A certain skepticism has developed with regard to the feasibility of marginal regions achieving self-sustained growth and states have maintained their role as regulators of economic and social activities....