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Transformations Through Space and Time
An Analysis of Nonlinear Structures, Bifurcation Points and Autoregressive Dependencies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years there has been a growing concern for the development of both efficient and effective ways to handle space-time problems. Such developments should be theoretically as well as empirically oriented. Regardless of which of these two arenas one enters. the impression is quickly gained that...
Dubai Amplified
The Engineering of a Port Geography
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Following the British withdrawal in 1971, the Gulf Region entered a heady period of political restructuring, awash with oil money that helped fund national aspirations. Infrastructure investment became a central part of the region's nation-building initiatives and fueled strong competition. Without...
Smart Cities, Smart Future
Showcasing Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Are you curious about smart cities? You should be! By mid-century, two-thirds of us will live in cities. The world of tomorrow will be a world of cities. But will they be smart cities? Smart cities are complex blends of technologies, systems and services designed and orchestrated to help people lead...
Consumption, Informal Markets, and the Underground Economy
Hispanic Consumption in South Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Using original qualitative ethnographic field interviews and quantitative field survey results, Consumption, Informal Markets, and the Underground Economy explores the rationale for and model of 'off the books' consumption in a borderlands environment.
The Political Economy of Agro-Food Markets in China
The Social Construction of the Markets in an Era of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
China's agricultural production and food consumption have increased tremendously, leading to a complete evolution of agro-food markets. The book is divided into two parts; the first part reviews the theoretical framework for the 'social construction of the markets,' while the second part presents the implication for the agro-food markets in China.
Community action and planning
Contexts, drivers and outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of their own lives and neighbourhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and the planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularise...
Squatter Citizen
Life in the Urban Third World
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
'one of the best contemporary statements of what is occurring in the growth of urban places in the Third World' Environment and Planning 'a book that should enjoy a wide appeal: as a plea for adoption of the 'popular approach'; as a text for student use; and as an accessible and stimulating guide...
Market Economy and Urban Change
Impacts in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Across the developing world the preceding decade or so has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of the political economy of urban policy. This new policy environment is driven by globalization, the neo-liberal macro-economic package of 'market enablement' and structural adjustment, which now form...
Policy Transfer in European Union Governance
Regulating the Utilities
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This new book presents a clear conceptual framework for understanding the transfer of policy ideas between EU states, together with an empirical study of regulatory change within European utilities.
Policy transfer is a new instrument for understanding EU policy-making. This volume shows how...
China's Policy of Opening Up to the Outside World - The Economic and Technological Development Zones
China's Policy of Opening Up to the Outside World - The Economic and Technological Development Zones
The Economic and Technological Development Zones
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2005 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 2,0, University of Applied Sciences Hof, course: International Trade, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: A Survey of China 1.1. Geography Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo, the People's...
Diffusion of Information in Agriculture in Senegal
The Case of Integrated Production and Pest Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Diploma Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,3, University of Hannover (Institut für Entwicklungs- und Agrarökonomik), 68 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Using participatory training approaches such as farmer field schools (FFS)...
by Philipp Klösel
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,7, Free University of Berlin, course: US Domestic Economic Policy, language: English, abstract: Recently sectoral change is one of the most discussed topics in US politics and economics. It is strongly connected with the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
This book focuses on international relations in the Indian Ocean region and examines bilateral and multilateral relations in the Indo-Pacific region. Written by leading researchers in the fields of international studies and Indian Ocean studies, the report provides a strategic review, major events...
Tackling the Farmer-to-Market-Linkage Problem for Small-Scale-Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Creation of a Farmer-to-Market Linkage Model with Zambia as Exemplifying Area
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: A, University of Applied Sciences Chur, language: English, abstract: African small-scale farmers are inadequately linked to markets to sell their harvested produce. On the one hand this is mainly because farmers are...