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Natural Hazards, Second Edition
Explanation and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
What can we learn from the spatial patterns of disasters? What human and structural factors need to be addressed to explain hazard vulnerability? As populations grow and the climate warms, how can natural hazards be mitigated? Thoroughly revised and updated, and now with a more global perspective,...
London's Turning
The Making of Thames Gateway
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom. This book provides a comprehensive overview and critique of the Thames Gateway plan, but at the same time it uses the plan as a lens through which to look at a series of important...
New Metropolitan Perspectives
Local Knowledge and Innovation Dynamics Towards Territory Attractiveness Through the Implementation of Horizon/E2020/Agenda2030 – Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
This book explores the role of cities and the urban–rural linkages in spurring innovation embedded in spatial planning, strategic and economic planning, and decision support systems. In particular, the contributions examine the complexity of the current transitional phase towards achieving smart,...
New Metropolitan Perspectives
Local Knowledge and Innovation Dynamics Towards Territory Attractiveness Through the Implementation of Horizon/E2020/Agenda2030 – Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
This book explores the role of cities and the urban–rural linkages in spurring innovation embedded in spatial planning, strategic and economic planning, and decision support systems. In particular, the contributions examine the complexity of the current transitional phase towards achieving smart,...
Euro-Mediterranean Relations after the Arab Spring
Persistence in Times of Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The ’Arab Spring’ triggered paradigmatic shifts but, despite these changes, much in the Euro-Mediterranean region remains the same. Utilising ’Logics of Action’, an innovative theoretical framework designed to capture the complexity of political interaction in one of the fastest changing regions...
Municipal Shared Services and Consolidation
A Public Solutions Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Municipal Shared Services and Consolidation provides a comprehensive and clear review of the theories and practices of structuring and managing complex local government services. Intended for both students and practitioners, this volume in the Public Solutions Handbook Series addresses concepts and...
by Junzhai Ma
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 2.0, University of Tubingen, language: English, abstract: This paper gives an analysis of China's entry process into the WTO and an assessment on China's accession commitment. The most important aspect of China's performance...
The Citizens at Risk
From Urban Sanitation to Sustainable Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Local environments such as cities and neighbourhoods are becoming a focal point for those concerned with environmental justice and sustainability. The Citizens at Risk takes up this emerging agenda and analyses the key issues in a refreshingly simple yet sophisticated style. Taking a comparative look...
by Water Environment Federation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
A must-read for agencies and public works departments interested in developing charge systems for stormwater programs based on fee structures. User-Fee-Funded Stormwater Programs will specify the drivers for stormwater user-fee formation and explore the responsibilities, costs, and entire implementation process
Rural Development
Putting the last first
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders. Dr Chambers contends that researchers, scientists, administrators and fieldworkers rarely appreciate the richness and validity of rural people's knowledge or the hidden nature of rural poverty. This is a challenging book for all concerned with rural development, as practitioners, academics, students or researchers.
Capitalising on Change in a Globalising World
A View from Hamburg
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
These are powerful times. Fundamental change is around the corner, but the concrete manifestations are unpredictable. Past trends will, less than ever, be a reliable orientation for desirable action. Adopting familiar game plans, reinforcing standard procedures and implementing strategies which were...
Housing Economics
A Historical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often forgotten, whilst the difficulties hit the headlines. Housing...
The Canada-US Border in the 21st Century
Trade, Immigration and Security in the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Borders are critical to the development and survival of modern states, offer security against external threats, and mark public policy and identity difference. At the same time, borders, and borderlands, are places where people, ideas, and economic goods meet and intermingle. The United States-Canada...
DK Essential Managers: Doing Business in India
Culture, Travel, Negotiating, Etiquette, Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Doing Business in India gives you the know-how toget the best out of your dealings with this emerging economy. Part of the best-selling Essential Managers series, this book will cover hot business topics that are in-step with India’s rapidly changing market place and includes information on history and politics as well as do’s, don’ts and taboos.