Development category: 15312 books
Moving from Risk to Resilience
Sustainable Urban Development in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The Pacific is an increasingly urbanized region, with many countries struggling to cope with demands for basic urban services. This publication recommends risk reduction and adaptation measures to promote more sustainable urban development.
by Ronald Duncan, James McMaster
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The University of the South Pacific (USP), a regional university, has changed its delivery systems for teaching and learning over the years to serve the growing needs for tertiary education of students living on the thousands of small and remote islands in the Pacific Ocean. This case study examines...
by Jiagui Chen
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This book, together with Macro-control and Economic Development in China is a collection of papers written in recent years about maintaining economic growth, managing inflation, the relationship between growth and structural adjustment, control of price growth, maintaining stable economic development,...
Interrogating Development
State, Displacement and Popular Resistance in North East India
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2008
This book, the first in a series on the North-East, focuses on development-induced displacement of population in the region in the post-colonial period. Despite state-sponsored development initiatives, the North East still remains highly underdeveloped and politically disturbed. Various development...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their chapters,...
The Community Economic Development Handbook
Strategies and Tools to Revitalize Your Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2002
The step-by-step guide to turning any neighborhood around A weak local economy can be strengthened. A run-down neighborhood of boarded-up storefronts, litter-strewn sidewalks, high unemployment, and poorly-maintained housing can be transformed. An entire community can be lifted up. Mihailo (Mike)...
Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia
Wheels of change
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia explores the nexus between automobility and development in a pan-Asian comparative perspective. The book seeks to integrate the policies, production forms, consumption preferences and symbolism implicated in emerging Asian automobilities. Using empirically...
Practical Salesforce.com Development Without Code
Customizing Salesforce on the Force.com Platform
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Are you facing a challenging Salesforce.com problem--say, relating to automation, configuration, formulation, or reporting--that you can't quite crack? Or maybe you are hoping to infuse some creativity into your solution design strategy to solve problems faster or make solutions more efficient? Practical...
The Nature of Software Development
Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
You need to get value from your software project. You need it "free, now, and perfect." We can't get you there, but we can help you get to "cheaper, sooner, and better." This book leads you from the desire for value down to the specific activities that help good Agile projects...
Smart Growth and Sustainable Development
Selected Papers from the 9th International Association for China Planning Conference, Chongqing, China, June 19 - 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
This book explores how to tackle the challenges of urbanization through international lessons in sustainable development and smart growth strategies. As readers will discover, smart growth offers an approach to urbanization with the aim to: improve the efficiency of land use, protect the natural and...
Full Stack AngularJS for Java Developers
Build a Full-Featured Web Application from Scratch Using AngularJS with Spring RESTful
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Get introduced to full stack enterprise development. Whether you are new to AngularJS and Spring RESTful web services, or you are a seasoned expert, you will be able to build a full-featured web application from scratch using AngularJS and Spring RESTful web services.
Full stack web development...
Regional Development Agencies: The Next Generation?
Networking, Knowledge and Regional Policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Across Europe, regional development agencies (RDAs) have become a central feature of regional policy, both as innovative policy-makers and as the implementers of programmes and initiatives originating from the national or European level. By drawing on a combination of conceptual reflection, surveys,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This publication about the urban agenda in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is timely as the world economy embraces the region with accelerated growth. An important element of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Community, the GMS is expected to catch up with the rest of Asia by...
The Rural and Peripheral in Regional Development
An Alternative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The countryside has often been marginalised in discussions of economic and societal development, in favour of the urban. This book aims to stimulate a debate and a re-evaluation of how the concepts of the rural, peripheral and marginal are treated in academia and policy.
Approaching this theme...