Regional Planning category: 486 books
Land Privatization in Mexico
Urbanization, Formation of Regions and Globalization in Ejidos
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
This book analyzes [ejido] land as space of urbanization and location of economic activities and capital and land privatization as a redistributive process with local, urban, regional and global consequences.
Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific
Between Local and Global
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have stimulated...
Renewable Energy in East Asia
Towards a New Developmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Energy is crucial to the functioning of any human society and central to understanding East Asia’s ‘economic miracle’. The region’s rapid development over the last few decades has been inherently energy-intensive and the impact on global energy security, climate change and the twenty-first-century...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
A more integrated, harmonious, prosperous, and equitable Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) requires agriculture to be the lead contributing sector. Regional cooperation in the agriculture sector is guided by the Core Agriculture Support Program (CASP), which is implemented by the Working Group on Agriculture....
Who stole the town hall?
The end of local government as we know it
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
In this provocative new book, Peter Latham argues that the UK Conservative Government’s devolution agenda conceals their real intention: to complete the privatisation of local government and other public services. Using illustrative examples from across the UK, including the so-called ‘Northern...
Urban Governance and Democracy
Leadership and Community Involvement
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
The issue of local governance is high on the institutional agenda of many local and regional authorities throughout the OECD countries. This book explores the relationship between two key issues of urban governance - leadership and community involvement - and how making these two elements more complementary...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Given the resurgence of Russian economic capabilities and of Russia's role as a regional, even global, political actor, much of the literature written more than 4-5 years ago is already dated. The editor and contributors to this timely volume draw upon a broad range of analysts who deal with various...
Militant Islam
A sociology of characteristics, causes and consequences
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Militant Islam provides a sociological framework for understanding the rise and character of recent Islamic militancy. It takes a systematic approach to the phenomenon and includes analysis of cases from around the world, comparisons with militancy in other religions, and their causes and consequences.
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by Huang Yukon; Magnoli Bocchi Alessandro
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Reshaping Economic Geography in East Asia, a companion volume to the World Development Report 2009, brings together noted scholars to address the spatial distribution of economic growth in Asia. It reveals how the new economic geography is reshaping development objectives: from initiatives to foster...
Taiwan in the 21st Century
Aspects and Limitations of a Development Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Throughout the twentieth century Taiwan was viewed as a model - whether in terms of a model colony, a model China or a development model. This perception was based on the notion of Taiwan undergoing an economic miracle and political developments. Yet much of Taiwan’s history is unique and may not...
by Marc Cogen
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
An Introduction to European Intergovernmental Organizations provides an up-to-date and accessible reference to European intergovernmental organizations other than the European Union. The EU is so dominant that people often overlook the multitude of older and newer, smaller and larger intergovernmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Russia holds more Arctic territory than any other state, yet unlike other Arctic states it does not have a unified strategy identifying economic and political aims for the North. Russia's policies on the North are dispersed across a variety of fields from domestic migration politics to oil and gas...
The Greater Mekong Subregion at 20
Progress and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) includes Cambodia, the People's Republic of China (specifically Yunnan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region), the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam. In 1992, with assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and building...
A Region in Transition
North East England at the Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The UK has now joined a Europe-wide trend towards more devolved forms of government (e.g. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Assemblies). In the context of this general trend towards regionalizm as a focus for public policy and as a source of cultural and political identity, an interdisciplinary...