Regional Planning category: 486 books
by Ravallion Martin; Van De Walle Dominique
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
This book is a case study of Vietnam's efforts to fight poverty using market-oriented land reforms. In the 1980s and 1990s, the country undertook major institutional reforms, and an impressive reduction in poverty followed. But what role did the reforms play? Did the efficiency gains from reform...
Theories of Local Economic Development
Linking Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In economic development, theory and practice exist as two seemingly separate realities. Academics strive to develop or refine theory by drawing on abstract concepts about the way people behave and institutions work, while practitioners draw from a stock of experiences. By bringing together leading...
Sharing Growth and Prosperity
Strategy and Action Plan for the Greater Mekong Subregion Southern Economic Corridor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The Southern Economic Corridor (SEC), one of the priority economic corridors under the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program, was designated as a GMS flagship initiative in 2002. Efforts have been taken since then, but these were pursued mainly on a project-by-project basis....
Sustainability Appraisal
A Sourcebook and Reference Guide to International Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Sustainability Appraisal is a sourcebook of the state-of-the-art of this rapidly emerging and diversifying area. It draws on a wealth of international experiences and approaches to illustrate the status and scope of Sustainability Appraisal/Assessment (SA) This comprehensive guide highlights how SA...
Economic Revitalization
Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2002
In Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb Fitzgerald and Leigh answer the need for a text that incorporates social justice and sustainability into how we think about and practice economic development. It is one of the first to talk about how revitalization strategies are...
by Gareth Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
With growing public pressure and increasingly stringent environmental legislation, the waste industry is now being called upon to develop more sustainable methods of dealing with refuse. Coupled with moves to reduce reliance on landfill as a disposal route, biological treatment will increasingly become...
by Peter Drucker
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
In this volume Drucker has collected twelve essays on technology and management and their relationship to, and interaction with, human society. In these essays the reader is able to grasp and savour some of the essential ideas and philosophy that have been expanded into Drucker's various books.
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by Alasdair Blair
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This accessible, user-friendly guide provides students with all the key information and analysis on the European Union and its policies.
It covers the main areas, such as the single market and budgeting, and also explores recent developments involving the introduction of the Economic and...
On Risk and Disaster
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books of 2006
Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation's Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and should, deal with the inevitable problems of economic risk and social responsibility. This volume...
Reclaiming the Land
The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Rural movements have recently emerged to become some of the most important social forces in opposition to neoliberalism. From Brazil and Mexico to Zimbabwe and the Philippines, rural movements of diverse political character, but all sharing the same social basis of dispossessed peasants and unemployed...
Building Community Resilience to Disasters
A Way Forward to Enhance National Health Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Community resilience, or the sustained ability of a community to withstand and recover from adversity, has become a key policy issue. This report provides a roadmap for federal, state, and local leaders who are developing plans to enhance community resilience for health security threats and describes options for building community resilience in key areas.
Functionalism Revisited
Architectural Theory and Practice and the Behavioral Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
A range of current approaches to architecture are neglected in our contemporary writings on design philosophies. This book argues that the model of 'function' and the concept of a 'functional building' that we have inherited from the twentieth-century Modernists is limited in scope and detracts from...
Design for Transport
A User-Centred Approach to Vehicle Design and Travel
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The central premise of Design for Transport is that the designer's role is to approach design for transport from the point of view of the user. People have a collection of wants and needs and a significant proportion of them are to do with their requirements for mobility. The authors show how creative...
Industrial Tourism
Opportunities for City and Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Industrial tourism presents opportunities, both in terms of income and as a tool of management, for individual firms who open their doors - and consequently their local regions - to the public. But how can these opportunities be organised in a way that enables both the city and the enterprise to take...