Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
by Minerva Chaloping March
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
The current discourse on mine closure is informed predominantly by industry and corporate perspectives and predicated by experiences of mainly mining companies that are based in developed countries where necessary planning frameworks and regulatory requirements are well-established. Mine closure planning,...
Assembling for Development
The Maquila Industry in Mexico and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
First published in 1989, this book focuses upon the phenomenon of export-led industrialisation fuelled by foreign investment and technology. He concentrates on Mexico, where US companies have been taking advantage of inexpensive labour to establish "maquila" factories that assemble US parts...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
UCLG’s Third Global Report on Local Democracy and Decentralization (GOLD III) examines basic service provision and the current state-of-play of the local governance of basic services around the world.
Basic Services for All in an Urbanizing World examines the enormous challenge of ensuring...
Making Things Simpler?
Harmonizing Aid Delivery in the Cook Islands
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
A 2001 report by the Australian Agency for International Development and the New Zealand Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade marked the beginning of efforts by both governments to increase their emphasis on aid harmonization in the Pacific. This was followed by a decision to pilot a cofunded program...
by Peter Robson
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
This reissue, first published in 1983, is an authoritative study of economic integration among the states of West Africa, focusing upon the issues and experience of the four main initiatives for regional integration in West Africa, namely the Economic Community of West African States, the Mano River...
Just Green Enough
Urban Development and Environmental Gentrification
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
While global urban development increasingly takes on the mantle of sustainability and "green urbanism," both the ecological and equity impacts of these developments are often overlooked. One result is what has been called environmental gentrification, a process in which environmental improvements...
The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The Piketty Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This volume of essays builds upon renewed interest in the long-run global development of wealth and inequality stimulated by the publication of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. It brings together an international team of leading economic historians and economists to provide...
by Emily Ying Yang Chan
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
The pressure of climate change, environmental degradation, and urbanisation, as well as the widening of socio- economic disparities have rendered the global population increasingly vulnerable to the impact of natural disasters. With a primary focus on medical and public health humanitarian response...
Bridging the State-Society Gap
The Community Justice Liaison Unit of Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The Community Justice Liaison Unit was established under Papua New Guinea's (PNG) law and justice sector program, with the support of the Australian government, to enhance the capacity of PNG's civil society and facilitate its involvement in policy development and delivery of services in the justice...
Nature-Based Tourism in Peripheral Areas
Development or Disaster?
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2004
This book provides one of the first detailed examinations of the problems of nature-based tourism development in peripheral areas. A diverse range of environments is used to illustrate the challenges and difficulties of managing nature-based tourism resources. A central theme throughout the book is...
Dam the Rivers, Damn the People
Development and resistence in Amazonian Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The Brazilian Amazon is the largest area of tropical rainforest in Latin America. Brazil is that continent's most rapidly developing country. The Amazon is at the heart of the conflict between conservation and development, between people and power, and between heritage and modernisation. In the name...
by David Satterthwaite, Diana Mitlin
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Urban areas in the Global South now house most of the world’s urban population and are projected to house almost all its increase between now and 2030. There is a growing recognition that the scale of urban poverty has been overlooked – and that it is increasing both in numbers and in the proportion...
by Heike Mayer, Fritz Sager, David Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Capital cities that are not the dominant economic centers of their nations – so-called ‘secondary capital cities’ (SCCs) – tend to be overlooked in the fields of economic geography and political science. Yet, capital cities play an important role in shaping the political, economic, social...
Gender, Mobilities, and Livelihood Transformations
Comparing Indigenous People in China, India, and Laos
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
In the era of globalization many minority populations are subject to marginalization and expulsion from their traditional habitats due to rapid economic restructuring and changing politico-spatial relations. This book presents an analytical framework for understanding how mobility is an inherent part...