Structural Dynamics and Economic Growth

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-107-01596-8

Collation

xii, 296 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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-

Call Number

338.9 Are s

INNOVATION, INDUSTRY EVOLUTION, AND EMPLOYMENT

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-521-14271-7

Collation

vii, 321 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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-

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331.12 Aud i

Resource Peripheries in the Global Economy

This book discusses the conditions that underpin configuration of specific places as resource peripheries and the consequences that such a socio-spatial formation involves for those places. The book thereby provides an interdisciplinary approach underpinned by economic geography, political ecology, resource geography, development studies and political geography. It also discusses the different …

European Regional Development

This book offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary issues of regional development. It places particular emphasis on its socio-economic and socio-political determinants which accompany the problem of existing and ever-widening differences in the level of regional development in various parts of Europe. In order to diagnose the scale of those differences and to indicate the main forces beh…

Quality of Life and Human Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa

This volume presents an account of how people in sub-Saharan Africa have fared under changing life circumstances of the past centuries until the present. By introducing the geography of the region it traces a time line of different historical periods that have shaped livelihoods of ordinary people of the region, and addresses the major milestones in political and economic development. It focuse…

Towards a Natural Social Contract

This open access book is a 2022 Nautilus Gold Medal winner in the category "World Cultures' Transformational Growth & Development". It states that the societal fault lines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with challenges affecting the security, fairness and sustainability of our societies. The author, Prof. Dr. Patrick Huntjens, argues that overcoming these existent…

Collapsing Gracefully: Making a Built Environment that is Fit for the Future

This innovative book investigates the concept of collapse in terms of our built environment, exploring the future transition of modern cities towards scenarios very different from the current promises of progress and development. This is not a book about the end of the world and hopeless apocalyptic scenarios. It is about understanding change in how and where we live. Collapse is inevitable, bu…

World Development Report 1991: The Challenge of Development

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-19-520869-2

Collation

viii, p. : ill. ; 27 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

330.9 Wor w

HANDBOOK OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, VOLUME 1

Edition

1st

ISBN/ISSN

0-444-70337-3

Collation

882 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

HANDBOOK IN ECONOMICS 9

Call Number

338.9 Hol h

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: ASIAN STUDENTS EDITION

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

-

Collation

xv, 397 p. : tab. ; 21 cm

Series Title

-

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330.91 Kin e

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Green Societies

This book covers the sustainability issues of a green environment towards economics and society in terms of alteration in industrial pollution levels, effect of reduced carbon emissions, changes in water bodies characteristics with respect to heavy metal contamination, monitoring of associated impact with respect to ecology and biodiversity, impact of reduced noise levels and air quality influe…

Developing Sustainability Competences Through Pedagogical Approaches

This book is aimed at developing sustainability competences through pedagogical approaches by comparing 15 case studies from 12 countries in 4 continents (Africa, America, Australia, and Europe) analysing how Sustainable Development (SD) is being taught in their courses, which competences are being developed, and which pedagogical approaches are being used to develop the competences. The book b…

Promoting the Sustainable Development Goals in North American Cities

This volume presents North American best practices and perspectives on developing, managing and monitoring indicators to track development progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in local communities and cities. In 4 main sections, the book presents and frames the many ways in which community indicator programs are either integrating or retooling to integrate the SDGs into the…

Agri-food and Forestry Sectors for Sustainable Development

This book surveys state-of-the-art and prospective practices, methods and technologies in agri-food and forestry sectors to document the potential measurable improvements in areas of environmental management, food security, economic growth, social cohesion and human health at the local and global scale. With a focus on the ecosystems-resources-climate-food-health nexus as a framework towards ac…

East Asian Low-Carbon Community

This book presents new vision of regional de-carbonization with concrete scheme design and substantial quantitative demonstration from original interdisciplinary studies. It provides new horizon for not only climate change, environmental conservation but also for international cooperation and peace in East Asia. The chapters introduce diverse low carbon society principles from local to global l…

Global Sustainability in Energy, Building, Infrastructure, Transportation, an…

This book focuses on holistic approaches to sustainability in all sectors of building, infrastructure, and energy to achieve a best-balanced global energy, building, infrastructure, transportation, and water technology (EBITW) system using a series of innovative research and implementation solutions. The goal of this book is to define the context for proactive consideration of scientific theor…

TransFEWmation: Towards Design-led Food-Energy-Water Systems for Future Urban…

This book discusses a spectrum of approaches to designing the food-energy-water nexus at different spatial-urban scales. The book offers a framework for working on the FEW-nexus in a design-led context and integrates the design of urban neighbourhoods and regions with methodologies how to simultaneously engaging residents and stakeholders and evaluating the propositions in a FEW-print, measurin…

Cycling & Walking for Regional Development

This book investigates why and how cycle and walking paths can help to promote the regeneration of marginalized areas facing depopulation and economic decline. In addition, it offers a broad overview of recent scientific research into slow tourism and marginality/spatial inequality and explores the linkages between these topics. Key issues are addressed by experts from various disciplinary back…

The Sanitation Triangle

This open access book deals with global sanitation, where SDG 6.2 sets a target of enabling access to sanitation services for all, but has not yet been achieved in low- and middle-income countries. The transition from the United Nations MDGs to the SDGs requires more consideration based on the socio-cultural aspects of global sanitation. In other words, equitable sanitation for those in vulnera…

China's Long-Term Low-Carbon Development Strategies and Pathways

This open access book introduces a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive research on China's long-term low-carbon emission strategies and pathways. After comprehensively considering China’s own socioeconomic conditions, policy design, energy mix, and other macro-development trends and needs, the research team has proposed suggestions on China’s low-carbon development strategies and pathways …

The Belt and Road Initiative Green Development Case Studies Report 2020

This is an Open Access book. In accordance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it showcases 17 projects under the framework of Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). These projects cover ninefields, namely, biodiversity and ecosystem, clean energy, clean water, sustainable transportation, solid waste treatment, sustainable consumption and production, green buildings, sustainable foodproduc…

Microplastic in the Environment: Pattern and Process

This open access book examines global plastic pollution, an issue that has become a critical societal challenge with implications for environmental and public health. This volume provides a comprehensive, holistic analysis on the plastic cycle and its subsequent effects on biota, food security, and human exposure. Importantly, global environmental change and its associated, systems-level proces…

Sustainable Education and Development

This book presents papers from the 9th Applied Research Conference in Africa (ARCA), showcasing the latest research on sustainable education and development. The conference is focused on applied research discussion and its dissemination, developing understanding about the role of research and researchers in the development of the continent. ARCA gathers papers which explain how key education i…

Modern Global Economic System: Evolutional Development vs. Revolutionary Leap

This proceedings book reflects the alternative way of development of the modern global economic system. It sets evolutionary development in opposition to revolutionary leap. The search for the best way to develop the world economy in the present and future is carried out. The social environment and the human-centered development of the modern global economic system have been explored. The featu…

The Process of Economic Development

Edition

3rd

ISBN/ISSN

978-9-415-77104-7

Collation

xxv, 539 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

338.9 Cyp p

Clusters and Regional Development : Critical reflections and explorations

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

-

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

307.12 Clu c

THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT : CONTENTIONS, ARGUMENTS, ALTERNATIVES, SECOND EDITION

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-60623-066-4

Collation

xii, 324 p.; 24 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

338.9 Pee t

Economic Development, Tenth Edition

Edition

10th

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4058-7424-3

Collation

xxvii, 861 p. : Ill. ; 27 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

338.9 Tod e

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Theory and Practice for a Divided World

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-13-014161-5 l

Collation

xxiv,550 p.; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

338.9 Lyn e

Introduction to ECONOMIC GROWTH, Second Edition

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-393-97745-5

Collation

xiii, 256 p.; 24 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

338.9 Jon i