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Sustainable Property Development: A Guide to Real Estate and the Environment
ISBN: 9780632058044 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book identifies, defines and explains in detail property-related environmental issues. It is written in an easy-to-follow style and presented in a lively format.
Issues are explained with reference to relevant background information, practical issues and problems posed. The book is supported by current case studies, and there is learning material - with model answers - for students and lecturers to use for group work. Each topic - e.g. law, economics, property development - is structured in the same way: headline - the big issues and important questions; background -... This book identifies, defines and explains in detail property-related environmental issues. It is written in an easy-to-follow style and presented in ...
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Truth about the West African Land Question
ISBN: 9780714617558 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hayford, an African Nationalist, argues that the preservation of the indigenous land tenure system was vital if the values of pre-colonial Africa was to be maintained. First published in 1913.
Hayford, an African Nationalist, argues that the preservation of the indigenous land tenure system was vital if the values of pre-colonial Africa was ...
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The Economics of Groundwater Management in Arid Countries: Theory, International Experience and a Case Study of Jordan
ISBN: 9780714644578 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Groundwater is being depleted on a large scale in many arid and semi-arid parts of the world. It is often said that this precious resource is being wasted at the expense of future generations. But should ground-water depletion be avoided at any price? Or is depletion desirable in certain circumstances? If there is to be a reduction in groundwater depletion, how can it be achieved? And how can limited water resources be allocated to their most valuable uses?
Groundwater is being depleted on a large scale in many arid and semi-arid parts of the world. It is often said that this precious resource is being wa...
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The Economics of Groundwater Management in Arid Countries: Theory, International Experience and a Case Study of Jordan
ISBN: 9780714649078 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Groundwater is being depleted on a large scale in many arid and semi-arid parts of the world. It is often said that this precious resource is being wasted at the expense of future generations. But should ground-water depletion be avoided at any price? Or is depletion desirable in certain circumstances? If there is to be a reduction in groundwater depletion, how can it be achieved? And how can limited water resources be allocated to their most valuable uses?
Groundwater is being depleted on a large scale in many arid and semi-arid parts of the world. It is often said that this precious resource is being wa...
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Framing a Domain for Work and Family: A Study of Women in Residential Real Estate Sales Work
ISBN: 9780739103678 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Framing a Domain brings new sociological focus to the work of women realtors. The book provides fascinating insights into why women choose to sell real estate and why they have come to dominate the profession. Based on in-depth interviews with women realtors, carried out through the 1990s, Carol Wharton's work places this white-collar service occupation within the larger context of women's lives. It offers a unique case study of the gendered practices that infuse the workplace, and the ways women negotiate these practices to successfully "weave" work with family obligations. Framing a Domain...
Framing a Domain brings new sociological focus to the work of women realtors. The book provides fascinating insights into why women choose to sell rea...
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Postmodern Wetlands: Culture, History, Ecology
ISBN: 9780748608447 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Swamps and marshes have traditionally been regarded as places of horror and ill health in western culture - places to be feared, drained and filled. In this wide-ranging study, Rod Giblett examines the swamp from a cross-disciplinary standpoint. Using material from fiction, films and popular culture and drawing on literature, cultural studies, philosophy, social theory, critical geography and medical history, he criticises the urge to drain swamps ('the project of modernity') as masculinist and imperialist.
Swamps and marshes have traditionally been regarded as places of horror and ill health in western culture - places to be feared, drained and filled. I...
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Location, Location, Location: A Plant Location and Site Selection Guide
ISBN: 9780789019677 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Those searching for the optimal location for their business can get information on how to make smart decisions on how to use the least investment of their own money, encounter the fewest problems, and consistently aim for the target of achieving maximum return.
Those searching for the optimal location for their business can get information on how to make smart decisions on how to use the least investment of t...
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Ethics in Real Estate
ISBN: 9780792382287 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ethics." Certainly our industry is bound by the formal constraints of law in national, state, and local jurisdictions. What this volume reminds us, however, is that those laws are only as good as the personal "sea of ethics" in which each of us operates. THE ETHICS OF PROPERTY INVOLVEMENTS Stephen E. Roulac The Roulac Group San Rafael, California and Visiting Professor University of Ulster Ethical considerations are a dominant theme in the management literature. As "Ethics and ethical issues surround our liver, ... ethics has become one of the most rapidly growing areas of management...
ethics." Certainly our industry is bound by the formal constraints of law in national, state, and local jurisdictions. What this volume reminds us, ho...
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Resistance to the Shah: Landowners and Ulama in Iran
ISBN: 9780813017310 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "One of the most valuable works that I have read on Iran during the last twenty years. . . . There is nothing else in the market relative to the subject of land tenure and reform in Iran. The author s] dual knowledge of the native aspects of Iranian land tenure and the archival documentation coupled with its theoretical sophistication is probably unique." Hafez Farmayan, University of Texas Mohammad Gholi Majd examines land policy in Iran under the two Pahlavi shahs from 1925 to 1979, the social and economic consequences of the policies, and their impact on the popular uprisings of... "One of the most valuable works that I have read on Iran during the last twenty years. . . . There is nothing else in the market relative to the su... |
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The Complete Equipment-Leasing Handbook: A Deal Maker's Guide with Forms, Checklists, and Worksheets
ISBN: 9780814473795 / Angielski / Miękka / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Equipment leasing is one of the most complex aspects of business finance in existence, involving sophisticated concepts often understood only by experts. Consequently, business executives and purchasing professionals often fail to maximize their leverage in signing leases, or opt instead to purchase equipment outright at staggering costs. Combining the author's Handbook of Equipment Leasing with the tools from his Complete Book of Equipment Leasing Agreements, Forms, Worksheets, and Checklists, this comprehensive volume provides the legal, financial, and business background...
"Equipment leasing is one of the most complex aspects of business finance in existence, involving sophisticated concepts often understood only by expe...
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Rivers of Fire: The Conflict Over Water in the Middle East
ISBN: 9780847685110 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a never-ending battle to match population growth with food and energy production, the countries of the Middle East have been frenziedly developing water resources, including international rivers and groundwate, without considering their neighbors' needs. The inevitable result has been more frequent and increasingly bitter conflicts. At the same time, a halting Arab-Israeli peace process spurred by the collapse of the Soviet Union continues. Are we indeed entering a new era in a new Middle East? Do the region's leaders understand that reality has changed and that a transition is inevitable?...
In a never-ending battle to match population growth with food and energy production, the countries of the Middle East have been frenziedly developing ...
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Real Estate: Investment and Financial Strategy
ISBN: 9780898382334 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book has evolved from an interest in formalizing theories of real es tate financing and investment. While real estate has characteristics of illi quidity and heterogeneity, recent developments have created markets for financial claims on property assets. These financial claims render real es tate similar to other assets. These financial claims render real estate similar to other assets. Yet real estate markets retain degrees of ineffi ciency, suggesting possibilities for arbitrage opportunities. Such possi bilities are examined in the book. If sellers are prohibited by statute from...
This book has evolved from an interest in formalizing theories of real es tate financing and investment. While real estate has characteristics of illi...
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Economics and Land Use Planning
ISBN: 9781405118613 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book's aim is to draw together the economics literature relating to planning and set it out systematically. It analyses the economics of land use planning and the relationship between economics and planning and addresses questions like: What are the limits of land use planning and the extent of its objectives?; Is the aim aesthetic?; Is it efficiency?; Is it to ensure equity?; Or sustainability?; And if all of these aims, how should one be balanced against another?
The book's aim is to draw together the economics literature relating to planning and set it out systematically. It analyses the economics of land use ...
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The Thirsty Land: The Story of the Central Valley Project
ISBN: 9781587980244 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of the publicly financed Central Valley Project in California which built dams, reservoirs, hydroelectric plants, and canals. De Roos ( San Francisco Chronicle ) details the politics, economics, and social struggles played out by the actors involved, including Pacific Gas & Electric, the S
The story of the publicly financed Central Valley Project in California which built dams, reservoirs, hydroelectric plants, and canals. De Roos ( San ...
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Piece of Pi: Wit-Sharpening, Brain-Bruising, Number-Crunching Activities with Pi
ISBN: 9781593631208 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Sea Management: A theoretical approach
ISBN: 9781851667727 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book has been conceived with the aim of contributing to the International Conference on Ocean Management in Global Change Genoa, June 22-26, 1992] and to the ocean sciences' debate on the conceptual framework and targets of sea management.
This book has been conceived with the aim of contributing to the International Conference on Ocean Management in Global Change Genoa, June 22-26, 199...
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Holding Their Ground: Secure Land Tenure for the Urban Poor in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9781853838903 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Security of land tenure for the urban poor is now a major problem for developing cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This book presents and analyzes the main conclusions of a comparative research programme on land tenure issues. It looks at how solutions can be found and implemented to respond to the demands and needs of the majority of squatters and informal settlements, and analyzes how urban stakeholders, with different social, legal and economic constraintes, find innovative and flexible solutions. The book is intended to fill a gap in the literature on comparative research on...
Security of land tenure for the urban poor is now a major problem for developing cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This book presents and anal...
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Investing in Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
ISBN: 9781883249885 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Commercial mortgage--backed securities (CMBS)--securitizations of mortgage loans backed by commercial real estate--have become compelling devices for fixed income investing.
Commercial mortgage--backed securities (CMBS)--securitizations of mortgage loans backed by commercial real estate--have become compelling devices for ...
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Real Estate-Backed Securities
ISBN: 9781883249960 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Real Estate--Backed Securities provides todaya s most concise yet comprehensive understanding of passive real estate investing. Issues discussed include agency passthrough securities and mortgage strips, agency collateralized mortgage obligations, nonagency residential MBS, commercial mortgage--backed securities, and more.
Real Estate--Backed Securities provides todaya s most concise yet comprehensive understanding of passive real estate investing. Issues discussed inclu...
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Private Rights in Public Resources: Equity and Property Allocation in Market-Based Environmental Policy
ISBN: 9781891853685 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Privatizing public resources by creating stronger property rights is an increasingly popular environmental policy option. While advocates of this type of market-based' environmental policy tend to focus on its efficiency and ecological implications, such policies also raise important considerations of equity and distributive justice. This book confronts these ethical implications by showing not that equity ideas should influence such policies, but how in fact they already do so. Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) and the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act (TGA), Raymond documents and explains the role of...
Privatizing public resources by creating stronger property rights is an increasingly popular environmental policy option. While advocates of this type...
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