Room for Development: Housing Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean
ISBN: 9781137005649 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latin American and Caribbean countries are the most urban in the developing world and have very high home ownership rates. However, many of the region's inhabitants are still poorly housed. This book examines three key contributing issues: high housing prices relative to family income, lack of access to mortgage credit, and high land prices.
Latin American and Caribbean countries are the most urban in the developing world and have very high home ownership rates. However, many of the region...
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Theater State and the Formation of Early Modern Public Sphere in Iran: Studies on Safavid Muharram Rituals, 1590-1641 Ce
ISBN: 9789004209794 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the Safavid period, the Shi'i Muharram commemorative rites which had been publically practiced since the 7th century, became a manifestation of state power. Already during the reign of Shah 'Abbas I (1587-1629) the Muharram rituals had transformed into an extraordinary rich repertoire of ceremonies and ceremonial spaces that can be defined as 'theater state'. Under Shah Safi I (1629-1642) these ceremonies ultimately led to carnivalesque celebrations of misrule and transgression.This first systematic study of a wide range of Persian and European archival and primary sources, analyzes...
During the Safavid period, the Shi'i Muharram commemorative rites which had been publically practiced since the 7th century, became a manifestation of...
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717,97 zł |
Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain. Volume Two: A Survey of Village Temples and Ritual Activities
ISBN: 9789004176010 / Angielski / Twarda / 1092 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making ingenious use of a wide variety of sources, and old as well as modern technical resources, Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman here set a new standard for an histoire totale for a coherently well-defined cultural region in China.At the same time it deals in-depth with the ongoing negotiation of modernity in Chinese village rituals. Over the past thirty years, local popular religion has been revived and re-invented in the villages of the irrigated alluvial plain of Putian, Fujian, China. Volume 1 provides a historical introduction to the formation of 153 regional ritual alliances made up of...
Making ingenious use of a wide variety of sources, and old as well as modern technical resources, Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman here set a new standa...
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1083,40 zł |
Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor: Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World
ISBN: 9780821388457 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable lands within cities, typically areas that are deemed undesirable by others and are thus affordable. Residents are exposed to the impacts of landslides, sea-level rise, flooding, and other hazards. Exposure to risk is exacerbated by overcrowded living conditions, lack of adequate infrastructure and services, unsafe housing, inadequate nutrition, and poor health. These conditions can turn a natural hazard or change in climate into a disaster, and...
Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable lan...
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176,97 zł |
Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry
ISBN: 9789004211254 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a collection of essays on classical Persian literature, focusing on Persian rhetorical devices, especially imagery and metaphors. The various contributions discuss the origin and the development of debate poetry, the transmission of Persian and Arabic tales to the works of Europeans medieval authors such as Boccaccio and Chaucer, but also the development of Aristotelian poetics and epistemology in Persian philosophical tradition. Furthermore, the baroque style of the Shiʿite author Ḥusayn Vāʾiẓ Kāshifī, the use of wine metaphors by mystics...
This volume is a collection of essays on classical Persian literature, focusing on Persian rhetorical devices, especially imagery and metaphors. The v...
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610,49 zł |
Building Urban Resilience: Principles, Tools, and Practice
ISBN: 9780821388655 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Resilience is the ability of a system, community, or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to, and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner. Resilience in the context of cities translates into a new paradigm for urbanization, and forms base for a new understanding how to manage hazards and urban development. In the next decades, the major driver of the increasing damages and losses from disasters will be the growth of people and assets in harm's way, especially in urban areas. Often lacking resources, infrastructure, services and the capacity...
Resilience is the ability of a system, community, or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to, and recover from the effects of a h...
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148,52 zł |
Empirical Modelling in Regional Science: Towards a Global Time‒Space‒Structural Analysis
ISBN: 9783642229008 / Angielski / Miękka / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economic agents interact in structural relationships through time and space. This work starts from the empirical observation that all three dimensions, namely time, space, and structural functional forms, are important for an integrative framework of modern empirical analysis in regional science.
Economic agents interact in structural relationships through time and space. This work starts from the empirical observation that all three dimensions...
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A Workbook on Planning for Urban Resilience in the Face of Disasters
ISBN: 9780821388785 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Workbook offers a step-by-step guide for city officials in proactively planning for natural disasters and climate change impacts. It is based on learning from three cities in Vietnam - Ha Noi, Can Tho, and Dong Hoi - that developed Local Resilience Action Plans (LRAPs) containing a set of prioritized actions, related to both infrastructure as well as policy/ regulatory and socioeconomic actions. These LRAPs are based on vulnerability and risks assessments, a gaps analysis drawing on an inventory of planned investments and policy changes, and multi-stakeholder priority setting. The...
This Workbook offers a step-by-step guide for city officials in proactively planning for natural disasters and climate change impacts. It is based on ...
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120,08 zł |
Sustainable Low-Carbon City Development in China
ISBN: 9780821389874 / Angielski / Miękka / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The continuing rapid growth and development of China's cities brings many complex challenges. Tasked with supporting strong economic development that provides jobs and a good quality of life for its growing number of residents, China's cities also must ensure sustainable development in line with national efforts to transition to a less carbon-intensive economy, as outlined in China's 12th Five-Year Plan. Sustainable Low-Carbon City Development in China summarizes, through the specific lens of low-carbon development, the lessons of the World Bank's activities related to sustainable urban...
The continuing rapid growth and development of China's cities brings many complex challenges. Tasked with supporting strong economic development that ...
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162,58 zł |
Urbanization and Development in Asia: Multidimensional Perspectives
ISBN: 9780198078531 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last few decades, globalization has had a visible effect on urbanization and migration patterns across much of Asia. Analyses of migration patterns reveal that some of the largest movements of people in the world actually take place in the form of internal migration within certain regions and countries, as people move from rural areas to booming urban centres. With the help of selected case studies from India, China, Japan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Phillipines, this volume examines the following issues: Why do people move from rural to urban areas? In what ways does...
Over the last few decades, globalization has had a visible effect on urbanization and migration patterns across much of Asia. Analyses of migration pa...
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297,24 zł |
Land Ownership Inequality and Rural Factor Markets in Turkey: A Study for Critically Evaluating Market Friendly Reforms
ISBN: 9780230120211 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unal uses Turkey as a case study to investigate the effectiveness and efficiency of land and labor markets in spreading economic opportunities within agriculture and its ability to reduce rural poverty.
Unal uses Turkey as a case study to investigate the effectiveness and efficiency of land and labor markets in spreading economic opportunities within ...
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192,30 zł |
The Political Economy of Asian Regionalism
ISBN: 9784431545675 / Angielski / Twarda / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contributes to the theoretical and empirical literature on Asian regionalism, with a focus on the innovations needed to reform the current institutional architecture in Asia. After reviewing the key issues and challenges related to the political economy of Asia s economic cooperation and integration, the book discusses various aspects of regionalism from political and economic perspectives. It looks at the rationale for regional collective action and reviews the trend of economic integration with a focus on the implications of the global financial crisis. In addition to reviewing... This book contributes to the theoretical and empirical literature on Asian regionalism, with a focus on the innovations needed to reform the curren... |
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576,96 zł |
Cities, State and Globalisation: City-Regional Governance in Europe and North America
ISBN: 9780415489386 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume makes a new contributution to the current lively debate on city regional governance, offering a genuinely comparative approach, covering Europe and North America, and thus different 'cultures' of city regionalism.
This volume makes a new contributution to the current lively debate on city regional governance, offering a genuinely comparative approach, covering E...
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The University and the City
ISBN: 9780415589925 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant local direct and indirect impacts - on employment, the built environment, business innovation and the wider society. The University and the City explores these impacts and in the process seeks to expose the extent to which universities are just in the city, or part of the city and actively contributing to its development. The precise expression of the emerging relationship between universities and... Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant l... |
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The Holigent Solution: How to Win the Transition Race to Economic Security, Quality of Life, Peace and Sustainability or How I Hope My Childr
ISBN: 9781467925556 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this poignant, thoughtful, and innovative analysis and plan of action, A. Nicholas Frank and Elisa Frank, a father and daughter team of social thinker/innovators, propose a socioeconomic transformation. With the pillars of society crumbling (a failing economy and dysfunctional democracy), their focus is not criticism but reconstruction. The Holigent Solution serves as a blueprint to rethink and rearrange the way we live, work, commute, consume, maintain, and govern ourselves - a community at a time. Modeling a socioeconomic system after Nature's frugal self-organizing building code, as...
In this poignant, thoughtful, and innovative analysis and plan of action, A. Nicholas Frank and Elisa Frank, a father and daughter team of social thin...
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78,08 zł |
Ökonomische und ethische Aspekte von Währungskrisen: Die Krise in Argentinien
ISBN: 9783640862047 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich VWL - Fallstudien, Landerstudien, Note: 1,3, Universitat Bayreuth, Veranstaltung: Okonomische und ethische Aspekte von Wahrungskrisen, 26 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Einleitung Argentinien erlitt in den vergangenen Jahren die vermutlich schwerste Krise in der Geschichte des Landes. Konsequenz daraus war der bisher grote Staatsbankrott der Weltwirtschaftsgeschichte. Fur viele Kapitalanleger und auch Analysten kam dieses Ereignis uberraschend, zumal Argentiniens Wirtschaftsmodell noch bis Mitte der neunziger Jahre...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich VWL - Fallstudien, Landerstudien, Note: 1,3, Universitat Bayreuth, Veranstaltung: Okonomische und ethis...
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161,71 zł |
Rethinking Japanese Modernism
ISBN: 9789004210035 / Angielski / Twarda / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By adopting an open, multidisciplinary, and transnational approach, this book sheds new light both on the specific achievements and on the often-unexpected interrelationships of the writers, artists and thinkers who helped to define the Japanese version of modernism and modernity.
By adopting an open, multidisciplinary, and transnational approach, this book sheds new light both on the specific achievements and on the often-unexp...
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New Directions in Economic Geography
ISBN: 9781845423735 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book explores original and alternative directions for economic geography following the revolution precipitated by the advent of so-called 'new economic geography' (NEG). Whilst, to some extent, the volume could be regarded as part of the inevitable creative destruction of NEG theory, it does promote the continuing role of theoretical and empirical contributions within spatial economic analysis, in which the rationale of scientific analysis and economic logic maintain a central place. With contributions from leading experts in the field, the book presents a comprehensive...
This important book explores original and alternative directions for economic geography following the revolution precipitated by the advent of so-call...
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711,13 zł |
Analytical Urban Economics
ISBN: 9781858981109 / Angielski / Twarda / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume focuses on the branch of urban economic theory that attempts to analyze economic behaviour in cities by referring to geographical space rather than dealing with a spaceless world.
This volume focuses on the branch of urban economic theory that attempts to analyze economic behaviour in cities by referring to geographical space ra...
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The Dynamics of Chinese Regional Development: Market Nature, State Nurture
ISBN: 9781847201454 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book surveys the competing, or sometimes complementary, roles of the state and the market in shaping China's pattern of regional development during the Communist era. The uneven pace of industrialisation across China's provinces during its economic transition raises numerous questions regarding spatial patterns of industrial development in a developing, transitional economy. Jane Golley's book answers questions such as: Why have inter-regional inequalities in industrial development come to exist? Why are they tending to increase? How have regional policies and reform strategies impacted...
This book surveys the competing, or sometimes complementary, roles of the state and the market in shaping China's pattern of regional development duri...
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510,28 zł |