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Forest and Land Managment in Imperial China
ISBN: 9780333600481 / Angielski / Twarda / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although China is generally considered to have suffered continuous deforestation over most of its history, forests were protected or even planted and maintained for centuries in some places. This study identifies six such cases. It uses historical evidence to show that individuals and communities act to manage resources sustainably for a number of reasons including economic benefit, religious or symbolic purposes, and that sustainability of the management system depends on the form of control exerted over the resource.
Although China is generally considered to have suffered continuous deforestation over most of its history, forests were protected or even planted and ...
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Authority and Welfare in China
ISBN: 9780333727645 / Angielski / Twarda / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the relationship between political authoritarianism and people's welfare in modern China. Based on a study of Chinese political discourse from the 1898 reform period to the present, the book demonstrates that support for authoritarian rule in modern China is best understood when compared to ancient political traditions of authority and welfare that were established in China's late Zhou dynasty by the Confucian philosopher Xunzi (298-238 BC).
This book describes the relationship between political authoritarianism and people's welfare in modern China. Based on a study of Chinese political di...
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Privatization Processes in Eastern Europe: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Results
ISBN: 9780333595831 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Privatising firms and liberalizing their market environment generates in Eastern Europe a variety of problems, many of which are not common to the analogous attempts in industries countries. A first difference between the two experiences resides in establishing the value of the firm or of the assets that are being privatized. A second main difference concerns the lack of the record of market performance for the firm. The book explores these open questions through an overview of on-going and proposed processes in Section 1. In Section 2 theoretical foundations of privatization processes are...
Privatising firms and liberalizing their market environment generates in Eastern Europe a variety of problems, many of which are not common to the ana...
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Reform and Development in Rural China
ISBN: 9780333611234 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 19 speechs in this volume explain many aspects of China's market-based rural economic reforms. They were delivered primarily to groups of government or Party officials by Du Runsheng, director of the Rural Development Research Center (RDRC) of China's State Council for much of the 1980s. The book includes an introductory chapter describing the history of rural economic policy in the People's Republic of China, notes by Du Runsheng and a glossary of important Marxist and Chinese economic terms.
The 19 speechs in this volume explain many aspects of China's market-based rural economic reforms. They were delivered primarily to groups of governme...
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African Economies in Transition: Volume 2: The Reform Experience
ISBN: 9780333712375 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An authoritative assessment of the reform efforts in African economies during the 1980s and early 1990s, with the focus on economic liberalization in those socialist countries which began from a position of pervasive state intervention. A companion theoretical volume (0-333-66545-7) examines the changing role of the state during the period of transition. This volume examines the important debate on agricultural reforms in the period, and provides in-depth country studies of the transition economies, covering Congo, Madagascar, Tanzania and the impact of war on transition in Angola and...
An authoritative assessment of the reform efforts in African economies during the 1980s and early 1990s, with the focus on economic liberalization in ...
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Entrepreneurship and Business: A Regional Perspective
ISBN: 9783540708995 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Miguel-Angel Galindo Martin, Joaquin Guzman Cuevas and Domingo Ribeiro Soriano University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain The economic growth and the progress of the nations have been two issues that have worried to the economists during centuries. The classical eco- mics books have developed different theories and considered several f- tors that could explain those processes. Unfortunately, a single answer has not been obtained and nowadays economists try also to achieve a response to the mechanism of...
Miguel-Angel Galindo Martin, Joaquin Guzman Cuevas and Domingo Ribeiro Soriano University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain University of Sevilla...
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The Value Chain of Foreign Aid: Development, Poverty Reduction, and Regional Conditions
ISBN: 9783790819311 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book assesses the prospects of official development assistance (ODA) for poverty reduction. It analyzes the entire value chain of ODA, including provision, allocation and utilization. Within each of these components, coverage examines scope and limits of aid. The horizontal interactions between donors and recipients as well as the vertical connections to local and region-specific conditions represent the heart of this book's approach.
This book assesses the prospects of official development assistance (ODA) for poverty reduction. It analyzes the entire value chain of ODA, includi... |
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Spatial Dynamics of European Integration: Regional and Policy Issues at the Turn of the Century
ISBN: 9783540658177 / Angielski / Twarda / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text primarily emphasizes the economic agenda associated with European integration, covering: European Monetary Unification and implications; economic integration, cohesion and regional policy; and community enlargement towards Central and Eastern Europe.
This text primarily emphasizes the economic agenda associated with European integration, covering: European Monetary Unification and implications; eco...
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Spain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1945-57: Challenge and Response
ISBN: 9780333710784 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a wide range of archival sources, this book analyses the response of the most peripheral country in Western Europe, Franco's Spain, to the challenges of increasing economic interdependence from the end of World War II to the establishment of the EEC, 1945-57. In so doing, the author sheds new light on the fundamental question of the survival of the Franco regime and stimulates further discussion on the external factors responsible for Spain's pattern of economic growth after 1945.
Based on a wide range of archival sources, this book analyses the response of the most peripheral country in Western Europe, Franco's Spain, to the ch...
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FREIGHTVISION - Sustainable European Freight Transport 2050: Forecast, Vision and Policy Recommendation
ISBN: 9783642133701 / Angielski / Twarda / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book has been written on the basis of the research done between 2008 and 2010 as part of the European Commission funded FREIGHTVISION project. The "FREIGHTVISION - Freight Transport 2050 Foresight" project was funded by the Directorate General MOVE to design a long term vision for European freight transport in 2050 and to identify actions and research to progress appropriate freight transport measures in Europe. The project was carried out as a foresight process encompassing four conferences in which the project team identified and developed with the aid of more than 100 experts an...
This book has been written on the basis of the research done between 2008 and 2010 as part of the European Commission funded FREIGHTVISION project. Th...
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Innovation, Growth and Competitiveness: Dynamic Regions in the Knowledge-Based World Economy
ISBN: 9783642149641 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates dynamic regions in the context of greater global interaction in a world economy increasingly driven by knowledge and innovation. It offers novel empirical evidence on the underlying factors of the growth performance of these spaces. In particular, the following questions are addressed: What role is there for research, education and innovation in the development strategies of the dynamic growth regions? What are the risks and consequences of dynamic growth on patterns of world growth and development, competitiveness, inequalities, and convergence? What development...
This book investigates dynamic regions in the context of greater global interaction in a world economy increasingly driven by knowledge and innovation...
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Housing Markets in Europe: A Macroeconomic Perspective
ISBN: 9783642153396 / Angielski / Twarda / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the recent recession, housing markets were often mentioned as having a special responsibility. "Housing Markets in Europe" sheds light on the cyclical behaviour of the housing markets, its fundamental determinants of supply and demand characteristics, and its relationship with the overall business cycle.
During the recent recession, housing markets were often mentioned as having a special responsibility. "Housing Markets in Europe" sheds light on the c...
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Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change: Path Dependency or Regional Breakthrough
ISBN: 9781441919953 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change brings together papers from leading international scholars in the field of regional development and policy. The contributors examine the interactions between path-dependent developments, institutions, and governance structures that influence regional innovation capacity. Up-to-date case studies present diverse theoretical perspectives from economics, political science, geography, planning, and public policy.
" Taken as a whole, the volume offers a broad and up-to-date perspective on the inheritance aspect of an... Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change brings together papers from leading international scholars in the field of regional deve... |
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Transport Developments and Innovations in an Evolving World
ISBN: 9783642056734 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our world is continuously changing as new technologies are developed, demographic patterns evolve and new social and political configurations emerge. However, most people would agree that, not unlike the time of the Industrial Revolution, the rate of change has accelerated over the last few decades. It is certainly the case of many economic activities, where the trend towards globalization, supported by a faster diffusion of knowledge and information, economies of scale, the opening of borders and improved transport networks, has induced a spatial redistribution of production and ownership....
Our world is continuously changing as new technologies are developed, demographic patterns evolve and new social and political configurations emerge. ...
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Regional Convergence in the European Union: Facts, Prospects and Policies
ISBN: 9783642077500 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are some regions in the European Union 'winners'of economic integration? And why are others 'losers'? This book explores these important questions and examines the relationship between economic integration, regional convergence, and divergence. In doing so it gives an overview of the most recent evolution of regional disparities in the EU. Central and peripheral regions are analysed as well as those in a re-conversion economic process. The authors address the question of whether regions tend to converge or not from different points of view. They particularly assess the impact of the...
Why are some regions in the European Union 'winners'of economic integration? And why are others 'losers'? This book explores these important questions...
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Sustainable Development of European Cities and Regions
ISBN: 9789048155095 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable development has been the basic goal of the European Union since the Treaty of Amsterdam. After an in-depth analysis of the concept, the book goes on to translate the concept into practicable and tangible opportunities for urban and regional sustainable development. Extensive lists of criteria and indicators have been developed for additional explanation and support. An entirely new and innovative system for sustainability planning is presented, based on the interdependence of the cities and their hinterlands' and on the conviction that the development of one or more key sectors...
Sustainable development has been the basic goal of the European Union since the Treaty of Amsterdam. After an in-depth analysis of the concept, the bo...
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Employment Deconcentration in European Metropolitan Areas: Market Forces Versus Planning Regulations
ISBN: 9789048174416 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. European metropolitan areas have experienced a marked reorganization associated with the processes of globalization and the European integration of economic act- ities on various spatial scales. Much of this change is particularly evident at the edge of central cities, further away at suburban locations and on the fringes of expanding metropolitan areas. These spatial processes of urban expansion, sprawling dev- opment, and employment deconcentration present constant challenges to urban quality of life, raising concerns about excessive consumption of land and energy, traffic congestion, and...
European metropolitan areas have experienced a marked reorganization associated with the processes of globalization and the European integration of ec...
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Information, Place, and Cyberspace: Issues in Accessibility
ISBN: 9783642086922 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The use of the term the information age to describe the period that we now fmd ourselves living in is open to misinterpretation. Society has always been based on exchanging information, and our libraries have long been rieh sources of vast of readily available information; it is information technologies that have quantities changed rapidly sinee the invention of the digital computer. These technologies are themselves products of long-term societal processes: The eeonomic desire to shorten the time that lapses between produetion and consumption of eommodities, annihilating space with time; the...
The use of the term the information age to describe the period that we now fmd ourselves living in is open to misinterpretation. Society has always be...
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International Trade Theory: Capital, Knowledge, Economic Structure, Money, and Prices Over Time
ISBN: 9783642096921 / Angielski / Miękka / 415 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The development of international trade theory has created a wide array of different theories, concepts and results. Nevertheless, trade theory has been split between partial and conflicting representations of international e- nomic interactions. Diverse trade models have co-existed but not in a structured relationship with each other. Economic students are introduced to international economic interactions with severally incompatible theories in the same course. In order to overcome incoherence among multiple theories, we need a general theoretical framework in a unified manner to draw...
The development of international trade theory has created a wide array of different theories, concepts and results. Nevertheless, trade theory has bee...
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Geographical Information and Planning: European Perspectives
ISBN: 9783642085178 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1990s have seen some remarkable changes in geographical information (GI) provision and computer technology that have impacted on many of the activities that constitute planning in all its different forms. However, relatively few texts in the field of geographical information systems (GIS) and planning have been published since Henk Scholten and John Stillwell edited Geographical Information Systems for Urban and Regional Planning in 1990. This volume seeks to redress the balance by showing how GI of various types is being used in urban, physical, environmental, socio-economic and business...
The 1990s have seen some remarkable changes in geographical information (GI) provision and computer technology that have impacted on many of the activ...
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