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The Appalachian Regional Commission: Twenty-Five Years of Government Policy
ISBN: 9780813151397 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The images of poverty in Appalachia that John F. Kennedy used in his campaign for the presidency in 1960 shocked and disturbed many Americans. Five years later, President Lyndon Johnson and the U.S. Congress demonstrated their commitment to that neglected and exploited region with the creation of the Appalachian Regional Commission. In this insightful book, Michael Bradshaw explores the ARC's unique federal-state partnership and analyses in detail the contributions of the local development districts. But this work is more than an analysis of a government agency; it is, as Bradshaw... The images of poverty in Appalachia that John F. Kennedy used in his campaign for the presidency in 1960 shocked and disturbed many Americans. Five... |
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83,79 zł |
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Local Societies and Rural Development: Self-Organization and Participatory Development in Asia
ISBN: 9781783474370 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The importance of community-based and participatory approaches to rural development in developing countries has long been emphasized. Rural people, who are economically and politically weak as individuals, can only participate in development projects when they are collectively organized. However, this is no easy task. This book aims to identify the mechanisms in each local society through which rural people can best organize themselves to meet their development requirements. It stresses the need to find local mechanisms that motivate and control the members of a new organization in order to...
The importance of community-based and participatory approaches to rural development in developing countries has long been emphasized. Rural people, wh...
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567,37 zł |
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Rural Development: Putting the last first
ISBN: 9781138836938 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders. Dr Chambers contends that researchers, scientists, administrators and fieldworkers rarely appreciate the richness and validity of rural people's knowledge or the hidden nature of rural poverty. This is a challenging book for all concerned with rural development, as practitioners, academics, students or researchers.
Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders. Dr Chambers contends that researchers, scientists, administrators and fieldworkers rarely ...
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805,98 zł |
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Geographies of Agriculture: Globalisation, Restructuring and Sustainability
ISBN: 9781138837621 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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805,98 zł |
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Institutional Challenges to Intermodal Transport and Logistics: Governance in Port Regionalisation and Hinterland Integration
ISBN: 9781472423214 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the operational realities of intermodal transport are relatively well known, the institutional challenges are less well understood. This book provides an overview of intermodal transport and logistics including the policy background, emerging industry trends and academic approaches. Establishing the three key features of intermodal transport geography as intermodal terminals, inland logistics and hinterland corridors, Jason Monios takes an institutional approach to understanding the difficulties of successful intermodal transport and logistics. Key areas of investigation include the...
While the operational realities of intermodal transport are relatively well known, the institutional challenges are less well understood. This book pr...
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805,98 zł |
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The Washington State Growth Management Act: Plain and Simple
ISBN: 9781500826208 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Primer: Washington's Growth Management Act Washington State's Growth Management Act (GMA) has an impact, every day, on every citizen in Washington State. The Act affects our jobs, it attempts to affect where and how we live, most of the decisions made by, especially, local governments are predicated on provisions of the Act and, to a significant extent, our lives in community have changed over time because of the Act. This book is not intended to be an exhaustive digest containing an answer to every question about the Washington State Growth Management Act. Rather, it is intended to be a...
A Primer: Washington's Growth Management Act Washington State's Growth Management Act (GMA) has an impact, every day, on every citizen in Washington S...
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154,31 zł |
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Politics Across the Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject
ISBN: 9780813572499 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The State of New York is now building one of the world's longest, widest, and most expensive bridges--the new Tappan Zee Bridge--stretching more than three miles across the Hudson River, approximately thirteen miles north of New York City. In Politics Across the Hudson, urban planner Philip Plotch offers a behind-the-scenes look at three decades of contentious planning and politics centered around this bridge, recently renamed for Governor Mario M. Cuomo, the state's governor from 1983 to 1994. He reveals valuable lessons for those trying to tackle complex public policies while also...
The State of New York is now building one of the world's longest, widest, and most expensive bridges--the new Tappan Zee Bridge--stretching more than ...
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181,35 zł |
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The Planner's Guide to Natural Resource Conservation:: The Science of Land Development Beyond the Metropolitan Fringe
ISBN: 9781489984357 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much of the country s recent population growth is situated in exurban areas. By many accounts exurbanization has become the dominant pattern of land development in the country and there is no indication it will slow in the foreseeable future (Theobald 2005; Brown et al. 2005; Glennon and Kretser 2005). By definition, exurban development takes place beyond the metropolitan fringe, often in rural and remote areas. The development of new exurban communities is a growing trend, especially in the West. In this case, developers and homebuilders seek large tracts of land, up to thousands of... Much of the country s recent population growth is situated in exurban areas. By many accounts exurbanization has become the dominant pattern of lan... |
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374,81 zł |
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Planning the Pacific Northwest
ISBN: 9781611901283 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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151,07 zł |
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Mega Transport Infrastructure Planning: European Corridors in Local-Regional Perspective
ISBN: 9783319163956 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the work of Poly5, or the Mediterranean Corridor, mega-transport infrastructure project, this ground-breaking reference explains how and why traditional top-down government-defined transport planning policies are failing, due to their tendency to eschew acknowledgement of profoundly multifarious local and regional issues. The authors use cognitive reports from the Mediterranean Corridor experience as a learning platform, unpacking the tangled sources of the challenges faced to find firm ground from which to embark upon future projects. They propose the replacement of the current...
Based on the work of Poly5, or the Mediterranean Corridor, mega-transport infrastructure project, this ground-breaking reference explains how and why ...
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374,81 zł |
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Sustainable Cities: Governing for Urban Innovation
ISBN: 9781137006356 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interest in the sustainable city is growing around the world and with it come important questions about governing sustainable urban development. Why are there blockages to achieving the goal of a sustainable city? How is it possible to overcome the practical difficulties that initiatives often face? And how can an increasingly technocratic focus be rebalanced with more of a public perspective? In this wide-ranging text, Simon Joss examines mainstream policy and practice and looks at the approaches that can overcome some of their drawbacks. The author examines the core elements of...
Interest in the sustainable city is growing around the world and with it come important questions about governing sustainable urban development. Why a...
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201,44 zł |
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Sustainable Cities: Governing for Urban Innovation
ISBN: 9781137006363 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interest in the sustainable city is growing around the world and with it come important questions about governing sustainable urban development. Why are there blockages to achieving the goal of a sustainable city? How is it possible to overcome the practical difficulties that initiatives often face? And how can an increasingly technocratic focus be rebalanced with more of a public perspective? In this wide-ranging text, Simon Joss examines mainstream policy and practice and looks at the approaches that can overcome some of their drawbacks. The author examines the core elements of...
Interest in the sustainable city is growing around the world and with it come important questions about governing sustainable urban development. Why a...
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705,23 zł |
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The Politics of Dams: Developmental Perspectives and Social Critique in Modern India
ISBN: 9780199458059 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is concerned with the construction of large dams in the context of post-Independence developmental politics in India. It deals with the aideological designsa that shaped the implementation of dams in India and juxtaposes them with alternative visions and their political opposition. The author combines a historical analysis of athe politics of damsa with an ethnography of the north Indian Tehri Dam and the recent debate on hydropower projects on the Ganges.
The book shows that large dams are still at the heart of developmental discourse in India, an important topic not only for... This book is concerned with the construction of large dams in the context of post-Independence developmental politics in India. It deals with the aide...
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158,96 zł |
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Changing Urban and Regional Relations in a Globalizing World: Europe as a Global Macro-Region
ISBN: 9781783477425 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this important book, Kathy Pain and Gilles Van Hamme bring together a prestigious group of contributors to provide a systematic assessment of the dynamic, multi-scale network restructuring and spaces of flows associated with globalization that have shaped Europe's contemporary position in the world during the past decade. The book examines the changing relations of cities and regions in Europe in a global perspective both through its position in the international division of labour and in different types of networks and flows: trade of goods; advanced services and finance - stock exchange...
In this important book, Kathy Pain and Gilles Van Hamme bring together a prestigious group of contributors to provide a systematic assessment of the d...
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195,93 zł |
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Inclusionary Housing: Creating and Maintaining Equitable Communities
ISBN: 9781558443303 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ,
Roughly 500 communities in the United States have developed inclusionary housing policies, which require developers of new market-rate real estate to provide some units that are affordable to low- and moderate-income residents. For cities struggling to maintain economic integration, inclusionary housing is one of the most promising strategies available to ensure that the benefits of development are shared widely. However, policies must be designed with care to suit local conditions and guarantee that requirements do not overburden development. Through a review of the literature and case... ,
Roughly 500 communities in the United States have developed inclusionary housing policies, which require developers of new market-rate real esta... |
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90,09 zł |
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Donald Trump's Triumph?: A Short Analysis of Mr. Trumph's Positions
ISBN: 9781517499952 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mr. Trump's meteoric rise in the recent polls for the Presidency of the United States is surprising given the lackluster press coverage of Mr. Trump. Excerpts from his speeches and publication are taken at random and analysis from one voters point of view. Mine. Mr. John Pierre Biddle Warden a retired Social Science Teacher and graduate of Indiana University, and California State University, and Senior Analysis for Biddle Family Media. He has written four books entitled: A Legacy of El Cid...., Early French Kings..., Early English Royalty..., and Trump's Triumph.
Mr. Trump's meteoric rise in the recent polls for the Presidency of the United States is surprising given the lackluster press coverage of Mr. Trump. ...
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66,11 zł |
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Planning for Coexistence?: Recognizing Indigenous Rights Through Land-Use Planning in Canada and Australia
ISBN: 9781409470779 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Planning is becoming one of the key battlegrounds for Indigenous people to negotiate meaningful articulation of their sovereign territorial and political rights, reigniting the essential tension that lies at the heart of Indigenous-settler relations. But what actually happens in the planning contact zone - when Indigenous demands for recognition of coexisting political authority over territory intersect with environmental and urban land-use planning systems in settler-colonial states? This book answers that question through a critical examination of planning contact zones in two...
Planning is becoming one of the key battlegrounds for Indigenous people to negotiate meaningful articulation of their sovereign territorial and politi...
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730,42 zł |
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Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Transport Economics and Policy
ISBN: 9780857937926 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transport economics and policy analysis is a field which has seen major advances in methodology in recent decades, covering issues such as estimating cost functions, modelling of demand, dealing with externalities, examining industry ownership and structure, pricing and investment decisions and measuring economic impacts. This Handbook contains reviews of all these methods, with an emphasis on practical applications, commissioned from an international cast of experts in the field.
Transport economics and policy analysis is a field which has seen major advances in methodology in recent decades, covering issues such as estimating ...
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1102,92 zł |
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Taking Chances: The Coast After Hurricane Sandy
ISBN: 9780813573779 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world's shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy--which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages--shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging exploration of the diverse challenges of Sandy and asks if this massive event will really change how coastal living and development is managed. Bringing together leading researchers--including biologists, urban planners, utilities experts, and climatologists, among others--Taking Chances...
Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world's shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy--which took hundreds of lives and caused many bil...
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657,51 zł |
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Taking Chances: The Coast After Hurricane Sandy
ISBN: 9780813573762 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world's shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy--which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages--shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging exploration of the diverse challenges of Sandy and asks if this massive event will really change how coastal living and development is managed. Bringing together leading researchers--including biologists, urban planners, utilities experts, and climatologists, among others--Taking Chances...
Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world's shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy--which took hundreds of lives and caused many bil...
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169,68 zł |
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