ilość książek w kategorii: 1218
Design and Appraisal of Rural Transport Infrastructure: Ensuring Basic Access for Rural Communities
ISBN: 9780821349199 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This paper is part of a four-volume series of publications on rural transport promoted by the World Bank's Rural Transport Thematic Group under the aegis of its knowledge management activities. The four volumes are - 'Options for Managing and Financing Rural Transport Infrastructure' - 'Improving Rural Mobility' - 'Developing Rural Transport Policies and Strategies', and - this paper on 'Design and Appraisal of Rural Transport Infrastructure'.
This paper is part of a four-volume series of publications on rural transport promoted by the World Bank's Rural Transport Thematic Group under the ae...
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144,59 zł |
The Theory and Practice of Institutional Transplantation: Experiences with the Transfer of Policy Institutions
ISBN: 9781402011085 / Angielski / Miękka / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inevitably, at a panel discussion not too long ago comparing planning cultures the discussion turned on the issue of globalisation. As a member of the panel, this author asked those in the audience who lived and/or worked in a country different from their country of origin to raise their hands. About half of the audience of well over one hundred academic teachers and researchers from all comers of the world, the present author included did so. Next he asked who had a spouse or partner from a country different from their country of origin to also raise their hands. About half of the audience,...
Inevitably, at a panel discussion not too long ago comparing planning cultures the discussion turned on the issue of globalisation. As a member of the...
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585,00 zł |
Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities: Local Action for Global Goals
ISBN: 9781844070046 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'This is surely the most impressive and important publication to come out of the UN system for many years.' Peter Adamson, founder, New Internationalist, and author and researcher of UNICEF's The State of the World's Children from 1980 to 1995 The world's governments agreed at the Millennium Summit to halve, by 2015, the number of people who lack access to safe water. With rapidly growing urban populations the challenge is immense. Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities is a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the problems and how they can be addressed. This influential...
'This is surely the most impressive and important publication to come out of the UN system for many years.' Peter Adamson, founder, New Internationali...
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198,36 zł |
Domestic Wastewater Treatment in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9781844070206 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Details methods of domestic wastewater treatment that are especially suitable in developing countries. The emphasis is on low-cost, low-energy, low-maintenance, high-performance systems that contribute to environmental sustainability by producing effluents that can be safely and profitably used in agriculture for crop irrigation and/or in aquaculture for fish and aquatic vegetable pond fertilization. waste stabilization ponds (WSPs), wastewater storage and treatment reservoirs, constructed wetlands, upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors, biofilters, aerated lagoons and oxidation ditches.
Details methods of domestic wastewater treatment that are especially suitable in developing countries. The emphasis is on low-cost, low-energy, low-ma...
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712,22 zł |
Sustainability Assessment: Criteria and Processes
ISBN: 9781844070503 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need appropriately designed public processes; guidance on the weighing of alternatives, trade-offs and compromises; a supportive policy framework; suitable tools and inspiring examples. ...Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic d... |
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712,22 zł |
The Urban Housing Manual: Making Regulatory Frameworks Work for the Poor
ISBN: 9781844071487 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Red tape is a significant stumbling block to the provision of affordable shelter to the urban poor and, indeed, slums are largely the result of inappropriate regulatory frameworks. This practice-oriented manual tackles the issue of regulatory frameworks for urban upgrading and new housing development, and how they impact on access to adequate, affordable shelter and other key livelihood assets, in particular for the urban poor. It illustrates two methods for reviewing regulatory frameworks and expounds guiding principles for effecting change, informed by action research. The accompanying...
Red tape is a significant stumbling block to the provision of affordable shelter to the urban poor and, indeed, slums are largely the result of inappr...
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289,93 zł |
Strategic Environmental Assessment: A Sourcebook and Reference Guide to International Experience
ISBN: 9781844071791 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * The only comprehensive international sourcebook of SEA principles, approaches, and instruments with coverage of all major industrialized countries including the U.S., the U.K./Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, and Korea, and more than 50 transitional and developing countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Pacific * The essential reference for all impact assessment practitioners, researchers, policymakers, aid and development agencies, and funders * Written by two world-renowned practitioners with support from the OECD, UNEP, and IIED * The only comprehensive international sourcebook of SEA principles, approaches, and instruments with coverage of all major industrialized countries i...
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218,70 zł |
More Urban Less Poor: An Introduction to Urban Development and Management
ISBN: 9781844073818 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for students and development practitioners, this full colour textbook covers the full breadth and depth of the urban development challenges in developing and transitional countries, making sense of this complex and important field.
Written for students and development practitioners, this full colour textbook covers the full breadth and depth of the urban development challenges in...
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127,13 zł |
More Urban Less Poor: An Introduction to Urban Development and Management
ISBN: 9781844073825 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for students and development practitioners, this full colour textbook covers the full breadth and depth of the urban development challenges in developing and transitional countries, making sense of this complex and important field.
Written for students and development practitioners, this full colour textbook covers the full breadth and depth of the urban development challenges in...
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890,27 zł |
Municipalities and Community Participation: A Sourcebook for Capacity Building
ISBN: 9781853837449 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governments and donors are advocating the participation of poor communities in the delivery of urban services. This title offers practical guidance for municipal officials, and others working in urban development and poverty reduction, on the range of issues to be addressed in planning and managing cities with community participation.
Governments and donors are advocating the participation of poor communities in the delivery of urban services. This title offers practical guidance fo...
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269,58 zł |
The Earthscan Reader on World Transport Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9781853838514 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * How to meet the need for development without the detrimental impacts from transport on air quality, climate and land use* An invaluable sourcebook of major contributions to the debate* Essential reading for transport planners, development economists and environmentalistsIt is becoming increasingly urgent to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, control the spread of new infrastructure and consider the value of life for future generations, the poor and those deprived of human rights by planning systems that place economics above environmental and social justice. This book highlights creative work...
* How to meet the need for development without the detrimental impacts from transport on air quality, climate and land use* An invaluable sourcebook o...
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244,14 zł |
Tourism Collaboration and Partnerships: Politics, Practice and Sustainability
ISBN: 9781873150221 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the concept, techniques and implications of establishing stakeholder collaboration in sustainable tourism. The importance of involving a wide range of stakeholders in tourism planning and management is increasingly recognised. This reflects a move to less top-down, more decentralised and more inclusive forms of governance in tourism and in other policy fields. Twenty-two leading researchers and practitioners from around the world contribute their views and expertise to this pioneering volume. Case studies examining key issues are drawn from Europe, North and South America,...
This book explores the concept, techniques and implications of establishing stakeholder collaboration in sustainable tourism. The importance of involv...
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481,69 zł |
Public Service Reform in East Asia: Reform Issues and Challenges in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong
ISBN: 9789629961947 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These essays address a variety of reform issues confronted by the Asian economies of Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The cover areas such as human resource management; financial management and pay reform; central agency role; private sector involvement; and political accountability.
These essays address a variety of reform issues confronted by the Asian economies of Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The cover areas such as h...
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262,13 zł |
Germany : Oecd Rural Policy Reviews
ISBN: 9789264013155 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This review discusses the challenges and opportunities of German rural areas. Significant differences between East and West persist and many of these have clear rural dimensions. Factors such as CAP reforms, ageing of the German population and migratio
This review discusses the challenges and opportunities of German rural areas. Significant differences between East and West persist and many of these ...
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215,91 zł |
Transport Matters : Integrated Approaches to Planning City-Regions
ISBN: 9780415454223 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on some of the key social problems of the twenty-first century.
Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on some of th...
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864,83 zł |
Transport Matters: Integrated Approaches to Planning City-Regions
ISBN: 9780415458184 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low energy transport systems which serve the needs of everybody. It explores many of the new arguments, ideas and perceptions of mobility and accessibility in city-regions. Looking at evidence from Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany and the UK, it considers the meaning of the key concepts of sustainable accessibility, the spatial planning model, and integrated territorial policies. Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the pro... |
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269,58 zł |
The Practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment
ISBN: 9781853833731 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aims to provide an analysis of strategic environmental assessments (SEAs), drawing on a variety of methods and circumstances to illustrate how best practice can be achieved, and providing inspiration for those considering studying, commission or carrying out an SEA. This book gives a review of international SEA guidance and regulations.
Aims to provide an analysis of strategic environmental assessments (SEAs), drawing on a variety of methods and circumstances to illustrate how best pr...
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203,44 zł |
Tomorrow's World: Britain's share in a sustainable future
ISBN: 9781853835117 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 20 per cent of the Earth's population currently consumes over 80 per cent of available resources. Whilst most Westerners lead lives of unprecedented material comfort fuelled by spiralling consumption patterns, 1.3 billion people exist on less than US$1 per day. As the first industrial nation and a former colonial power, Britain's record of overconsumption is one of the most notable. Researched and written by Friends of the Earth, Tomorrow's World argues that Britain must make deep cuts in resource consumption in order to allow developing countries to escape from poverty, and to prevent...
20 per cent of the Earth's population currently consumes over 80 per cent of available resources. Whilst most Westerners lead lives of unprecedented m...
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48,43 zł |
Asean's Diplomatic and Security Culture: Origins, Development and Prospects
ISBN: 9780415374170 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Member states of ASEAN - the Association of South-East Asian Nations - have developed a distinctive approach to political and security co-operation. This approach builds on the principles of sovereign equality, non-intervention and non-interference, quiet diplomacy, mutual respect, and the principle of not involving ASEAN in mediating bilateral disputes among the membership.
This is a new examination of the origins of ASEAN's diplomatic and security culture. It analyses how over time its key principles are practised and contested as member states respond to regional conflicts as well as... Member states of ASEAN - the Association of South-East Asian Nations - have developed a distinctive approach to political and security co-operation. T...
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264,48 zł |
Urban Renaissance?: New Labour, Community and Urban Policy
ISBN: 9781861343802 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book documents and assesses the core of New Labour's approach to the revitalisation of cities, that is, the revival of citizenship, democratic renewal, and the participation of communities to spear head urban change. In doing so, the book explores the meaning, and relevance, of 'community' as a focus for urban renaissance. It interrogates the conceptual and ideological content of New Labour's conceptions of community and, through the use of case studies, evaluates how far, and with what effects, such conceptions are shaping contemporary urban policy and practice.The book is an important...
This book documents and assesses the core of New Labour's approach to the revitalisation of cities, that is, the revival of citizenship, democratic re...
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160,60 zł |