Governing Sustainability in the EU: From Political Discourse to Policy Practices
ISBN: 9781138231559 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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688,13 zł |
The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge
ISBN: 9781138280915 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1095,91 zł |
Securing Government Information and Data in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9781522517030 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -This book aims at analyzing impact of such changes in developing countries on the information and data generated, owned and maintained by the government. The book focus on the challenges, weaknesses and problems that may be faced by technology leadership in the governments, such as the GCIO's and similar leaders---
-This book aims at analyzing impact of such changes in developing countries on the information and data generated, owned and maintained by the governm...
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913,87 zł |
Aftershock: A Journey Into Eastern Europe's Broken Dreams
ISBN: 9781783609499 / Angielski / Twarda / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this unique and poignant account of faded dreams, journalist John Feffer returns to Eastern Europe a quarter of a century after the fall of communism. There Feffer tracks down hundreds of people he had interviewed for his earlier book, Shock Waves, decades before as the Iron Curtain fell. From politicians and scholars to trade unionists and grassroots activists, Feffer finds a common story of optimism dashed. These testimonies that he compiles in Aftershock make for fascinating, if sometimes disturbing, reading because they are at once very real and very timely. Among...
In this unique and poignant account of faded dreams, journalist John Feffer returns to Eastern Europe a quarter of a century after the fall of communi...
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433,26 zł |
Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
ISBN: 9781469634302 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eve E. Buckley's study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation's hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertao, plagued by chronic poverty, recurrent famine, and mass migrations. Buckley reveals how the physicians, engineers, agronomists, and mid-level technocrats working for federal agencies to combat drought were pressured by...
Eve E. Buckley's study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation's hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of ...
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175,86 zł |
Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
ISBN: 9781469634296 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eve E. Buckley's study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation's hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertao, plagued by chronic poverty, recurrent famine, and mass migrations. Buckley reveals how the physicians, engineers, agronomists, and mid-level technocrats working for federal agencies to combat drought were pressured by...
Eve E. Buckley's study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation's hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of ...
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601,51 zł |
Capability-Promoting Policies: Enhancing Individual and Social Development
ISBN: 9781447334316 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most current social welfare policies aim to ameliorate immediate problems or injustices, but they do little to foster human development or support the potential of people within marginalized communities. How can we more effectively use public policy to foster human development? How can we overcome the injustice of contemporary society and give people across the social and class spectrum equal opportunities to flourish? Capability-Promoting Policies offers case studies and analyses of a number of different existing approaches to these questions, presenting newly conceptualized...
Most current social welfare policies aim to ameliorate immediate problems or injustices, but they do little to foster human development or support the...
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463,80 zł |
Development of Small-Scale Industries During the New Order Government in Indonesia
ISBN: 9781138700802 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title was first published in 2000: As in many other LDCs, in Indonesia small-scale industries (SSIs) are important, particularly with respect to the creation of employment opportunities. SSIs are expected to absorb many millions of workers who have been displaced by current economic crisis. This work seeks to explain the pattern of development of SSIs in Indonesia within a broader theoretical framework. It also deals with a number of SSI development-related aspects that in Indonesia so far have never or rarely been studied, such as the formation of strategic alliance, cluster... This title was first published in 2000: As in many other LDCs, in Indonesia small-scale industries (SSIs) are important, particularly with respect ... |
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152,87 zł |
Religion and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia
ISBN: 9781138685307 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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662,64 zł |
Between Humanitarianism and Evangelism in Faith-based Organisations: A Case from the African Migration Route
ISBN: 9781138674172 / Angielski / Twarda / 12 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how the work of faith-based organisations (FBOs) can help us understand the role of religion in humanitarianism and international aid work. Focusing on the work of an FBO in Morocco offering direct aid to sub-Saharan African migrants 'passing through' on their way towards Europe reveals the challenges the organisation face as they try to negotiate at once local, national and international contexts relating to their particular Christian values in an Islamic country that is situated within a global secular regime. This book argues that these contradictions,... This book examines how the work of faith-based organisations (FBOs) can help us understand the role of religion in humanitarianism and internationa... |
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662,64 zł |
Quality Assurance in Higher Education: A Study of Developing Countries
ISBN: 9781138635685 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title was first published in 2001. Universities in developing countries have followed their counterparts in developed countries and adopted quality assurance to improve the quality of their activities. This text examines the wisdom of such a move when many of the conditions necessary for its success are not present. It concludes that quality assurance can be useful in developing countries because it shows how a university's seemingly disparate activities are related to one another to serve a common goal and how the quality of these can best be improved by using an integrated approach.... This title was first published in 2001. Universities in developing countries have followed their counterparts in developed countries and adopted qu... |
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509,67 zł |
Public Health, Disease and Development in Africa
ISBN: 9781138631250 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As countries are affected by changes to populations, environments, and economics they also experience changes in terms of health threats. Using the revised epidemiological and nutrition transition framework, this book explores the future challenges to health in Africa. Using case studies it interrogates the dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases in Africa and the obstacles posed by rising risk-factors in a continent with weak healthcare infrastructure and, in cases, a lack of financial resources. With contributions from an interdisciplinary team of experts the... As countries are affected by changes to populations, environments, and economics they also experience changes in terms of health threats. Using the... |
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688,13 zł |
Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions
ISBN: 9781138040168 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization around food tell us about the politics of subsistence in an era of integrated food markets and universal human rights? This book interrogates this period of historical rupture in the global system of subsistence, getting behind the headlines and inside the politics of global food crisis. The half decade of 2007-12 was a period of intensely volatile food prices as well as unusual levels of popular mobilization, including... Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular... |
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688,13 zł |
The China Questions: Critical Insights Into a Rising Power
ISBN: 9780674979406 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many books offer information about the world's most populous country, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. Thirty of the world's leading China experts-affiliates of Harvard's renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies-answer key questions about where this new superpower is headed and what makes its people and their leaders tick.
Many books offer information about the world's most populous country, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. Thirty of the world's leading Chin...
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128,50 zł |
eGovernment Management for Developing Countries
ISBN: 9781911218234 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book builds on the authors' extensive experience and research and provides valuable insights into the practical implementation of e-government. It focuses on the developing world where the effective implementation of e-government remains a struggle, often because of the absence of adequate guidance. With a thorough curriculum design and a sound education pedagogy, the book follows a structured step by step process of e-government implementation and management, from conception to evaluation. This text book on e-government management is the first of its kind for developing countries and... This book builds on the authors' extensive experience and research and provides valuable insights into the practical implementation of e-government... |
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238,09 zł |
Land Reforms and Natural Resource Conflicts in Africa: New Development Paradigms in the Era of Global Liberalization
ISBN: 9781138092686 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a critical examination of the place and role of land in Africa, the role of land in political formation and national identification, and the land as an economic resource within both national economic development and liberal globalization. Colonial and post-colonial conflicts have been rooted in four related claims: the struggle over scarce resources, especially access to land resources; abundance of natural resources mismanaged or appropriated by both the states, local power systems and multinationals; weak or absent articulated land tenure policies, leading to speculation or... This book is a critical examination of the place and role of land in Africa, the role of land in political formation and national identification, a... |
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239,52 zł |
Global Africa: Into the Twenty-First Centuryvolume 2
ISBN: 9780520287358 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global Africais a striking, original volume that disrupts the dominant narratives that continue to frame our discussion of Africa, complicating conventional views of the region as a place of violence, despair, and victimhood. The volume documents the significant global connections, circulations, and contributions that African people, ideas, and goods have made throughout the world--from the United States and South Asia to Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere. Through succinct and engaging pieces by scholars, policy makers, activists, and journalists, the volume provides a wholly...
Global Africais a striking, original volume that disrupts the dominant narratives that continue to frame our discussion of Africa, complicating...
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429,24 zł |
Global Africa: Into the Twenty-First Centuryvolume 2
ISBN: 9780520287365 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global Africais a striking, original volume that disrupts the dominant narratives that continue to frame our discussion of Africa, complicating conventional views of the region as a place of violence, despair, and victimhood. The volume documents the significant global connections, circulations, and contributions that African people, ideas, and goods have made throughout the world--from the United States and South Asia to Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere. Through succinct and engaging pieces by scholars, policy makers, activists, and journalists, the volume provides a wholly...
Global Africais a striking, original volume that disrupts the dominant narratives that continue to frame our discussion of Africa, complicating...
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160,97 zł |
Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone
ISBN: 9780813584232 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sovereign Acts explores how artists, activists, and audiences performed and interpreted sovereignty struggles in the Panama Canal Zone, from the Canal Zone's inception in 1903 to its dissolution in 1999. In popular entertainments and patriotic pageants, opera concerts and national theatre, white U.S. citizens, West Indian laborers, and Panamanian artists and activists used performance as a way to assert their right to the Canal Zone and challenge the Zone's sovereignty, laying claim to the Zone's physical space and imagined terrain.
By demonstrating the place of... Sovereign Acts explores how artists, activists, and audiences performed and interpreted sovereignty struggles in the Panama Canal Zone, from th...
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683,03 zł |
Law and Practice on Public Participation in Environmental Matters: The Nigerian Example in Transnational Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9781138094154 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public participation has become a recurring theme and a topical issue in the field of international environmental law, with many multilateral environmental instruments calling on states to guarantee effectively the concept in their laws and practices. This book focuses on public participation in environmental governance, in terms of public access to environmental information and public participation in environmental decision-making processes. Drawing on the body of international best practice principles in environmental law and taking a comparative stance, Uzuazo Etemire takes... Public participation has become a recurring theme and a topical issue in the field of international environmental law, with many multilateral envir... |
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244,62 zł |