Liberalized Development in Tanzania
This is an action-oriented book for managers and entrepreneurs searching ways to tackle issues they face in terms of developing and delivering services. The book focuses on service organizations, but has a broad interpretation of what services are. Directed to the business world and combines inspirational text that is full of examples, with the features of a useful handbook of practical methods with associated templates. The central argument is that managers and entrepreneurs designing servic...
Power for Development (World Bank Operations Evaluations Study)
by Fernando Manibog
Power for Development evaluates the performance of the World Bank Group (WBG) during the 1990s in promoting private sector development in the electric power sector. This joint review aims to inform the implementation of the WBG's 2001 Energy Business Renewal Strategy and the 2003 Infrastructure Plan. It is based on an evaluation of the WBG's assistance for private sector development of the electric power sector in 80 countries.
Urban Nature (Routledge Studies in Urban Ecology)
This book showcases the diversity of ways in which urban residents from varying cultural contexts view, interact, engage with and give meaning to urban nature, aiming to counterbalance the dominance of Western depictions and values of urban nature and design. Urban nature has up to now largely been defined, planned and managed in a way that is heavily dominated by Western understandings, values and appreciations, which has spread through colonialism and globalisation. As cities increasingly re...
The Sustainable Development Goals
On 25 September 2015, countries adopted a set of 17 goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda to be achieved by 2030. For the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their part: governments, the private sector, civil society and people like you. Elyx, the United Nations' digital ambassador, uses various expressions and actions to help demonstrate the meaning of each goal. Created by French artist YAK, Elyx has no rac...
Alternative Economies and Spaces: New Perspectives for a Sustainable Economy
Trade in Japanese Endemic Reptiles in China (A TRAFFIC Report)
by Kahoru Kanari and Ling Xu
This book examines the history of empire and its influence on capitalism. Taking inspiration from Vladimir Lenin's essay Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, the thoughtful chapters explore how workers and resources in Africa, Latin America, and Asia were exploited by capitalist colonizers. Particular attention is given to the empires of Great Britain, Russia, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States. This book aims to trace the historical development of capitalism and its relianc...
Creating Sustainable Cities (Schumacher Briefings)
by Herbert Girardet
How can we put the pulsing heart of conviviality back into our cities? How can we make sure of creating cities of diversity for the new millennium: places of cultural vigour and physical beauty that are also sustainable in economic and environmental terms? This Schumacher Briefing shows the way forward.
The Trade in Tokay Geckos 'Gekko Gecko' in South-East Asia (A Traffic Southeast Asia Report)
by Olivier S. Caillabet
National System Planning for Protected Areas (Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines S., #1)
by Adrian G. Davey
Sustainability, Climate Change and the Green Economy
by Godwell Nhamo and Vuyo Mjimba
Monitoring health system performance in Peru (OECD reviews of health systems)
"A nicely balanced personal and practical book of corporate reflections and hard-won business lessons." —Kirkus Reviews What is it really like to be an entrepreneur? After nearly fifty years of building a successful media company, founder of American all-sports radio Jeff Smulyan shares with candor and humor just how many bitter failures come with each great victory along the way. For founder and CEO of Emmis Communications Jeff Smulyan, the path to success has been anything but straightforwa...
Sharing water, sharing benefits
While there are no "blueprints" for how to prevent and resolve water resource conflicts which would be applicable in every instance, patterns do tend to emerge from which the best of global experience can be distilled. This workbook is centered around the development of negotiations within a hypothetical basin. It facilitates the building of skills to transform conflict at the interpersonal, intersectoral, and international levels, and offers principles for institutional capacity building within...
Economic Contractions in the United States
by Charles K Rowley and Nathanael Smith
This monograph provides a detailed explanation how the Great Depression and the current financial crisis and economic contraction in the United States were both caused by and exacerbated by government, not by capitalism. The monograph provides a well-reasoned free market alternative to current statist policies with respect to economic recovery in the United States.