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“peter s brandon”

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  • Future Challenges in Evaluating and Managing Sustainable Development in the Built Environment

    Edited by Peter S. Brandon, Patrizia Lombardi, Geoffrey Q. Shen ...
    Future Challenges in Sustainable Development within the Built Environment stimulates and reinterprets the demands of Responsible and Sustainable Development in the Built Environment for future action and development. It examines the methods of evaluation, the use of technology, the creation of new models and the role of human factors for examining and developing the subject over the next twenty ... Read more

    $130.00 USD

  • Evaluating Sustainable Development in the Built Environment

    by Patrizia Lombardi, Peter S. Brandon ...
    The first edition was extremely well received, providing an introduction and insight to this important topic in a comprehensive yet easy to read form. It was chosen to be issued to the representatives of the organizations from the G8 and G20 countries attending the University Summit held in Turin in 2009 which addressed the issue of how education and research can assist sustainable development.The ... Read more

    $88.00 USD

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    Dynamic Geographies of Knowledge Creation, Diffusion and Innovation

    Edited by Harald Bathelt, Maryann Feldman, Dieter F. Kogler ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    The main purpose of the book is to discuss new trends in the dynamic geography of innovation and argue that in an era of increasing globalization, two trends seem quite dominant: rigid territorial models of innovation, and localized configurations of innovative activities. The book brings together scholars who are working on these topics. Rather than focusing on established concepts and theories, ... Read more

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  • Sustainability Science

    Key Issues

    Edited by Ariane König, Jerome Ravetz ...
    Series series Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability
    Sustainability Science: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduates, postgraduates, and participants in executive trainings from any disciplinary background studying the theory and practice of sustainability science. Each chapter takes a critical and reflective stance on a key issue or method of sustainability science. Contributing authors offer perspectives from diverse disciplines, ... Read more

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  • Innovation, Technology and Knowledge

    Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson, Roger Stough ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Competition
    In the last four decades the developed economies have developed into veritable knowledge economies at the same time as more and more economies have entered the road to economic development. Typical for the developments during this time has been substantially increased investments in research and development (R&D) to generate new knowledge and new technologies and increased investments in diffusing ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Complex Adaptive Innovation Systems

    Relatedness and Transversality in the Evolving Region

    by Philip Cooke ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. Rooted in the idea that ‘policy’ is an encumbrance to free markets, the stress on supply-side smoothing measures such as clusters and an over reliance on venture capital, the inadequacy of existing orthodoxies has come to ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Urban Development Volume 1

    The Framework and Protocols for Environmental Assessment

    Edited by Stephen Curwell, Mark Deakin, Martin Symes ...
    Series series Sustainable Urban Development Series
    Based on original research, this first volume of a set of groundbreaking new books sets out a framework for analyzing sustainable urban development and develops a set of protocols for evaluating the sustainability of urban development.Protocols included are for sustainable urban planning, urban property development, urban design, the construction, operation and use of buildings. Using these ... Read more

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  • To the Man with a Hammer

    Augmenting the Policymaker's Toolbox for a Complex World

    Edited by Bertelsmann Stiftung ...
    In the face of rising complexity and systemic risks, policy-making appears at a breaking point. If business and public leaders hope to create a sustainable and responsive economy, they will need to break from traditional governance and embrace new, innovative solutions. Adopting new practices will be essential for our ability to detect and solve unprecedented challenges of the 21st century. After ... Read more

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  • When is Regional “Beautiful”?

    Implications for Knowledge Flows, Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    Edited by Bjorn Asheim, Olof Ejermo, Annika Rickne ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Industry and Innovation
    This book focuses on the importance of geography and space in explaining knowledge flows, entrepreneurship and innovation. During the last few decades spatial perspectives have enjoyed a growing attention outside the specific discipline of geography both in academic economics and among practitioners of policy and planning. This book constitutes a selection of empirical contributions based on data ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital

    Edited by Alan Burton-Jones, J.-C. Spender ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Macroeconomic research on human capital - the stock of human capabilities and knowledge - has been extensively published but to date the literature has lacked a comprehensive analysis of human capital within the organization. The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital has been designed to fill that gap, providing an authoritative, inter-disciplinary, and up to date survey of relevant concepts, research ... Read more

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  • Policy Problems and Policy Design

    by B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series New Horizons in Public Policy series
    B. Guy Peters presents a critique of conventional policy design methods, placing emphasis on the need to formulate interconnecting designs for issues that cross multiple policy areas. He advocates the use of analytic categories for understanding problems rather than functional categories, such as defence and health, to change the perspective of problems and modernise policy design.Whereas previous ... Read more

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  • Changing Australian Education

    How policy is taking us backwards and what can be done about it

    by Alan Reid ...
    Australian education policy for the past 40 years has been heading in the wrong direction and is entirely unsuitable for preparing young people for the 21st century. Exaggeration? Sadly not.For a teacher, there is nothing more exhilarating than encouraging young people to realise the power of learning. But in our schools today, teachers spend so much time preparing their students for high-stakes ... Read more

    $47.99 USD