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“robin bloch”

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  • Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century

    by Abhas K. Jha, Robin Bloch, Jessica Lamond ...
    Urban flooding is a significant challenge which today increasingly confronts the residents of the expanding cities and towns of developing countries, as well as policymakers and national, regional and local government officials. The Global Handbook presents the state-of-the art in urban flood risk management in a thorough and user-friendly way. It serves as a primer in integrated urban flood risk ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Remaking of the Mining Industry

    by D. Humphreys ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The industrialisation of China prompted the biggest commodity boom of modern times. Soaring prices gave rise to talk of a commodity super cycle and induced a wave of resource nationalism. The author, who was chief economist at two of the world's largest mining companies, describes how this resulted in a transformation of the global mining industry. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Selling the Welfare State (Routledge Revivals)

    The Privatisation of Public Housing

    by Ray Forrest, Alan Murie ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1988, this book offers the first comprehensive and critical analysis of the privatisation of public housing in Britain. It outlines the historical background to the growth of public housing and the developing political debatea surrounding its disposal. The main emphasis in the book, however, is on the ways in which privatisation in housing links to other key changes in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Creative Community Builder's Handbook

    How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture

    by Tom Borrup ...
    Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driven community development and explains key underlying principles. You'll understand the arts impact on community well-being and have the rationale for engaging others. Find inspiration and ideas from twenty case studies Part 2 gives you ten concrete ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Invisible Safety Net

    Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families

    by Janet Currie ...
    In one of the most provocative books ever published on America's social welfare system, economist Janet Currie argues that the modern social safety net is under attack.Unlike most books about antipoverty programs, Currie trains her focus not on cash welfare, which accounts for a small and shrinking share of federal expenditures on poor families with children, but on the staples of today's American ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Rethinking Place Branding

    Comprehensive Brand Development for Cities and Regions

    Edited by Mihalis Kavaratzis, Gary Warnaby, Gregory J. Ashworth ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    As Place Branding has become a widely established but contested practice, there is a dire need to rethink its theoretical foundations and its contribution to development and to re-assert its future. This important new book advances understanding of place branding through its holistic, critical and evidence-based approach. Contributions by world-leading specialists explore a series of crucially ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Controversies in Local Economic Development

    Stories, strategies, solutions

    by Martin Perry ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals. Many such analysts argue that competitive advantage can be fostered within local economies, complimenting the advent of a more globalised economy. Intensified efforts to build new economic foundations show no sign of abating despite the apparent increase in the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Energy Efficiency and the Future of Real Estate

    Edited by N. Edward Coulson, Yongsheng Wang, Clifford A. Lipscomb ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores how energy efficiency is a major component in the development of sustainable real estate. Efficiency is one of the most frequently-mentioned aspects of government policies for green building design in the United States and around the world. There has been a significant amount of effort devoted to the creation of green practices in real estate, including building construction, ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Progress in Location-Based Services 2016

    Edited by Georg Gartner, Haosheng Huang ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book offers a selection of the best papers presented at the 13th International Symposium on Location Based Services (LBS 2016), which was held in Vienna (Austria) from November 14 to 16, 2016. It provides an overview of recent research in the field, including the latest advances in outdoor/indoor positioning, smart environment, spatial modeling, personalization and context awareness, ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa

    Assessing Impacts on Poverty and Natural Resource Management

    Edited by S. Holden, K. Otsuka, K. Deininger ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Rural poverty remains widespread and persistent in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. A group of leading experts critically examines the impact of land tenure reforms on poverty reduction and natural resource management in countries in Africa and Asia with highly diverse historical contexts. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Planning and the Case Study Method in Africa

    The Planner in Dirty Shoes

    by James Duminy, Jørgen Andreasen, Fred Lerise ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book addresses the relevance of the case study research methodology for enhancing urban planning research and education in Africa and the global South. It provides an introduction to the case study methodology and features examples of its application to planning research and education on the continent. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Global City Challenges

    Debating a Concept, Improving the Practice

    by M. Acuto, W. Steele ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The contributors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political stances to the concept of the 'global city'. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD