Abriendo caminos en la prospectiva para el desarrollo de América Latina
Abriendo caminos en la prospectiva para el desarrollo de América Latina

Author: Javier Enrique Medina Vásquez

Publisher: Universidad del Valle

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9585144395

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Este libro busca contribuir a la formación de profesionales en estudios del futuro y prospectiva, en el contexto de América Latina y el Caribe. Se trata de una reflexión acerca del desarrollo de las capacidades prospectivas que requiere la región sobre anticipación, pensamiento estratégico, innovación y solución de problemas complejos, con miras a fortalecer un Estado Activo y una sociedad responsable capaz de enfrentar los grandes desafíos del entorno mundial en el horizonte temporal 2030-2050. Este conocimiento es esencial para la adopción de decisiones estratégicas y la aceleración de respuestas innovadoras y oportunas, con miras al cierre de las crecientes brechas propias de la revolución industrial 4.0 y las sociedades del conocimiento y el aprendizaje. El autor posee 30 años de experiencia en este campo y una constante interacción con públicos estratégicos en la región, tales como los organismos nacionales de planificación, los organismos nacionales de ciencia, tecnología e innovación; decisores y actores del desarrollo empresarial, sectorial y territorial. En particular, la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), el Instituto Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Planificación Económica y Social (ILPES), el Programa de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo de la Cooperación Iberoamericana (CYTED), la Comisión de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), la Comisión Europea y el Programa de Alto Gobierno de la Escuela Superior de Administración Pública de Colombia (ESAP).

Abriendo caminos en la prospectiva para el desarrollo de América Latina
Abriendo caminos en la prospectiva para el desarrollo de América Latina

Author: Javier Enrique Medina Vásquez

Publisher: Universidad del Valle

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 9585144409

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Este libro busca contribuir a la formación de profesionales en estudios del futuro y prospectiva, en el contexto de América Latina y el Caribe. Se trata de una reflexión acerca del desarrollo de las capacidades prospectivas que requiere la región sobre anticipación, pensamiento estratégico, innovación y solución de problemas complejos, con miras a fortalecer un Estado Activo y una sociedad responsable capaz de enfrentar los grandes desafíos del entorno mundial en el horizonte temporal 2030-2050. Este conocimiento es esencial para la adopción de decisiones estratégicas y la aceleración de respuestas innovadoras y oportunas, con miras al cierre de las crecientes brechas propias de la revolución industrial 4.0 y las sociedades del conocimiento y el aprendizaje. El autor posee 30 años de experiencia en este campo y una constante interacción con públicos estratégicos en la región, tales como los organismos nacionales de planificación, los organismos nacionales de ciencia, tecnología e innovación; decisores y actores del desarrollo empresarial, sectorial y territorial. En particular, la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), el Instituto Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Planificación Económica y Social (ILPES), el Programa de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo de la Cooperación Iberoamericana (CYTED), la Comisión de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), la Comisión Europea y el Programa de Alto Gobierno de la Escuela Superior de Administración Pública de Colombia (ESAP).

Inclusive Social Protection in Latin America
Inclusive Social Protection in Latin America

Author: Simone Cecchini (ECLAC.)

Publisher: UN

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789210210850

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This publication examines the main debates under way on social protection and co-responsibility transfer programmes. It identifies the role played by these programmes and considers the conceptual elements, needs and the challenges that will have to be overcome to consolidate comprehensive social protection systems in Latin America. The authors argue that these should be solidarity-based systems that provide universal coverage and are essentially egalitarian in the guarantees established as citizens' rights. Citizenship as a whole is thus becoming part of protection policies as the region moves towards all-encompassing social policies that combine the complementary principles of targeting as the instrument and universality as the end.

The Politics of Civil Society Building
The Politics of Civil Society Building

Author: Kees Biekart

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13:

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Strengthening civil society may be all the rage in the international donor community, but what does it mean in practice? This seminal work critically examines the political aspects of civil society building and the role of non-governmental development aid agencies during recent democratic transitions in Central America.

Tourism in Latin America
Tourism in Latin America

Author: Alexandre Panosso Netto

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-04

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 3319057359

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This book presents eleven case studies of success about Latin America tourism. The cases are embedded in a framework describing the economic and cultural foundations of tourism development in the continent. Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Costa Rica are some of the Latin countries which have become examples and models for touristic development, respect for the environment and social inclusion. The book showcases some of the best practices, along with an analysis of how these projects helped improving the environmental and social surroundings and how return on investments has been ensured. Latin America is shown as an excellent example, with the Gross Domestic Product of the continent expanding intensely in the tertiary sector like leisure, hospitality, travel, tourism, entertainment, gastronomy, events and indoor and outdoor recreation. This book is a valuable resource both for professionals in the tourism industry and for researchers in tourism management.

The Research System in Transition
The Research System in Transition

Author: Susan E. Cozzens

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 9400920911

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On a mountainside in sunny Tuscany, in October 1989, 96 people from 23 countries on five continents gathered to learn and teach about the problems of managing contemporary science. The diversity of economic and political systems represented in the group was matched by our occupations, which stretched from science policy practitioners, through research scientists and engineers, through academic observers of science and science policy. It was this diversity, along with the opportunities for infonnal discussion provided by long meals and remote location, that made the conference a special learning experience. Except at lecture time, it was impossible to distinguish the "students" at this event from the "teachers," and even the most senior members of the teaching staff went away with a sense that they had learned more from this group than from many a standard conference on science policy they had attended. The flavor of the conference experience cannot be captured adequately in a proceedings volume, and so we have not tried to create a historical record in this book. Instead, we have attempted to illustrate the core problems the panicipants at the conference shared, discussed, and debated, using both lectures delivered by the fonnal teaching staff and summaries of panel discussions, which extended to other panicipants and therefore increased the range of experiences reponed.

Territory
Territory

Author: David Delaney

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1405153059

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This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author’s strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective.

Entrepreneurial Selves
Entrepreneurial Selves

Author: Carla Freeman

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2015-02-15

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0822376008

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Entrepreneurial Selves is an ethnography of neoliberalism. Bridging political economy and affect studies, Carla Freeman turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism. Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent entrepreneurial middle class of Barbados, she finds dramatic reworkings of selfhood, intimacy, labor, and life amid the rumbling effects of political-economic restructuring. She shows us that the déjà vu of neoliberalism, the global hailing of entrepreneurial flexibility and its concomitant project of self-making, can only be grasped through the thickness of cultural specificity where its costs and pleasures are unevenly felt. Freeman theorizes postcolonial neoliberalism by reimagining the Caribbean cultural model of 'reputation-respectability.' This remarkable book will allow readers to see how the material social practices formerly associated with resistance to capitalism (reputation) are being mobilized in ways that sustain neoliberal precepts and, in so doing, re-map class, race, and gender through a new emotional economy.