Compendium of Land Use Laws for Sustainable Development
Author: John R. Nolon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-04-24
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 0521862175
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory
Author: Patsy Healey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-11-03
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1315279231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt a time of potentially radical changes in the ways in which humans interact with their environments - through financial, environmental and/or social crises - the raison d'être of spatial planning faces significant conceptual and empirical challenges. This Companion presents a multidimensional collection of critical narratives of conceptual challenges for spatial planning. The authors draw on various disciplinary traditions and theoretical frames to explore different ways of conceptualising spatial planning and the challenges it faces. Through problematising planning itself, the values which underpin planning and theory-practice relations, contributions make visible the limits of established planning theories and illustrate how, by thinking about new issues, or about issues in new ways, spatial planning might be advanced both theoretically and practically. There cannot be definitive answers to the conceptual challenges posed, but the authors in this collection provoke critical questions and debates over important issues for spatial planning and its future. A key question is not so much what planning theory is, but what might planning theory do in times of uncertainty and complexity. An underlying rationale is that planning theory and practice are intrinsically connected. The Companion is presented in three linked parts: issues which arise from an interactive understanding of the relations between planning ideas and the political-institutional contexts in which such ideas are put to work; key concepts in current theorising from mainly poststructuralist perspectives and what discussion on complexity may offer planning theory and practice.
Planning and Administration
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMalaysia's Socio-Economic Transformation
Author: Sanchita Basu Das
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Published: 2014-11-07
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9814519634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 1957, Malaysia's economic development has been an account of growth, transformation, and of structural change. More than 75 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) comes from the manufacturing and services sectors. However, Malaysia is stuck in a middle-income trap and is facing challenges on the economic and political front. In June 2010, Prime Minister Najib Razak unveiled the 10th Malaysian Plan (2011-15) to chart the development of Malaysia from a middle- to high-income nation. This publication represents a policy-oriented stocktake and evaluation by academics, policymakers, and business people on Malaysia's achievements, present work-in-progress endeavours, and some of the future challenges facing the nation in its pursuit to achieve a developed high-income country status.
Fisheries Exploitation in the Indian Ocean
Author: Dennis Rumley
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9812309861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book aims to further the debate on the impacts of fisheries policies in the Indian Ocean Region in order to facilitate a new regional policy direction. A key argument of the volume is that ecologically sustainable and socially just development and management of Indian Ocean fisheries require a paradigm shift in the perceptions and policies of major stakeholders. A central policy challenge is to identify a collective regional interest for fisheries and accordingly the development of integrated management policies that link ecology and society and which incorporate individuals, communities, agencies, states and regimes into a holistic cooperative endeavour. Successful ocean governance therefore requires greater inter-state and inter-agency consultation and cooperation, an improvement in linking national initiatives to local action, increased participation of local government and local communities and the enhancement of local capability. In order to achieve this overall goal requires either the enhancement of existing regional institutions or the creation of a new regional body. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, and Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG), co-publication. ISEAS has worldwide distribution rights.
Annual Report to the United Nations on the Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
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Total Pages: 724
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlanning Asian Cities
Author: Stephen Hamnett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1136639276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities. They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve global city status, has had a profound effect on all these cities. But how resilient are these cities to the risks that they face? How can they manage continuing pressures for development and growth while reducing their vulnerability to a range of potential crises? And, given the tradition of top-down, centralized, state-directed planning which drove the economic growth of many of these cities in the last century, what prospects are there of them becoming more inclusive and sensitive to the diverse needs of their populations and to the importance of culture, heritage and local places in creating liveable cities?
Public Sector Transformation Processes and Internet Public Procurement: Decision Support Systems
Author: Pomazalová, Natasa
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2012-12-31
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1466626968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile many social, economic, and political changes have occurred recently in internet public procurement and its decision support systems, there is still a lot of opportunity for improvement. Public Sector Transformation Processes and Internet Public Procurement: Decision Support Systems brings together research on different perspectives from academics and practitioners on the methods, theories, and practices involved in the growth and expansion of decision support systems as it relates to the public sector transformation process and internet public procurement.
Globalisation and the Politics of Forgetting
Author: Yong-Sook Lee
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780415360210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on a range of examples from both the developed and developing worlds, this volume provides a perspective on globalization and cities by considering forgotten places in global cities.
Waste Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Author: Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2019-12-06
Total Pages: 1680
ISBN-13: 1799812111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the world’s population continues to grow and economic conditions continue to improve, more solid and liquid waste is being generated by society. Improper disposal methods can not only lead to harmful environmental impacts but can also negatively affect human health. To prevent further harm to the world’s ecosystems, there is a dire need for sustainable waste management practices that will safeguard the environment for future generations. Waste Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that examines the management of different types of wastes and provides relevant theoretical frameworks about new waste management technologies for the control of air, water, and soil pollution. Highlighting a range of topics such as contaminant removal, landfill treatment, and recycling, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for environmental engineers, waste authorities, solid waste management companies, landfill operators, legislators, environmentalists, policymakers, government officials, academicians, researchers, and students.
