The Bloomsbury Handbook of Context and Transformative Leadership in Higher Education
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Context and Transformative Leadership in Higher Education

Author: Mary Drinkwater

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-08-22

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1350406333

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Context and Transformative Leadership in Higher Education explores the importance of cultural, political, socioeconomic and historical context in change leadership in higher education. With contributions from four continents, the handbook brings together multi-contextual perspectives to explore the importance of context to the development of the field. A broad range of topics are covered, including skills, strategies and dispositions; local, regional and cross-national partnership development; opportunities and considerations for technology; and, future visions. Countries covered include Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Dubai, Ghana, Japan, Malaysia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK and the USA. The book forms part of the Bloomsbury Handbooks of Crises and Transformative Leadership in Higher Education collection, brought together by Mary Drinkwater.

Exploring Hope
Exploring Hope

Author: Andrés Kozel

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2024-08-13

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1835497381

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Focusing on hope rather than challenges, this edited collection presents a powerful evocation of ongoing opportunities for building a better future in the Global South and beyond.

The Handbook of Technology Foresight
The Handbook of Technology Foresight

Author: Luke Georghiou

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2008-03-31

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1781008760

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Cross-cutting analytical chapters explore the emergence and positioning of foresight, approaches and methods, organisational issues, policy transfer and evaluation.

Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela
Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela

Author: Fabio Capra Ribeiro

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-02

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1000203301

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Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela explores the changes cities face when they become metropolises, forming expanding regions which create both potential and problems within settlements. To do so, it focuses on three metropolitan areas located in Venezuela’s Center-North region: Caracas, Maracay and Valencia, designated as "Camava." Considering three core topics, government and territorial administration, infrastructure and environment, as well as looking at the reciprocal impact, this book describes and analyzes the determinant variables that characterize the phenomenon of regional urbanization in this area and in the wider Global South. It includes documentary research, semi-structured interviews and Delphi methodology, involving a total of forty experts from different disciplines to build a comprehensive outlook on the situation. This book presents a broader understanding of the region to encourage a more sustainable and knowledge-based development plan, moving away from the exploitation of natural resources, with six future-oriented scenarios to consider. This is a much-needed study in the urban regions of Venezuela, which will be of interest to academics and researchers in Latin American studies, the Global South, architecture and planning.

No More Free Lunch
No More Free Lunch

Author: Claes Brundenius

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 3319009184

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In September 2010, the Cuban government decided to embark on an economic reform program, unprecedented after the Revolution in 1959. This opened up opportunities for Cuban economists and scholars to participate in the development of the reform program. Thanks to grants from SSRC (Social Sciences Research Council, New York) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, several researchers from the Cuban think tank CEEC (Center for Studies of the Cuban Economy, Havana) got an opportunity to visit countries that could be of interest for the reform process, notably Vietnam, but also Brazil, South Africa and Norway. The result of these field visits and a subsequent workshop involving contributions from Cuban as well as non-Cuban scholars, this volume showcases unprecedented new insights into the process and prospects for reform along many dimensions, including foreign direct investment, import substitution, entrepreneurship and business creation, science and technology development, and fiscal policies. The resulting analysis, in a comparative perspective, provides a framework for future research as well as for business practice and policymaking.

Mexico 2050. Challenges, Scenarios & Actions
Mexico 2050. Challenges, Scenarios & Actions

Author: Concepción Olavarrieta

Publisher: Editorial Digital del Tecnológico de Monterrey

Published: 2023-08-03

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13:

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The book compiles 19 authors who approach the 15 Global Challenges identified by the Millennium Project as the main threats and opportunities for the present Millennium as a methodological conceptual framework for Mexico's futures. The first part launches diagnoses that are formulated on each Challenge and visions and reflections are proposed. The second part presents three possible scenarios for Mexico by 2050 and, finally, it concludes with a proposal for guiding projects by 2050.

Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2017
Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2017

Author: United Nations Publications

Publisher:

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9789211219609

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The 2017 edition of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean has three parts. Part I outlines the region's economic performance in 2016 and analyses trends in the early months of 2017, as well as the outlook for the rest of the year. It examines external and domestic factors that have influenced the region's economic performance and draws attention to macroeconomic policy challenges. Part II analyses the characteristics of the current economic cycle in the region (2009-2016) and contrasts it with the two preceding cycles (1990-2001 and 2002-2008). It also identifies and attempts to explain some of the determinants of the cycle and outlines possible strategies for regaining growth. Part III contains notes relating to the economic performance of countries of the region.