Does environmental policy work?

the theory and practice of outcomes assessment

At the beginning of the 21st century, a growing struggle has arisen between those who would like to repeal existing environmental policy and those who would like to see greater environmental protection. On both sides, however, many of the arguments remain grounded in ideology. This ...

The human sustainable city

challenges and perspectives from the habitat agenda

Five years after Habitat II culminated with the Istanbul agreement on Sustainable Urban Development, this book brings together leading experts in fields including architecture, urban planning, sociology and geography to assess the successes and failures in fulfilling the objectives decided upon.

Rio plus ten

politics, poverty and environment

Rio Plus Ten took place in South Africa in 2002. In this book, the authors revisit the agenda established in Rio ten years ago and cover the events of the intervening years: global warming and the unfolding of the arguments over climate change, GM crops ...

Aplicación de las técnicas de la ingeniería del conocimiento en el proceso de toma de decisiones empresariales en materia de gestión medioambiental

Mega-projects

the changing politics of urban public investment

Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, the politics of large-scale public investment in and around major American cities has received little scholarly attention. In Mega-Projects, Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff analyze the unprecedented wave of large-scale (mega-) public investments that occurred ...

Local partnerships for rural development

the european experience

This volume of papers has been developed from a report of the cross- national Partnerships for Rural Integrated Development in Europe research project. The research focused on the public and private sector rural development experience in Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Economic geography and public policy

Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However ...

Valoración inmobiliaria

estudio y cálculo del valor de los bienes inmuebles de naturaleza urbana, y de determinados derechos

Este libro se consagra al estudio teórico y práctico de la valoración de todo tipo de bien inmueble de naturaleza urbana en los mercados primario y secundario (primera y sucesivas manos), ya se encuentren en construcción o terminados y su uso sea exclusivo o mixto ...

Analisi economica e metodo giuridico

i servizi pubblici locali

Oggi, i pubblici servizi non senbrano più un nome comune dato ad ambiti differenti studiati da scienze diverse, ma un comune campo di indagine nel quale categorie economiche e giuridiche sono così intrecciate da risultare inestricabilmente dipendenti. Qui disciplina pubblicistica e privatistica si intrecciano con ...

History of regional science and the Regional Science Association International

the beginnings and early history

A well-written and exciting historical account of the way in which regional science and the formation of the society associated with the field, Regional Science Association International, developed. It starts with the rise of Hitler, the advent of the Keynesian Revolution, the intense mathematization of ...

Rural poverty, risk and development

Throughout their lifetime, men and women are subject to a wide variety of risks, such as illness, accident, death, or less directly, unemployment, crop failure, loss of property, disability, business failre and skill obsolescence. This volume investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development ...

Programa de desarrollo rural de Navarra 2000-2006

The technological evolution of industrial districts

The Technological Evolution of Industrial Districts collects a wide array of theoretical and empirical contributions on the issue of industrial districts and gives insights into the complexity of industrial clustering, which has received growing international attention in the last decade. The industrial district model has ...

Reestructuración y territorio en los sistemas productivos industriales valencianos

La modificación sustancial del contexto social,político y económico durante las dos últimas décadas ha traído consigo un nuevo modelo de organización espacial de la actividad económica y de los vínculos que se crean entre territorios, al que no ha sido ajena la Comunidad Valenciana ...

Acceptability of transport pricing strategies

Several studies and research projects all over the world have considered transport pricing strategies as promising attempts to solve the urgent traffic problems in urban areas. However, empirical results have shown that public and political acceptability of such strategies is low. Until now, acceptance research ...

Les générations rurales 1945-2002

Entre 1945 et 2002, le développement du milieu rural français a été infléchi en fonction des tendances majeures de la société globale, notamment les aléas des échanges internationaux, l'expansion économique puis la crise, la diffusion à grande échelle des nouvelles technologies culturelles. Dans l ...

The coming crash in the housing market

10 things you can do now to protect your most valuable investment

Soaring home prices and 50-year low interest rates have lulled homebuyers into a false sense of security. But plummeting consumer confidence and record-high personal debt threaten to blindside overextended homeowners and real estate investors. The Coming Crash in the Housing Marketshows homeowners how to avoid ...

Urban world/global city

This study identifies and accounts for the characteristics of the contemporary city and of urban society. It analyses the distribution and growth of settlements and explores the social and behavioural characteristics of urban living INDICE Preface 1. Global Patterns and Perspectives 1.1 Introduction 1 ...

Naturaleza, localización y sociedad

tres enfoques para la geografía económica

Esta obra está dedicada a la reflexión sobre la constitución de la geografía económica como disciplina científica. Frente a la clásica perspectiva diacónica que pone el acento en la evolución de sus principios y contenidos, se propone aquí un esquema diferente, basado en la identificación ...

Ciudad, gestión local y nuevos desafíos ambientales

reflexiones en torno a las políticas neoliberales y sus efectos sobre nuestros territorios

En las últimas décadas, las ciudades argentinas han manifestado un rápido aumento de la población como una notable expansión territorial. Esta producción #rápida# de ciudad, solo suelos productivos o no aptos, con ocupaciones ilegales o precarias, y sin mediación directa del Estado, ha devenido en ...