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A moral critique of development: in search of global responsibilities
Recent critiques of international development practice, affecting aid organizations such as Oxfam, Action Aid and the Red Cross, have attacked the motives of those heading the 'machine' of development suggesting that it is in reality just too politically complex for good ever to come of it. But, despite the genuine need for a critical appraisal of development work, the anti-development backlash…
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- 9780203451809
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- xiii, 309 p. ; 24 cm.
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- 174 UFF m
Handbook of communication for development and social change
This handbook provides a single reference resource for communication for development and social change. Increasingly, one considers communication to be crucial to effectively tackle the major problems of today. Hence, the question being addressed in this handbook is, is there a right communication strategy? Perspectives on sustainability, participation, and culture in communication have changed…
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- 9789811520136
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- 1 online resource (xxviii, 1506 pages)
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- 302.2 SER h
A critical rewriting of global political economy: integrating reproductive, p…
Moving beyond a narrow definition of economics, this pioneering book advances our knowledge of global political economy and how we might critically respond to it.V. Spike Peterson clearly shows how two key features of the global economy increasingly determine everyday lives worldwide. The first is explosive growth in financial markets that shape business decision-making and public policy-making…
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- 0415314380
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- xxi, 255 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Routledge/RIPE series in global political economy
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- [POL-LIB-200]
Planning and socioeconomic applications
Examines how spatial clustering concepts, spatial models, and related visualization techniques (GIS) can be applied to the case of economic development in rural environments. This book discusses methodological issues including data and analysis issues.
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- 9781402096419
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- x, 223 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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- Geotechnologies and the environment ; v. 1
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- 910.285 GAT p
Liberalism, democracy, and development
Sylvia Chan examines the claim that liberal democracy on the Western model is the paradigm to which developing countries should aspire to provide good governance and economic success. The success of some countries, notably in Asia, which do not conform to that model has led many to question that link. Chan argues that these successful developing nations have enjoyed the economic and social libe…
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- 9780521004985
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- viii, 273 p. ; 23 cm.
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- [POL-LIB-472]
Global political economy: understanding the international economic order
This book is the eagerly awaited successor to Robert Gilpin's 1987 The Political Economy of International Relations, the classic statement of the field of international political economy that continues to command the attention of students, researchers, and policymakers. The world economy and political system have changed dramatically since the 1987 book was published. The end of the Cold War ha…
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- 0691086761
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- xii, 423 p. ; 24 cm.
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- [POL-LIB-11]
Plan B 3.0: mobilizing to save civilization
Brown's contemporary plan for saving human civilization is a "MUST READ" on the primary reading source for my doctoral International Communications course. My environmentalist-professor sensed that we not only hadn't read this book but that we didn't care enough about the frightening discoveries that each chapter of the book brings to the surface of the reader's mind. Just the chapter alone on …
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- 1st ed.
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- 9780393330878
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- xiv, 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- [TLK-LIB-207]
Environmental economics: an introduction
Environmental Economics is an introduction to the basic principles of environmental economics as they have been developed in the past and as they continue to evolve. The examples discussed in this textbook represent only a sample of the full range of issues that actually exists. For this reason, the Seventh Edition sticks to the basic ideas and ways that environmental economists have found to m…
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- 7th ed
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- 9780078021893
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- pages cm.
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- The mcgraw-hill series
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- [MNJ-LIB-76]
Limits to growth : the 30-year update.
Combining a large amount of new data, more powerful computer modelling and the latest thinking on sustainability, ecological footprinting and limits, this updated edition of 'Limits to Growth' makes an even more urgent case for a rapid readjustment of the global economy toward a sustainable path.
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- 9781844071449
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- xxii, 338 pages : figures, tables ; 25 cm
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- [POL-LIB-458]
Manual for the preparation of industrial feasibility studies
W. Behrens, P.M. Hawranek.
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- Newly rev. and expanded ed.
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- 9211062691
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- xii, 386 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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- -
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- [TIN-LIB-117]
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