Download or read book Regiones perif ricas gobernanza fr gil desarrollo econ mico local desde Am rica Latina written by Sergio Montero and published by Universidad de los Andes. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En el año 2015 la Brookings Institution publicó un informe que identificaba y enumeraba las trescientas economías metropolitanas más grandes del mundo. La portada del informe consistía en un mapa del mundo con trescientas burbujas que mostraban cómo la riqueza económica no solo se concentraba en algunos países, sino específicamente en ciertas regiones metropolitanas. Con solo el 20% de la población y menos del 2% de la superficie del planeta, estas burbujas representaban casi la mitad del producto interno bruto mundial (Brookings Institution 2015). El desarrollo desigual de las regiones, en particular las altas tasas de crecimiento económico en grandes regiones urbanas en comparación con pequeñas ciudades y regiones rurales, ha atraído por muchos años la atención de investigadores y hacedores de política interesados en el desarrollo local y regional (Friedmann 1986; Hirschman 1958; Saxenian 1996; Storper y Walker 1989). Curiosamente, las últimas décadas de globalización han intensificado esta dinámica. A partir de la década de 1990, economistas, geógrafos y planificadores han demostrado en repetidas ocasiones que, a pesar de los avances de la tecnología y el transporte de los últimos decenios, los cuales han disminuido significativamente los costos de mover bienes e información en todo el mundo, las empresas todavía tienden a agruparse en grandes regiones urbanas buscando beneficiarse de las economías de aglomeración (Krugman 1991; Porter 1998), densas redes de trabajo (Saxenian 1996) y contextos institucionales locales y regionales favorables (Amin 1999). Sin embargo, este redescubrimiento de ciudades y regiones como fuentes importantes de ventaja competitiva en el contexto de la globalización se ha basado principalmente en estudios de grandes aglomeraciones urbanas exitosas y dinámicas (Amin 1999), o lo que Scott y Storper (2003) han denominado ciudad-región global.
Download or read book Regiones perif ricas gobernanza fr gil written by Sergio Montero Muñoz and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Este libro propone una manera alternativa de mirar el desarrollo económico a través del concepto de gobernanza frágil y una serie de variables relacionadas: redes, aprendizajes y liderazgo. Estas variables fueron construidas con base en trabajo de campo realizado en seis regiones periféricas latinoamericanas: tres zonas rurales (Arauco, Chile; Valle de Lurín, Perú y Mompox, Colombia) y tres ciudades pequeñas e intermedias (Linhares, Brasil; Córdoba, Argentina y Quetzaltenango, Guatemala). Los casos analizados ilustran los retos y la fragilidad de los procesos de gobernanza en ciudades pequeñas e intermedias en América Latina, pero también la variedad de enfoques que se están experimentando para lograr una visión más territorial del desarrollo". -- Tomado de la conracarátula.
Download or read book The Heritage Machine written by Pablo Alonso González and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical critique of the heritage industries.
Download or read book The Andes written by Onno Oncken and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first comprehensive overview of a complete subduction orogen, the Andes. To date the results provide the densest and most highly resolved geophysical image of an active subduction orogen.
Download or read book Water and Sanitation Services written by Jose Esteban Castro and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on how to provide clean water for all - one of the key Millennium Development Goals, this book integrates technical and social perspectives. A broad, international range of case studies are provided, from developed, middle income and developing countries, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Download or read book The Foreign Policy of the European Union written by Federiga M. Bindi and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores European foreign policy and the degree of European Union success in proposing itself as a valid international actor, drawing from the expertise of scholars and practitioners in many disciplines. Addresses issues past and present, theoretical and practice-oriented, and country- and region-specific"-- Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Spain and the European Union written by Carlos Closa and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-06-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spain's membership of the European Union since 1986 has had a major impact. Driven primarily by political concerns to secure democracy, membership has also served as a catalyst to dynamic economic development in Spain. This book analyzes how the EU has helped shape the political process in Spain, focusing on the key institutions and the policy process. At the same time, Spain's increasingly proactive role within the EU is also explored, with particular attention given to the country's international position in post-Cold War Europe.
Download or read book Lake Chilwa written by M. Kalk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard C. Beadle In contrast to the more sta bie oceans, inland waters are, on the geological time scale, short-lived and are subject to great fluctuations in chemical composition and physical features. Very few lakes and rivers have existed continuously for more than a million years, and the life of the majority is to be measured in thousands or less. Earth movements, erosion and long-term climatic changes in the past have caused many of them to appear and disappear. No wonder then that most freshwater organism are especially adapted to great changes and many even to temporary extinction of their environment. Recent studies of residual sediments from existing and extinct lakes in tropical Africa have told us much about their age and the past history of their faunas and floras, from which we may deduce something about the climate and the conditions in the water in the past. The forces that have formed and moulded the African Great Lakes have been catastrophic in their violence and effects. They are not yet finished, but the present rate of change is, in human terms, too slow for direct observation of the ecological effects. The large man-made lakes are providing very good opportunities for studying the chemi cal and biological consequences of the initial filling but, once filled, they are artificially protected against major fluctuations.
Download or read book Flip Your Classroom written by Jonathan Bergmann and published by International Society for Technology in Education. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn what a flipped classroom is and why it works, and get the information you need to flip a classroom. You’ll also learn the flipped mastery model, where students learn at their own pace, furthering opportunities for personalized education. This simple concept is easily replicable in any classroom, doesn’t cost much to implement, and helps foster self-directed learning. Once you flip, you won’t want to go back!
Download or read book Spain and EC Membership Evaluated written by María Amparo Almarcha Barbado and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spain and Portugal in the European Union written by Paul Christopher Manuel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides an up-to-date assessment of the political and economic issues and is valuable reading for anyone wishing to understand contemporary Spain and Portugal. Following decades of relative isolation under authoritarian regimes, the success of the processes of democratic transition in both countries paved the way for full membership in the European Community in 1986. Drawing on research by established scholars, Spain and Portugal in the European Union offers an original series of analyses of the development of Iberian politics, sociology and economics since the accession to the European Union.
Download or read book Plant Conservation and Biodiversity written by David L. Hawksworth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original studies address key aspects of the conservation and biodiversity of plants. Articles are all peer-reviewed primary research papers, contributed by leading biodiversity researchers from around the world. Collectively, these articles provide a snapshot of the major issues and activities in global plant conservation. Many of the articles can serve as excellent case studies for courses in ecology, restoration, biodiversity, and conservation.
Download or read book The Cosmic Race La Raza Cosmica written by José Vasconcelos and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-08-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this influential 1925 essay, presented here in Spanish and English, José Vasconcelos predicted the coming of a new age, the Aesthetic Era, in which joy, love, fantasy, and creativity would prevail over the rationalism he saw as dominating the present age. In this new age, marriages would no longer be dictated by necessity or convenience, but by love and beauty; ethnic obstacles, already in the process of being broken down, especially in Latin America, would disappear altogether, giving birth to a fully mixed race, a "cosmic race," in which all the better qualities of each race would persist by the natural selection of love.
Download or read book 11th International Conference on Theory and Application of Soft Computing Computing with Words and Perceptions and Artificial Intelligence ICSCCW 2021 written by Rafik A. Aliev and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the 11th Conference on Theory and Applications of Soft Computing, Computing with Words and Perceptions and Artificial Intelligence, ICSCCW-2021, held in Antalya, Turkey, on August 23–24, 2021. The general scope of the book covers uncertain computation, decision making under imperfect information, neuro-fuzzy approaches, natural language processing, and other areas. The topics of the papers include theory and application of soft computing, computing with words, image processing with soft computing, intelligent control, machine learning, fuzzy logic in data mining, soft computing in business, economics, engineering, material sciences, biomedical engineering, and health care. This book is a useful guide for academics, practitioners, and graduates in fields of soft computing and computing with words. It allows for increasing of interest in development and applying of these paradigms in various real-life fields.
Download or read book Voices of the World written by Boaventura De Sousa Santos and published by Verso. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher declared `There is no alternative.' At the beginning of the 21st century the World Social Forum replied, `Another World is Possible.' The project, Reinventing Social Emancipation, is a passionate and wide-ranging effort at enriching our vision of that other world. Erik Olin Wright University of Wisconsin --
Download or read book International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law written by Roberta Arnold and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book addresses the current issue of the applicability and application of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in times of armed conflict. Scholars chronologically argued that only international humanitarian law was applicable, that both legal regimes were applicable, and eventually that international humanitarian law was the lex specialis of human rights law. The most recent trend is to state that international humanitarian law and human rights law are merging into a single set of rules, a proposition that is the focus of the investigations carried out in this book. The book examines general issues relating to applicability and the implementation of the two legal regimes as well as provides case studies focusing on specific rights or persons. [The cover of this publication displays a patchwork symbolizing the merger between international humanitarian law and human rights. Neither the publisher nor the editors intended the design to reproduce the protected Red Cross emblem. Any resemblance to the Red Cross emblem is purely coincidental]
Download or read book Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology written by Bruce M. Knauft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of tensions between modern and postmodern sensibilities, what larger directions now emerge in cultural anthropology? In this major work, Bruce Knauft takes stock of important recent initiatives in cultural and critical theory. By combining critical reviews and ethnographic engagements with fresh readings of major figures and approaches, the work develops a larger vantage point for considering the dispersing influence of practice theories, postmodernism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, modern/post-positive feminism, and multicultural criticisms.
