Download or read book Governing the Metropolis written by Eduardo Rojas and published by David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.

Download or read book The Triple Bottom Line written by Adrian Henriques and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Triple Bottom Line' - which delivers simultaneous social, financial and environmental benefits - is a rallying cry for business sustainability. This text examines the implications of the idea, showing what has already been achieved.

Download or read book Copiar el ed n written by María Berríos and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the evolution of contemporary art in Chile from 1973 to 2007. This edition reproduces more than 500 color images of works by 74 contemporary artists (selected by editor Mosquera) including names such as: Juan Downey, Carlos Arias, (Santiago, Chile, 1964); Juan Castillo, (Antofagasta, 1952); Eugenio Dittborn, (Santiago, Chile, 1943); Paz Errzuriz, (Santiago, Chile, 1944); Volupsa Jarpa, (Rancagua, 1971); Carlos Leppe, (Santiago, Chile, 1952); and Carolina Ruff, (Santiago, Chile, 1973), as well as younger generation artists. The artists are presented in alphabetical order with brief introductory texts. Each reproduced work is rigorously documented with a caption that, in addition to providing the technical data offers the reader a description of the work for better comprehension. Six essays by noted critics and art historians: Guillermo Machuca, Mar̕a Berr̕os, Justo Pastor Mellado, Catalina Mena, Nelly Richard y Adriana V̀lads (description provided by vendor).

Download or read book Political Ecology of Tourism written by Mary Mostafanezhad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has political ecology been assigned so little attention in tourism studies, despite its broad and critical interrogation of environment and politics? As the first full-length treatment of a political ecology of tourism, the collection addresses this lacuna and calls for the further establishment of this emerging interdisciplinary subfield. Drawing on recent trends in geography, anthropology, and environmental and tourism studies, Political Ecology of Tourism: Communities, Power and the Environment employs a political ecology approach to the analysis of tourism through three interrelated themes: Communities and Power, Conservation and Control, and Development and Conflict. While geographically broad in scope—with chapters that span Central and South America to Africa, and South, Southeast, and East Asia to Europe and Greenland—the collection illustrates how tourism-related environmental challenges are shared across prodigious geographical distances, while also attending to the nuanced ways they materialize in local contexts and therefore demand the historically situated, place-based and multi-scalar approach of political ecology. This collection advances our understanding of the role of political, economic and environmental concerns in tourism practice. It offers readers a political ecology framework from which to address tourism-related issues and themes such as development, identity politics, environmental subjectivities, environmental degradation, land and resources conflict, and indigenous ecologies. Finally, the collection is bookended by a pair of essays from two of the most distinguished scholars working in the subfield: Rosaleen Duffy (foreword) and James Igoe (afterword). This collection will be valuable reading for scholars and practitioners alike who share a critical interest in the intersection of tourism, politics and the environment

Download or read book Mahatma Gandhi written by Dennis Dalton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Dalton's classic account of Gandhi's political and intellectual development focuses on the leader's two signal triumphs: the civil disobedience movement (or salt satyagraha) of 1930 and the Calcutta fast of 1947. Dalton clearly demonstrates how Gandhi's lifelong career in national politics gave him the opportunity to develop and refine his ideals. He then concludes with a comparison of Gandhi's methods and the strategies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, drawing a fascinating juxtaposition that enriches the biography of all three figures and asserts Gandhi's relevance to the study of race and political leadership in America. Dalton situates Gandhi within the "clash of civilizations" debate, identifying the implications of his work on continuing nonviolent protests. He also extensively reviews Gandhian studies and adds a detailed chronology of events in Gandhi's life.

Download or read book Cities of Tomorrow written by Peter Hall and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997-02-18 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.

Download or read book Strategic Management written by Fred R. David and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KEY BENFIT:David's Strategic Managementoffers a skills-oriented, practitioner perspective that has been updated with modern cases to reflect current research and strategy. This text covers strategy formulation issues such as business ethics, global vs. domestic operations, vision/mission, matrix analysis, partnering, joint venturing, competitive analysis, and includes a brand new cohesion case on the Walt Disney Company. For management professionals, small business owners and others involved in business.

Download or read book Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability written by Jesse Dillard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The imperative of the twenty-first century is sustainability: to raise the living standards of the world's poor and to achieve and maintain high levels of social health among the affluent nations while simultaneously reducing and reversing the environmental damage wrought by human activity. Scholars and practitioners are making progress toward environmental and economic sustainability, but we have very little understanding of the social dimension of sustainability. This volume is an ambitious, multi-disciplinary effort to identify the key elements of social sustainability through an examination of what motivates its pursuit and the conditions that promote or detract from its achievement. Included are theoretical and empirical pieces; examination of international and local efforts; discussions highlighting experiences in both the developing and industrialized nations; and a substantial focus on business practices. Contributors are grounded in sociology, economics, business administration, public administration, public health, geography, education and natural resource management.

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 World Anthropologies written by Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.

Download or read book Romancing the Wild written by Robert Fletcher and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worldwide development of ecotourism—including adventures such as mountain climbing and whitewater rafting, as well as more pedestrian pursuits such as birdwatching—has been extensively studied, but until now little attention has been paid to why vacationers choose to take part in what are often physically and emotionally strenuous endeavors. Drawing on ethnographic research and his own experiences working as an ecotour guide throughout the United States and Latin America, Robert Fletcher argues that participation in rigorous outdoor activities resonates with the particular cultural values of the white, upper-middle-class Westerners who are the majority of ecotourists. Navigating 13,000-foot mountain peaks or treacherous river rapids demands deferral of gratification, perseverance through suffering, and a willingness to assume risks in pursuit of continuous progress. In this way, characteristics originally cultivated for professional success have been transferred to the leisure realm at a moment when traditional avenues for achievement in the public sphere seem largely exhausted. At the same time, ecotourism provides a temporary escape from the ostensible ills of modern society by offering a transcendent "wilderness" experience that contrasts with the indoor, sedentary, mental labor characteristically performed by white-collar workers.

Download or read book Accessible Tourism written by Dimitrios Buhalis and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inclusion, disability, an ageing population and tourism are increasingly important areas of study due to their implications for both tourism demand and supply. This book therefore sets out to explore and document the current theoretical approaches, foundations and issues in the study of accessible tourism. In drawing together the contributions to this volume the editors have applied broader social constructionist approaches to understanding the accessible tourism phenomena. Accessible tourism, as with any area of academic study is an evolving field of academic research and industry practice. As with other areas of tourism, the field is multidisciplinary, and is influenced by various disciplines including geography, disability studies, economics, public policy, psychology and marketing. "As one would expect from two scholars at the height of their academic abilities, Dimitrios Buhalis and Simon Darcy have delivered a timely and much needed contribution to the under-served area of accessible tourism. Harnessing the best conceptual developments on the topic, Accessible Tourism is a scholarly yet hugely readable collection and readily communicates the various contributors' passion for and command of their subject. This collection is a must have text for anyone engaged in the theory, practice and policy of accessible tourism and will be essential reading on undergraduate and postgraduate courses across a range of disciplines and fields. I cannot speak highly enough of this endeavour and I'm sure it will take accessible tourism and universal design debates into the mainstream of academic enquiry and industry practice." Professor Nigel Morgan, The Welsh Centre for Tourism Research, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Wales

Download or read book Elitelore written by James Wallace Wilkie and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tax Challenges Arising from Digitalisation Interim Report 2018 written by Collectif and published by OECD. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interim report of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS is a follow-up to the work delivered in 2015 under Action 1 of the BEPS Project on addressing the tax challenges of the digital economy. It sets out the Inclusive Framework’s agreed direction of work on digitalisation and the international tax rules through to 2020. It describes how digitalisation is also affecting other areas of the tax system, providing tax authorities with new tools that are translating into improvements in taxpayer services, improving the efficiency of tax collection and detecting tax evasion.

Download or read book United Nations E Government Survey 2020 written by United Nations Publications and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Survey assesses global and regional e-government development through a comparative rating of national government portals relative to one another. It is designed to provide a snapshot of country trends and relative rankings of e-government development in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. It presents trends and relative rankings of e-government development across 193 Member States through a quantitative composite index, the E-Government Development Index (EGDI), with three separate components - the Online Service Index (OSI), Telecommunication Infrastructure Index (TII), and Human Capital Index (HCI). Includes addendum on COVID-19 (coronavirus) response

Download or read book Procesos de gesti n de unidades de informaci n y distribuci n tur sticas UF0077 Ed 2022 written by Pilar González Molina and published by TUTOR FORMACIÓN. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este Manual es el más adecuado para impartir la UF0077 "Procesos de gestión de unidades de información y distribución turísticas" de los Certificados de Profesionalidad, y cumple fielmente con los contenidos del Real Decreto. Puede solicitar gratuitamente las soluciones a todas las actividades y al examen final en el email [email protected] Capacidades que se adquieren con este Manual: - Analizar la función y el proceso de planificación empresarial o institucional y definir planes que resulten adecuados para unidades de información o distribución de oferta turística. - Analizar la gestión y control presupuestarios en el marco de las agencias de viajes, otros distribuidores turísticos y entidades de información turística, identificar costes y elaborar presupuestos económicos que permitan establecer programas de actuación. - Analizar estructuras organizativas y funcionales propias de diferentes tipos de distribuidores turísticos y entidades de información turística, y su entorno de relaciones internas y externas, justificando estructuras organizativas y tipo de relaciones adecuadas a cada tipo de empresa o entidad. - Analizar los métodos para la definición de puestos de trabajo y selección de personal apropiados para empresas de distribución y entidades de información turísticas, comparándolos críticamente. - Analizar las funciones de integración y dirección de personal, utilizando las técnicas aplicables en unidades de información y distribución turísticas. Índice: La planificación en las empresas y entidades de distribución e información turísticas 7 1. Presentación. 8 2. La planificación en el proceso de administración. 9 2.1. El concepto de planificación 10 3. Principales tipos de planes: objetivos, estrategias y políticas; relación entre ellos. 12 3.1. Los planes empresariales. 12 3.2. Objetivos. 14 3.3. Estrategias y políticas. 16 4. Pasos lógicos del proceso de planificación como enfoque racional para establecer objetivos, tomar decisiones y seleccionar medios. 17 5. Revisión periódica de los planes en función de la aplicación de los sistemas de control característicos de estas empresas. 20 6. Resumen. 22 7. Autoevaluación. 23 Gestión y control presupuestarios en unidades de distribución e información turísticas 24 1. Presentación. 25 2. La gestión presupuestaria en función de sus etapas fundamentales: previsión, presupuesto y control. 26 2.1. Previsión, presupuesto y control. 27 3. Concepto y propósito de los presupuestos en las unidades de información y distribución turísticas. 28 4. Definición de ciclo presupuestario. 31 5. Diferenciación y elaboración de los tipos de presupuestos característicos de unidades de distribución e información turísticas. 33 6. Resumen. 35 7. Autoevaluación. 36 Estructura financiera de las agencias de viajes y otros distribuidores turísticos 37 1. Presentación. 38 2. Identificación y caracterización de fuentes de financiación. 39 2.1. Fuentes de financiación. 40 3. Relación óptima entre recursos propios y ajenos. 43 4. Ventajas y desventajas de los principales métodos para evaluar inversiones según cada tipo de agencia de viajes y distribuidor turístico. 45 4.1. Tipos de inversiones. 46 4.2. Métodos de valoración y selección de inversiones. 47 5. Aplicaciones informáticas. 51 6. Resumen 54 7. Autoevaluación. 55 Evaluación de costes, productividad y análisis económico para agencias de viajes y otros distribuidores turísticos 57 1. Presentación. 58 2. Estructura de la cuenta de resultados en las agencias de viajes y distribuidores turísticos. 59 2.1. Estructura de la cuenta de resultados. 62 3. Tipos y cálculo de costes empresariales específicos. 66 3.1. Tipos de costes. 67 3.2. Estructura de costes en una agencia de viajes 68 3.3. Cálculo de costes empresariales. 69 4. Aplicación de métodos para la determinación, imputación, control y evaluación de consumos y atenciones a clientes de servicios turísticos. 71 5. Cálculo y análisis de niveles de productividad y de puntos muertos de explotación o umbrales de rentabilidad, utilizando herramientas informáticas. 72 5.1. Cálculo y análisis de niveles de productividad. 72 5.2. Puntos muertos de explotación. 74 6. Identificación de parámetros establecidos para evaluar: ratios y porcentajes. Márgenes de beneficio y rentabilidad. 80 6.1. El ratio de la rentabilidad económica. 81 6.2. El ratio del margen de beneficio. 81 7. Resumen 83 8. Autoevaluación. 84 La organización en las agencias de viajes, otros distribuidores turísticos y entidades de información turística 85 1. Presentación. 86 2. Introducción. 87 3. Interpretación de las diferentes normativas sobre autorización y clasificación de agencias de viajes y entidades de información turística. 90 4. Tipología y clasificación de estas entidades. 92 4.1. Tipología de las agencias de viajes. 94 4.2. Las agencias de viaje virtuales. 96 5. Naturaleza y propósito de la organización y relación con otras funciones gerenciales. 99 6. Patrones básicos de departamentalización tradicional en empresas de distribución y entidades de información turísticas: ventajas e inconvenientes. 101 7. Estructuras y relaciones departamentales y externas características de estas entidades. 104 8. Diferenciación de los objetivos de cada departamento o unidad y distribución de funciones. 105 9. Circuitos, tipos de información y documentos internos y externos que se generan en el marco de tales estructuras y relaciones interdepartamentales. 106 9.1. Tipos de información y documentos. 107 10. Principales métodos para la definición de puestos correspondientes a trabajadores cualificados de la empresa o entidad. Aplicaciones. 110 11. Resumen. 113 12. Autoevaluación. 114 La función de integración de personal en unidades de distribución e información turísticas 115 1. Presentación. 116 2. Definición y objetivos. 117 3. Relación con la función de organización. 119 4. Programas de formación para personal dependiente: análisis, comparación y propuestas razonadas. 122 5. Técnicas de comunicación y de motivación adaptadas a la integración de personal: identificación y aplicaciones. 129 6. Resumen. 132 7. Autoevaluación. 133 La dirección de personal en unidades de distribución e información turísticas 134 1. Presentación. 135 2. La comunicación en las organizaciones de trabajo: procesos y aplicaciones. 136 3. Negociación en el entorno laboral: procesos y aplicaciones. 140 3.1. El proceso de negociación. 141 4. Solución de problemas y toma de decisiones. 144 5. La dirección y el liderazgo en las organizaciones: justificación y aplicaciones. 146 5.1. La dirección en las organizaciones. 146 5.2. El liderazgo en las organizaciones. 150 6. Dirección y dinamización de equipos y reuniones de trabajo. 153 6.1. Dirección y dinamización de equipos. 153 6.2. Reuniones de trabajo. 154 7. La motivación en el entorno laboral. 156 8. Resumen. 159 9. Autoevaluación 160 Aplicaciones informáticas específicas para la gestión de unidades de información y distribución turísticas 161 1. Presentación. 162 2. Tipos y comparación. 163 2.1. Sistemas que conectan a los proveedores de productos turísticos con sus distribuidores. 165 3. Programas a medida y oferta estándar del mercado. 168 4. Aplicación de programas integrales para la gestión de las unidades de información y distribución turísticas. 171 5. Resumen. 172 6. Autoevaluación. 173 Examen final 174 Glosario 176 Bibliografía 180

Download or read book Gesti n econ mico administrativa en agencias de viajes written by Pascual Laza Muñoz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A traves de este libro se pretende conseguir que el lector conozca unos conceptos basicos asi como el sistema economico de una agencia de viajes. Con su estudio conseguira llevar a cabo la gestion administrativa interna y la externa derivada de las relaciones economicas con clientes y proveedores de una agencia de viajes. Se desarrollan las cuentas anuales, el patrimonio, el proceso contable, el IVA, etc.