This study systematically examines uneven regional development in China, focusing on three central agents: the foreign investor, the state and the region.
This book aims to offer an in-depth guide and fundamental comprehension of sustainable energy technologies and their essential function in decreasing energy consumption in buildings under diverse climatic conditions.
This book provides an assessment of the impacts of human intervention on the natural environment and peoples' livelihoods through land-use conversion due to industrialization.
Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "e;The Earth Summit"e;, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.
This book presents and discusses methodological approaches and operational tools aimed at increasing the awareness and skills necessary to face the social, economic and environmental challenges usually encountered in spatial planning.
This book covers themes related to the geosphere, biosphere, sociosphere and ecosphere dealing with changing geographical, environmental and socio-economic realities to plan a sustainable future for the northeast region (NER) of India.
Based on the author's first hand field research, this book addresses the twin processes of urbanization and globalization as they affect the contemporary Caribbean region.
There is increasing appreciation in the social sciences that context is an important element in understanding social, economic, cultural, political and demographic processes.
'A scathing, lively and timely look at the "e;European city"e;, from one of our most provocative voices on culture and architecture today' Owen JonesA searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its citiesOver the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic egalitarian housing estates which, interconnected by high-speed trains traversing open borders, have a combination of order and pleasure which is exceptionally unusual elsewhere.
The central problem to which this book, first published in 1984, is addressed is the transformation of agrarian structure as it historically evolved in India.
For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'.
Japan - faszinierend in seinen Widersprüchen, mit einzigartigen Traditionen und zugleich ungebrochenem Glauben an den technischen Fortschritt, mit tiefer Liebe zur Natur trotz schier uferloser Metropolen zwischen Gebirge und Meer.
Japan - faszinierend in seinen Widersprüchen, mit einzigartigen Traditionen und zugleich ungebrochenem Glauben an den technischen Fortschritt, mit tiefer Liebe zur Natur trotz schier uferloser Metropolen zwischen Gebirge und Meer.
Catàleg de les exposicions sobre les comarques de La Safor, La Vall d'Albaida i l'Alt Túria, efectuades pel Vicerectorat de Participació i Projecció Territorial.
La presente publicación recoge los aspectos más interesantes del patrimonio hidráulico relacionado con el regadío histórico de la cuenca del Río Amadorio situada en la comarca de la Marina Baixa.
Esta publicación se fundamenta en el análisis de los componentes y actividades del sistema territorial de la provincia de Valencia, susceptibles de consolidarla e impulsarla socioeconómicamente, garantizando la calidad de vida de sus habitantes.
El presente texto está basado principalmente en el análisis de dos encuestas llevadas a cabo por la Unidad de Gestión de la Red Rural Nacional (RRN) durante la primera mitad de 2018.
Aquesta publicació es fonamenta en l'anàlisi dels components i activitats del sistema territorial de la província de Valencia, susceptibles de consolidar-la i impulsar-la socioeconòmicament, garantint la qualitat de vida deis seus habitants.
Este libro tiene como objetivo contribuir al estudio sobre los efectos socio-espaciales de la crisis y, en particular, a los estudios relativos a un «urbanismo de la austeridad» y a un urbanismo desterritorializado en las grandes ciudades españolas, teniendo en perspectiva otros espacios urbanos de países del norte del Mediterráneo.
KulturSchock Tansania beschreibt die Denk- und Verhaltensweisen der Tansanier, erklärt die geschichtlichen, religiösen und sozialen Hintergründe, die zu diesen Lebensweisen führen und bietet somit eine Orientierung im Dschungel des fremden Alltags.
