The Soviet Union Looks Ahead (1930) is the official statement of the five-year economic plan put forward by the Soviet Union, a plan involving the radical reconstruction of the entire production system of Russia.
This volume proposes a reconsideration of ecological and environmental aspects of the work and ideas of various heterodox authors and traditions in the history of economic thought, including the field of economic development.
Although there have been considerable technological advances over the past decade, particularly in terms of mobile applications, much remains unknown about their effect on societal progress.
This book first provides a comprehensive guideline for future disaster-resistant city planning in large cities in disaster-prone countries such as Japan.
This edited collection demonstrates how discourses and practices associated with marketisation, differentiation and equality are manifested in UK higher education today.
This book sheds light on environmental, social and governance (ESG) policy principles, practice and the implications of integrating ESG factors into business operations, investment strategies and corporate governance frameworks, across both developed and developing countries (Europe, Asia and the US).
The book, a joint work of the African Development Bank and the African Union, presents a comprehensive analysis of the oil and gas resources in Africa.
This book collects the best papers presented at a recent conference organized by SIEV (Italian Society of Appraisal and Valuation) to promote the interaction between Appraisal and Valuation and other social sciences to study the effects of migration on value and social, spatial and economic systems in a multicultural city.
Enterprises in rural regions must now act in a globalized world and face global challenges, such as climate change, resource scarcities and social inequalities or the sustainability preferences of consumers.
This book demonstrates to the world by a series of replicable case studies, how the Indo-Pacific developmental initiatives of QUAD, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Australia, and others can be implemented using the design of "e;Core Digital Economic Communities"e; within the 21 megacities that form Indo pacific megacity system and outside with independent country strategies to engage with these megacity systems where "e;Peripheral Digital Economic Communities"e; are located.
This book showcases the discussion about megaprojects carried out at the MeRIT (Megaproject Research Interdisciplinary Team) workshop 2023: the crisis, discontinuity, rising prices, and supply chains disruption force radical reflection for those involved in megaprojects.
Averting Climate Catastrophe Together addresses the necessity of meeting the Paris Agreement temperature target and explores what framework could enable climate action in an effective, efficient and equitable manner that is consistent with that goal.
The complexity of issues requiring rational decision making grows and thus such decisions are becoming more and more difficult, despite advances in methodology and tools for decision support and in other areas of research.
Regulations to promote health and safety may be costly relative to the expected health and safety benefits, and may actually have negative effects on health and safety.
This edited volume focuses on the historical role of the OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) in shaping global education policy.
'The Jevons Paradox', which was first expressed in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons in relation to use of coal, states that an increase in efficiency in using a resource leads to increased use of that resource rather than to a reduction.
This book is a social-ecological system description and feedback analysis of the Lake Tana Basin, the headwater catchment of the Upper Blue Nile River.
Responsible water management and circular economy aims to establish a common understanding of circular economy principles and resilience in the water sector and to support countries in the implementing those principles.
The rise of emerging economies represents a challenge to traditional global power balances and raises the question of how we can combine sustainability with continued economic growth.