This text explores water management strategies through scientific, social and political perspectives, and uses case studies to exemplify four key development challenges: economic growth; poverty reduction; competition and conflict over water; and adaptation to climate change.
"Heart Development and Regeneration, " written by experts in the field, provides essential information on topics ranging from the evolution and lineage origins of the developing cardiovascular system to cardiac regenerative medicine.
Advances in Equine Nutrition - IV is a new collection of original research and review papers presented during Kentucky Equine Research nutrition conferences. Conferences feature international authorities on nutrition, exercise physiology, and veterinary topics pertaining to the …
The main message of this year's World development report: gender equality and development is that these patterns of progress and persistence in gender equality matter, both for development outcomes and policy making. They matter because gender equality is a core development obj…
Over the last two decades, indigenous populations in Latin America have achieved a remarkable level of visibility and political effectiveness, particularly in Ecuador and Bolivia. In Struggles of Voice, José Antonio Lucero examines these two examples in order to understand their…
Action learning (literally, learning by doing) is used right across the education and the training sectors. This work, written by leading authorities on action learning, will open up this powerful technique for all teachers and trainers.
"An unprecedented surge in the scope and level of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection has been engulfing the world. This globalizing trend has shifted the balance of interests between private innovators and society at large and tensions have flared around key public po…
In this book, one of the world's most eminent developmental biologists discusses some of the exciting new insights into how genes control development. Walter Gehring describes in vivid detail his essential contributions to the landmark discovery of the homeobox, a characteristic…
Hospitality Business Development analyses and evaluates the different aspects of business growth routes and development processes in the international hospitality industry. It considers the essential features of the strategic business context, in which any hospitality organisati…
This title questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into 'gender myths' and 'feminist fables'. In doing so, it explores how bowdlerised and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultenously come to be…
Explicitly addressing both the macro and micro dimensions of social sustainability, this book outlines the theoretical and practical possibilities. As a contribution to sustainable development, the book will be useful in the practice, teaching and academic research of this nasce…
This book brings together scholars from the universities of Bergen and Leeds who explore on how we may understand different trajectories of development in Asia, arguably the most dynamic and certainly the most diverse part of our world. It asserts that there is no one singular …
Young people have an enormous stake in the present and future state of Earth. Almost half of the human population is under the age of 25. If young people?s resources of energy, time, and knowledge are misdirected towards violence, terrorism, socially-isolating technologies, and …
Introduction -- Government's role in innovation -- Historical perspectives on public accountability -- Systematic approaches to program evaluation and evaluation metric -- Introduction to the case studies -- The advanced technology program's intramural research awards program --…
Introduction: mobilization and social movements in the south : the challenges of inclusive governance / Lisa Thompson and Chris Tapscott. - Social movements and rights claims : the case of action groups in the Niger Delta / Elosa E. Osaghae. - Why do garment workers in Banglades…
Public Relations in India is a review of the history of Public Relations (PR) in the world and India and an in-depth critical analysis of the value of PR as an essential feature of the management function. The key focus of this book is what PR means for India and other developin…
