Serves as an introduction to globalization, its causes, character, consequences, and implications. Provides an assessment of how the benefits of globalization could be maximized and its ill effects minimized. The second edition takes a broader perspective giving increased covera…
This is a study on the challenge of implementing sustainable development in Western democracies. Given that sustainable development involves a number of new challenges for strategic governance, the authors examine how these obstacles can be overcome in different political contex…
Sustainable development
by Baker, Susan
fromRoutledge Introductions to Environment Series
"Drawing on a myriad of global case studies such as Central Africa, India and New Zealand, this book introduces students to the issues involved in the promotion of sustainable development in a theoretically informed and critical way."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
"The term "governance" has become one of the most widely used in debates in political science, public policy and international relations - often to mean very different things. Written by two leading political scientists, Governance, Politics and the State is the first systematic…
"The term "governance" has become one of the most widely used in debates in political science, public policy and international relations - often to mean very different things. Written by two leading political scientists, Governance, Politics and the State is the first systematic…
Se propose d'éclairer comment amorcer la croissance et stabiliser l'économie. Met l'accent sur les instruments de politique économique qu'il faut choisir judicieusement pour atteindre les objectifs économiques visés et sortir du marasme socio-économique.
«A long-standing market-leading text for urban geography courses with a Canadian perspective, Canadian Cities in Transition, now in its sixth edition, continues to examine the critical issues and major transformations taking place in urban Canada. Examining all facets of Canadia…
"From its very inception the Soviet state valued the merits and benefits of physical culture, which included not only sport but also health, hygiene, education, labour and defence. Physical culture propaganda was directed at the Soviet population, and even more particularly at y…
"From its very inception the Soviet state valued the merits and benefits of physical culture, which included not only sport but also health, hygiene, education, labour and defence. Physical culture propaganda was directed at the Soviet population, and even more particularly at y…
"There has been a rapid expansion of academic interest and publications on polycentricity. In the contemporary world, nearly all governance situations are polycentric, but people are not necessarily used to thinking this way. Governing Complexity provides an updated explanation …
