Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: World Development Report 2009
Author: World BankPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 082137608X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Rising densities of human settlements, migration and transport to reduce distances to market, and specialization and trade facilitated by fewer international divisions are central to economic development. The transformations along these three dimensions density, distance, and division are most noticeable in North America, Western Europe, and Japan, but countries in Asia and Eastern Europe are changing in ways similar in scope and speed. 'World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography' concludes that these spatial transformations are essential, and should be encouraged. The conclusion is not without controversy. Slum-dwellers now number a billion, but the rush to cities continues. Globalization is believed to benefit many, but not the billion people living in lagging areas of developing nations. High poverty and mortality persist among the world's 'bottom billion', while others grow wealthier and live longer lives. Concern for these three billion often comes with the prescription that growth must be made spatially balanced. The WDR has a different message: economic growth is seldom balanced, and efforts to spread it out prematurely will jeopardize progress. The Report: documents how production becomes more concentrated spatially as economies grow. proposes economic integration as the principle for promoting successful spatial transformations. revisits the debates on urbanization, territorial development, and regional integration and shows how today's developers can reshape economic geography.
World Development Report 1979
Author: Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821372815
Category : Adaptation (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Structural transformation is particularly important for middle income countries. In dealing with the appropriate policies to be associated with structural changes, this report analyzes the processes of industrialization, urbanization, and the sectoral deployment of labor. The challenges identified, analyzed, and presented for consideration are: (i) creation of job opportunities for an additional half billion people that will join the labor force in the developing countries by 2000; (ii) accommodation of an additional one billion people in the same time perspective in the urban areas of the developing countries in socially acceptable and economically productive conditions; (iii) creation of an international trade environment that is supportive of the development efforts; and (iv) significant steps to the elimination of absolute poverty.
Research in Education
Author: Resources in Education
Author: Hiawatha National Forest (N.F.), Revised Land and Resource Management Plan
Author: U.S. Government Research & Development Reports
Author: Planning Report
Author: Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
ERIC Educational Documents Index, 1966-1969: Major descriptors
Author: CCM Information CorporationPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description