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  • Cases on Entrepreneurship in the Asia-Pacific

    Edited by Angathevar Baskaran, VGR Chandran Govindaraju, Sonia Kumari Selvarajan ...
    Series series Elgar Cases in Entrepreneurship
    This casebook explores the dynamic world of entrepreneurship in the Asia-Pacific through diverse, real-world case studies. Drawing on examples ranging from a tech incubator to a family-run export business, contributors illustrate how entrepreneurs navigate local customs, scarce resources, evolving regulations and rapid technological shifts. By outlining both successful pivots and hard-won lessons, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Informal Sector Innovations

    Insights from the Global South

    Edited by Mammo Muchie, Saradindu Bhaduri, Angathevar Baskaran, Fayaz Sheikh ...
    It is well documented that the space of informal economic activity is rising across the globe. This rise has been particularly significant in the least developed and developing countries, especially after the onset of neo-liberal policies and withdrawal of welfare state. There has also been a shift in academic thinking on informal sector, with attempts being made to understand the contribution of ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • China-Africa Science, Technology and Innovation Collaboration

    Edited by Mammo Muchie, Angathevar Baskaran, Mingfeng Tang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines to explore science, technology, and innovation cooperation between China and African countries by using different perspectives. The growing economic, technological, and scientific cooperation between Africa and China provides opportunities to jointly develop mechanisms to provide a skill base from discovery to ... Read more

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  • Wellbeing Economy

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  • Pursuing Sustainability

    A Guide to the Science and Practice

    by Pamela Matson, William C. Clark, Krister Par Andersson ...
    An essential guide to sustainable development for students and practitionersSustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused courses dealing with ... Read more

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  • The Art of Public Strategy

    Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. This book is ... Read more

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  • Understanding Sustainable Development

    by John Blewitt ...
    A truly comprehensive introduction to the topic, Understanding Sustainable Development is designed to give students on a wide range of courses an appreciation of the key concepts and theories of sustainable development.Fully updated, the third edition includes detailed coverage of the Sustainable Development Goals and their impact on global development. Major challenges and topics are explored ... Read more

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    by Danny Burns ...
    International development interventions often fail because development experts assume that our world is linear and straightforward when in reality it is complex, highly dynamic and unpredictable. Things rarely happen in the way that they were planned. The dominance of logical planning models in international development therefore needs to be challenged and replaced by a complexity-based ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

    by Nabeel Hamdi ...
    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context.Drawing on four decades of practical and teaching experience, the author offers fresh insight into the complexities faced by ... Read more

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    A Personal Approach to Sustainability Education

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    Achieving a sustainable society is the biggest issue of our time. It is not an issue confined to a particular subject area or to certain jobs. It is a way of thinking and behaving that will need to be embedded in all aspects of all of our lives. The Sustainable Self is the perfect resource for lecturers, trainers, students and professionals of any discipline who need to teach or learn about ... Read more

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  • The Spacemaker's Guide to Big Change

    Design and Improvisation in Development Practice

    by Nabeel Hamdi ...
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