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Regional Development Planning and Practice
This book, through a bunch of systematic and analytical notes and scientific commentaries, acquaints the readers with the innovative methods of regional development, measurement of the development in regional scale, regional development models, and policy prescriptions. Conceptualizing development as a regional process is a geographer's brainchild, and the sense of region has long been rooted deeply in the fundamental research practices that geographers are accustomed to. The geographical perspective of regions entails conceptualizing them nested horizontally as the formal region and hierarchical relationships in space with spatial flows or interactions as the functional region. In geographi...
Practices in Regional Science and Sustainable Regional Development
This book brings together the emerging trends and techniques incorporated in regional science during the first two decades of this millennium. The book includes systematic and analytical notes making scientific commentary on the innovative methods of regional development, measurement of the development, regional development models, and policy measures that have significant implications and wide applicability instrumental for India as well as the other global south countries. There is clear evidence in the global south of the uneven spatial distribution of resources, economic activities, literacy, and health conditions. The most striking fact is the coexistence of development and underdevelop...
Economic and Societal Transformation in Pandemic-Trapped India
This book acquaints the reader with the critical changes in India’s economy and society amidst the unprecedented pandemic outbreak of COVID-19, which has been devastating by breaking all prior records of illness and fatality. The present crisis is shown to be more than an acute health hazard as it carries with it other threats associated with the economy, society, culture, psychology, and politics. The dynamic driving forces that have a significant bearing on life, space, and time are explored, providing a basis on which social scientists can understand the prevailing equations and project the unforeseen future to contribute to a policymaking mechanism. The Indian scenario presented here t...
The Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations
Climate change and urban development threaten health, undermine coping and deepen existing social and environmental inequities. A changing global environment requires transformative social responses: new partnerships, deep engagement with local communities, and innovation to strengthen individual and collective assets. The chapters of this edited volume have mainly been contributed by established and emerging scholars representing social work, sociology, development studies, law, government, social anthropology, urbanism, public policy, and other social sciences This book is to be used for academics, policy makers, social work students, lecturers and other stakeholders to promote advocacy for vulnerable client groups affected by climate change. It gives some measure of hope and makes the invisible visible, allowing for change.
COVID-19 Pandemic Trajectory in the Developing World
We are witnessing an unprecedented global outbreak of COVID-19, which has been devastating in its consequences. Beyond the acute health hazard, the pandemic has carried with it other threats for mankind associated with the human economy, society, culture, psychology and politics. Amidst these multifarious dimensions of the pandemic, it is high time for global solidarity to save humankind.Human society, its ambient environment, the process of socio-economic development, and politics and power – all are drivers to establish the world order. All these parameters are intimately and integrally related. The interconnections of these three driving forces have a significant bearing on life, space ...
Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
The MODELS series of conferences is the premier venue for the exchange of - novative technical ideas and experiences focusing on a very important new te- nical discipline: model-driven software and systems engineering. The expansion ofthisdisciplineisadirectconsequenceoftheincreasingsigni?canceandsuccess of model-based methods in practice. Numerous e?orts resulted in the invention of concepts, languagesand tools for the de?nition, analysis,transformation, and veri?cationofdomain-speci?cmodelinglanguagesandgeneral-purposemodeling language standards, as well as their use for software and systems engineering. MODELS 2010, the 13th edition of the conference series, took place in Oslo, Norway, Oc...
A Geografia E Seus Múltiplos Diálogos
A obra A Geografia e seus Múltiplos Diálogos: desafios e perspectivas em tempos de crise é dividida em quatro partes, contou com o apoio do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (PPGGEO/UFRRJ), da Pró-reitora de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (PROPPG/UFRRJ) e da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).
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Rio de Janeiro e suas águas
Este livro é fruto da dissertação de mestrado e experiência profissional do autor como advogado na área ambiental, membro da Comissão de Direito Ambiental da OAB/RJ e Subprocurador do Município de Belford Roxo-RJ, lotado na Secretaria de Meio Ambiente. A obra aborda, a partir de uma detalhada demonstração e discussão ambiental de suas principais causas, os cada vez mais frequentes fenômenos climáticos extremos das chuvas torrenciais que, todos os anos, nos meses de verão, assolam a cidade do Rio de Janeiro e causam inundações, perda de vidas humanas e prejuízos materiais e financeiros. Com base nos diagnósticos apresentados, são propostas estratégias para um programa de re...
