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Lean Analytics
by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yos...
Whether you're a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry or an intrapreneur trying to provoke change from within, your biggest challenge is creating a product people actually want. _Lean Analytics_ steers you in the right direction. This book shows you how to validate y...
(2013)
Lean UX
by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden
The Lean UX approach to interaction design is tailor-made for today's web- driven reality. In this insightful book, leading advocate Jeff Gothelf teaches you valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques from the ground up-- how to rapidly experiment with design ideas, ...
(2013)
Sustainable Materials Ma...
Making Better Use of Resources
Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) is increasingly recognised as a policy approach that can make a key contribution to green growth and the challenges that are posed by sustained global economic and demogarphic growth. One of the key challenges of the SMM approach is to ef...
(2012)
Running Lean
Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works
by Ash Maurya
We live in an age of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. We're building more products than ever before, but most of them fail--not because we can't complete what we set out to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product. What we need is...
(2012)
Development in Eastern E...
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine
The economic crisis, the second economic shock to hit the Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus region after the collapse of the Soviet Union, has been a warning and a call to action. The region has many advantages and much potential, but some of this was squandered during the...
(2011)
Competitiveness and Priv...
Fostering SME Development
This report reviews the micro, small and medium-sized business sector in the Republic of Moldova, as well as governmental policies related to small and medium-sized enterprises, particularly regarding financing and innovation.
(2011)
For Gods, Ghosts and Anc...
The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings
中華崛起了嗎？ 從硬實力來看，中國、台灣、香港的崛起已是有目共睹。然而要成為全球化世界的領袖，仍需民主、法治、公義、文化等軟實力的支撐。此外，能在台海兩岸和平共生，是中華民族在世界上持續崛起的一重要條件。作者指出全球化世界的三個要素：民主化、技術化、國際化，及其對中華民族的影響。他分析軟實力的中國文化源頭，突現先賢老子、孔子、孟子對軟實力的主張，指出誠信及民本是他們對政治的共同理念。作者分析台灣過去在全球化中的技術經濟及社會發展，是以中華傳統軟實力為基礎。他檢討香港在回歸中國主權後的內部演變，指出對領導軟實力的憂慮。作者觀察中國大陸硬實力的迅速崛起...
(2007)
Entrepreneurs and Enterp...
A Study of Industrial Development
by V.F.S. Sit, R. Cremer, and S.L. Wong
This book provides an investigation of Macau's industrial fabric as well as its framework of economy. Particular attention has been given to the form and function of the small and medium industries in Macau's economy.
(2010)
Development Cooperation ...
The United Nations Volunteers in Nepal
While the role of the United Nations in world affairs is the subject of much debate and research, little empirical evidence exists regarding the effectiveness of the work of the United Nations in the economic and social fields. The purpose of Development Cooperation in Practic...
(1999)
The Llano Estacado of th...
Environmental Transformation and the Prospect for Sustainability
by Elizabeth Br..., Jacque Emel ..., and Paul Robbins
This volume presents an environmental, social, and economic history of the Llano Estacado region of the US Southern High Plains. The authors illustrate the tremendous changes in environment that occurred with the European settlement of the Plains. They detail the development o...
(2000)
Inter-linkages
The Kyoto Protocol and the International Trade and Investment Regimes
In 1997 delegates to the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), agreed by consensus to adopt the Kyoto Protocol under which industrialized countries would reduce their combined greenhouse gas emissions by an av...
(2000)
Asia's Emerging Regional...
Reconciling Traditional and Human Security
by William T. Tow, Ramesh Thakur, and In Taek Hyun
The concept of 'human security' has captured the attention of both national policy-makers and independent analysts throughout Asia. Its most compelling feature is an emphasis on the social, economic and political well being of individuals, linking international security to the...
(2000)
Earth Negotiations
Analyzing thirty years of environmental diplomacy
Global environmental problems pose important diplomatic and legal challenges to the international community. The nature of these problems requires an unprecedented degree of international cooperation both in terms of scientific research and the harmonization of regulations tha...
(2001)
Old Sins
Industrial Metabolism, Heavy Metal Pollution, and Environmental Transition in Central Europe
by Stefan, erberg, Sylvia Prieler, Krzysztof Ol..., S, and er de Bruyn
Sustainable development presents important challenges to environmental research, such as developing perspectives and methods that clarify the links between societal activities, resource use, and pollution. With this challenge in mind, this book presents examples of the industr...
(2000)
Financing for Developmen...
by rés Franco
Since the early 1990s, the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have joined other developing countries in an effort to bring the issue of financing for development to the agenda of the United Nations. Although the discussion had begun earlier in the 1980s in the co...
(2001)
Trade Environment, and t...
by Gary P. Sampson and W. Bradnee C...
In January 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) became the successor to GATT-the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The new organization was the result of years of negotiations on improving the rules based trading system that oversees international trade. While most t...
(2001)
The East Asian Experienc...
Response in a Rapidly Developing Region
by Zafar Adeel
The East Asian region has seen considerable growth in its economy, industrial base, and population in the last two decades. Interestingly, all three of these factors are often linked to over-exploitation and degradation of environmental resources. East Asian Experience in Envi...
(2003)
Perspectives on Growth a...
by Rolph van de... and Anthony Shor...
The relationship between growth and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. While many see aggregate growth as both necessary and sufficient for reducing poverty, and consequently focus their efforts on achieving the desired macroeconomic outcomes, others stress th...
(2003)
Managing Agrodiversity t...
Lessons from West Africa in Sustainable Use of Biodiversity and Related Natural Resources
by Edwin A. Gyasi, Gordana Kran..., Essie T. Blay, and William Oduro
Drawing on findings of nearly ten years of United Nations University Project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change (UNU/PLEC) multidisciplinary, participatory research work in West Africa (mainly Ghana), this book shows how, traditionally, farmers cultivate and c...
(2004)
Key Issues for Mountain ...
by Martin F. Price, Libor Jansky, and rei A. Iatsenia
The world's mountains are vital regions for all of humanity, providing a wide range of goods and services to their inhabitants, to those living nearby or downstream, and to the hundreds of millions who visit them or for whom they have spiritual significance. How to preserve fr...
(2004)
