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41. Economic Growth and Sustainable Development

    By Peter Hess

    Series: Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics

    Economic growth, reflected in increases in national output per capita, makes possible an improved material standard of living. Sustainable development, popularly and concisely defined as ‘meeting the needs of the present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
42. The Routledge International Handbook of Innovation Education

    Edited by Larisa V. Shavinina

    The Routledge International Handbook of Innovation Education is the international reference work on innovation education and potentially opens an entirely new direction in education. The overall goal of the handbook is to address the question of how to develop innovators in general and how to...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
43. Return On Process (ROP)

    Getting Real Performance Results from Process Improvement

    By Michael West

    Although there are countless books about process improvement and business performance, there is a dearth of literature on how process improvement yields business performance results. Filling this need, Return On Process (ROP): Getting Real Performance Results from Process Improvement provides...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Auerbach Publications
44. Transferable Groundwater Rights

    Integrating Hydrogeology, Law and Economics

    By Andreas N. Charalambous

    Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

    The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently. Groundwater would achieve its economic value, by switching from the high volume-low value irrigation, which is...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
45. Widening Income Distribution in Post-Handover Hong Kong

    By Hon-Kwong Lui

    Before the handover to China in 1997, Hong Kong’s economic growth was very strong and the unemployment rate dropped to a record low of 2.2 per cent. In recent years, the widening income dispersion in Hong Kong has caught public attention. This book investigates the economic development and changes...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
46. Business to Business Marketing Management

    A Global Perspective, 2nd Edition

    By Alan Zimmerman, Jim Blythe

    Business to business markets are considerably more challenging than consumer markets and demand specific skills from marketers. Buyers, with a responsibility to their company and specialist product knowledge, are more demanding than the average consumer. The products themselves may be highly...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
47. Routledge Library Editions: Advertising

    Edited by Various

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Advertising

    Routledge Library Editions: Advertising brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints. With titles as varied as Advertising and Psychology, Advertising in the 21st Century, Outdoor Advertising and The Economics of...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
48. The Futures of the City Region

    Edited by Michael Neuman, Angela Hull

    Series: Regions and Cities

    Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
49. Collaborative Design Management

    By Stephen Emmitt, Kirti Ruikar

    The design process has always been central to construction, but recent years have seen its significance increase, and the ways of approaching it multiply. To an increasing degree, other stakeholders such as contractors have input at the design stage, and the designer’s role ...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
50. Towards Principled Oceans Governance

    Australian and Canadian Approaches and Challenges

    Edited by Donald R. Rothwell, David L. VanderZwaag

    Series: Routledge Advances in Maritime Research

    Australia and Canada have been at the forefront of efforts to operationalize integrated oceans and coastal management. Throughout the 1990s both countries devoted considerable effort to developing strategies to give effect to international ocean management obligations. This key book focuses on...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge