Contribuciones al debate sobre el desarrollo humano local
Title | Contribuciones al debate sobre el desarrollo humano local PDF eBook |
Author | Miren Barrenetxea Ayesta |
Publisher | |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789702710165 |
Cuban Studies 40
Title | Cuban Studies 40 PDF eBook |
Author | Louis A. Perez, Jr. |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2010-01-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822978482 |
Includes essays on: the role of race in the revolution of 1933; the subject of disaster in eighteenth-century Cuban poetry; developments in Cuban historiography over the past fifty years; a profile of the work of historian Jos Vega Suol; and a remembrance of essayist and literary critic Nara Arajo, who also contributed an article on travel in Cuba for this volume.
Neo-extractivism in Latin America
Title | Neo-extractivism in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Maristella Svampa |
Publisher | |
Pages | 73 |
Release | 2019-10-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108707122 |
This Element analyses the political dynamics of neo-extractivism in Latin America. It discusses the critical concepts of neo-extractivism and the commodity consensus and the various phases of socio-environmental conflict, proposing an eco-territorial approach that uncovers the escalation of extractive violence. It also presents horizontal concepts and debates theories that explore the language of Latin American socio-environmental movements, such as Buen Vivir and Derechos de la Naturaleza. In concluding, it proposes an explanation for the end of the progressive era, analyzing its ambiguities and limitations in the dawn of a new political cycle marked by the strengthening of the political rights.
Good Jobs and Social Services
Title | Good Jobs and Social Services PDF eBook |
Author | D. Sánchez Ancochea |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 2013-07-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1137308427 |
Few countries have achieved social development, which requires simultaneously securing market and social incorporation (good jobs and access to social services). This book reviews Costa Rica's experience as one of the few successful cases of double incorporation in the periphery.
Human Scale Development
Title | Human Scale Development PDF eBook |
Author | Manfred A. Max-Neef |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Presents a people-centred approach to development.
Information Communication Technologies and Human Development
Title | Information Communication Technologies and Human Development PDF eBook |
Author | Mila Gascó Hernández |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN |
"This book aspires to describe the link between ICTs and human development (which includes economic, social and political development), to identify the potential applications of ICTs in several areas, and to provide insightful analysis about those factors (also contextual and institutional ones) that affect ICTs for development initiatives success or failure"--Provided by publisher.
International Community Psychology
Title | International Community Psychology PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Reich |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 461 |
Release | 2007-07-03 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0387495002 |
This is the first in-depth guide to global community psychology research and practice, history and development, theories and innovations, presented in one field-defining volume. This book will serve to promote international collaboration, enhance theory utilization and development, identify biases and barriers in the field, accrue critical mass for a discipline that is often marginalized, and to minimize the pervasive US-centric view of the field.