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Bolsheviks and British Jews - The Anglo-Jewish Community, Britain and the Russian Revolution (Paperback): Sharman Kadish Bolsheviks and British Jews - The Anglo-Jewish Community, Britain and the Russian Revolution (Paperback)
Sharman Kadish
R1,367 Discovery Miles 13 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Ewan W. Anderson An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Ewan W. Anderson; Illustrated by Ian Cool; Liam D Anderson
R5,254 Discovery Miles 52 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This revised and updated version of "An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs "provides accessible, concisely written entries on the most important current issues in the Middle East, combining maps with their geopolitical background. Offering a clear context for analysis of key concerns, it includes background topics, the position of the Middle East in the world and profiles of the constituent countries.

Features include:

  • Clearly and thematically organised sections covering the continuing importance of the Middle East, the background, fundamental concerns, the states and the crucial issues related to the area.
  • Original maps integrated into the text, placing international issues and conflicts in their geographical contexts.
  • Case studies and detailed analysis of each country, complete with relevant statistics and key facts.
  • Coverage of fundamental considerations, such as:
  • water shortage
  • the petroleum industry
  • conflicts and boundary issues
  • A comprehensive further reading section, enabling students to cover the topic in more depth.

Updated to include recent developments such as the "Arab Spring," this book is a valuable introduction to undergraduate students of political science and Middle East studies and is designed as a primary teaching aid for courses related to the Middle East in the areas of politics, history, geography, economics and military studies. This book is also an outstanding reference source for libraries and anyone interested in these fields.

An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs (Paperback, 2nd edition): Ewan W. Anderson An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Ewan W. Anderson; Illustrated by Ian Cool; Liam D Anderson
R1,696 Discovery Miles 16 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This revised and updated version of "An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs "provides accessible, concisely written entries on the most important current issues in the Middle East, combining maps with their geopolitical background. Offering a clear context for analysis of key concerns, it includes background topics, the position of the Middle East in the world and profiles of the constituent countries.

Features include:

  • Clearly and thematically organised sections covering the continuing importance of the Middle East, the background, fundamental concerns, the states and the crucial issues related to the area.
  • Original maps integrated into the text, placing international issues and conflicts in their geographical contexts.
  • Case studies and detailed analysis of each country, complete with relevant statistics and key facts.
  • Coverage of fundamental considerations, such as:
  • water shortage
  • the petroleum industry
  • conflicts and boundary issues
  • A comprehensive further reading section, enabling students to cover the topic in more depth.

Updated to include recent developments such as the "Arab Spring," this book is a valuable introduction to undergraduate students of political science and Middle East studies and is designed as a primary teaching aid for courses related to the Middle East in the areas of politics, history, geography, economics and military studies. This book is also an outstanding reference source for libraries and anyone interested in these fields.

Feminist Advocacy and Gender Equity in the Anglophone Caribbean - Envisioning a Politics of Coalition (Paperback): Michelle V.... Feminist Advocacy and Gender Equity in the Anglophone Caribbean - Envisioning a Politics of Coalition (Paperback)
Michelle V. Rowley
R1,361 Discovery Miles 13 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book uses the Anglophone Caribbean as its site of critique to explore two important questions within development studies. First, to what extent has the United Nations' call to implement gender-mainstreaming projects resulted in the realization of gender equity for women within developing societies? Second, does gender-mainstreaming have the conceptual, operational, and technical capacities to address the centrality of the body in 21st-century lobbies for gender equity? In answering these questions, Rowley examines such issues as reproductive rights and equity, sexual harassment, and sexual minorities' rights.

The Analogue Alternative - The Electronic Analogue Computer in Britain and the USA, 1930-1975 (Paperback): James S. Small The Analogue Alternative - The Electronic Analogue Computer in Britain and the USA, 1930-1975 (Paperback)
James S. Small
R1,634 Discovery Miles 16 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We are in the midst of a digital revolution - until recently, the majority of appliances used in everyday life have been developed with analogue technology. Now, either at home or out and about, we are surrounded by digital technology such as digital 'film', audio systems, computers and telephones. From the late 1940s until the 1970s, analogue technology was a genuine alternative to digital, and the two competing technologies ran parallel with each other. During this period, a community of engineers, scientists, academics and businessmen continued to develop and promote the analogue computer. At the height of the Cold War, this community and its technology met with considerable success in meeting the urgent demand for high speed computing for use in the design and simulation of rockets, aircraft and manned space vehicles. The Analogue Alternative tracks the development, commercialisation and ultimate decline of the electronic analogue computer in the USA and Britain.It examines the roles played by technical, economic and cultural factors in the competition between the alternative technologies, but more importantly, James Small demonstrates that non-technical factors, such as the role of 'military enterprise' and the working practices of analogue engineers, have been the most crucial in analogue's demise. DEGREESl This book will be of interest to students of the history and sociology of science and technology, particularly computing. It will also be relevant to those interested in technical change and innovation, and the study of scientific cu

Natural Gas (Paperback): Bradshaw Natural Gas (Paperback)
Bradshaw
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Is natural gas the 'bridge' to our low-carbon future? In power generation, industrial processes, parts of the transportation sector, and for domestic use, natural gas still has the potential to play a greater role in various energy transition pathways around the world. But such a future is by no means certain. In this book, Michael Bradshaw and Tim Boersma offer a sober and balanced assessment of the place of natural gas in the global energy mix today, and the uncertainties that cloud our understanding of what that role may look like in the future. They argue that natural gas has become prominent in recent decades, spurred by two revolutions: the first has been the rise of unconventional natural gas production, and the second the coming of age of the market for liquefied natural gas (LNG). However, a third revolution is required to secure natural gas' long-term role in various energy transition pathways, as countries are increasingly pushing to address air quality concerns and curtail greenhouse gas emissions. This revolution has to take place as politicians, citizens, investors and shareholders are becoming increasingly vocal about the need to improve the environmental footprint of the fuel, while simultaneously, and perhaps paradoxically, demand for it continues to grow, in a world where geopolitical challenges seem to be mounting.

Novel Houses - Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings (Hardcover): Christina Hardyment Novel Houses - Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings (Hardcover)
Christina Hardyment
R878 R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Save R220 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Novel Houses' visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. Each chapter stars a famous novel in which a dwelling is pivotal to the plot, and reveals how personally significant that place was to the writer who created it. We discover Uncle Tom's Cabin's powerful influence on the American Civil War, how essential 221B Baker Street was to Sherlock Holmes and the importance of Bag End to the adventuring hobbits who called it home. It looks at why Bleak House is used as the name of a happy home and what was on Jane Austen's mind when she worked out the plot of Mansfield Park. Little-known background on the dwellings at the heart of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast and Stella Gibbon's Cold Comfort Farm emerges, and the real life settings of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and E.M. Forster's Howards End, so fundamental to their stories, are shown to relate closely to their authors' passions and preoccupations. A winning combination of literary criticism, geography and biography, this is an entertaining and insightful celebration of beloved novels and the extraordinary role that houses grand and small, imagined and real, or unique and ordinary, play in their continuing popularity.

Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games (Hardcover, New): Jules Boykoff Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games (Hardcover, New)
Jules Boykoff
R4,204 Discovery Miles 42 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Olympic Games have become the world's greatest media and marketing event-a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions. In this provocative critical study of the contemporary Olympics, Jules Boykoff argues that the Games have become a massive planned economy designed to shield the rich from risk while providing them with a spectacle to treasure. Placing political economy at the center of the analysis, and drawing on interdisciplinary research in sociology, politics, geography, history, and economics, Boykoff develops an innovative theory of "celebration capitalism", the manipulation of state actors as partners that drives us towards public-private partnerships in which the public pays and the private profits. He argues that the Athens Games in 2004 marked the full emergence of celebration capitalism, with London 2012 representing its quintessential expression, characterized by a state of exception, unfettered commercialism, repression of dissent, questionable sustainability claims, and the complicity of the mainstream media. Controversial, challenging, and forthright, this book opens up a fascinating new avenue for understanding the contemporary Olympics in the context of global capitalist society. It is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the Olympic Games, the relationship between sport and society, or global politics and culture.

Europe and the Post-Yugoslav Space (Hardcover, New Ed): Branislav Radeljic Europe and the Post-Yugoslav Space (Hardcover, New Ed)
Branislav Radeljic
R4,213 Discovery Miles 42 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Charting the path from intervention to integration Europe and the Post-Yugoslav Space examines the role of Europeanization on the development of the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo may have a shared history but their experiences, views and attitudes to European integration vary dramatically. Opinion within each state is often equally as keenly divided as to the benefits of active membership. The debate within each country and their comparative differences in approach provide fascinating case studies on the importance and relevance of the EU and the effectiveness of Europeanization. A wide range of contributors with significant experience gained within the EU as well as their country of origin use their expert understanding of the language and cultures of the countries concerned to provide detailed and rich insights into the troubled history and potential of the post-Yugoslav space.

Ecoregionalism - Analyzing Regional Environmental Agreements and Processes (Hardcover): Jon Marco Church Ecoregionalism - Analyzing Regional Environmental Agreements and Processes (Hardcover)
Jon Marco Church
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ecoregions are defined on natural resource boundaries rather than political criteria. The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive understanding of environmental regionalism at the international level, analyzing the concept and its evolution. Several disciplines are mobilized to develop a model of ecoregional processes: ecology, geography, economics, and political science. The distinction between the idea of environmental region (ecoregion) and the process of clustering around environmental regions (ecoregionalization) is presented. There are approximately eighty international treaties about transboundary rivers, seas, mountains, and other ecoregions. However, scholars and practitioners tend to have confused ideas about regional environmental processes. An in-depth comparison of a regional environmental agreement and of a regional integration process in mountain areas in Western Europe and South America is therefore provided, based on the model of ecoregional processes developed in the first part of the book. This allows highlighting major differences, as well as similarities and potential synergies.The cases of the Amu Darya river basin and the Caspian Sea in Central Asia are also examined, as are examples such as the Baltic Sea and North American Great Lakes. These show whether the conclusions reached about ecoregionalism in mountain areas are applicable also to other contexts. The author argues how a better understanding of ecoregionalism contributes to the strengthening of existing regional environmental arrangements, as well as to the greening of ongoing regional integration processes.

Exiles - Three Island Journeys (Paperback, Main): William Atkins Exiles - Three Island Journeys (Paperback, Main)
William Atkins
R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author of The Immeasurable World and The Moor. 'Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis.' EDMUND DE WAAL 'Atkins spins a marvellous tapestry of colourful tales, beautifully weaving history and travel accounts.' ANDREA WULF, author of The Invention of Nature 'A volume for our times.' SARA WHEELER, THE SPECTATOR 'A fascinating study of exile and its effects.' OBSERVER This is the story of three unheralded nineteenth-century dissidents, whose lives were profoundly shaped by the winds of empire, nationalism and autocracy that continue to blow strongly today: Louise Michel, a leader of the radical socialist government known as the Paris Commune; Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, an enemy of British colonialism in Zululand; and Lev Shternberg, a militant campaigner against Russian tsarism. In Exiles, William Atkins travels to their islands of banishment - Michel's New Caledonia in the South Pacific, Dinuzulu's St Helena in the South Atlantic, and Shternberg's Sakhalin off the Siberian coast - in a bid to understand how exile shaped them and the people among whom they were exiled. In doing so he illuminates the solidarities that emerged between the exiled subject, on the one hand, and the colonised subject, on the other. Rendering these figures and the places they were forced to occupy in shimmering detail, Atkins reveals deeply human truths about displacement, colonialism and what it means to have and to lose a home. Occupying the fertile zone where history, biography and travel writing meet, Exiles is a masterpiece of imaginative empathy. '[Atkins] is humane, humble, and empathetic . . . beautiful and moving.' ILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa 'An incredible, brilliant act of retrieval.' PHILIP HOARE, author of Albert & the Whale 'A finely crafted and lyrical meditation.' TLS 'Gracefully written . . . Brilliant.' THE ECONOMIST 'Rarely has a book been more timely.' HISTORY TODAY *** Read The Moor and The Immeasureable World for more award-winning writing from William Atkins

OCR A-level Geography Coursework Workbook: Non-exam assessment: Independent Investigation (Paperback): David Holmes OCR A-level Geography Coursework Workbook: Non-exam assessment: Independent Investigation (Paperback)
David Holmes
R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Exam board: OCR Level: A-level Subject: Geography First teaching: September 2016 First exams: Summer 2017 (AS); Summer 2018 (A-level) Secure higher marks in OCR A-level Geography coursework, using this step-by-step guide to complete the project with confidence. Providing a clear structure to follow, this write-in workbook contains information and activities that help students to produce a manageable, relevant and interesting independent investigation. - Takes you through every stage of the process, from choosing a topic to conducting research, presenting data and writing up the report - Offers the support that students need to work independently without teacher involvement - Enables students to organise their thinking, record their progress and review their coursework against a self-assessment checklist and example paragraphs - Keeps students on track by breaking the investigation down into chunks, with tasks to undertake at each stage - Increases students' chance of success as they benefit from the expert advice of David Holmes, who has worked closely with exam boards and delivers teacher training on the independent investigation

China Geographer - No. 12: The Environment (Hardcover): Clifton W. Pannell China Geographer - No. 12: The Environment (Hardcover)
Clifton W. Pannell
R3,901 Discovery Miles 39 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book seeks to promote better understanding of China through improved knowledge of its geography. It presents papers on a variety of environmental topics in China ranging from earthquake hazards to nature preserves. New research techniques and analytical methodologies are also presented.

Retirement Migration - Paradoxes of Ageing (Paperback): Caroline Oliver Retirement Migration - Paradoxes of Ageing (Paperback)
Caroline Oliver
R1,263 Discovery Miles 12 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book is the first ethnographic study of international retirement migration and offers a sometimes surprising picture of the potentials, seductions and limitations of the lifestyles. People envision retirement as freedom from responsibilities through shedding the restrictive shackles of their former selves in a time of life dedicated to fun, friendship, healthy activity and individual fulfillment. However, as Oliver documents, a number of contradictions underpin the pursuits of such a lifestyle. She shows how retirees must balance time-use to achieve both freedoms and busy social schedules -- their activities, their relationships, and their cultural identities - to balance both the security of nationality with the discovery of the new. Retirement Migration gives a critical insight into the new ways aging identities are experienced by a growing number of older people in Western societies today.

Territory, the State and Urban Politics - A Critical Appreciation of the Selected Writings of Kevin R. Cox (Hardcover, New... Territory, the State and Urban Politics - A Critical Appreciation of the Selected Writings of Kevin R. Cox (Hardcover, New edition)
Andrew Wood; Edited by Andrew Jonas
R1,189 Discovery Miles 11 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Following its rise to prominence in the 1990s work on territory, the state and urban politics continues to be a vibrant and dynamic area of academic concern. Focusing heavily on the work of one key influential figure in the development of the field - Kevin R. Cox - this volume draws together a collection of prominent and well established scholars to reflect on the development and state of the field and to establish a research agenda for future work.

International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness (Paperback): Paul Cloke, Paul Milbourne International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness (Paperback)
Paul Cloke, Paul Milbourne
R1,370 Discovery Miles 13 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Drawing on recent academic studies in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, this book is the first international text on homelessness in rural areas. Consisting of fifteen specially commissioned chapters, International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness provides comparative material on the cultural, political and policy contexts of rural homelessness, examining the nature and scale of the issue and the complex local geographies of rural homelessness.

The Accuracy Of Spatial Databases (Paperback): Michael F. Goodchild, Sucharita Gopal The Accuracy Of Spatial Databases (Paperback)
Michael F. Goodchild, Sucharita Gopal
R1,424 Discovery Miles 14 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book addresses the problem of accuracy of spatial databases, and comprises of papers drawn from a wide range of physical and human systems, taking approaches which vary from statistical to descriptive. Together they present both a comprehensive review of existing knowledge, techniques and experience, and an analysis of critical research needs in this area of spatial data handling.

Rural Governance - International Perspectives (Paperback): Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins, Geoffrey Lawrence Rural Governance - International Perspectives (Paperback)
Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins, Geoffrey Lawrence
R1,370 Discovery Miles 13 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Recent decades have witnessed the transition from the government of rural areas towards processes of governance in which the boundaries between the state and civil society are blurred. As a result, governance is commonly linked to 'bottom-up' or community-based approaches to planning and development, which are said to 'empower' rural citizens and liberate them from the disabling structures of top-down government control. At the same time, however, a range of other actors beyond the local level have also become increasingly influential in determining the future of rural spaces, thereby embedding rural citizens within new configurations of power relations. This book critically explores the social causes and consequences of these emerging governance arrangements. In particular, the book seeks to move beyond questions of empowerment in governance debates and to consider how new kinds of power relations arise between the various actors involved. The book addresses questions concerning the nature of power relations in contemporary forms of rural governance, including: how community participation is negotiated and achieved; the effects of such participation upon the formulation and delivery of rural policies; the kinds of conflicts that arise between various stakeholder groups and the capacity of each group to promote its interests; and the prospects of this new approach for enhanced democratic governance in rural areas.

Location and Competition (Paperback): Harry Garretsen, Steven Brakman Location and Competition (Paperback)
Harry Garretsen, Steven Brakman
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The 'new economic geography' is one of the most significant developments to have occurred in economics in recent years. The new insights gained from this approach have been successfully applied to issues such as globalization, international integration and policy competition. Contributed to and edited by leading international academics, this topical book analyzes the research inspired by this 'new economic geography' and examines the ensuing policy implications. Issues that are connected to this approach such as core-periphery patterns, transportation costs and economic modelling are also explored in depth. Increasing integration of the world economy and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union amongst other factors, have combined to change the geography of economics. Now two renowned authorities have come together to edit this contemporary text on location and competition for students, academics and researchers in the field.

Central and South-Eastern Europe 2013 (Hardcover, 13th edition): Europa Publications Central and South-Eastern Europe 2013 (Hardcover, 13th edition)
Europa Publications
R19,241 Discovery Miles 192 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A comprehensive survey of the countries and territories of this region, incorporating the latest economic and socio-political developments. New for 2013: coverage and results of elections across the region details of political and economic developments in Greece, and other European Union (EU) member nations in the region a new essay on the crisis in the euro area fully updated directories, reflecting new appointments within political and other organizations. General Survey Essays by experts in the area cover issues of regional interest, including: The Impact of New Member States on the EU's External Relations; Minorities in Central and South-Eastern Europe; Environmental Governance and the Influence of the EU; Bosnia and Herzegovina since Dayton; and Modern Greece in South-Eastern Europe. Appendices cover the religions of the region and the Russian Baltic territory of Kaliningrad. Country Surveys Individual chapters for each country, containing: essays on geography, recent history and economy a statistical survey and an extensive directory of contact details for significant political and commercial institutions in the region a select bibliography. Who's Who in Central and South-Eastern Europe Regional Information Details of regional and international organizations and research institutes in the region; and select bibliographies of books and periodicals.

Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities - New Development Trajectories (Paperback): Peter W. Daniels, Kong Chong Ho, Tom... Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities - New Development Trajectories (Paperback)
Peter W. Daniels, Kong Chong Ho, Tom Hutton
R668 Discovery Miles 6 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During the second half of the twentieth century, development in the Asia-Pacific region has been dominated by industrialization. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, services, in particular, finance, information and creative services, have become deeply embedded in the processes of urban growth. In Asia-Pacific the rise of service industries has lead to national modernization programmes and globalization strategies. Services are also driving change in the internal form of city regions and are being actively deployed as instruments of metropolitan reconfiguration and land use changes. These changes have created problems such as social polarization and the displacement of traditional industries and residential districts. Also, there are tensions between local and global processes in the development of service industries, and between the imperatives of competitive advantage and sustainable development. Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities brings together a multi-disciplinary team of experts to explore and illustrate the theoretical, conceptual and practical issues arising from the transformation of Asia-Pacific cities by service industries.

Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City (Paperback): Jan Rath Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City (Paperback)
Jan Rath
R1,180 Discovery Miles 11 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City fills a gap in existing research in terms of how immigration relates to urban tourism and investigates the new theoretical insights and challenges for empirical research using informative case studies drawn from several advanced economies in Europe, North America and Australia. This enlightening book clearly explores the frontiers of knowledge on the interrelationship between tourism, migration, ethnic diversity and place. Exploring further the manifestations of ethnic diversity that have been commodified by immigrants in gateway cities, questioning how these expressions of culture can be transformed into vehicles for further developing the urban tourism economy. Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City presents a multidisciplinary approach drawing on key names from the field of geography, sociology, planning and political science and will appeal to those with an interest in any of these areas.

The Challenge of Environmental Management in Urban Areas (Paperback): Adrian Atkinson, Julio D. Davila, Michael Mattingly The Challenge of Environmental Management in Urban Areas (Paperback)
Adrian Atkinson, Julio D. Davila, Michael Mattingly
R1,161 Discovery Miles 11 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999, this volume features contributors specialising in urban planning and examines the challenges of environmental planning in urban areas, focusing on policy, management, organisation and policy. A collection of ground-breaking and thought-provoking papers, they are written by some of the most distinguished, internationally known names in the field of urban sustainability. The authors go beyond debates about approach and policy options to look at what is taking place. The experience of urban environmental management is presented from several countries in Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia. They examine over twenty case studies in contributing to existing knowledge of environmental management practice in urban areas, emphasising the issue in both Northern and Southern countries in relation to growing awareness in the North and rapid city growth in the South. While containing critical analyses, the emphasis is placed on achievements and promising developments of vital importance to local administrators, policy-makers, town planners, academics, environmentalists and students alike.

Regaining Security - A Guide to the Costs of Disposing of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium (Paperback): William J. Weida Regaining Security - A Guide to the Costs of Disposing of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium (Paperback)
William J. Weida
R1,025 Discovery Miles 10 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1997, this volume observes that of all the materials, systems and facilities that designed and operated nuclear weapons, the most readily available assets for reuse are often identified as the highly enriched uranium (HEU) and plutonium from warheads. However, proliferation concerns the reuse of much of this material unlikely. This book explores the economic issues surrounding the major expenditures facing the US as it attempts to dispose of weapon-grade nuclear materials in a proliferation-resistant manner. The book discusses the economic values of plutonium and HEU, the economic nature of the nuclear industry, reprocessing and operations costs, the economics of 'burning' plutonium to generate electrical power, the economics of down-blending and 'burning' HEU, military conversion as a rationale for selecting plutonium disposition options, the economics of transmutation, and the economics of other proposals ranging from monitored surface storage to vitrification. The book concludes by identifying the major cost drivers affecting all disposition options.

The Economics of Urban Property Markets - An Institutional Economics Analysis (Paperback): Paschalis Arvanitidis The Economics of Urban Property Markets - An Institutional Economics Analysis (Paperback)
Paschalis Arvanitidis
R1,243 R891 Discovery Miles 8 910 Save R352 (28%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy. The stimulus for this work was provided by the seemingly ever-accelerating process of urban economic change and the noticeable failure of existing studies to adequately explore the pivotal role that the property market plays in this process. Drawing on institutional economics, the central argument of the book is that the property market as an institution is a mediator through which urban economic potential can be realised and served. In developing this argument, the book provides a critical realist ontological framework that advances understanding of the institutional structure of the economy and the complex interrelation between the institutional environment and human agency, as well as a holistic theoretical framework of urban economic change, where appropriate emphasis is placed on the specific mechanisms, processes and dynamics through which the built environment is provided. Arvanitidis also explores an institutional conceptualisation of property market efficiency, defined in terms of the ability of the market institution to adapt its structure and to provide outcomes that the economy requires. To inform empirical research on the developed concepts, the book also offers a generic analytical approach specifying appropriate research methods and techniques for investigation along with a specific research design providing an operational framework that translates developed theory into empirical practice. The book's primary contribution therefore lies in its delineation of a holistic research programme to conceptualise the property market as an institution and to explore its role within the urban economy.

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