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quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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This open access book provides a glimpse into the Japanese
management technique known as "Kaizen," and the ways it has been
disseminated around the developing world. The novelty of this book
is three-fold: it provides a contextualized view of the mechanisms
of initiatives implementing Kaizen in developing countries;
compared with productivity studies, it places the relationship
between workers and managers at the center of inquiry, reflecting
the intent of SDG8 concerning decent work and economic growth; and
it provides an overview of the heterogeneity of Kaizen in terms of
geography and firm size. This book explores how improving
management techniques can support firms' productivity and quality.
Given its wide range of case studies from across Africa, Asia and
Latin America, this book will be of value to scholars, policymakers
and advocates of sustainable development alike.
Once the world's largest ODA provider, contemporary Japan seems
much less visible in international development. However, this book
demonstrates that Japan, with its own aid philosophy, experiences,
and models of aid, has ample lessons to offer to the international
community as the latter seeks new paradigms of development
cooperation.
This book examines the almost entirely neglected realm of public
property, identifying and describing a number of key organizing
principles around which a nascent jurisprudence of public property
may be developed. In property law terms, the public realm is lost
to plain view. Despite the vast acreage of public lands, or the
extensive tracts of private lands over which public rights subsist,
there is little commensurate scholarly discussion of the ideas,
theories, practices, and laws of public property. This is no
accident. Public property has been marginalized and pushed to the
periphery for centuries, a consequence of the dominant discourse of
private property, and its enclosing, encroaching tendencies. This
book explores the rich diversity of the public estate, of what the
public realm means for us, the general public, canvassing what we
may 'own', where we may 'belong', or not, and how we may 'connect'
through a shared use and enjoyment of public place and space. To
better understand public property is to better value its critical
public-wealth. Whether overlooked, over-used, or under threat of
imminent loss, this book maintains that our loved (and not so
loved) public spaces are essential components of our diverse,
functioning, and optimistically livable human geographies. As such,
they demand legal protection. This important and original book will
be of considerable interest to scholars and others with interests
in property and land law, socio-legal studies, legal geography and
urban studies.
This book examines the almost entirely neglected realm of public
property, identifying and describing a number of key organizing
principles around which a nascent jurisprudence of public property
may be developed. In property law terms, the public realm is lost
to plain view. Despite the vast acreage of public lands, or the
extensive tracts of private lands over which public rights subsist,
there is little commensurate scholarly discussion of the ideas,
theories, practices, and laws of public property. This is no
accident. Public property has been marginalized and pushed to the
periphery for centuries, a consequence of the dominant discourse of
private property, and its enclosing, encroaching tendencies. This
book explores the rich diversity of the public estate, of what the
public realm means for us, the general public, canvassing what we
may 'own', where we may 'belong', or not, and how we may 'connect'
through a shared use and enjoyment of public place and space. To
better understand public property is to better value its critical
public-wealth. Whether overlooked, over-used, or under threat of
imminent loss, this book maintains that our loved (and not so
loved) public spaces are essential components of our diverse,
functioning, and optimistically livable human geographies. As such,
they demand legal protection. This important and original book will
be of considerable interest to scholars and others with interests
in property and land law, socio-legal studies, legal geography and
urban studies.
Property is more diverse than is usually assumed. Developing the
concept of property diversity, this book explores the varied role
of property in placed human landscapes. In acknowledging the
propertied diversity about us, the book highlights the paucity of
our settled contemporary assumptions of property as defined by
private ownership. Challenging this universalizing model, the book
analyses how this self-limiting view produces critical blind spots
in modern property discourse. In response, it offers a
re-conceptualization of property that matches the grounded reality
of our rich and diverse relationships with land. Integrating the
plurality of real property types (private, public and common) with
inclusive understandings of both interest and ownership, it thus
identifies and substantiates an overarching theory of property
diversity. Drawing on studies from numerous jurisdictions,
including the USA, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK, its analysis
of property as something more - and indeed other - than a
place-less abstraction provides an invaluable contribution to the
contemporary law and theory of property.
Property is more diverse than is usually assumed. Developing the
concept of property diversity, this book explores the varied role
of property in placed human landscapes. In acknowledging the
propertied diversity about us, the book highlights the paucity of
our settled contemporary assumptions of property as defined by
private ownership. Challenging this universalizing model, the book
analyses how this self-limiting view produces critical blind spots
in modern property discourse. In response, it offers a
re-conceptualization of property that matches the grounded reality
of our rich and diverse relationships with land. Integrating the
plurality of real property types (private, public and common) with
inclusive understandings of both interest and ownership, it thus
identifies and substantiates an overarching theory of property
diversity. Drawing on studies from numerous jurisdictions,
including the USA, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK, its analysis
of property as something more - and indeed other - than a
place-less abstraction provides an invaluable contribution to the
contemporary law and theory of property.
"The role of industry in low income countries is important.
Industry is good for growth, job creation, and poverty reduction.
All of these factors depend on the size and the rate of growth of
industry. Africa doesn't have enough industry to reach the
Sustainable Development Goals for growth, job creation, and poverty
reduction. Africa's share of global manufacturing has fallen from
about three percent in 1970 to less than two percent in 2010. Why
is there so little industry in Africa? Made in Africa: Learning to
Compete in Industry outlines a new industrialization strategy to
help Africa compete in global markets. This book draws on case
study and qualitative research from Africa and emerging Asia to
understand what drives firm-level productivity in low income
countries. The results show that while traditional concerns such as
infrastructure, skills, and the regulatory environment are
important, they alone will not be sufficient for Africa to
industrialize. The book also addresses how industrialization
strategies will need to adapt to the region's growing resource
abundance. "
Tantalizing descriptions of the bay's intricate waterways-word
pictures of how they are transformed over the four seasons of the
year-and an informative discussion of the bay's geology, ecology,
and human history will entice the reader to get out and poke around
in and on the water. Author John Page Williams, director of special
field programs for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and author of the
Naturalist's Almanac in Chesapeake Bay Magazine, writes in a lucid,
easygoing style as he introduces these waterways that he has been
exploring for over thirty years. He fills readers in on all they
need to know about water safety, boat selection, and seamanship,
including discussions on the various ways to propel their
boats-motoring, rowing, paddling, and poling. In addition, there is
a chapter on natural history gear, such as binoculars, field
guides, cast nets, books, and maps. In the second section, the
author focuses attention on a single example of each of a wide
range of waterways that represent the varied ecological niches that
ring the bay. These trip descriptions include information on access
points, a short historical overview, physical characteristics of
each watercourse and its banks, and remarks on the flora and fauna
to be found there, in a narrative that at once stimulates and
inspires.
This open access book provides a glimpse into the Japanese
management technique known as "Kaizen," and the ways it has been
disseminated around the developing world. The novelty of this book
is three-fold: it provides a contextualized view of the mechanisms
of initiatives implementing Kaizen in developing countries;
compared with productivity studies, it places the relationship
between workers and managers at the center of inquiry, reflecting
the intent of SDG8 concerning decent work and economic growth; and
it provides an overview of the heterogeneity of Kaizen in terms of
geography and firm size. This book explores how improving
management techniques can support firms' productivity and quality.
Given its wide range of case studies from across Africa, Asia and
Latin America, this book will be of value to scholars, policymakers
and advocates of sustainable development alike.
Where do the Chesapeake Bay's sea turtles come from in the summer,
and where do they go in winter? Where do swans come from when they
arrive in the region in November? Why do fishermen and sailors
consistently see monarch butterflies out over the open bay in late
summer? Chesapeake Almanac: Following the Bay through the Seasons
answers those questions and more. The fascinating natural history
sketches in this book will enable those who love the Chesapeake to
tune in to the bay's creatures and seasonal events. The fishing
enthusiast will discover things that help him or her catch more
bluefish or white perch; the bird watcher and the hiker will learn
when to look for the appearance of the ospreys in the spring and
the geese in the fall. The cruising sailor drinking morning coffee
while anchored in a quiet cove will learn why a great blue heron
stalks the shallows in summer; the canoeist will discover when to
look for wild marsh flowers.
This book is a study of the critical history of space, and the ways
in which a dominant property ideology has entrenched an
exclusionary and profoundly alienating version of spatial ordering.
It focuses on select periods in time, when the seemingly linear
trajectory of enclosure momentarily wavers and alternate spatial
paths briefly materialize, before 'disappearing' from plain sight.
Using the forest as a thematic device, Clark and Page explore the
tensions that pervade our propertied relationships; between
commodity and community, abstraction and context, and private
enclosure and the public square.The book draws on a range of case
studies including the 13th century Forest Charter, Thomas More's
Utopia, the Diggers' radical agrarianism, the Paris Commune's
battle for the right to the city, and Australian forest protestors
of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Through analysis of
these movements and their contexts, the authors illustrate the
origin, history and legal status of the lawful forest and its
modern-day companions. Although the dominant spatial paradigm is
one where private rights prevail, this book shows that communal
relationships with land have always been part of our law and
culture.
For a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and
exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one
accompanied by considerable risks. Countries dependent on oil, gas,
and mining have tended to have weaker long-run growth, higher rates
of poverty, and greater income inequality than less
resource-abundant economies. For these resource producing economies
relative prices make it more difficult to diversify into activities
outside of the resource sector, limiting structural change. Mining
for Change: Natural Resources and Industry in Africa presents
research undertaken to understand how better management of the
revenues and opportunities associated with natural resources can
accelerate diversification and structural change in Africa. It
begins with essays on managing the boom, the construction sector,
and linking industry to the major issues that frame the question of
how to use natural resources for structural change. It reports the
main research results for five countries-Ghana, Mozambique, Uganda,
Tanzania and Zambia. Each country study covers managing the boom,
the construction sector, and linking industry to the resource.
Mining for Change argues that good policy can make a difference and
sets out ideas for policy change and widening the options for
structural change. . An open access title available under the terms
of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence.
While it is possible for economies to grow based on abundant land
or natural resources, more often structural change-the shift of
resources from low-productivity to high-productivity sectors-is the
key driver of economic growth. Structural transformation is vital
for Africa. The region's much-lauded growth turnaround since 1995
has been the result of making fewer economic policy mistakes,
robust commodity prices, and new discoveries of natural resources.
At the same time, Africa's economic structure has changed very
little. Primary commodities and natural resources still account for
the bulk of the region's exports. Industry is most often the
leading driver of structural transformation. Africa's experience
with industrialization over the past thirty years has been
disappointing. In 2010, sub-Saharan Africa's average share of
manufacturing value added in GDP was ten per cent, unchanged from
the 1970s. Actually, the share of medium- and high-tech goods in
manufacturing production has been falling since the mid-1990s. Per
capita manufactured exports are less than ten per cent of the
developing country average. Consequently, Africa's industrial
transformation has yet to take place. This book presents results of
comparative country-based research that sought to answer a
seemingly simple but puzzling question: why is there so little
industry in Africa? It brings together detailed country case
studies of industrial policies and industrialization outcomes in
eleven countries, conducted by teams of national researchers in
partnership with international experts on industrial development.
It provides the reader with the most comprehensive description and
analysis available to date of the contemporary industrialization
experience in low-income Africa. This is an open access title
available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is
free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF
download from OUP and selected open access locations.
By 2030 more than three quarters of the world's absolute poor are
projected to live in Africa. Accelerating economic growth is key to
rising incomes on the continent, and central to this challenge is
establishing activities that are capable of employing large numbers
of unskilled workers, that can raise productivity through
innovation, and that can power growth through exports. Such
structural transformation is a key driver of growth, and between
1950-1996 about half of the economic catch-up by developing
countries (led by East Asia) was due to rising productivity in
manufacturing combined with growing agricultural output. Africa,
however, has lagged behind. In 2014, the average share of
manufacturing in GDP in sub-Saharan Africa hovered around 10 per
cent, unchanged from the 1970s, leading some observers to be
pessimistic about Africa's potential to catch the wave of sustained
rapid growth and rising incomes. Industries Without Smokestacks:
Industrialization in Africa Reconsidered challenges this view. It
argues that other activities sharing the characteristics of
manufacturing- including tourism, ICT, and other services as well
as food processing and horticulture- are beginning to play a role
analogous to that played by manufacturing in East Asia. This
reflects not only changes in the global organization of industries
since the early era of rapid East Asian growth, but also advantages
unique to Africa. These 'industries without smokestacks' offer new
opportunities for Africa to grow in coming decades.
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