Authors:Sverker Sorlin, Hebe Vessuri,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: knowledge, higher, education, issues, power, society, economy, politics
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-01-15
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 1403973040
ISBN-13: 9781403973047

A new collection in the IAU Issues in Higher Education Series that deals with the major tensions between education and science. Drawing on experiences from a range of countries and regions world-wide, the book demonstrates the need to find new avenues for the management of knowledge production to ensure that it can meet increasingly global goals and demands.

Author: Hebe Verrest
Publisher: Amsterdam University Pre
Keywords: urban, livelihoods, caribbean, activities, based, economic, home
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2007-12-12
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 9056294903
ISBN-13: 9789056294908

Poor urban households in the economic ’south’ deploy various livelihood activities. One of these is a Home-Based Economic Activity (HBEA), e.g. sales of home-made snacks or car maintenance. This study examines the prevalence, organisation and relevance of HBEAs in four neighbourhoods in the Caribbean cities Paramaribo (Suriname) and Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago). Recent economic developments in these countries diverge; Suriname recovers slowly from a crisis while Trinidad and Tobago’s economy is buoyant. These economic features together with local political developments

Authors:W. Seabrooke, P. Kent, Hebe Hwee-Hong How,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: real, estate, issues, approach, institutional, international
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-07-26
List price: $139.99
ISBN-10: 1405103086
ISBN-13: 9781405103084

Real estate activity across national boundaries (investment, development and asset management) is firmly established as a major component of global economic activity. International Real Estate provides the understanding of real estate strategies and transactions that cross national boundaries. International organizations lament the narrow perspective of professionals in the real estate field, which stems from training that takes a parochial rather than international view of the practices and processes of real estate markets. This book takes an explicitly international perspective to the decisi