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The informal and underground economy of the South Texas border
No detailed description available for \"The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border\".
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Water : the troubled economic history of the arid tropics
\"From the early twentieth century, a big part of the world - the arid/semiarid tropics - began extracting, storing, and recycling vast quantities of water to sustain population growth and economic development. The idea was not a new one in this geography. It was an intrinsic part of ancient culture, statecraft, and technology. Most ancient projects, however, were local and small in scale. The capability of water extraction on a scale large enough to transform whole regions and create new cities improved in the early twentieth century, giving rise to a sharp break in the long-term population and economic growth pattern from the mid-twentieth century. Ironically, the geography of the arid tropics made transforming landscapes in this way expensive, damaging for the environment, and disputatious. The book describes this troubled history of economic emergence, building on a definition of tropicality\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Transnational Dynamics in Southeast Asia
Since the 1990s, regional organizations of the United Nations and international financial institutions have adopted a new dynamic of transnational integration, within the framework of the regionalization process of globalization. In place of the growth triangles of the 1970s, a strategy based on transnational economic corridors has changed the scale of regionalization.
Thanks to the initiative of the Asian Development Bank, Southeast Asia provides two of the most advanced examples of such a process in East Asia with, on the one hand, the Greater Mekong Subregion, structured by continental corridors, and on the other, the Malacca Straits, combining maritime and land corridors. This book compares, after two decades, the effects of these developing networks on transnational integration in both subregions.
After presenting the general issue of economic corridors, the work deals with the characteristics and structures peculiar to these two regions, followed by a study of national strategies mobilizing actors at different levels of state organization. There follows a study of the emergence of new urban nodes on corridors at land and sea borders, and the impact of these corridors on the local societies. This approach makes it possible to compare the effects of transnational integration processes on the spatial and urban organization of the two subregions and on the increasing diversity of the stakeholders involved.
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Adapting to drought : farmers, famines and desertification in West Africa
This book embodies the results of 13 years of research in drought-prone rural areas in the semi-arid zone of northern Nigeria.
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Two oxen ahead
TWO OXEN AHEAD
This revealing study of farming practices in societies around the Mediterranean draws out the valuable contribution that knowledge of recent practices can make to our understanding of husbandry in prehistoric and Greco-Roman times. It reflects increased academic interest in the formative influence of farming regimes on the societies they were designed to feed. The author's intensive research took him to farming communities around the Mediterranean, where he recorded observational and interview data on differing farming strategies and practices, many of which can be traced back to classical antiquity or earlier.
The book documents these variables, through the annual chaîne opératoire (from ploughing and sowing to harvesting and threshing), interannual schemes of crop rotation and husbandry, and the generational cycle of household development. It traces the interdependence of these successive stages and explores how cultural tradition, ecological conditions, and access to resources shape variability in husbandry practice. Each chapter identifies ways in which heuristic use of data on recent farming can shed light on ancient practices and societies.
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Mexican women in American factories : free trade and exploitation on the border
No detailed description available for \"Mexican Women in American Factories\".
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Betting on Macau
A comprehensive look into how Macau's recent decades of
gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories
on the planet
Betting on Macau delves into the radical transformation
of what was formerly the last remaining European territory in Asia,
returned to the People's Republic of China in 1999 after nearly
half a millennium of Portuguese rule. Examining the unprecedented
scale of its development and its key role in China's economic
revolution, Tim Simpson follows Macau's emergence from historical
obscurity to become the most profitable casino gaming locale in the
world.
Identified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and renowned for its
unique blend of Chinese and Portuguese colonial-era architecture,
contemporary Macau has metamorphosed into a surreal, hypermodern
urban landscape augmented by massive casino megaresorts, including
two of the world's largest buildings. Simpson situates Macau's
origins as a strategic trading port and its ensuing history
alongside the emergence of the global capitalist system, charting
the massive influx of foreign investment, construction, and tourism
in the past two decades that helped generate the territory's
enormous wealth.
Presented through a cross section of postcolonial studies and
social theory with extensive insight into the global gambling
industry, Betting on Macau uncovers the various roots of
the territory's lucrative casino capitalism. In turn, its trenchant
analysis provides a distinctive view into China's broader project
of urbanization, its post-Mao economic reforms, and the continued
rise of its consumer culture.
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