How Megaprojects Are Damaging Nigeria and How to Fix It

Since 1960, two-thirds of very large governmental projects in Nigeria have not only failed, but been abandoned mid-course. This presents a bigger failure rate than mega projects elsewhere, and yet there is no available data or analysis to help us understand the reasons behind such failures. This book provides an authoritative examination into why very large projects in Nigeria have failed so ba…

Social innovations in urban sanitation in India :meeting unmet needs

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1st Edition

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9781003197102

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Fostering Transformative Change for Sustainability in the Context of Socio-Ec…

This open access book is a compilation of case studies that provide useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities and contribute to policy recommendations, focusing on the relevance of social-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS) to “transformative change.” The concept of “transformative change” has been gaining more attention to deal with today…

Planetary Hinterlands

This open access book considers the concept of the hinterland as a crucial tool for understanding the global and planetary present as a time defined by the lasting legacies of colonialism, increasing labor precarity under late capitalist regimes, and looming climate disasters. Traditionally seen to serve a (colonial) port or market town, the hinterland here becomes a lens to attend to the times…

The revision theory of truth

Dalam penyelidikan yang ketat terhadap logika kebenaran ini, Anil Gupta dan Nuel Belnap menjelaskan bagaimana konsep kebenaran bekerja dalam konteks biasa dan patologis. Yang terakhir mencakup, misalnya, konteks yang menghasilkan Paradoks Pembohong. Klaim utama mereka adalah bahwa kebenaran adalah konsep melingkar. Untuk mendukung klaim ini, mereka memberikan teori yang dapat diterapkan secara …

Economic analysis of markets and games: Essays in honor of Frank Hahn

These original essays focus on a wide range of topics related to Frank Hahn's distinguished work in economics. Ranging from market analysis and game theory to the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics and from equilibrium and optimality with missing markets to economics and society, they reflect the diversity of modem research in economic theory. What distinguishes Hahn's work and many of…

Materialized Views: Techniques, Implementations, and Applications

"When an application is built, an underlying data model is chosen to make that application effective. Frequently, other applications need the same data, only modeled differently. The solution of copying the underlying data and modeling is costly in terms of storage and makes data maintenance and evolution impossible. View mechanisms are a technique to model data differently for various applicat…

Voicing Code in STEM: A Dialogical Imagination

An exploration of coding that investigates the interplay between computational abstractions and the fundamentally interpretive nature of human experience. The importance of coding in K–12 classrooms has been taken up by both scholars and educators. Voicing Code in STEM offers a new way to think about coding in the classroom—one that goes beyond device-level engagement to consider the int…

Transparency in global environmental governance : critical perspectives

Transparency is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of economic, political, and ethical problems in an interconnected world. It is often assumed to result in more accountable and effective governance. The 'transparency turn' in global environmental governance in particular is evident in a wide range of international agreements, voluntary disclosure initiatives, and publ…

Voicing code in STEM :a dialogical imagination

"The authors develop a framework for introducing coding in the science classroom, in which coding is a form of embodied activity, expression, and language"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.