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The Geography of Tropical African Development
Author | : Anthony Michael O'Connor |
Publisher | : Pergamon |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Monograph studying the geographical aspects of patterns of economic development in African countries in the tropical zone (incl. East Africa, West Africa and Central Africa) - covers agricultural development, agricultural mechanization, land tenure, agricultural production, fishing, forestry, mining, the power supply, industrial development, sea transport, inland water transport, railway transport, road transport, air transport, urbanization, international relations, etc. Illustrations, maps, references and statistical tables.
The Geography of Tropical African Development
Author | : A. M. O'Connor |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2014-06-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1483297055 |
This best selling textbook focuses on the changes in geographical patterns that have taken place in recent years i.e. on the geographical pattern of recent and current economic change. The area covered includes the countries lying between the limits of the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. In this second edition substantial changes have been made in every chapter in order to keep up to date in respect of both the geographical pattern of development and prevailing attitudes towards it. The discussion is still largely confined to the twenty year period between 1956 and 1976, and to the economic component of development
Monographic Series
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 872 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Monographic series |
ISBN | : |
Library of Congress Catalogs
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 872 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Monographic series |
ISBN | : |
The Physical Geography of Africa
Author | : William M. Adams |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780198234067 |
An international team of distinguished scholars have each contributed a chapter to produce an advanced, full length, physical geography of Africa. The first part provides an overview of both pan-Africa patterns in the physical environment and those attributes of African physical geography that are distinctive by considering the development of the main features through time. The authors also provide a synoptic review of Francophone and Anglophone literature on the subject, discuss the present state of knowledge, and set out the work and methods that have created it. This part is followed by a group of chapters that integrate such topics as geomorphology, biogeography, environmental change and hydrology within each of the major biomes - forest, savannah, desert, coast, wetland, mountain, Mediterranean and Rift Valley - found in the African continent. Finally there is a section in which various authors look at topical issues concerned with the impact of human activity on the environment. Conservation and development are considered in the light of issues such as soil erosion, desertification, and biodiversity and biodepletion. The authors have produced this integrated physical geography in honour of A.T. Grove as a durable reference work which gives a new perspective on the continent of Africa.
Africa in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Author | : Leo Charles Zulu |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351658417 |
This book offers a multifaceted examination of Africa’s development into the post-2015 global agenda from a geographical perspective. As a diversified and highly applied discipline, geography has a lot to offer to global debates, nuanced analysis of problems on and the search for innovative solutions to advance the African development agenda beyond 2015. The end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era and the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015 mark an important turning point for Africa and an opportune time to examine new challenges and opportunities that it faces. The regional disparities in MDG progress affirm an important geographic tenet that the unique yet internally differentiated socio-cultural, economic, political, ecological, biophysical and historical context give Africa distinctive challenges and opportunities that demand particular approaches to development. This edited book presents innovative contributions examining Africa’s development performance in diverse sectors during the MDG era as a basis for understanding prospects for its development in the SDG era and beyond. It offers new and innovative study perspectives and methodological approaches on urban transformation, development financing, food security, climate change, gender equality, health, and regional integration, among other topics, and useful insights for scholars, students and development practitioners. This book was originally published as a special issue of African Geographical Review, the journal of the American Association of Geographers’ Africa Specialty Group, to mark the transition from MDGs to SDGs.
Tropical African Development
Author | : M. B. Gleave |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
We are at a turning point. Technological breakthroughs and crumbling national barriers are pressuring firms to become more efficient and entrepreneurial in order to compete in globalized markets. At the same time, regulators and activist stakeholders are insisting that firms act more fairly and ethically in their dealings with consumers, with employees, and towards the environment. To meet these contradictory pressures is no simple task. Far-sighted executives are responding by initiating wrenching revisions of their firms' competitive postures, internal controls, and corporate cultures. Turning Points describes in detail how visionary leaders can plan for strategic change and guide their firms through the radical restructurings that such changes entail. As author Charles J. Fombrun puts it:. "Although much has been written about the act of leadership, our firms continue to be managed more like autocracies and fiefdoms than like inspired hotbeds of innovation...Today, the strategic challenge lies in returning to the operating roots from which firms once derived their competitiveness. Achieving vigor will require aggressive redeployments of capital and people to improve timing and differentiation, to exploit synergies, and to mobilize shared interests, both internally with employees, and externally with rivals..." Turning Points shows managers how to become the kinds of transforming leaders the times demand. Dr. Fombrun discusses ongoing changes at prominent companies like AT&T, IBM, General Motors, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Chase Manhattan, Bank America, and many more, to explain how cutting-edge managers identify their firms' true competitors; convert threats into opportunities; break out of obsolete strategic trajectories; cultivate competitive distinctiveness; exploit latent synergies in corporate portfolios; court strategic allies; reshape control structures and work environments; and mobilize the support of all stakeholders. Managers will come away from this book not only with a strong appreciation for how changing environments are likely to affect their firms, but also with fresh insights for how to engineer their firms' passage through such critical turning points.