The United Nations as a Knowledge System

The United Nations as a Knowledge System
Author: Nanette Svenson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2015-10-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317354311

This book seeks to explore how the UN has generated, warehoused, disseminated, structured, packaged, expanded, transferred and leveraged its vast resources of accumulated information and experience throughout the decades and, particularly, since the start of the 21st century with the introduction of more connective information and communications technology. It examines the overarching objectives that have guided such activity and divides UN knowledge management into three distinct, but often overlapping and intertwining, categories: knowledge for social and organizational learning; knowledge for norm setting; and knowledge for creation of products and services. Svenson brings together these multiple aspects of UN knowledge management to present a holistic view of how the organization utilizes its global intelligence to educate, advocate and serve member countries’ development. Instead of looking at the UN as an international bureaucracy or as a peacekeeping, policymaking, humanitarian or development entity, this work studies the UN as a generator and purveyor of information, learning and experience in all of these areas. This book will be key reading for all students and scholars of international organizations.

Cities and City Planning

Cities and City Planning
Author: Lloyd Rodwin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 146841089X

Regional Development Dialogue

Regional Development Dialogue
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2010
Genre: Regional planning
ISBN:

An international journal focusing on third world development problems.

Agricultural Extension Worldwide

Agricultural Extension Worldwide
Author: William M. Rivera
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2022-03-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000562573

First published in 1987, Agricultural Extension Worldwide presents an international perspective on agricultural extension and highlights extension as an integral function of agricultural development. Agricultural extension is one of the largest nonformal problem-solving educational systems in the world. It is generally concerned with transferring knowledge and research to farmers but may include services to other target audiences such as farm families and rural youth, as well as serve for developing rural community resources. In sixteen chapters, various major systems of extension are discussed along with factors that make for their success or failure, including the linkages required and the policy and financial supports necessary to make them effective. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of agricultural economics, agricultural policy and agriculture in general.

All the Difference

All the Difference
Author: Benjamin Higgins
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1992-10-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0773563369

He goes on to tell the story of his advisory missions to Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and the South Pacific. Higgins weaves anecdotal accounts of his adventures in these regions, and gives his personal reactions to these environments along with analysis of the development efforts in which he participated. He explains how professional thinking about economic and social development evolved as experience and knowledge accumulated. The book also includes accounts of the author's experiences with, and reactions to, a variety of multicultural and bilateral aid agencies, thus providing an intimate picture of their operation. In his final chapter Higgins sums up his own views on the current state of economic development, development economics, economics in general, and the role of political and cultural factors in the development process.

Reaching The Urban Poor

Reaching The Urban Poor
Author: G. Shabbir Cheema
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2019-08-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000309002

As urban populatiCC'lS in developing countries oootinue to grow rapidly, cne of the nest critical issues in the Third W:lrld has beoane p:rovidirYJ shelter and other basic services such as clean water, heal th clinics, and sewage disposal to the urban poor. This book of nine case studies of urban programs and projects in Ind:oesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Korea, India, and Sri Lanka focuses en impediments to slum upgrading. The authour discuss each project's evoluticn, the capabilities and resources of inplenenting agencies, the problems of interagency relaticoships and coordinaticn, costs and funding, the difficulties of developing effective linkages with poor cx:mnunities, and the accessibility of the new services to the urban poor.