An accessible, practical guide for anyone involved in local regeneration on effective partnership development, fundraising, and project management, containing illustrations of key points by cartoonist Kipper Williams.

In 1985 vormde zich bij mij zich het plan om een proefschrift te gaan schrijven. Dit was gebaseerd op de ervaring dat maar al te vaak irrationele of onbewezen argumenten tot besluiten van groot belang leidden. Mijn bedoeling was om deze besluitvorming van een betere basis te voorzien, zo mogelijk zelfs van een optimale basis. Dit leidde tot de formulering in een proefschrift van alles wat nodig was op tot zo’n optimalisatiemodel te komen. Gaandeweg ontstond de conclusie dat er twee modellen...

An accessible, definitive student introduction to geographical thought, this book takes a unique approach that encompasses environmental, historical and social perspectives.

Om tot een optimale besluitvorming te kunnen komen moeten alle relevante partijen kunnen participeren, moeten alle alternatieven bekeken worden en moeten alle effecten van veranderingsvoorstellen meegenomen worden. Deze input wordt via Decision verwerkt.

Een optimaal plan houdt rekening met alle effecten: kosten, opbrengsten, neveneffecten op klimaat en milieu, niet kwantificeerbare gevolgen, rechten van al het andere buiten de directe belanghebbenden.

Optimalisatie via Decision leidt altijd ...

The Making of Migration addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: how are migrants governed as individual subjects and as part of groups?

Leading international scholars are brought together to present readers with an exploration into the full diversity of the field of spatial media including technologies, spatial data, and consequences

This accessible new textbook offers a straightforward introduction to doing spatial statistics in the context of unique considerations that apply with geographic data. Grounded in real world examples, it shows you how to extend traditional statistical methods for use with spatial data.

This book is a detailed, empirical investigation into the question of whether academic social research can compete with the commercial sector, with its new technologies and big data, in order to classify, profile, and understand us.

Have you always wanted to know more about sustainability? And what the next generation thinks we should do?

In this book, written, designed, and published by students you will read everything you have always wanted to know about sustainability, including DIYs, recipes, poems and fictional stories.

Tackling the questions raised by twenty-first century urbanization, this handbook engages with contemporary debates and contributions to policy as well as looking at recent empirical and methodological shifts in the area