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Post Disaster Housing Management for Sustainable Urban Development: A Review

Das, Kanu Kumar; Sharma, Nagendra Kumar - In: International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 1-18

Developing countries have still shortage of housing due to natural disasters. Houses get destroyed wholly or partly and it causes the increase of lack of housing stock of a country. In disaster management cycle, rehabilitation or reconstruction is an important issue to protect, reduce or...

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Tourism Migration in South Africa: Current Dynamics, Immediate Challenges and Future Prospects

Henama, Unathi Sonwabile; Sifolo, Portia Pearl Siyanda - In: International Journal of Innovation in the Digital … 8 (2017) 1, pp. 47-60

This article explores the tourism migration within the South African context, thereby focusing on the current dynamics, challenges and future prospects. Tourism and migration are significant towards globalisation. Almost all countries have jumped on the tourism bandwagon as a result of the...

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Sustainable Tourism: The New Engine for the Economic Development of the 21st Century in APEC.

Ramirez, Cuauhtemoc; Rangel, José Ernesto - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economies … 7 (2018) 4, pp. 29-36

Tourism has become a source of activities that generate income, employment, and economic growth for the countries …

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Data Center Regions and Economic Development: Implications Derived From Economic Analysis

Yülek, Murat Ali; Bostancı, İhsan; Göksal, Koray - In: International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable … 8 (2017) 4, pp. 32-47

The amount of data generated worldwide has reached unprecedented levels, and its rate of growth continues to increase exponentially. Brought about by rapid advances in information technologies, as well as changes in lifestyles and business strategies, this explosion in the quantity of data has...

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The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on the Economic Development of Mongolia

Mungunzul, Erdenebat; Chang, Taikoo - In: Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO) 16 (2018) 3, pp. 12-21

This article describes how foreign direct investment in Mongolia has reached 3.9 billion US$ mainly in the mining sector that amounted approximately 40% of the year's GDP. Even though FDI into Mongolia has been grown along with the country's economic development with trade openness to the world,...

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Transforming Culture to Stimulate Economic Development: Lessons from Singapore

Bhasin, Balbir; Ng, Lee Keng - In: International Journal of Art, Culture and Design … 5 (2016) 1, pp. 48-58

In furthering the discussion on the linkage between economic development and culture, this paper attempts to answer the question: “Can a society's culture be transformed to stimulate economic development?” This paper uses Singapore as a case study. It traces the country's restructuring of...

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An Exploratory Study on the Influencers of the Perceived Relevance of CIO's Activities

Varajão, João; Trigo, António; Soto-Acosta, Pedro - In: International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems … 12 (2016) 4, pp. 1-15

Over the past decades several studies aimed to rank the importance of CIO's activities. One aspect that stands out in … these studies is the difficulty in finding two studies that agree on the relative importance of CIO's activities. On the one … perception of the importance of CIO's activities. This paper presents the results of an exploratory study developed to identify …

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Exploring the Impact of Tourism to the Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions: Implications of the Climatic Conditions

Tsiaras, Stefanos - In: International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental … 8 (2017) 1, pp. 14-28

Sustainable development is difficult to be achieved in mountain regions because of their sensitivity to climate change. The rapid development of mountain tourism worldwide during the last years makes the goal for sustainable mountain tourism even more challenging. Key factor to the development...

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Applying Andragogical Concepts in Creating a Sustainable Lifelong Learning Society

Charungkaittikul, Suwithida; Henschke, John A. - In: International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and … 8 (2017) 4, pp. 38-51

Today, the world is changing, re-establishing the role of education to have a developed society. This article aims to explore the practical application of Andragogy as a key element for creating a sustainable lifelong learning society, to propose strategies for developing a lifelong learning...

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Ethical Appraisal of the Role of Civil Society in Nigeria: Pathway for Social Inclusion and Sustainable Development

Essien, Essien D. - In: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social … 3 (2016) 2, pp. 23-38

transparency, and low credibility which worsen extreme poverty, inequality, and deprivation. Drawing upon extensive contemporary …

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