03917oam 2200649I 450 991110712070332120251117071126.01-317-90493-11-315-84779-5978131584779510.4324/9781315847795 (CKB)3710000000602772(EBL)4415035(MiAaPQ)EBC4415035(Au-PeEL)EBL4415035(CaPaEBR)ebr11161342(CaONFJC)MIL897980(OCoLC)941696447(OCoLC)958102143(FlBoTFG)9781315847795(EXLCZ)99371000000060277220180706e20142005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierWest African worlds paths through socio-economic change, livelihoods and development /edited by Reginald Cline-Cole and Elsbeth Robson1st ed.London ;New York :Routledge,2014.1 online resource (270 p.)DARG regional development series ;number 6At head of title: Developing Areas Research Group, the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).First published 2005 by Pearson Education.1-138-16439-9 0-13-025949-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and tables; List of abbreviations; Contributors; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Paths through socio-economic change, livelihoods and development in West African worlds; 2 Regional political economy: retrospect and prospect; 3 Portraying West Africa's children: moral panics, imagined geographies and globalisation; 4 Fictional worlds in struggles over West African (under-)development? Kolawole Omotoso's The Combat; 5 Urban bias, redistribution, and state collapse: the lessons of Sierra Leone6 Expanding the frontiers of integration: regional economic and security dynamics7 Transformations in regional agriculture and family farming; 8 The social relations of economic life and networks of civic engagement: 'Social Capital' and targeted development; 9 Work, time and space: Britain and West Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 10 State-building, national integration, gender and economic development in emergent regional democracies; 11 Development, planning, and agricultural knowledge on the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso; 12 Conclusion: West African futures?; IndexWest African Worlds provides a critical assessment of social, economic and political change in Africa's most populous and arguably most externally focused region. With an emphasis on globalisation and modernisation, case studies and commentary are integrated throughout to highlight the concerns and issues of the region. Enriched by an impressive mix of West African voices, this text combines theory and application with policy and practice to address socio-economic change, the pursuit of livelihoods, and development within West Africa.DARG regional development series ;no. 6.Economic developmentSocial aspectsAfrica, WestAfrica, WestEconomic conditions1960-Africa, WestSocial conditions1960-Economic developmentSocial aspects966.105337.166Cline-Cole R. A1989106Robson Elsbeth1989107Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers).Developing Areas Research Group.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911107120703321West African worlds4765198UNINA02233nam 22005413 450 991111335080332120250930085251.03-032-06136-9(MiAaPQ)EBC32320866(Au-PeEL)EBL32320866(CKB)41018941100041(OCoLC)1543211789(EXLCZ)994101894110004120250930d2025 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNew Trends in Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries TPDL 2025 Short Papers and Workshops, Tampere, Finland, September 23-26, 2025, Proceedings1st ed.Cham :Springer,2025.©2026.1 online resource (633 pages)Communications in Computer and Information Science Series ;v.26943-032-06135-0 This book constitutes the proceedings of the workshops held at the 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2025, which took place in Tampere, Finland, during September 23-26, 2025.  The 20 short papers, 8 Demo papers and 9 workshop papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 103.Communications in Computer and Information Science SeriesCOMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / GeneralbisacshCOMPUTERS / Information TheorybisacshCOMPUTERS / Speech & Audio ProcessingbisacshCOMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / GeneralCOMPUTERS / Information TheoryCOMPUTERS / Speech & Audio ProcessingBalke Wolf-Tilo1849870Golub Koraljka743281Manolopoulos Yannis1258245Stefanidis Kostas1849871Zhang Zheying1849872Aalberg Trond2001696Manghi Paolo2001697MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911113350803321New Trends in Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries4785219UNINA