Social science perspectives on climate change and development

University of Copenhagen

Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín López

Tag: development

  • “Assembling for Development…” and “Globalization: capitalism and its alternatives”, by Leslie Sklair

    First published in 1989, this book focuses upon the phenomenon of export-led industrialisation fuelled by foreign investment and technology. He concentrates on Mexico, where US companies have been taking advantage of inexpensive labour to establish “maquila” factories that assemble US parts for export. Through this detailed study of the maquila industry, Sklair charts the progress…

  • What is the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership)?

    The pro-TTIP version: The anti-TTIP version:

  • Max Lock Centre at University of Westminster

    Judging by the research projects they carry out on urban studies as well as their approach, I find this research centre very interesting. I hope to follow them up. Find bellow the general description from their website: The Max Lock Centre is an international development research and consultancy group based in the Faculty of Architecture…

  • Growth and home size trends

    Homes are getting bigger and bigger. Interesting analysis of American homes size trends between 1975 and 2013, as well as interesting reflections on the consequences in terms of social inequality: America’s bloated house size is a two-sided problem. For one, it’s yet another indicator of the nation’s deepening economic divide. The wealthy are pouring more and more…

  • World Bank App for development-related data on mobile platforms

    The “Spatial Agent” Mobile App has been developed to take advantage of new capabilities to visualize this growing range of spatial and temporal development-related data on mobile platforms. The App demonstrates a simple but extremely powerful approach to visualize a range of public-domain spatial datasets through interactive maps and charts to allow for data visualization…

  • Transnational secondary data on mobility and transport in Europe

    The European Commission has published for the first time a scoreboard on transport infrastructure ranking the EU’s 28 member states. Secondary data on a wide number of indicators can be consulted. The Commission used data from Eurostat, the European Environment Agency, the World Bank and the OECD to come up with the scores. The online tool can be…