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This open access book assesses the consequences of contemporary economic and political crises for intergovernmental relations in Europe. Focusing on the crises arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, surges in migration, and the resurgence of regional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-31
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The book draws from regulation theory to explain urban planning policies and outcomes in Southeast Asia as a function of governance structures and processes. A considerable portion of the book is spent re-tracing the historical roots of planning dispositives, including...
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Springer
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2024-07-30
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you - Maya AngelouMina Smallman has lived through the unimaginable. On Saturday 6 June 2020, her daughters, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, were killed in a park by a male stranger as they celebrated Bibaa's...
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Ebury Digital
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2024-07-25
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This book presents a set of chapters produced by six research groups that developed the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Thematic Project Environmental Governance of the São Paulo macrometropolis (SPMM) in the face of Climate Variability (2017–2022). It represents...
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Springer
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2024-07-24
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This book examines the role of improvisation in emergency response policies. Focusing on the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy, it demonstrates how improvisation can play a positive and productive role in emergency management. As well as offering one of the first systematic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-22
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The state is back, and it means business. Since the turn of the 21st century, state-owned enterprises, sovereign funds, and policy banks have vastly expanded their control over assets and markets. Concurrently, governments have experimented with increasingly assertive...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-19
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This book analyses the role of Europarties in the deepening of integration and the debates on the future of Europe. It is guided by three fundamental research questions: What strategies do Europarties utilize to advance their visions of Europe? What is the relative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-16
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Understanding climate obstruction is...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-07-16
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This book examines the various ways in which policymakers and political actors across different governmental levels have responded to the recent European refugee ‘crisis’, and the effects of these responses. Whereas previous studies have often focused on the discourses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-15
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Das Buch geht der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung der Legitimität der liberalen Demokratie, der Anerkennung des multikulturellen Gemeinwesens und dem Zusammenspiel dieser regime- und gemeinschaftsbezogenen Wertorientierungen für die Resilienz liberaler Demokratien zukommt....
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Springer VS
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2024-07-15
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Climate change, rapid urbanisation, pandemics, as well as innovations in technologies such as blockchain, AI and IoT are all impacting urban space. One response to such changes has been to make cities ecologically sustainable and 'smart'. The 'eco smart city' for...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-12
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This open access book examines the roles of municipal chief executive officers in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Whilst it has long been recognised that local authorities in these countries are often more autonomous than most other local authorities...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-11
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Der Band stellt die aktuelle Praxis der Demokratiepolitik in Bund, Ländern und Gemeinden anschaulich an zahlreichen Beispielen vor. Er will die vielfältige Demokratie der Bürger und Bürgerinnen stärken. Dabei geht es ebenso um die Praxis im Zusammenspiel von Politik,...
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Springer VS
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2024-07-01
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This book is the first volume to provide a comprehensive account of mega-event planning for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It offers a useful summary of the themes and debates relating to urban planning for the Paris Olympics, based on the results of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-27
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This book discusses how climate change needs to be anchored in indigenous knowledge with reference to resource management, infrastructure, livelihoods, and social institutions, with a unique focus on risks and provenances of resilience available to the local...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-20
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This book presents a comprehensive and actionable framework for individuals and leaders seeking to promote human dignity within healthy environments. Rooted in the policy sciences approach, it equips readers with the essential concepts, tools, and skills necessary to...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-19
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This book investigates the role of land titling in delivering sustainable means of poverty alleviation in developing countries. Despite the huge amount spent on various anti-poverty programs annually, poverty remains a major problem. This persistent...
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Springer
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2024-06-18
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In Making Globalization Happen: The Untold Story of Power, Profits, Privilege, Sripati explains how, when, through which entities, and for what purposes economic globalization was catalyzed and its effects on the Global South in general and South Asia in particular....
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-18
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This book examines the impact of neoliberalism on the academisation of the English school system. The growth of multi-academy trusts (MATs) has been a significant change in the English educational landscape. While some schools have been forced to join MATs, many of them...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-17
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This contributed volume presents an attempt to understand climatic variability and induced risk to livelihood of communities and to offer insights on how catastrophic conditions and crises can be mitigated through public policy interventions. The case studies herein...
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Springer
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2024-05-30
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