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The new edition of the acclaimed guide to strategic decision-making in community planning, development, and collaboration Based on the results of more than a decade of research by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, Smart Communities provides directions for strategic...
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Jossey-Bass
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2014-02-26
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Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management
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Die Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität zu Köln veranstaltete im März 2012 in Kooperation mit der Demokratie-Stiftung eine internationale Fachtagung zum Thema Literalität und Partizipation, um einen aktiven Austausch verschiedener Akteure der (politischen)...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-02-11
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This book explores continuity and change in British multiculturalism. It offers an original perspective on British multiculturalism and also presents an exploration of the politics of ethnic diversity in all the national contexts of the British Isles as well as the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-01-29
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of housing affordability under the economic reforms and social transformations in urban China. It also offers an overall review of the current government measures on the housing market and affordable housing policies in China....
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Springer
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2014-01-25
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This book gives a comprehensive overview of the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and challenges the notions of African public officials presented there. It focuses on public audit institutions and offers rich empirical research results, which contradicts...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-22
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Manohar Pawar discusses the relevance and importance of social policy for water issues. By analysing several interrelated perspectives on water, he suggests core values as bases for formulating and implementing social policies so as to provide universal free access to...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-01-22
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This is a book about parliamentary elections in Romania in the two decades that followed the collapse of the one-party rule. It charts how the electoral rules developed, it looks at how people voted, and takes stock of the long term effects of the electoral system....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-22
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Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, where Confucian culture is deeply embedded, through China, with its transformations from Confucianism to communism and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-22
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Originally developed in Brazil, participatory budgeting is widely recognised as democratic innovation yet its concrete results vary greatly. Collating evidence from empirical and theoretical analysis, this book aims to provide an explanation for these varied results by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-01-22
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In a world of dwindling natural resources and mounting environmental crisis, who is devising ways of living that will work for the long haul? And how can we, as individuals, make a difference? To answer these fundamental questions, Professor Karen Litfin embarked upon a...
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Polity
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2014-01-15
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A practical approach to understanding social work concepts in action that integrates theory and practice In this updated edition of the classic social work text, students and instructors have access to real-world demonstrations of how social work theories and concepts...
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Wiley
Parution :
2014-01-14
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A provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed.Initially published in 2002, The Rise of the Creative Class quickly achieved classic status for its identification of forces then only beginning to reshape our economy,...
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Basic Books
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2014-01-07
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Bringing together ecology, evolutionary moral psychology, and environmental ethics, J. Baird Callicott counters the narrative of blame and despair that prevails in contemporary discussions of climate ethics and offers a fresh, more optimistic approach. Whereas other...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-01-06
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Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estimated 1.5 billion are affected. In A Big Fat Crisis, Dr. Deborah A. Cohen has created a major new work that will transform...
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Bold Type Books
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2013-12-24
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This timely anthology brings together for the first time the most important ancient, medieval, Enlightenment, and modern scholarship for a complete anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change. Brings together for the first time the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-16
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Substantially updated for the second edition, this engaging and innovative introduction to the environment and society uses key theoretical approaches to explore familiar objects. Features substantial revisions and updates for the second edition, including new chapters...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-16
Collection :
Critical Introductions to Geography
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By examining the role of evidence in social policymaking and the extent of its influence, Evidence and Evaluation in Social Policy delves deeply into one of the central questions of the field for the last 20 years. Chronicles the trend towards evidence-based policy...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-10
Collection :
Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy
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This study argues that the decriminalization of sex work in China can contribute to HIV prevention and human rights protection. The argument is supported by six key concepts: the universality of human rights, rights-based approaches to HIV, sex work as work, risk...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-05
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In this edited volume, leading environmental policy experts from China, USA, and Europe provide a contemporary view of Chinese environmental policy, analyzing current discussions among various actors and agencies. The book covers a wide range of topics including the gap...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-05
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. America is the one of the wealthiest nations on earth. So why do so many Americans...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-03
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