Human geography Books
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Advanced Introduction to Cities
Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This insightful Advanced Introduction explores the key attributes of cities, identifying their five basic characteristics; innate complexity, the agglomeration of activities, inter-city connectivities, the projection of power, and relations to states. Peter J. Taylor gives a broad and engaging overview of how these characteristics work and relate to each other, supplemented by ten short city insights which offer readers specific examples of cities and themes.Key features include: analysis of cities as the creative nodes of societies discussion of both contemporary and historical cities exploration of the different spaces created by cities and states identification of the demands of cities in relation to climate change. This Advanced Introduction will be a valuable guide for scholars and advanced students of urban studies, cities, urban geography, urban sociology, and social and cultural geography.Trade Review'This brilliant book, with its unique conceptual structure, accessible writing and innovative chapter format, featuring a kaleidoscope of ''insights'' from cities around the world, provides a comprehensive and succinct synthesis of Peter Taylor's unrivalled and systematic urban scholarship. The masterpiece checks off all registers of urban studies as we know them and still provides a pathbreaking perspective on one of humanity's oldest and most enduring achievements: the city.' -- - Roger Keil, York University, Canada'Peter Taylor's insightful new book provides an informed synopsis of current debates in urban theory while also taking the reader on a whirlwind tour of actual cities around the world at different historical moments. Theoretical ideas and empirical information are presented with admirable force and clarity. A notable strength of the book is the extended narratives on individual cities that accompany each chapter.' -- - Allen J. Scott, University of California, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Preamble: academic literature on cities 1. City basics 2. Cities as the birth of civilizations 3. Busy cities 4. Cities connected 5. Demanding cities 6. Divided cities 7. Cities in states 8. Cities globalized 9. Cities in Nature Bibliographic notes and references Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Trophy Cities: A feminist perspective on new
Book SynopsisOffering a fresh perspective, this timely book analyzes the socio-cultural and physical production of planned capital cities through the theoretical lens of feminism. Dorina Pojani evaluates the historical, spatial and symbolic manifestations of new capital cities, as well as the everyday experiences of those living there, to shed light on planning processes, outcomes and contemporary planning issues. Chapters explore seven geographically, culturally and temporally diverse capital cities across Australia, India, Brazil, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Myanmar and South Korea. Pojani argues that new capital cities have embodied patriarchal systems to govern their respective polities which has magnified problems in these cities. The book highlights how in new capitals, notions such as the state, the nation, urbanism, religion, the economy and even nature have been conceived of or treated in patriarchal terms, to the detriment of women and other disadvantaged groups.This book will be an invigorating read for urban studies and planning scholars. The information about the processes of new city formation will also be of great use to urban planners.Trade Review‘Another recent book by Dorina Pojani, Trophy Cities, is relentlessly critical of the underlying gender bias that undergirds these ventures. As its subtitle proclaims, she offers “a feminist perspective on new capitals.” She documents “the patriarchal character of most nationalisms,” including the male-led predilection to found new capitals. Importantly, this intersectional feminist lens centres “not only gender by also class, race, ethnicity, religion and other systems of domination.”’ -- Lawrence J. Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US‘In Trophy Cities, Dorina Pojani offers a much-needed feminist analysis of the planning of capital cities across the globe. With a diverse set of case cities and an abundance of well-researched examples from them, this book makes a significant contribution and offers a fresh perspective to our understanding of cities, how we plan them, and with what consequences. The book, or select chapters, would be excellent additions to include in cities and urbanization courses, as well as feminist theory courses. Pojani’s accessible writing style makes the book suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as policymakers and practitioners. This book challenges us to re-evaluate the traditional and dominant planning paradigms and envision something different - something better.’ -- Megan E Heim La Frombois, Journal of the American Planning Association‘Feminism is not only about political representation or economic freedom, it is also about liberating our cities from only the pursuit of capital and making them the sites of play and community, about freeing all people in the way they occupy space and live out their daily lives, about giving dignity to the lived experience. Trophy Cities is a bold proposal for planning our cities around people and not money, for prioritizing joy over wealth. I'll be thinking about it for some time to come.‘Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: why a feminist perspective on new capital cities? 2. New capitals in the context of national history and international relations 3. The spatial manifestation of new capitals 4. The symbolic manifestation of new capitals 5. The capital as an everyday city 6. Conclusion: what would a feminist capital look like? Reference Index
£94.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Gentrification Studies
Book SynopsisIt is now over 50 years since the term 'gentrification' was first coined by the British urbanist Ruth Glass in 1964, in which time gentrification studies has become a subject in its own right. This Handbook, the first ever in gentrification studies, is a critical and authoritative assessment of the field. Although the Handbook does not seek to rehearse the classic literature on gentrification from the 1970s to the 1990s in detail, it is referred to in the new assessments of the field gathered in this volume. The original chapters offer an important dialogue between existing theory and new conceptualisations of gentrification for new times and new places, in many cases offering novel empirical evidence. Scholarly contributions are drawn from both established and up and coming experts in gentrification studies world-wide, and a deliberate attempt has been made to broaden the geographical scope of study. As such, the Handbook covers processes of gentrification in the global north and the global south. It also looks at different mutations of gentrification and pays proper attention to both resistance to gentrification and the importance of thinking about alternatives. The Handbook challenges readers to look at both the future of gentrification studies as well as the actual process of gentrification itself. Gentrification studies is interdisciplinary and this Handbook will be especially useful to scholars in many fields including geography, sociology, anthropology, planning, law, urban studies, policy studies, rural studies, development studies, and cultural studies. It will also be of value to those activists fighting gentrification worldwide.Trade Review‘This Handbook undertakes such a critical and authoritative assessment of the emergent field having an important dialogue between existing theories and new conceptualizations of gentrification.’ -- Saraswati Raju, Regional Science Policy and Practice‘This excellent, wide-ranging and comprehensive Handbook deals with comparative gentrification theory, key concepts in gentrification, different types and dimensions of gentrification and resistance to gentrification. It includes a wide range of authors and looks at gentrification in a variety of global contexts. All in all, a valuable addition to the literature.’ -- Chris Hamnett, King's College London, UK and UESTC, Chengdu, China‘The Handbook truly is a useful resource for urban scholars and students as it offers well-written entries by established urban scholars and several promising new researchers on various subjects within gentrification research. As such, it provides a wealth of knowledge on the processes and modalities of gentrification, as well as new research agendas on a variety of topics.’ -- Wouter van Gent, International Journal of Housing Policy‘This volume draws on an impressive cast of contributors and embraces a dizzying array of interrelated topics.’ -- Dennis E. Gale, Journal of Urban Affairs‘This Handbook of Gentrification Studies will be useful for graduates studying anthropology of cities, urbanism, geography, and new urban identities. There is no more complete Handbook on gentrification in the English language to date.’ -- Yves Laberge, Electronic Green Journal‘The world’s leading analyst of gentrification convenes an extraordinary team of contributors to map the evolving contours of planetary gentrification. This Handbook is your essential guide to the cosmopolitan cultures of capital that are intensifying the competitive nature of life everywhere on an urbanizing planet — from big cities to small agricultural villages, from the postindustrial consumption landscapes of the Global North to the hybrid hyper-modernities of the Global South and East.’ -- Elvin Wyly, The University of British Columbia, Canada‘The Handbook of Gentrification Studies is useful and informative. It is a good starting point for encountering the variety of debates on the topic of gentrification and its current vexations. It demonstrates clearly the need to think in flexible, cosmopolitan and comparative ways about gentrification, and consider seriously the complicated potential offered by communal resistance to gentrification.’ -- Helen Traill, LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsCONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. Towards a C21st Global Gentrification Studies Loretta Lees SECTION I RETHINKING GENTRIFICATION (THEORY) 2. Beyond Anglo-American Gentrification Theory Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto López-Morales 3. Beyond the Elephant of Gentrification: relational approaches to a chaotic problem Freek de Hann 4. Comparative urbanism in gentrification studies: fashion or progress? Loretta Lees SECTION II KEY/CORE CONCEPTS IN GENTRIFICATION STUDIES 5. From class to gentrification and back again Michaela Benson and Emma Jackson 6. Gentrification and Landscape Change Martin Phillips 7. Spatial capital and planetary gentrification: residential location, mobility and social inequality Patrick Rérat 8. Rent gaps Tom Slater 9. Gentrification-induced Displacement Zhao Zhang and Shenjing He SECTION III SOCIAL CLEAVAGES IN ADDITION TO CLASS 10. Non-normative sexualities and gentrification Petra Doan 11. Age, lifecourse and generation in gentrification processes Cody Hochstenbach and Willem Boterman 12. Gentrification and ethnicity Tone Huse 13. Rethinking the Gender–Gentrification Nexus Bahar Sakizlioglu SECTION IV TYPES OF GENTRIFICATION 14. Slum gentrification Eduardo Ascensão 15. New-build gentrification Mark Davidson 16. The Gentrification of Public Housing Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia 17. Tourism Gentrification Agustin Cocola-Gant 18. Retail Gentrification Phil Hubbard 19. Gentle gentrification in the exceptional city of LA? Juliet Kahne 20. New directions in urban environmental/green gentrification research Hamil Pearsall 21. Gentrification, artists and cultural economy Andy Pratt 22. Wilderness gentrification: moving ‘off-the-beaten rural tracks’ Darren Smith, Martin Phillips and Chloe Kinton SECTION V LIVING AND RESISTING GENTRIFICATION 23. Resisting gentrification Sandra Annunziata and Clara Rivas-Alonso 24. Alternatives to gentrification: exploring urban community land trusts and urban ecovillage practices Susannah Bunce 25. Immigration and gentrification Geoffrey DeVerteuil 26. Property and planning law in England: facilitating and countering gentrification Antonia Layard 27. Self renovating neighbourhoods as an alternative to gentrification or decline Jess Steele Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for Place Branding
Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This cutting-edge Research Agenda for Place Branding explores ideas and debates that inform a refreshing take on the future of place branding and marketing. It argues that we are at a juncture where the logical and sensible step is to push the 'reset button' on such activity and fully reconsider its purpose and goals.Chapters span a range of important themes in contemporary place branding and are organised into sections covering place branding governance, contexts, experience and creativity. Drawing on contributions from key international scholars across a variety of academic disciplines, the book showcases an interplay of oppositional perspectives - ranging from those who see place branding as a potential means of improving the economic vitality of places, to others who consider much existing place branding activity exclusionary to certain sectors of society.Providing a wealth of creative and innovative suggestions on how place branding can be done, thought about and researched differently in the future, this Research Agenda will be a key resource for research-oriented academics and students in marketing, geography, planning and tourism.Trade Review'Most key themes of interest to anyone involved in place branding research are covered in the governance, contexts and experiences sections, and along with the key grounding issues, the book contains some very insightful case studies. In the final chapter, Stephen Brown recognises that while place branding may have peaked, we now see more of a focus on destination demarketing. This book is therefore very timely. Since global tourism was devastated in 2020 and places seek to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, a more considered research agenda as outlined in this book may lead to places being better managed with a focus more on sufficiency than growth, so we do not face a need for destination demarketing again.' -- Heather Skinner, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK'At last, a truly critical book on a highly controversial matter, with a broad range of contributions from geography, marketing, politics and beyond. One of its many merits is the juxtaposition of contrasting perspectives: from those who see place branding as a means of improving places, to others who consider it just another tool of the neoliberal project. This volume is an indispensable reference work for anybody who wants to understand the development, limitations, and potential research agendas of this ''discipline''.' -- Ares Kalandides, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK'A Research Agenda for Place Branding is not only the title of this book - but is also much needed. While in recent decades we created common ground and shared definitions (or at least agreed to disagree), place branding now needs an academic inspiration, some novel ideas and rigorous, impactful contributions. This book combines many of the critical well-known interdisciplinary minds of our field. I invite you to read it and use its ideas to develop bold research ideas and create this necessary new research agenda for place branding.' -- Sebastian Zenker, Copenhagen Business School, DenmarkTable of ContentsContents: 1 Place branding’s present and past realities, and future research agendas 1 Dominic Medway, Gary Warnaby and John Byrom PART I GOVERNANCE 2 Place branding and the neoliberal class settlement 19 Aram Eisenschitz 3 Computational approaches to place branding: A call for a theory-driven research agenda 33 Efe Sevin 4 Demystifying participation and engagement in the branding of urban places 47 Andrea Insch 5 The spatial planning–place branding nexus: A research agenda for spatial development 67 Eduardo Oliveira, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen PART II CONTEXTS 6 Place branding and locational decisions: Taking a behavioural economics perspective? 87 Aleks Vladimirov and Gary Warnaby 7 Global city branding 101 Adriana Campelo 8 The Nordic wave in place branding: Global implications and relevance 117 Cecilia Cassinger, Andrea Lucarelli and Szilvia Gyimóthy 9 The tale of three cities: Place branding, scalar complexity and football 131 Steve Millington, Chloe Steadman, Gareth Roberts and Dominic Medway 10 Sustainable Development Goals in place branding: Developing a research agenda 151 Anette Therkelsen, Laura James and Henrik Halkier 11 Keeping pace with the digital transformation of place 163 Brendan James Keegan PART III EXPERIENCE 12 Posthuman phenomenology: What are places like for nonhumans? 183 Jack Coffin 13 Co-creation of place brands? 201 Jenny Rowley and Sonya Hanna 14 Tourism, the burden of authenticity and place branding 215 Maria Lichrou and Lisa O’Malley 15 Making ‘sense’ of place branding: Adopting a sensemaking, sensefiltering and sensegiving lens 233 Laura Reynolds and Nicole Koenig-Lewis 16 Considering place and the sensorium through the lens of non-representational theory 247 Simon Cryer PART IV CREATIVITY 17 Illuminating identity: The capacity of light festivals to enhance place? 267 Tim Edensor 18 ‘The artist in you’: Thinking differently about place branding research 283 Mihalis Kavaratzis and Gary Warnaby 19 Peak place marketing: My part in its downfall 301 Stephen Brown Index 313
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and
Book SynopsisThis major international Handbook offers the most up-to-date and original viewpoints on critical debates relating to the rapidly transforming geographies of regions and territories, as well as related key concepts such as place, scale, networks and regionalism.This interdisciplinary Handbook brings together renowned specialists who have extensively theorized these spatial concepts and contributed to rich empirical research in disciplines such as geography, sociology, political science and international relations. It offers fresh, cutting-edge, and contextual insights on the significance of regions and territories in today’s dynamic world.This is a timely and vital resource for both students and researchers of human geography and regional studies. Political geographers and international relations scholars will also benefit from reading the Handbook as it offers a comprehensive yet accessible examination of the geography of regions and territories.Contributors include: J. Agnew, B.T. Asheim, S. Ayres, A. Beer, I. Braverman, G. Bristow, J. Bryson, I. Calzada, R. Castriota, J. Clark, A. Cochrane, R. Comunian, K.R. Cox, M. Deciancio, K. Dodds, M. Dunford, L. England, J.N. Entrikin, D. Gibbs, M. Glass, J. Harrison, A. Hemmings, Y. Herrera, R. Huggins, B. Jessop, A.E.G. Jonas, A. Jones, M. Jones, R. Jones, J.M. Kanai, D. Kofanov, D.F. Kogler, W. Liu, J. Loughlin, F. Mattheis, S. Moisio, R.L. Monte-Mór, C. Nine, A. Paasi, M. Pace, K. Peters, P. Riggirozzi, D. Rwehumbiza, S. Schindler, A. Shirikov, C. Sohn, D. Storey, N.-L. Sum, K. Terlouw, P. Thompson, I. Turok, L. Van Langenhove, A. WhittleTrade Review'As a keyword, the region is one of the more difficult ones to define. This fascinating anthology does an admirable job presenting a multi facetted and colourful palette of definitions of and debates on the concept. The Handbook assembles classical and up-to-date, tested and groundbreaking conceptual and empirical writing on the region and regionalism and will serve as an invaluable resource to students of the matter world wide.' --Roger Keil, York University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. New Consolidated Regional Geographies Anssi Paasi, John Harrison and Martin Jones Part I History, Theory and Key Concepts 2. Evolution of the Regional Concept John Agnew 3. Territory and Territoriality David Storey 4. Geography of Experience: Place and Region J. Nicholas Entrikin 5. Scale and Territory, and the Difference Capitalism Makes Kevin Cox 6. New Regionalism Gillian Bristow 7. Relational Thinking and the Region Allan Cochrane 8. The TPSN Schema: Moving Beyond Territories and Regions Bob Jessop Part II Region, Territory and Economy 9. Economic Regionalization Andrew Jones 10. Regional Innovation and Growth Theory: Behavioural and Institutional Approaches Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson 11. Learning Regions – a Strategy for Economic Development in Less Developed Regions? Bjørn T. Asheim 12. Divisions of Labour, Technology and the Transformation of Work: Worker to Robot or Self-employment and the Gig Economy? John R. Bryson 13. The Geography of Knowledge Creation: Technological Relatedness and Regional Smart Specialization Strategies Dieter F. Kogler and Adam Whittle 14. Creative Regions: from Creative Place-making to Creative Human Capital Roberta Comunian and Lauren England 15. Sustainable Regions David Gibbs Part III Region, Politics and Identity 16. Territory and Governance John Loughlin 17. Territorial Rights and Justice Cara Nine 18. Regional Governance and Democracy Sarah Ayres 19. Political Regionalism: Devolution, Metropolitanization and the Right to Decide Igor Calzada 20. Regions and Cultural Representation Rhys Jones 21. Regional Identities: Quested and Questioned Kees Terlouw 22. Military-to-Wildlife Geographies: Bureaucracies of Cleanup and Conservation in Vieques Irus Braverman Part IV Urbanization and New Forms of Spatiality 23. City-Regions and City-Regionalism Sami Moisio and Andrew E.G. Jonas 24. Cross-Border Regions Christophe Sohn 25. Comparing Regionalism at Supra-National Level from the Perspective of a Statehood Theory of Regions Luk van Langenhove 26. Regional Urbanization: Emerging Approaches and Debates J. Miguel Kanai and Seth Schindler 27. Extended Urbanization: Implications for Urban and Regional Theory Roberto Monte-Mór and Rodrigo Castriota 28. The Twenty-first Century Rediscovery of Regional Planning in the Global South Seth Schindler, J. Miguel Kanai and Deusdedit Rwehumbiza 29. African Urbanization: Will Compact Cities Deliver Shared and Sustainable Prosperity? Ivan Turok Part V Regions and Regionalisms in Contexts 30. The ‘Europe of the Regions’ Julian Clark and Alun Jones 31. Mediterranean ‘Regionalism’ Michelle Pace 32. Sovereignty and Regionalism in Eurasia Dmitrii Kofanov, Anton Shirikov and Yoshiko M. Herrera 33. Chinese regionalism Michael Dunford and Weidong Liu 34. The Production of a Trans-Regional Scale: China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ Imaginary Ngai-Ling Sum 35. Australasian Regionalism Andrew Beer 36. African Regionalism Frank Mattheis 37. North American Regionalism Michael R. Glass 38. Region Building, Autonomy and Regionalism in South America Pia Riggirozzi and Melisa Deciancio 39. Arctic and Antarctic Regionalism Klaus Dodds and Alan D. Hemmings 40. Ocean Regions Kimberley Peters Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd After Heritage: Critical Perspectives on Heritage
Book SynopsisDrawing upon international case studies, and building upon Iain J.M. Robertson?'s work on ?'heritage from below?', After Heritage sheds critical light on heritage-making and heritagescapes that are, more frequently than not, located in virtual, less conspicuous and more everyday spaces. The book considers the highly personal, often ephemeral, individual ?- vis-à-vis collective -? experiences of (in)formal ways the past has been folded into contemporary societies. In doing so, it unravels the merits of examining more intimate materializations of heritage not only as a check against, but also complementary to, what Laurajanne Smith refers to as ?'Authorized Heritage Discourses?'. It also argues against the tendency to romanticize the fleeting and largely obscured means through which alternative forms of heritage-making are produced, performed and patronized. Ultimately, this book provides a clarion call to reinsert the individual and the transient into collective heritage processes.Researchers in human and cultural geography, heritage studies and tourism studies will find this strong contribution to the developing field of Critical Heritage Studies an insightful read. Policy makers and heritage practitioners will also develop a deeper understanding of how heritage practices may benefit from the '?heritage from below?' approach.Contributors include: A. Aceska, R. Carter-White, M. Cook, D. Drozdzewski, J. Gillen, C. Minca, H. Muzaini, M. Ormond, A.E. Potter, I.J.M. Robertson, J. TynerTrade ReviewAfter Heritage not only offers much needed critical analysis of the heritage-making power and practices of ordinary people, but also productively de-stabilizes the binaries that have long constrained critical memory studies - individual versus collective, intangible versus material, and bottom up versus top down. Its rich array of case studies move us beyond monolithic understandings of how the past is produced, resisted and emplaced within everyday life.' --Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee, US'By excavating politics and identities from below, the nine chapters of this book fascinatingly bring back into focus the everyday, mundane and the local; themes and contexts that continue to be too often overlooked by scholars in heritage studies. Moving away from accounts of state politics and world heritage sites, the book identifies why we need to critically examine family memorabilia, Bruce Lee and motorbiking as forms of heritage. After Heritage makes a significant contribution to the debate concerning where critical heritage studies should head in the future through its various nudges for conceptual innovation and its welcome incorporation of examples from different regions.' --Tim Winter, University of Western AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Rethinking heritage, but ‘from below’ Hamzah Muzaini and Claudio Minca 2. Official memorials, deathscapes, and hidden landscapes of ruin: material legacies of the Cambodian genocide James A. Tyner 3. Motorbikes as ‘aspirational’ heritage: rethinking past, present and future in Vietnam Jamie Gillen 4. The Bruce Lee statue in Mostar: ‘heritage from below’ experiments in a divided city Ana Aceska and Claudio Minca 5. Death camp heritage ‘from below’? Instagram and the (re)mediation of Holocaust heritage Richard Carter-White 6. Unfinished geographies: women’s roles in shaping Black historical counter narratives Matthew R. Cook and Amy E. Potter 7. Stolpersteine and memory in the streetscape Danielle Drozdzewski 8. Adoption, genealogical bewilderment and biological heritage bricolage Meghann Ormond Afterword Iain J. M. Robertson Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for Tourism Geographies
Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. 'Müller's accessible and timely volume takes a bold step closer to keeping pace with the constantly evolving sub-discipline of tourism geographies, unafraid to challenge earlier foundations and keen to prioritise academic diversity and real-world contexts. The contributors' flair, perspective and passion comes across throughout what is arguably the ideal backdrop for shaping future research agendas in the field.'- Julie Wilson, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Over recent years, tourism geographies have developed into a vibrant field of research, facing increasing challenges from globalisation and environmental change. This Research Agenda presents a unique and original collection of contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars in the field. Encompassing both contemporary issues, and paving the way for future avenues of research, this book explores and develops research on tourism geographies. Chapters address emerging themes and apply new methodologies, allowing for intellectual and practical challenges to be tackled. With fresh global insights, this book expands on the geographic dimension of tourism work and workers, the challenges brought by changing economic atmospheres, spatial dynamics, big data and climate change to provide a thorough understanding of the field. Ideal for graduate and post-graduate students of geography and tourism studies looking to develop thesis ideas, this Research Agenda highlights the interest and potential of tourism geographers to contribute to a geographical tradition and influence the future content of geography as a discipline.Contributors: M. Bauder, P. Brouder, R. de Cássia Ariza da Cruz, K. Debbage, M.G. Gren, M. Hall, H.V. Haraldsson, X. Honggang, E.H. Huijbens, Z. Ibrahim, D. Ioannides, D.K. Müller, R. Ólafsdóttir, J. Saarinen, R. Steiger, R. Tremblay, G. Visser, Y. Wu, K. ZampoukosTrade ReviewA Research Agenda for Tourism Geographies brings together a global group of tourism geography scholars presenting insightful thoughts on many of the cutting-edge issues that our subfield of study is attempting to address today. Together they provide a foundation for moving tourism geography into the future.' --lan A. Lew, Northern Arizona University, US'Dieter Müller has successfully coordinated an international assembly of contributors who offer insightful new perspectives on tourism geography's evolution and future research agendas. The volume provides an excellent resource for tourism geographers to consider the position of their research with respect to the discipline of geography and the interdisciplinary arena of tourism studies.' --Alison Gill, Simon Fraser University, Canada'In a world characterised by rapid and radical change, this book sets out an ambitious future for a subject that will have increasing international importance in the years to come.' --Tim Coles, University of Exeter, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Research agendas for tourism geographies: An introduction Dieter K. Müller 2. Tourism geographies: A bibliometric review Dieter K. Müller 3. Tourism/geography/mobilities are dead, long live Tourism/geography/mobilities: Or, returning to yet another turn - the inexorable search for relevant research agendas in tourism geographies C. Michael Hall 4. Not a serious subject?! Academic relevancy and critical tourism geographies Jarkko Saarinen 5. For a scientific and critical approach to tourism in geography Rita de Cássia Ariza da Cruz 6. The contribution of Tourism Geography to the field of Geography overall Honggang Xu and Yuefang Wu 7. Infusing tourism geographies Dieter K. Müller 8. Towards a geographical political economy of tourism Patrick Brouder 9. Geographies of tourism entrepreneurship and innovation: An evolving research agenda Keith Debbage 10. Exploring the geographic dimensions of tourism work and workers Dimitri Ioannides and Kristina Zampoukos 11. Towards a framework for lifestyle migration Zainub Ibrahim and Rémy Tremblay 12. The challenges of tourism and urban economic (re)development in Southern cities Gustav Visser 13. Tourism geography in and of the anthropocene Martin G. Gren and Edward H. Huijbens 14. Tourism spatial dynamics and causal relations: A need for holistic understanding Rannveig Ólafsdóttir and Hörður V. Haraldsson 15. Tourism and climate change Robert Steiger 16. Engage! A research agenda for Big Data in tourism geography Michael Bauder Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration
Book SynopsisBorder walls, shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, separated families at the border, island detention camps: migration is at the centre of contemporary political and academic debates. This ground-breaking Handbook offers an exciting and original analysis of critical research on themes such as these, drawing on cutting-edge theories from an interdisciplinary and international group of leading scholars. With a focus on spatial analysis and geographical context, this volume highlights a range of theoretical, methodological and regional approaches to migration research, while remaining attuned to the underlying politics that bring critical scholars together. Divided into six thematic sections, including new areas in critical migration research, the book covers the key questions galvanizing migration scholars today, such as issues surrounding refugees and border militarization. Each chapter explores new themes, expanding on core theories to convey fresh insight to contemporary research. A key resource for migration, refugee and border studies this Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the topic, covering a vast array of research ideas with a specific focus on the geographical aspects of migration. Scholars working on migration, refugees, asylum, transnationalism, humanitarianism and borders will find this an invaluable read. Contributors: J. Allsopp, I. Ataç, N. Bagheri, A. Blunt, J. Bonnerjee, A. Burridge, M. Casas-Cortes, A. Chikanda, S. Cobarrubias, K. Coddington, M. Collyer, D. Conlon, J. Crush, T. Davies, S. Dhesi, P. Ehrkamp, J.L. Fluri, G. Garelli, N. Gill, M. Gilmartin, C. Goh, M. Griffiths, E. Ho, J. Hyndman, A. Isakjee, R. Jones, B. Kasparek, P. Kelly, S. Kok, A.-K. Kuusisto-Arponen, R.B. Lacy, J. Loyd, K. MacFarlane, C. Maharaj, L. Martin, D.E. Martinez, E. Mavroudi, C. Menjívar, K. Mitchell, B. Muller, P. Pallister-Wilkins, N. Paszkiewicz, T. Raeymaekers, R. Rogers, R. Rotter, A. Sabhlok, R. Sampson, M. Schmidt-Sembdner, A. Secor, J. Slack, E. Steinhilper, S.D. Walsh, H. van Houtum, M. Walton-Roberts, K. Wee, Y. Weima, B. YeohTrade Review'This Handbook arrives at a significant time, when state and public responses to human mobility have taken a particularly hostile turn. A rich compendium, it examines numerous key spaces, scales, structures and dynamics of migration that characterize our turbulent era.' --Steven Vertovec, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany'By highlighting the intersection of two major themes - qualitative historical change within continuity and the significance of spatial analysis in the mapping of economic and political restructuring - this book advances migration studies and speaks to our precarious challenging times.' --Nina Glick Schiller, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany'This comprehensively framed and engaging collection of essays by leading international geographers provides an innovative global perspective and critical analytic insights for both scholars and advocates into the multiple cultural, social, and political dimensions of international migration - a major contribution to contemporary theoretical and public policy debates.' --Josh DeWind, Social Science Research Council, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Critical Geographies of Migration Katharyne Mitchell, Reece Jones, and Jennifer L. Fluri PART I New Issues in Critical Migration Research 1. Borders and bodies: Siting critical geographies of migration Mary Gilmartin and Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen 2. Managing displacement: Negotiating transnationalism, encampment, and return Yolanda Weima and Jennifer Hyndman 3. Gender, Violence and Migration Cecilia Menjívar and Shannon Drysdale Walsh 4. The laws of impermanence: Displacement, sovereignty, subjectivity Timothy Raeymaekers 5. Biometric borders Benjamin J Müller PART II Corporeal and Gendered Geographies of Migration 6. Embodied migration and the geographies of care: The worlds of unaccompanied refugee minors Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen and Mary Gilmartin 7. Corporeal geographies of labour migration in Asia Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Kellynn Wee, and Charmian Goh 8. Seasonal Migration and the working-class laboring body in India Anu Sabhlok 9. Embodiment and memory in the geopolitics of trauma Patrica Ehrkamp, Jenna M. Loyd, and Anna Secor 10. Gendered circular migrations of Afghans: Fleeing conflict and seeking opportunity Nazgol Bagheri and Jennifer L. Fluri PART III Borders, Violence, and the Externalization of Control 11. The geography of migrant death: Violence on the U.S.-Mexico border Jeremy Slack and Daniel E. Martinez 12. 'Ceci n'est pas la migration: The surrealist migration map of Frontex Henk van Houtum and Rodrigo Bueno-Lacy 13. From preventative to repressive: The changing use of development and humanitarianism to control migration Michael Collyer 14. Military-humanitarianism Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 15. Genealogies of contention in concentric circles: Remote migration control and its Eurocentric geographical imaginaries Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 16. Renationalization and spaces of migration: The European border regime after 2015 Bernd Kasparek and Matthais Schmidt-Sembdner PART IV Camps, Detention, and Prisons 17. Informal migrant camps Thom Davies, Arshad Isakjee, and Surindar Dhesi 18. Fractures in Australia’s Asia-Pacific border continuum: Deterrence, detention, and the production of illegality Kate Coddington 19. Carceral mobility and flexible territoriality in immigration enforcement Lauren Martin 20. The biopolitics of alternatives to immigration detention Robyn Sampson PART V Transnationalism and Diaspora 21. Home and diaspora Alison Blunt and Jayani Bonnerjee 22. Revisiting diaspora as process: timespace, performative diasporas? Elizabeth Mavroudi 23. Diasporas and development Margaret Walton-Roberts , Jonathan Crush and Abel Chikanda 24. Approximating citizenship: Affective practices of Chinese diasporic descendants in Myanmar Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho 25. Geographies of the next generation: Outcomes for the children of immigrants through a spatial lens Philip Kelly and Cindy Maharaj 26. Social media and migration: A moral epistemology of Rwandan return Saskia Kok and Richard Rogers Part VI Refugees, Asylum, Humanitarianism 27. Contentious subjects: Spatial and relational perspectives on refugee mobilizations in Europe Elias Steinhilper and Ilker Ataç 28. Law, presence and refugee claim determination Nick Gill, Jennifer Allsopp, Andrew Burridge, Melanie Griffiths, Natalia Paszkiewicz, and Rebecca Rotter 29. Im/mobility and humanitarian triage Polly Pallister-Wilkins 30. Contradictions and provocations of neoliberal governmentality in the U.S. asylum seeking system Deirdre Conlon 31. Counter-mapping, refugees and asylum borders Martina Tazzioli and Glenda Garelli 32. The sanctuary network: Transnational church activism and refugee protection in Europe Katharyne Mitchell and Key MacFarlane Index
£42.70
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Innovation and the Growth of Cities
Book SynopsisThis new and original book by Zoltan Acs explores the relationship between industrial innovation and economic growth at the regional level, and reaches conclusions as to why some regions grow but others decline. While the analysis draws on industrial organization, labor economics, regional science, geography and entrepreneurship, the book focuses on innovation and the growth of cities by the use of endogenous growth theory.The author argues that industrial innovation is the driving force behind long-run regional growth, and explores the issues of how technology and entrepreneurship can foster and promote growth at the regional level.With its multidisciplinary approach, Innovation and the Growth of Cities will be warmly welcomed by academics and researchers alike in the areas of innovation and science, regional science and geography, entrepreneurship and evolutionary economics.Trade Review'An extremely valuable tool for the student of innovation and regional development. The structure of the book - a collection of previously published articles and book chapters - offers a final result that, although organized around a common theme, comprises chapters that are independent from another. This allows the reader to concentrate on specific subtopics of interest. The book also has the advantage of offering a very good description of the methodology used to arrive at the results.' -- Pierre-Marcel Desjardins, Journal of Regional Science'This book is both topical and of real-world interest. It brings some careful empirical analysis to the question of how localized knowledge is generated and diffuses within metropolitan areas.' -- Daniel Felsenstein, Journal of Economic Literature’. . . this is an impressive collection of work. The author's eclectic style is well managed and his evidence is persuasive. The book will improve the debate on regional growth issues including public policy. I would recommend this book to anyone studying regional economic or growth issues.' -- William H. Rogers, Journal of Economic Issues'Zoltan Acs has produced one of the major works of the past decade or two that helps to explain why cities grow. A central premise and one supported by empirical analysis throughout the book is that entrepreneurship is an important local activity that translates raw knowledge (that by the way is shown to be highly local) into ideas and start-ups that grow and underpin and sustain metropolitan growth. This is a must read for all students and scholars of urban and national economic growth and related policies.' -- Roger R. Stough, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Richard Florida Preface 1. Technology and Entrepreneurship 2. Knowledge, Innovation and Firm Size 3. Local Geographic Spillovers 4. Sectoral Characteristics 5. Innovation of Entrepreneurial Firms 6. Capital Structure, Innovation and Firm Size 7. Employment Growth in Metropolitan Areas 8. Employment, Wages and R&D Spillovers 9. Heterogeneity versus Specialization 10. Regional Innovation Systems 11. Epilogue: Towards a ‘New Model of Regional Economic Development’? Appendices A. The Innovation Database B. Innovation, R&D Lab Employment and University Research by State C. Innovation, R&D Lab Employment and University Research by MSA D. Innovation, Private R&D Lab Employment and University Research by MSA and Industry Sector E. Industry Groupings F. List of Variables References Index
£44.60
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cities and Regions in Crisis: The Political
Book Synopsis'This book is a remarkable and often inspirational tour de force. Martin Jones confidently moves between theories of political economy and stories of regional and urban policy, using each to inform the other. He brings the uneven geographies of England to life, showing how they are reproduced in practice, while also offering the prospect of alternative futures.'- Allan Cochrane, The Open University, UKOffering a geographical political economy analysis, this book explores the mechanisms, institutions, and spaces of subnational economic development. Martin Jones innovatively examines how policy-makers frame problems and offer intervention solutions in different cities and regions.Drawing on different approaches to state intervention, neoliberalism, crisis and contradiction theories, and notions of depoliticisation, this book explains policy failure and how it is impacted by flux surrounding economic development. With constant changes to legislation, institutional initiatives, and ministerial responsibility, local and regional economic development is shown to be at a critical crossroads.Theoretically innovative and empirically focused, this timely book is a must-read for researchers and policy-makers of urban geography, regional development, political economy and public policy.Trade Review‘Cities and Regions in Crisis presents a rich and insightful analysis of urban and regional governance in England. Jones has rather successfully curated a body of work that not only documents, but also questions the notion of crises in the context of uneven development and, more specifically, in left behind places. It manages to be both comprehensive and inclusive, thoroughly researched and accessible, and highly theorized and policy relevant. It should be recognized as an important contribution to the fields of critical economic and political geographies, at what is ostensibly a defining moment for subnational economic development.’ -- Margaret Cowell, Spatial Research and Planning‘Jones provides us with a range and depth of theoretical foundations, arguments and empirics that gives the reader a variety of insights into the critiques of the economic policy in neoliberalism. The book memorably shows us that 'the need for new spatial frameworks and ways of coupling governance with regulation to hold down the global and ensure some level of social cohesion via applying the brakes on combined and uneven development has never been so urgent'. It provides not only with several highly relevant critical perspectives on the praxis within academia and in the public sphere in framing and managing the local, but it also offers a foundation of critique of neoliberal economic policy, discourses and place-making. Its application of theory in research and able linkage between theory and practical, concrete, ideas about government at the local level gives the reader not only the critical perspective but an idea of what can be done. This is a relevant book for any researcher or policymaker that grapples the linkage between institutional arrangements, governance, the changing contours of the economy, and the consequent effect on uneven development, resentment, and inequalities.’ -- Andreas Erlström, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘The book is a contribution to inter-disciplinary geographical political economy of cities and regions. Though based on England’s experience, the book is of general relevance and applicability across countries including India. It is a useful reference book for students, teachers, researchers, practitioners and policy makers who deal with multi-dimensional and comparative urban and regional economic governance and development issues in different countries and institutional set ups. The long list of references compressed in 48 pages at the end of the book is a fine source of comprehensive literature for both early and senior researchers in urban and regional development studies.’ -- M.R. Narayana, Aarthika Charche‘As Jones’ excellent study demonstrates, the last 30 odd years does not bode well, and without a challenge to the so-called ‘common sense’ of economic development, we will remain ensnared in the political and economy contradictions of neoliberalism. Exposing and challenging these contradictions, Cities and Regions in Crisis is essential reading for all scholars of the local state.’ -- Steven Griggs, Local Government Studies‘In Cities and Regions in Crisis, Jones achieves a synthesis of the literature critiquing neoliberal economic policy and space, and consolidates accounts of institutional changes and policy responses addressing the local effects of uneven development in the UK. His theoretical contributions are noteworthy, having been amongst the core group of scholars to challenge the neoliberal paradigm of development and carry associated ideas into the mainstream. His cases provide clear examples for applying theory in research. It is important for researchers and policy-makers to build upon the body of case research and to provide evidence that can be used to prevent the same failed policy responses from being repeated. For that, this book serves as a useful resource.’ -- Bradley Loewen, Regional Studies‘This book is a remarkable and often inspirational tour de force. Martin Jones confidently moves between theories of political economy and stories of regional and urban policy, using each to inform the other. He brings the uneven geographies of England to life, showing how they are reproduced in practice, while also offering the prospect of alternative futures.’ -- Allan Cochrane, The Open University, UK'Martin Jones is a critical economic and political geographer. This well-integrated monograph presents his radical, theoretically-informed, spatio-temporally nuanced, evidence-based research on cities and regions. While policy-relevant, it explains the many reasons why urban and regional policy-makers more often fail than succeed in delivering their changing projects. It deserves serious study.' --Bob Jessop, Lancaster University, UK'They say that crises are never really solved, only moved around. No one knows this better than Martin Jones, who for two decades has been one of the most astute, creative, and determined chroniclers of the churning ''system'' of urban and regional governance in England.' --Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia, Canada'In Cities and Regions in Crisis, Martin Jones has crafted a rich and grounded geographical political economy. Consolidating and integrating a deep and important body of work, he provides insightful analysis of urban and regional governance in England and extends this to reflect upon more progressive future directions. It offers much to inspire and inform research on the rolling predicament of governing uneven geographical development beyond its empirical focus.' --Andy Pike, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: Geographical Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Crisis Space Impedimenta State PART I THE NEW LOCALISM 1. Government and Governance 2. Urban Crisis and Contradiction 3. Zones of Welfare and Workfare PART II THE NEW REGIONALISM 4. Regional Development Agencies 5. Spaces of Regionalism 6. City Region Building PART III THE NEW NEW LOCALISM 7. Locality Making 8. Devolution Dynamics 9. Devolution Depoliticisation PART IV ALTERNATIVES TO NEOLIBERALISM 10. Developing Inclusive Growth 11. Beyond Withered Local States Postscript: The Stoke Road to Brexit References Index
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CABI Publishing Tourism, Culture and Regeneration
Book SynopsisSustainable and integrated regeneration in the context of culture and tourism is explored for the first time within this book. The text is enhanced by international case studies.Table of Contents1: Introduction, M K Smith 2: Towards a Cultural Planning Approach to Regeneration, M K Smith 3: The Creative Turn in Regeneration: Creative Spaces, Spectacles and Tourism in Cities, G Richards, Tourism Research and Marketing, Spain, and J Wilson, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain 4: Culture, City Users and the Creation of New Tourism Areas in Cities, R Maitland, University of Westminster, UK 5: VivaCity: Mixed-Use and Urban Tourism, R Aiesha and G Evans, London Metropolitan University, UK 6: Ethnoscapes as Cultural Attractions in Canadian ‘World Cities’, S J Shaw, London Metropolitan University, UK 7: (Re)Creating Culture through Tourism: Black Heritage Sites in New Jersey, D Cheyenne Harvey, Rutgers University, USA 8: Sustainable and Responsible Leisure and Tourism Space Development in Post-industrial Cities? The case of Odaiba Waterfront City, Tokyo, Japan, M Murayama, University of Greenwich, UK, and G Parker, University of Reading, UK 9: After Regeneration the Circus Leaves Town: The Relationship between Sports Events, Tourism and Urban, A Smith, University of Westminster, UK 10: World Class: Using the Olympics to Shape and Brand the American Metropolis, C H Heying, Portland State University, USA, M J Burbank, University of Utah, USA, and G Andranovich, California State University, Los Angeles, USA 11: Touring Templates: Cultural Workers and Regeneration in Small New England Cities, M M Breitbart, Hampshire College, USA, and C Stanton, Tufts University, USA 12: Cultural Policy and Urban Restructuring in Chicago, C Spirou, National-Louis University, USA 13: Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts: The Challenges of Implementing a Cultural District Initiative, A Maria Bounds, New York, USA 14: On the Water’s Edge: Developing Cultural Regeneration Paradigms for Urban Waterfronts, A Jones 15: Born Again: From Dock Cities to Cities of Culture, Pat Avery, University of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK 16: Interpretative Planning as a Means of Urban Regeneration: Recife, Brazil, B Bath and P Goncalves, Hove, UK 17: Conclusion, M K Smith
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CABI Publishing Building Community Capacity for Tourism
Book SynopsisTourism has become an important tool for development in rural, remote and peripheral regions in the last 50 years. However, in many places, tourism has failed to produce the promised benefits and often caused negative impacts due to a lack of local entrepreneurial capacity to benefit from tourism business opportunities, inadequate understanding of tourism markets and limited community awareness of tourism and its impacts. Drawing attention to the potential outcomes to communities when using tourism as a development strategy, this book provides a focused analysis of this emerging issue and seeks to provide positive guidance on improving the process of tourism planning and development. Chapters compile evidence and examples of how community capacity for tourism can be built and enhanced using case studies from Asia, Africa, South America, the South Pacific and rural Australia and the United States. Providing models and frameworks that can be applied to any developing area, this book will be useful to both academic researchers and government policy makers interested in tourism and rural development.Table of ContentsPart I: Improving Knowledge of Tourism Development and It’s Impacts 1: Community Capacity Building An Emerging Challenge for Tourism Development G Moscardo 2: Enhancing the Economic Benefits of Tourism at the Local Level N Stoeckl 3: Understanding How Tourism can bring Socio-cultural Benefits to Destination Communities P Pearce 4: Linking a Sense of Place with a Sense of Care: Overcoming Sustainability Challenges Faced by Remote Communities K Walker Part II: Improving Community Knowledge of Tourism Development 5: Community based Tourism in Asia P Rocharungsat 6: Examples of Effective techniques for Enhancing Community Understanding of Tourism J Sammy 7: Tools to Enhance Community Capacity to Critically Evaluate Tourism Activities K Walker Part III: Improving Community Participation in Tourism Development 8: Partnerships for Tourism Development Amanda Stronza 9: Enhancing Participation of Women in Tourism Haretsebe Manwa 10: Entrepreneurship and the Rural Tourism Industry: A Primer N G. McGehee and C S. Kline 11: Perspectives on Leadership Coaching for Regional Tourism Managers and Entrepreneurs A Blackman 12: Capacity Building Through Cooperation R Monypenny
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The International Handbook of Social Impact
Book SynopsisSocial Impact Assessment (SIA) is the process of analysing and managing the intended and unintended consequences on the human environment of planned interventions (policies, programmes, plans, projects) so as to bring about a more sustainable and equitable biophysical and human environment. This important Handbook presents an indispensable overview of the range of new methods and of the conceptual advances in SIA.Recent increased attention to social considerations has led to substantial development in the techniques useful to, and the thinking in, SIA. A distinguished group of contributors provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the cutting-edge in SIA development.This Handbook outlines a new understanding and definition of SIA and, as such, will be an invaluable reference tool for both practitioners and scholars at different levels working in the fields of SIA and environmental studies (including both impact assessment and management).Trade Review'This book provides a valuable addition to the Social Impact Assessment (SIA) literature. While the volume addresses several good examples of "how to" case studies it also firmly addresses the importance of the need for firm conceptual and theoretical guidelines for SIA practice. . . the volume is an excellent contribution to the SIA literature and I highly recommend it to both practitioner and researcher alike.' -- Geoff Syme, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management'An innovative collection which takes social impact assessment to the frontiers of environmental and social policy and citizen awareness. Unusually, this collection includes both sophisticated quantitative tools and equally important chapters on participation, stakeholder involvement and environmental mediation. A most valuable source book.' -- Michael Redclift, King's College, London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Conceptual and Methodological Advances in Social Impact Assessment Frank Vanclay PART I: CONCEPTUAL ADVANCES IN SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT 2. Undertaking Longitudinal Research Nick Taylor, Colin Goodrich, Gerard Fitzgerald and Wayne McClintock 3. Using Local Knowledge James Baines, Wayne McClintock, Nick Taylor and Brigid Buckenham 4. Learning from Participatory Land Management Neil Powell and Janice Jiggins 5. Integrating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Roel Slootweg, Frank Vanclay and Marlies van Schooten 6. Conceptualizing Social Change Processes and Social Impacts Marlies van Schooten, Frank Vanclay and Roel Slootweg 7. Integrating Health and Social Impact Assessment Robert Rattle and Roy E. Kwiatkowski 8. An Ecological Model of Wellbeing Davianna Pomaika’i McGregor, Paula Tanemura Morelli, Jon Kei Matsuoka and Luciano Minerbi PART II: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR BEST PRACTICE 9. Theory Formation and Application in Social Impact Assessment Henk Becker 10. Computer-based Qualitative Data Methods Gerard Fitzgerald 11. Assessing Gender Impacts Bina Srinivasan and Lyla Mehta 12. Socioeconomic Modelling for Estimating Intergenerational Impacts Gijs Dekkers 13. Using Geographic Information Systems for Cultural Impact Assessment Luciano Minerbi, Davianna Pomaika’i McGregor and Jon Kei Matsuoka 14. Vulnerability and Capacity Measurement Mark Fenton, Sheridan Coakes and Nadine Marshall 15. Citizen Values Assessment Annelies Stolp 16. Involving the Public Richard Roberts 17. Handling Complex Societal Problems Dorien DeTombe 18. Environmental Mediation Helen Ross Index
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Policy Press Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth?
Book SynopsisEncouraging neighbourhood social mix has been a major goal of urban policy and planning in a number of different countries. This book draws together a range of case studies by international experts to assess the impacts of social mix policies and the degree to which they might represent gentrification by stealth. The contributions consider the range of social mix initiatives in different countries across the globe and their relationship to wider social, economic and urban change. The book combines understandings of social mix from the perspectives of researchers, policy makers and planners and the residents of the communities themselves. Mixed Communities also draws out more general lessons from these international comparisons - theoretically, empirically and for urban policy. It will be highly relevant for urban researchers and students, policy makers and practitioners alike.Trade Review"This volume is extremely useful for anyone hoping to get to grips with the complex and little-understood issues regarding social mix policy and gentrification." LSE Review of Books"This collection is the definitive analysis of today's urban policy paradox: a friendly language of community and inclusion used to justify policies that threaten exactly what they name - social mix and diversity." Elvin Wyly, Chair of Urban Studies Programme, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Gentrification and social mix ~ Loretta Lees, Tim Butler and Gary Bridge; Part one: Reflections on social mix policy: Why do birds of a feather flock together? Social mix and social welfare: A quantitative appraisal ~ Paul Cheshire; Social mix and urban policy ~ Patrick Le Galès; Mixed communities and urban policy: Reflections from the UK ~ Rebecca Tunstall; Gentrification without social mixing in the rapidly urbanising world of Australasia ~ Wendy Shaw; Part two: Social mix in liberal and neoliberal times: Social mixing and the historical geography of gentrification ~ David Ley; HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany: Social mix as a 21st century planning goal ~ Juergen Bruns-Berentelg; Part three: Social mix policies and gentrification: Mixed income schools and housing policy in Chicago: A critical examination of the gentrification/education/'racial' exclusion nexus ~ Pauline Lipman; Social mix as the aim of a controlled gentrification process: The example of the Goutte d'Or district in Paris ~ Marie-Hélène Bacqué and Yankel Fijalkow; Beware the Trojan horse: Contructions of social mix in Melbourne ~ Kate Shaw; Part four: The rhetoric and reality of social mix policies: Social mixing as a cure for negative neighbourhood effects: Evidence based policy or urban myth? ~ David Manley, Maarten van Ham and Joe Doherty; Meanings, politics and realities of social mix and gentrification - A view from Brussels ~ Mathieu Van Criekingen; 'Regeneration' in interesting times: A story of privatisation and gentrification in a peripheral Scottish city ~ Sarah Glynn; HOPE VI: Calling for modesty in its claims ~ James Fraser, James DeFilippis and Joshua Bazuin; Part five: Experiencing social mix: The impossibility of gentrification and social mixing ~ Mark Davidson; Not the only power in town? Challenging binaries and bringing the working class into gentrification research ~ Kirsteen Patton; From social mix to political marginalisation? The redevelopment of Toronto's public housing and the dilution of tenant organizational power ~ Martine August and Alan Walks; Mixture without mating: Partial gentrification in the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands ~ Talja Blokland and Gwen van Eijk; Afterword ~ Gary Bridge, Tim Butler and Loretta Lees.
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Policy Press Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth?
Book SynopsisEncouraging neighbourhood social mix has been a major goal of urban policy and planning in a number of different countries. This book draws together a range of case studies by international experts to assess the impacts of social mix policies and the degree to which they might represent gentrification by stealth. The contributions consider the range of social mix initiatives in different countries across the globe and their relationship to wider social, economic and urban change. The book combines understandings of social mix from the perspectives of researchers, policy makers and planners and the residents of the communities themselves. Mixed Communities also draws out more general lessons from these international comparisons - theoretically, empirically and for urban policy. It will be highly relevant for urban researchers and students, policy makers and practitioners alike.Trade Review"This volume is extremely useful for anyone hoping to get to grips with the complex and little-understood issues regarding social mix policy and gentrification." LSE Review of Books"This collection is the definitive analysis of today's urban policy paradox: a friendly language of community and inclusion used to justify policies that threaten exactly what they name - social mix and diversity." Elvin Wyly, Chair of Urban Studies Programme, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Gentrification and social mix ~ Loretta Lees, Tim Butler and Gary Bridge; Part one: Reflections on social mix policy: Why do birds of a feather flock together? Social mix and social welfare: A quantitative appraisal ~ Paul Cheshire; Social mix and urban policy ~ Patrick Le Galès; Mixed communities and urban policy: Reflections from the UK ~ Rebecca Tunstall; Gentrification without social mixing in the rapidly urbanising world of Australasia ~ Wendy Shaw; Part two: Social mix in liberal and neoliberal times: Social mixing and the historical geography of gentrification ~ David Ley; HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany: Social mix as a 21st century planning goal ~ Juergen Bruns-Berentelg; Part three: Social mix policies and gentrification: Mixed income schools and housing policy in Chicago: A critical examination of the gentrification/education/'racial' exclusion nexus ~ Pauline Lipman; Social mix as the aim of a controlled gentrification process: The example of the Goutte d'Or district in Paris ~ Marie-Hélène Bacqué and Yankel Fijalkow; Beware the Trojan horse: Contructions of social mix in Melbourne ~ Kate Shaw; Part four: The rhetoric and reality of social mix policies: Social mixing as a cure for negative neighbourhood effects: Evidence based policy or urban myth? ~ David Manley, Maarten van Ham and Joe Doherty; Meanings, politics and realities of social mix and gentrification - A view from Brussels ~ Mathieu Van Criekingen; 'Regeneration' in interesting times: A story of privatisation and gentrification in a peripheral Scottish city ~ Sarah Glynn; HOPE VI: Calling for modesty in its claims ~ James Fraser, James DeFilippis and Joshua Bazuin; Part five: Experiencing social mix: The impossibility of gentrification and social mixing ~ Mark Davidson; Not the only power in town? Challenging binaries and bringing the working class into gentrification research ~ Kirsteen Patton; From social mix to political marginalisation? The redevelopment of Toronto's public housing and the dilution of tenant organizational power ~ Martine August and Alan Walks; Mixture without mating: Partial gentrification in the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands ~ Talja Blokland and Gwen van Eijk; Afterword ~ Gary Bridge, Tim Butler and Loretta Lees.
£77.39
Policy Press Fair play: A Daniel Dorling reader on social
Book SynopsisThis accessible reader brings together a selection of highly influential writings by Danny Dorling which look at inequality and social justice, why they matter and what they are. Encompassing an extensive range of print and online media - including newspaper articles and key publications - 'Fair Play' provides evidence that Britain is becoming more politically, socially and economically divided whilst coming together in terms of educational outcomes and reduced segregation by ethnicity.Trade Review"A store of brain stimulants to dip into. Dorling turns his serious research into engaging prose, consistently questioning the ways of our world." Ludi Simpson, University of Manchester'In this book Daniel Dorling has brought together fifty-two of his academic papers, newspaper articles, magazine articles, and unpublished essays, to create a nicely structured and really quite devastating critique of our unequal society: devastating because so carefully researched.' - Citizen's Income Newsletter"Danny Dorling consistently works to subject the myths that sustain inequality and injustice to the test of patient inquiry. In the political struggles that lie ahead of us we need a social science that does not reproduce the assumptions of the privileged and the powerful. We need, in other words, to read Danny Dorling." Dan Hind, author of The Return of the Public and The Threat to Reason"Professor Dorling, geographer extraordinaire, brings the debate on inequalities and social immobility to life: if his powerful new book leaves you stimulated, provoked, angry, then Danny Dorling has succeeded again." Lord Richard Best, independent member of the House of LordsTable of ContentsPreface ~ Mary O'Hara; Introduction; Context; Inequality and poverty; Injustice and ideology; Race and Identity; Education and hierarchy; Elitism and wealth; Mobility and employment; Bricks and mortar; Wellbeing and misery; Advocacy and action.
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Spatio-temporal Approaches: Geographic Objects
Book SynopsisSpatio-temporal Approaches presents a well-built set of concepts, methods and approaches, in order to represent and understand the evolution of social and environmental phenomena within the space. It is basedon examples in human geography and archeology (which will enable us to explore questions regarding various temporalities) and tackles social and environmental phenomena. Chapter 1 discusses how to apprehend change: objects, attributes, relations, processes.Chapter 2 introduces multiple points of view about modeling and the authors try to shed a new light on the different, but complementary approaches of geomaticians and thematicians. Chapter 3 is devoted to the construction of spatio-temporal indicators, to various measurements of the change, while highlighting the advantage of an approach crossing several points of view, in order to understand the phenomenon at hand. Chapter 4 presents different categories of simulation model in line with complexity sciences. These models rely notably on the concepts of emergence and self-organization and allow us to highlight the roles of interaction within change. Chapter 5 provides ideas on research concerning the various construction approaches of hybrid objects and model couplings.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ix CHAPTER 1. BUILDING OBJECTS IN TIME 1 1.1. Different points of view on ontology 4 1.1.1. Defining ontology 4 1.1.2. Qualification of the objects from an ontological perspective: “bona fide” versus “fiat” objects 8 1.1.3. Specification of ontologies in the field of spatial analysis and geographical sciences: objects versus fields 10 1.1.4. An example of empirical objects’ construction: the case of cities 13 1.2. Locating spatial objects in time 16 1.2.1. Objects’ formalization in time: “endurant” and “perdurant” entities of philosophers 17 1.2.2. From change to objects’ life 21 1.3. Conclusion 28 CHAPTER 2. FROM EMPIRICAL QUESTIONING TO SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELING 29 2.1. From the conception of entities to their analysis of responding to thematic issues 30 2.1.1. Building the spatio-temporal objects from the empirical observations (challenge 1) 32 2.1.2. Representing and exploring change and movement (challenge 2) 35 2.1.3. Analyzing the evolution of statistical and spatial relationships (challenge 3) 38 2.1.4. Identifying the underlying processes of change: simulation and scenario testing (challenge 4) 41 2.2. Challenges and models: the possible misunderstandings 44 2.3. Application examples 46 2.3.1. Cities’ dynamics: construction and follow-up of composite objects in time 47 2.3.2. Distribution of urban functions in the intra-urban space: construction of spatio-temporal functional objects 53 2.3.3. Evaluating the impact of mobile objects on a spatial support 56 2.3.4. What factors are behind the emergence and/or the reinforcement of school segregation? Construction of multilevel and multidate information 60 2.4. Conclusion 64 CHAPTER 3. ANALYZING SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA: EMPIRICAL AND STATISTICAL APPROACHES 65 3.1. Statistical data and spatio-temporal analysis 66 3.1.1. Spatial analysis evolution in a context influenced by statistics and computer science 66 3.1.2. Different ways to take time and space into account to analyze spatio-temporal processes 70 3.1.3. From entities’ dynamics to that of organizations: what is it that changes and relative to what frame of reference? 73 3.2. Following the evolution of the structure of spatial systems 76 3.2.1. Describing the evolution of space and hierarchical organizations 76 3.2.2. Change, temporalities and statistical explanations 82 3.3. Understanding the evolution of a spatial system’s entities 86 3.3.1. Constructing, describing and categorizing trajectories of evolution 87 3.3.2. Identifying a priori defined types of change to classify evolutions 91 3.3.3. “Unfolded” time and forecast 93 3.4. Conclusion 97 Chapter 4. Exploring the Underlying Processes of Change: Simulation Models 99 4.1. Computer simulation versus statistical approach: different points of view about explanation 99 4.1.1. From covariation to interaction, from differentiation to emergence 102 4.1.2. Different types of explanation: from the percentage of variance explained to the generation of mechanisms 104 4.1.3. Different points of view on multilevel phenomena 105 4.2. Microsimulation models107 4.3. Computing models: simulation and emergence 112 4.3.1. Modeling the diffusion of a migratory wave front 113 4.3.2. Cellular automata approaches: the case of land use changes 115 4.3.3. Agent-based models applied to simple entities 120 4.3.4. Agent modeling on composite entities 124 4.4. Conclusion 129 CONCLUSION 133 BIBLIOGRAPHY 139 INDEX 155
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Geography and Migration
Book SynopsisThis major reference collection describes and reviews the contribution which geographers have made to the charting, description, analysis and understanding of this age-old phenomenon. Migration is one of the dominant forces reshaping modern societies. The traditional concerns of geographers with flows, spatial differentiation and the power of place have given them unique understandings in the study of migration relevant to contemporary problems. Geographers have been able to make a distinctive contribution to knowledge about this phenomenon, from the laws of Ravenstein to the humanistic accounts of those caught up in refugee movements.Geography and Migration includes macrolevel descriptions to examine whether migration takes place in discernible flows and whether there are regularities in migration patterns or in the characteristics, origin and behaviour of migrants. Micro and macro-level explanations follow and address the impact of life cycle, quality of life and search factors. The final section includes essays and papers on the impact of migration on participants, source areas and destinations.Trade Review’The papers for inclusion are judiciously selected and will prove invaluable for lecturers and students needing to put their hands quickly on references. The selection includes both classic texts and less familiar material.’- Ceri Peach, Journal of Ethnic and Migration StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Macro-Level Description Part II: Micro-Level and Macro Level Explanations Part III: Impacts Upon Participants, Source Areas, Destination Regions and Destination Countries Name Index
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AU Press To Know Our Many Selves: From the Study of Canada
Book SynopsisTo Know Our Many Selves profiles the history of Canadianstudies, which began as early as the 1840s with the Study of Canada. Indiscussing this comprehensive examination of culture, Hoerderhighlights its unique interdisciplinary approach, which included bothsociological and political angles. Years later, as the study of otherethnicities was added to the cultural story of Canada, a solidfoundation was formed for the nation’s master narrative. Against this background, To Know Our Many Selves focuses onwhy Canadian studies can be used as a sound model for the study ofother societies in a framework of transcultural societal studies.Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Traditions and Practices: From Colonial and Area to Cultural orSocietal Studies I. Framing Research on Canada: Burdens and Achievements ofthe Past 2. The Atlantic World: Creating Societies in Imperial Hinterland 3. Canada’s Peoples: Inclusions & Exclusions 4. Self-Constructions: From Regional Consciousnesses to NationalBillboards II. From Privileged Discourses to Research on SocialSpaces 5. Privileged Discourses up to 1920: Scholarship in the Making 6. Substantial Research: The Social Spaces of the Geological Surveyof Canada 7. Learning and Society: Social Responsibility, EducationalInstitutions, Elite Formation III. The Study of Canada: The Social Sciences, the Arts, NewMedia, 1920s–1950s 8. Data-Based Studies of Society: Political Economy, History,Sociology 9. Discourse-Based Reflections about Society: Where Were theHumanities? IV. The Third Phase: Multiple Discourses about InterlinkedSocieties 10. Decolonization: The Changes of the 1960s 11. Visions and Borderlines: Canadian Studies since the 1960s 12. Views from the Outside: The Surge of International CanadianStudies 13. Agency in a Multicultural Society: Interdisciplinary ResearchAchievements V. Perspectives 14. From Interest-Driven National Discourse to TransculturalSocietal Studies Interviews with the Author; Index
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University of Westminster Press Festivals and the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events
Book SynopsisThis book explores how festivals and events affect urban places and public spaces, with a particular focus on their role in fostering inclusion.
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University of Westminster Press Tourism and the Metropolis
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University of Westminster Press The World as Abyss: The Caribbean and Critical
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Cornell University Press Chinese Walls in Time and Space: A
Book SynopsisAre walls remnants of ancient and medieval societies, destined to become anachronistic in modern and post-modern times? Or will they persist, shaping as well as adjusting to new conditions? Do walls necessarily constrain and even isolate those who live within them, or can they act as a medium of support and communication for people on both sides? This volume addresses these questions. Authors from six disciplines—history, art, law, medicine, communication, and film—provide multiple perspectives on various kinds of walls: material ones around and within states, cities, and towns, as well as virtual ones regulating the administration of justice, the flow of pathogens, and the transmission of information.
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Rutgers University Press Aging in a Changing World: Older New Zealanders
Book SynopsisThis is a story about aging in place in a world of global movement. Around the world, many older people have stayed still but have been profoundly impacted by the movement of others. Without migrating themselves, many older people now live in a far “different country” than the one of their memories. Recently, the Brexit vote and the 2016 election of Trump have re-enforced prevalent stereotypes of “the racist older person”. This book challenges simplified images of the old as racist, nostalgic and resistant to change by taking a deeper, more nuanced look at older people’s complex relationship with the diversity and multiculturalism that has grown and developed around them. Aging in a Changing World takes a look at how some older people in New Zealand have been responding to and interacting with the new multiculturalism they now encounter in their daily lives. Through their unhurried, micro, daily interactions with immigrants, they quietly emerge as agents of the very social change they are assumed to oppose.Trade Review"Sure to become a classic of urban ethnography. A powerful and much needed account of the way in which older people respond to and negotiate change within urban communities. The research challenges views which present older people as 'victims' of global change, providing a highly nuanced description of both the perceived challenges of migration, but also the positive ways in which it is incorporated into new ways of adapting to social change."— Christopher Phillipson, coeditor of Precarity and Ageing: Understanding Insecurity and Risk in Later Life "Molly George’s book beautifully upends common assumptions about the widespread racism among elderly white Americans, Brits, and New Zealanders, offering a much more nuanced portrait of how ethnicity and migration are viewed by older generations. Examining everyday interactions between long-term residents and newcomers, Aging in a Changing World challenges stereotypical views of what it means to 'age in place' when places, and the people who occupy them, are in fact ever-changing. The result is a thought-provoking examination of multiculturalism as lived experience for the elderly."— Susanna Trnka, author of Traversing: Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech RepublicTable of ContentsList of Illustrations 1 Aging in Times of Great Change 2 Global Movement, Everyday Multiculturalism, and Aging 3 Constructing the Field and Recruiting the Urban Stranger 4 “Then and Now”: Narratives of Change 5 Older New Zealanders’ Immigration-Related Concerns 6 A Surprise Twist? Older New Zealanders as Approachable and Accepting 7 Mentoring “Kiwiness” 8 Cosmopolitan Cadences 9 Conclusions Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Erotic Cartographies: Decolonization and the
Book SynopsisErotic Cartographies uses subjective mapping, a participatory data collection technique, to demonstrate how Trinidadian same-sex-loving women use their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices to reinforce and resist colonial ascriptions on subject bodies. The women strategically embody their sexual identities to challenge imposed subject categories and to contest their invisibility and exclusion from discourses of belonging. Erotic Cartographies refers to the processes of mapping territories of self-knowing and self-expression, both cognitively in the imagination and on paper during the mapping exercise, exploring how meaning is given to space, and how it is transformed. Using the women’s quotes and maps, the book focuses on the false binary of public-private, the practices of home and family, and religious nationalism and spiritual self-seeking, to demonstrate the women’s challenges to the structural, symbolic, and interpersonal violence of colonial discourses and practices related to gender, knowledge, and power in Trinidadian society.Trade Review"Erotic Cartographies is a significant and a very welcome contribution to the small but growing body of scholarship on same-sex loving women in the Caribbean. Through subjective maps, Ghisyawan teases out Trinidadian women’s articulations of identity, passion, friendship, and family, as well as how they resist homophobia and find spaces of safety and belonging. It is a finely crafted study that is theoretically and methodologically rich, clearly produced with much care and respect. A vital text in Queer, Caribbean and decolonial studies." -- Kamala Kempadoo * author of Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Hu *"Ghisyawan makes an outstanding contribution to Caribbean knowledge production in this profound and insightful study of Caribbean sexuality and same-sex desire. Through a much-needed focus on same-sex-loving women and space-making practices, she offers a unique decolonial methodology through subjective mapping and intersectional feminist praxis that demonstrates complex understandings of safety, visibility, place, identity, and queerness. Erotic Cartographies locates and affirms queer Caribbean belonging and spaces by examining lived experiences, creativity, spirituality, and erotic subjectivities that are fiercely and powerfully defiant." -- Angelique V. Nixon * author of Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture *"For Ghisyawan, the erotic is a kind of self-knowing that allows us to reshape space into safe havens, shifting and eliminating the boundaries of what it means to transgress, while also intuiting unsafe spaces and knowing the kinds of performances that become necessary around the potential hostilities of family members, friends, coworkers, and strangers. Ultimately, Erotic Cartographies challenges us to consider the role the erotic plays in our lives as what moves us toward decolonial spaces that are more than just safe enough. By allowing ourselves to inhabit our erotic selves more fully, we also allow ourselves to map the world anew." -- Jessica Díaz Rodríguez * Sx Salon *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsNote on Trinidadian LanguageProloguePart I: Introduction and Methodology1 Introduction: Erotic Cartographies and the Decolonial2 Subjective Mapping: Queer Decolonial MethodologyPart II: Confronting Binaries: Space, Gender, and Social Class3 Being in Public: Queer Transnational Subjectivities4 Contesting “Home”: Unsettling Public-Private BoundariesPart III: State, Religion, and Personhood5 Religious Nationalism: Its Roots and Fruit6 “Dealing Up with the Spirit”: Spiritual Knowledge and Erotic Fulfillment7 ConclusionAppendix 1. Analytics Used for MapsAppendix 2. Bio-Data of Research ParticipantsAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex
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Rutgers University Press Building Something Better: Environmental Crises
Book SynopsisAs the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the world—from climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governments—social scientists examine what is happening and why. Can communities devise alternatives to the systems that are doing so much harm to the planet and people? Sociologists Stephanie A. Malin and Meghan Elizbeth Kallman offer a clear, accessible volume that demonstrates the ways that communities adapt in the face of crises and explains that sociology can help us understand how and why they do this challenging work. Tackling neoliberalism head-on, these communities are making big changes by crafting distributive and regenerative systems that depart from capitalist approaches. The vivid case studies presented range from activist water protectors to hemp farmers to renewable energy cooperatives led by Indigenous peoples and nations. Alongside these studies, Malin and Kallman present incisive critiques of colonialism, extractive capitalism, and neoliberalism, while demonstrating how sociology’s own disciplinary traditions have been complicit with those ideologies—and must expand beyond them. Showing that it is possible to challenge social inequality and environmental degradation by refusing to continue business-as-usual, Building Something Better offers both a call to action and a dose of hope in a time of crises.Trade Review"In Building Something Better, Malin and Kallman provide a sophisticated and nuanced explanation of the persistent and inequitable nature of environmental crises, and they introduce us to a compelling array of social movements working to create more just, sustainable communities."— Jill Harrison, author of From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies "This brave volume posits an environmental sociology that stands in for all of sociology to press for collective well-being. The authors support those who bridge the gap between scholarship and activism, and their wonderful case studies of community activism, many involving Indigenous people, merge the gritty world of organizing and with the thoughtful ideas of social science. It’s a delight to read and an important vehicle for change." — Phil Brown, Northeastern University "In Building Something Better, Malin and Kallman provide a sophisticated and nuanced explanation of the persistent and inequitable nature of environmental crises, and they introduce us to a compelling array of social movements working to create more just, sustainable communities."— Jill Harrison, author of From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies "Especially timely and germane in light of today's political, cultural, and environmental driven instabilities, Building Something Better: Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change is a seminal, informative, and accessibly organized and presented study that is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library environmental economic policy collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists." — John Taylor, Midwest Book Review "This brave volume posits an environmental sociology that stands in for all of sociology to press for collective well-being. The authors support those who bridge the gap between scholarship and activism, and their wonderful case studies of community activism, many involving Indigenous people, merge the gritty world of organizing and with the thoughtful ideas of social science. It’s a delight to read and an important vehicle for change." — Phil Brown, Northeastern UniversityTable of ContentsPart I: Where We’re At And Why 1 Introduction 2 A People’s Sociology 3 Failing People and the Planet: Neoliberal Economics and the Erasure of Difference Part II: Building Better Worlds 4 Human Beings, Not Humans Buying: Trends in Modern Environmentalism, and How Communities Are Reimagining Collectives 5 Democratizing the Commons by Building Communities 6 More than the Market: Practicing Social and Ecological Regeneration 7 Conclusion: Building Something Better Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Rutgers University Press Building Something Better: Environmental Crises
Book SynopsisAs the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the world—from climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governments—social scientists examine what is happening and why. Can communities devise alternatives to the systems that are doing so much harm to the planet and people? Sociologists Stephanie A. Malin and Meghan Elizbeth Kallman offer a clear, accessible volume that demonstrates the ways that communities adapt in the face of crises and explains that sociology can help us understand how and why they do this challenging work. Tackling neoliberalism head-on, these communities are making big changes by crafting distributive and regenerative systems that depart from capitalist approaches. The vivid case studies presented range from activist water protectors to hemp farmers to renewable energy cooperatives led by Indigenous peoples and nations. Alongside these studies, Malin and Kallman present incisive critiques of colonialism, extractive capitalism, and neoliberalism, while demonstrating how sociology’s own disciplinary traditions have been complicit with those ideologies—and must expand beyond them. Showing that it is possible to challenge social inequality and environmental degradation by refusing to continue business-as-usual, Building Something Better offers both a call to action and a dose of hope in a time of crises.Trade Review"In Building Something Better, Malin and Kallman provide a sophisticated and nuanced explanation of the persistent and inequitable nature of environmental crises, and they introduce us to a compelling array of social movements working to create more just, sustainable communities." -- Jill Harrison * author of From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies *"This brave volume posits an environmental sociology that stands in for all of sociology to press for collective well-being. The authors support those who bridge the gap between scholarship and activism, and their wonderful case studies of community activism, many involving Indigenous people, merge the gritty world of organizing and with the thoughtful ideas of social science. It’s a delight to read and an important vehicle for change." -- Phil Brown * Northeastern University *"In Building Something Better, Malin and Kallman provide a sophisticated and nuanced explanation of the persistent and inequitable nature of environmental crises, and they introduce us to a compelling array of social movements working to create more just, sustainable communities." -- Jill Harrison * author of From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies *"This brave volume posits an environmental sociology that stands in for all of sociology to press for collective well-being. The authors support those who bridge the gap between scholarship and activism, and their wonderful case studies of community activism, many involving Indigenous people, merge the gritty world of organizing and with the thoughtful ideas of social science. It’s a delight to read and an important vehicle for change." -- Phil Brown * Northeastern University *"Especially timely and germane in light of today's political, cultural, and environmental driven instabilities, Building Something Better: Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change is a seminal, informative, and accessibly organized and presented study that is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library environmental economic policy collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists." -- John Taylor * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsPart I: Where We’re At And Why1 Introduction2 A People’s Sociology3 Failing People and the Planet: Neoliberal Economics and the Erasure of DifferencePart II: Building Better Worlds4 Human Beings, Not Humans Buying: Trends in Modern Environmentalism, and How Communities Are Reimagining Collectives5 Democratizing the Commons by Building Communities6 More than the Market: Practicing Social and Ecological Regeneration7 Conclusion: Building Something BetterAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Spatial Planning in Ghana: Origins, Contemporary
Book SynopsisThis book documents and analyses spatial planning in Ghana, providing a comprehensive and critical discussion of the evolving institutional and legal arrangements that have shaped and defined Ghana’s spatial planning system for more than seven decades; the contemporary policy instruments and mechanisms for articulating and implementing policies and proposals at multiple scales; and the formally established procedures for development management. It covers important themes in contemporary spatial planning discourse, including the evolving meaning, scope and purpose of spatial planning globally; the scales of spatial planning (i.e. national, regional, sub-regional and local); multi-level integration within spatial planning; public participation; the interface between urbanization, sustainable growth management and spatial planning; spatial planning and housing development; integrated spatial development and transportation planning; and spatial planning and the urban informal economy. Intended for undergraduate and graduate students, and academic researchers and practitioners/policy-makers in the multidisciplinary field of spatial planning, it appeals to readers seeking an international perspective on spatial planning systems and practices.Table of ContentsThe Concept of Spatial Planning and the Planning System.- Spatial Planning in Ghana: Historical Origins and Evolution.- Contemporary Planning Systems and Spatial Planning at the National Level.- The Inception of Regional Spatial Planning in Ghana.- Spatial Planning at the Local Level and Development Management.- Policy Integration in Spatial Planning: Mechanisms, Challenges and the Way Forward.- Public Engagement in Spatial Planning: Contemporary Practices and Prospects for Improvement.- Spatial Planning Tools for Sustainable Urban Growth Management.- The Spatial Planning System and Housing Development: Prospects and Approaches.- Transitions Towards Sustainable Urban Transportation: The Role of Spatial Planning.- Spatial Planning and Climate Change.- Concluding Thoughts.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Reviewing Design Process Theories: Discourses in
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary book explores design theories, combining research from a range of fields including architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, industrial design, software engineering, environmental psychology, geography, anthropology, and sociology. Following an extensive review of the current literature, the author reveals eight major types of theory in design processes. The theories are classified as follows: Rational vs. Empiricist Theories, Procedural vs. Substantive Theories, Normative vs. Positive Theories, Design Scopes, Designers vs. People, Form and Space Creation Paradigms, Efficient Tools and Sources in the Design Process, and Place vs. Non-Place Theories. The respective design theories are illustrated with diagrams, tables and figures, condensing the content of over 140 essential theoretical texts that address various aspects of design processes. Given its scope, the book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students, and to researchers and practitioners in design, urban planning, urban design, architecture, art, etc.Table of ContentsDesign Process Theories and Concepts.- Rational versus Empirical Theories.- Procedural versus Substantive Theories.- Normative versus Positive Theories.- Design Scopes.- Design Participation (Designers versus People Theories).- Paradigms in Form and Space Creation.- Efficient Tools and Sources in Design Process.- Place versus Non-Place Theories.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Smart Villages: Bridging the Global Urban-Rural
Book SynopsisThis book brings together technical expertise, best practices, case studies and ground-level application of the ideas for empowering the rural population of the world to live economically prosperous, environmentally sustainable, and socially progressive lives, on par or comparable with the quality of life enjoyed by the global urban population. The idea of Smart Villages takes on greater urgency in light of the investments made in this millennium on “Smart Cities”, taking advantage of the technological advances, particularly in digital connectivity. These investments have and will continue to expand the urban-rural divide, unless similar investments are made in the villages as well. The book provides a much-needed guide for a holistic development of a Smart Village, by defining the need, developing the framework, and describing the delivery, complete with successful case studies. Contributors to the book, from Canada, USA, Africa and India bring years of academic, industry and governmental experience, including organization of several Smart Village conferences. The knowledge base in the book will be of great value to anyone interested in or active in rural planning, including governmental and non-governmental organizations, industrial solution providers, public healthcare professionals, public policy professionals and students, as well as rural communities around the world. Consolidates all the aspects of creating/developing a Smart Village; Delivers an effective tool-kit for practitioners in the area of Smart Villages; Provides a policy-based framework for the development of an ideal Smart Village; Illustrates, through case studies, the fulfillment of key requirements of a Smart Village; Brings together experts from around the world to share their vision of a Smart Village; Highlights the importance of balancing development with social/gender equity and cultural traditions. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part 1. Defining the Need.- Chapter 1. Setting the Scene.- Chapter 2. Smart Village-Concepts and Intended Benefits.- Chaper 3. Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide.- Chapter 4. An Ideal Smart Village – Methodology, Parameters and Metrics.- Chapter 5. Ensuring a Sustainable Development Ecosystem.- Chapter 6. Preserving Indigenous Traditions and Values.- Part II. Buidling the Framework.- Chapter 7.Governance Aspects of a Smart Village – Developed Economy.- Chapter 8. Decentralizing towards Good Governance at the Grassroots.- Chapter 9. Components of an Ontology for a Smart Village.- Chapter 10. A Blueprint for Rural Public Health.- Chapter 11. Socio-Economic Conceptualization of Smart Villages.- Chapter 12. Smart Villages – Indian Realities, Opportunities and Way Forward.- Chapter 13. Leveraging Physical, Digital and Knowledge Connectivity for Smart Villages.- Chapter 14. An Appropriate Technology for Value Addition in Rural Indian Villages.- Chapter 15. The Role of Skills Development in Smart Villages.- Chapter 16. Financing and Development of a Smart Village.- Part III. The Enablers-Delivery and Case Studies.- Chapter 17. Smart Village – The Canadian Experience.- Chapter 18. Strengthening Rural Economy through Farmer Producer Companies.- Chapter 19. Resources and Agriculture - Smart Village Enablers in African Smart Villages.- Chapter 20. Clean Water Supply in Rural Odisha – A Case Study.- Chapter 21.Sustainable Water for Smart Villages – A Case Study.- Chapter 22. Value Added Options in Agriculture in Smart Villages.- Chapter 23. A Healthcare Case Study from Botswana, Africa.- Chapter 24. Smart Health and Wellness Promoting Villages – A Case Study from India.- Chapter 25. Lessons from Distance Healthcare Delivery Case Study - India.- Chapter 26. A Rural Nurse-led Public Health Case Study in Tamil Nadu, India.- Chapter 27.Cloud-based Solutions for Education and Skill Development – Botswana.- Chapter 28. Pan-African E-Network – A Distance Education Case Study.- Chapter 29. Implementing Appropriate Technology for Empowerment of Women in Indian Villages – A Case Study.- Chapter 30. A Unique Smart Village for People with Different Abilities.- Chapter 31. Preserving Traditions in a Smart Village – A Pan-African Perspective.- Chapter 32. COVID-19 – Implications of the Pandemic in the 21st Century.- Chapter 33. Going Forward.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Justice in Climate Action Planning
Book SynopsisThis edited volume examines how climate action plans engage justice at the scale of the city. Recent events in the United States make the context particularly ripe for a discussion of justice in urban climate politics. On the one hand, the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, George Floyd’s death, and the prominence of racial discrimination in the public realm have mainstreamed the notion of justice. On the other hand, the dire consequences of increased frequency and severity of climate events on vulnerable segments of urban populations are undeniable. While some cities have been proactive about integrating justice in their climate action planning, in most places an explicit and systematic link between both spheres has been lacking. This book explores this interface as it seeks to understand how cities can respond to climate change in a just way and for just outcomes. While resilience strategies based on “development” may engage historic inequities, they may at the same time result in marginalizing certain populations through various processes, from mismatched solutions to outright exclusion and climate gentrification. By identifying how certain populations are included in or excluded from climate action planning practices, the chapters in this volume draw on case studies to outline the differential outcomes of climate action in American cities, also proposing a template for comparative work beyond the US. The authors tackle the debate about how justice is or is not integrated in climate action plans and assess practical implications, while also making theoretical and methodological contributions. As it fills a gap in the literature at the intersection of justice and climate action, the book produces new insights for a wide-ranging audience: students, practitioners, policy-makers, planners, the non-profit sector, and scholars in geography, urban planning, urban studies, environmental studies, ecology, political science, or anthropology. Along five axes of investigation―theory, resilience, equity, community, and comparison as method―the contributors offer various pathways into the intersection between urban climate action and different understandings of justice. Collectively, they invite a reflection that can lead to practical initiatives in climate mitigation, while also advancing the theorization of social justice to account for the urban as a node where (in)justice plays out and can be addressed with significant results.Table of ContentsChapter 1.- Integrating inclusivity & justice into climate action planning: Beyond mere symbolism. Chapter 2.- We can’t address what we don’t acknowledge: How urban climate adaptation plans confront racial injustices. Chapter 3.- Sustainable city? The search for social justice in Flagstaff, Arizona’s climate action plan. Chapter 4.- Missing the Housing for the Trees: The Challenge of Equity in Urban Climate Planning. Chapter 5.- Climate Discourses in France: Fuel Taxes, Yellow Vests, and the Grand Débat. Chapter 6.- Incorporating an Equity Lens into Local Climate Action Planning: Portland, Oregon’s Experience. Chapter 7.- Community engagement and equity in climate adaptation planning: experience of small and mid- size cities in the United States and in France. Chapter 8.- Mobilities In Climate Action Planning: The Challenges of Integrating (In)Justices in Current Policies. Chapter 9.- Resilience and climate risk in extreme and extreme - ing urban environments: planning and climate justice. Chapter 10.- Addressing Individualized Risk Response to Climate Resilience Assessment by Fostering Adaptive Capacity. Chapter 11.- Downscaling Resilience: Appropriating and Contesting Resilience from City to Neighborhood. Chapter 12.- Cultural Heritage Preservation, Climate Action Planning, and Social Justice. Chapter 13.- Community agency for climate justice through and beyond the state: The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization. Chapter 14.- Creating Tools for Community Based Climate Planning. Chapter 15.- Interagency Collaborations in Place- Based Environmental Sustainability Work: Social Network Insights at the Community Level. Chapter 16.- Afloat and Adrift: What’s the Plan as South Florida Slowly Sinks? Chapter 17.- Vulnerable Locations and the Need for Climate Action Planning: The Case of Cape Coral, Florida.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Historic Cities in the Face of Disasters:
Book SynopsisThis book examines reconstruction and resilience of historic cities and societies from multiple disciplinary and complementary perspectives and, by doing so, it helps researchers and practitioners alike, among them reconstruction managers, urban governance and professionals. The book builds on carefully selected and updated papers accepted for the 2019 Silk Cities international conference on ‘reconstruction, recovery and resilience of historic cities and societies’, the third Silk Cities conference held in L’Aquila, Italy, 10-12 July 2019, working with University of L’Aquila and UCL.This multi-scale, and multidisciplinary book offers cross-sectoral and complimentary voices from multiple stakeholders, including academia, urban governance, NGOs and local populations. It examines post-disaster reconstruction strategies and case studies from Europe, Asia and Latin America that provide a valuable collection for anyone who would like to get a global overview on the subject matter. It thereby enables a deeper understanding of challenges, opportunities and approaches in dealing with historic cities facing disasters at various geographical scales. Additionally, it brings together historical approaches to the reconstruction of historical cities and those of more recent times. Thus, it can be used as a reference book for global understanding of the subject matter.Trade Review“There is a vast amount of information in the book for readers to understand the complexity of this field. Hopefully, not only urban designers will take advantage of it, as the details are extensive enough to also be relevant for architects, engineers, policy-makers and public administration officials involved in the rehabilitation process.” (Meenakshi Bhagat, Urban Design, Issue 164, 2022)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part I: Heritage and collective memory for resilience and reconstruction.- Thinking about post-disaster reconstruction in Europe: Functionalist and identity approaches.- Old Souks of Aleppo: A narrative approach to post-conflict heritage reconstruction.- Photography for the city, between the need for protection, conservation and civic identity.- Cultural heritage as stones of memory: The recovery of archives in the area of the Marche crater.- Intangible heritage and resilience in managing disaster shelters: Case study in Japan.- Water gives, water takes away. Memory, agency and resilience in ENSO-vulnerable historic landscapes in Peru.- Intangible cultural economy, a mould for tangible urban built fabric – The case of Shahjahanabad, India.- The Tree: The concept of place after the earthquake, L’Aquila.- Part II: Historic and contemporary reconstructions of historic cities.- Marsica: One hundred years on.- Coventry: Shell or Phoenix, city of tomorrow or concrete jumble? From reconstruction to the Phoenix Initiative, UK.- Post-trauma recovery of monumental buildings in Italy and the United States at the beginning of twentieth century.- Historical town centres and post-seismic reconstructions: Between functional recovery and heritage value awareness.- Integrating green solutions into post-earthquake recovery of Bam, Iran.- Reconstruction of heritage and spirit: Mending the scars of Aleppo.- Beyond the damage, the reconstruction of L’Aguila.- The “Solidere” effect and the localisation of heritage reconstruction in post-war transitions, Libya.- Bell towers under (seismic) attack: Saving a symbol, once it became a menace.- Ancient city of the future: Notes on the reconstruction of Beirut.- Part III: Society, governance and collective resilience.- Bonding between urban fabric and capacity of collective resilience: The case of Talca historic centre, Chile.- Multi-perspective pre-disaster examination as post-disaster managerial thinking ahead for Hoi An in Vietnam.- Play Street: Experimenting tactical urbanism for urban resilience in Iran.- The preservation of rural landscapes for building resilience in small towns: Insights from north Italy.- Antigua Guatemala, from history of disasters to resilient future.- Emergency management for the built heritage post-earthquake: Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy, Italy.- Factors of educational poverty and resilience responses in L’Aquila’s young population.- Dropout, resilience and cultural heritage: A focus of the ACCESS Project in a highly fragile area.- How can teachers promote resilience in schools?- Part IV: Bringing the 21st century into reconstruction.- Cities in transformation: Smarter reconstruction in historic city centres.- Evaluating visitors’ experiences at St Augustine’s Abbey (Canterbury).- Seismic Microzonation: A preventive measure for the conservation of the built heritage.- The representation of a resilient city: The case of Amatrice’s reconstruction.- Evacuation simulation considering tourists’ attempts to return home: A case of the Kiyomizu-dera Temple area, Japan.- Public administration versus social media in emergency situations.- Social media and disaster management in Iran: Lorestan floods as case study.- Environmental issues and energy potentials in post-earthquake reconstruction.- A multidisciplinary approach to retrofitting historic buildings: The case of the former San Salvatore Hospital, L’Aquila.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in
Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the implications of urbanization in South Asia for water (in-) security in the peri-urban spaces of Dhaka and Khulna in Bangladesh, Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune in India, and Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The book looks into specifically peri-urban water security issues in a context of rapid urbanization and social-environmental changes, including the changing climate and its emerging impacts. It demonstrates how urbanization processes change water flows between rural and urban areas, the implications of this processes for the water security of peri-urban populations, and how new institutions and technologies develop to mediate the relationships between peri-urban communities and water. The book seeks to further the debate on peri-urban water security, including what constitutes the peri-urban, socially differentiated access to water in peri-urban spaces, interventions for improving water access, and emerging forms of cooperation and conflict related to water access in a context of urbanization and climate change. As such, this book is an interesting read for academics with various disciplinary backgrounds, professionals working in the worlds of national and international policy, NGOs, activist groups, research and development institutes, and individual readers interested in water security and urbanization. Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction: Peri-Urban Water Security in South Asia Vishal Narain and Dik Roth Chapter 2 A New Imagination for Waste and Water in India’s Peri-Urban Interface Seema Mundoli, Dechamma C.S., Madhureema Auddy, Abhiri Sanfui, and Harini Nagendra Chapter 3 From Royal Canal to Neglected Canal? Changing Use and Management of a Traditional Canal Irrigation System in Peri-Urban Kathmandu Valley Anushiya Shrestha, Dik Roth, Saroj Yakami Chapter 4 Public Lives, Private Water: Female Ready-Made Garment Factory Workers in Peri-Urban Bangladesh\ Deepa Joshi, Sadika Haque, Kamrun Nahar, Shahinur Tania, Jasber Singhand, and Tina Wallace Chapter 5 Digging Deeper: Deep Wells, Bore-Wells and Water Tankers in Peri-Urban Hyderabad Nathaniel Dylan Lim & Diganta Das Chapter 6 Changing Agriculture and Climate Variability in Peri-Urban Gurugram, India Pratik Mishra and Sumit Vij Chapter 7 Views from the Sluice Gate: Water Insecurity, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban Khulna, Bangladesh M. Shah Alam Khan, Rezaur Rahman, Nusrat Jahan Tarin, Sheikh Nazmul Huda, and A.T.M. Zakir Hossain Chapter 8 Interventions to Strengthen Institutional Capacity for Peri-Urban Water Management in South Asia Sharlene L. Gomes Chapter 9 Concluding Reflections: Towards Alternative Peri-Urban Futures? Dik Roth and Vishal Narain
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Green Gold: Contested Meanings and
Book SynopsisThis book applies an approach to study the externalization of cost under capitalism in the production of Argentine yerba mate, an infusion with stimulant properties long used by indigenous peoples. Consumption in today’s globalized economy makes it difficult to understand the consequences of our actions across the globe. A political-ecological lens, informed by the work of Robert Sack and Ian Cook, can help guide an analysis that geographically reconstructs supply chains and reveal the realities of consumption. The use of yerba mate has become a cornerstone of Argentine society and identity, and yerba mate processors are working to expand exports globally. In Argentina’s Misiones Province, the heart of yerba mate production, the true costs of production are borne by the children, the impoverished laborers, and the environment of Argentina’s Atlantic Rainforest. These consequences of modernity, along with the efforts of an NGO to remedy them, are presented and assessed.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. A Brief Biographical Sketch of Yerba Mate.- Chapter 3. “Get[ting] Behind the Veil”.- Chapter 4. INYM, Prices, and the Argentine Yerba Mate “Food System”.- Chapter 5. Socio-Environmental Consequences of Low Margins.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Human-Centered Urban Planning and Design in
Book SynopsisThis book explores a more human-centered development pathway associated with the ideological shift from "quantity" to "quality" growth in the new era of Chinese urbanization. Sustainable urban and rural planning should be “people-centered” and concerned about urban-rural coordination. The authors argue that successful urban and rural development in China should promote social equity, culture diversity, economic prosperity and sustainable built form. This book prompts Chinese urbanists to reconsider and explore a sustainable and people-first planning approach with Chinese characteristics. The breadth and depth of this book is of particular interest to the faculty members, students, practitioners and the general public who are interested in subjects like urban and regional planning, rural planning, housing and community development, infrastructure planning, climate change and ecological planning, environmental planning, social equity and beyond. This book dealing with human-centered urban planning and development, rural planning and urban-rural coordination in China is part of a 2 volume set. Volume II discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility.Table of ContentsPart I Urban planning and development 1. On Chinese Approach to Theoretical Study of Urban Growth Boundary (UGB)Hui Li, Yiling Hua, Yadong Li, Yu Zhang, Zhiying Li, Honghong Fan and Jiahao Ren 2. The Spatial Planning Technology Innovation of the Smart City under Knowledge Economy and Ecological SustainabilityLe Che, Yinquan Luo, Yangfang Hu and Sheng Yao 3. Chinese Traditional Ecological Wisdom and Contemporary Sustainable Landscape ArtYan Huang 4. Spatial-temporal Variations of Green Space in Metropolitan Area: The Case of Wuhan, ChinaChun Li, Zhiyong Wang and Tixing Yang 5. Relationship among Fractional Vegetation Cover, Land use and Urban Heat Island Using Landsat 8 in Taipei, TaiwanMu-En Chang, Zhi-Qing Zhao and Hsiao-Tung Chang 6. Ecological perspective of the evolution of urban spatial form and construction: case study of Hefei cityHuifen Huang and Dazhi Gu 7. Study of the Ecological Adaptive Mechanism of Traditional Human Settlements in Sichuan Tibetan Areas Based on a Cultural PerspectiveLinglan Bi, Xuejin Liu and Zhengjun Zhang 8. Study Analysis of The Influence of Tibetan Buddhism on The Formation and Development of Urban Areas in Mongolia Region in Qing DynastyChong Liu and Ying Han 9. A Method of Discovering Urban Functional Zones Based on Poi Feature Vector and Network Kernel DensityShiwei Shao, Hui Liu and Lin Lu 10. Evaluation Methodology on Industry-city Integration Degree of China National High-Tech Industrial Development Zones: A Case Study of Hubei ProvincePei Chen and Yaping Huang Part II Rural planning and urban-rural coordination 11. Urban-rural Coordination in Shaoxing: Small and Medium Towns Development during Urban-rural Relationship TransformationWenting Jiang, Jian Liu and Xiaoxuan Li 12. Spatial growth of urban and rural construction land and policy impact mechanism in HangzhouHaiyan Pang and Yonghua Li 13. Study on China’s Adaptation Policies to Climate Change from the View of Urban and Rural PlanningYuan Huang and Yanxiao Pan 14. Considerations on Urban-Rural Relationship and Planning Philosophy from the Perspective of Rural Planning in Contemporary China- Discussion on the Existing Problems in Rural Planning EducationFan Yang, Tianyang Zhou and Jiehao Zhu 15. Obstacles and Opportunities for Characteristic Town Development in Central China Area: Hubei Province Case StudyShuting Yan, Toshikazu Ishida, Mamiko Fujiyama and Xilin Zhou 16. Research on the Shaping of Landscape in Rural Cultural Heritage Based Areas Using the Optimal Solution ModelYu Guo, Zhenya Chen, Lingqing Zhang, Jing Yan, Wenfeng Fu, Ying Cao and Xiaohong Tang 17. An Argument Concerning Rural Planning in Contemporary China from the Perspectives of Law, Institutional Practice and Implementation Methods Jiehao Zhu, Fan Yang and Tianyang Zhhou
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Human-Centered Urban Planning and Design in
Book SynopsisThis book provides insights and discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility in China. It argues that sustainable urban design and mobility should be “people-centered” and concerned about “place-making” in the new era of Chinese urbanization. Successful urban design and placemaking should adopt interdisciplinary approaches to planning and designing “space” and “place”. A core vision is the delivery of urban spaces that can cater to the needs of an increasingly diverse crowd of urban dwellers calling cities home. The book prompts Chinese urbanists to reconsider and explore a sustainable and people-first planning and design approach with Chinese characteristics. The breadth and depth of this book is of particular interest to those faculty members, students, practitioners and the general public who are interested in subjects like urban design, transport planning, mobility analysis and planning, housing and community development, infrastructure planning, environmental planning, social equity and beyond. This book discussing human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility is part of a 2 volume set. Volume I deals with human-centered urban planning and development, rural planning and urban-rural coordination in China.Table of ContentsPart I Urban design and placemaking 1. Space-oriented Elements and Their Relevance to Chengdu Street Cultural Landscape Lingqing Zhang and Jing Yan 2. Study of the Fifth Façade Planning and Controlling in the Wuhan Aerotropolis Guanpeng Liu, Shaozhi Hong, Ying Wang, Ling Dai and Weixuan Wei 3. Station-City Integration: Urban Space Ecological Transformation Research Based on Rail Transit Yang Yue and Jiang Chang 4. Overview of the Research Progress of TOD at Home and Abroad - Based on the Visual Analysis into Citespace Software Xuan Zhuo, Jiang Chang and Yuanyuan Deng 5. Towards a definition of bikability in the Chinese context Aline Chevalier, Manuel Charlemagne, and Leiqing Xu 6. The Activation System of the ‘Three-dimensional City’ in Urban Renewal Qing Mei 7. Research on the Generation Mechanism of Urban Innovation Space Peng Zeng and Jinxuan Li 8. A Strategic Approach to Activating Multi-level Public Space in Neighborhoods along Urban Expressways Yijia Guo and Yan Huang 9. Urban Form Analysis of Courtyard in Traditional Settlements - Case Study of Three Lanes and Seven Alleys District in Fuzhou city Li-bin Zhou and Hsiao-Tung Chang 10. Analysis of Existing Research on the Architecture Culture and Ecological Technique used in Li`s Courtyard in Yanjing Village, Shanxi Province Yuanfen Lv Part II Human activities and urban mobility 11. Understanding the Substitution of Commuting Trip Chains for Other Home-based Trips and Factors’ Effects on Commuting Trip Chaining Propensity - Using Shanghai Mobile Phone Sighting Data Yishu Wang and Haixiao Pan 12. Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Passenger Travel Modes: A Study Based on Shanghai Smart Card Data Huanxi Xu and Shaozhi Hong 13. Study of the Spatial-Temporal Characteristics of College Students' Activities Based on Mobile Phone Data Chenchen Sun, Xinyi Niu and Xiaodong Song 14. Cycling to School in China: Identifying Patterns in Safety Perception Aline Chevalier, Manuel Charlemagne and Leiqing Xu 15. Effects of the Built Environment on the Route-Choosing Behaviors of Recreational Cyclists in Shenzhen Ting Wen and Kun Liu 16. The Effects of Parks and Surrounding Built Environments on Physical Activity Diversity with Volunteered Geographic Information Hongkun Xie, Miao Yu and Kun Liu 17. The Inflow and Outflow Pattern of University Graduates of Major Cities in China from the Perspective of Flow Space Jingxin Nie and Helin Liu 18. A Study on the Distribution of Migrants with Different Education Levels in Shanghai Ziqi Liu, Bev Wilson and Wei Zhu
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Herbals of Asia: Prevalent Diseases and Their
Book SynopsisMedicinal flora plays an important role in health care systems across the world. Out of the half million flowering plants, around 50.000 species are valued for their therapeutic properties. During the last few decades, 20% of the world’s population used plants and/or their derived products as a source of medicine. WHO stated that 80% population around the globe, specifically the rural communities, depend on medicinal plants for their basic healthcare needs. To this end, plant-based phytochemicals are known to have hepato-protective, anti-carcinogenic, anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antioxidant actions. This book is a guide to ~280 plant species of medicinal flora that demonstrates global relevance. Our goal is to share local knowledge about phytomedicines to a worldwide audience. It is an illustrated reference that documents and preserves the existing knowledge on these plant taxa, with a social and cultural (ethnobotanical) emphasis. This book also provides comprehensive and useful information about traditional uses of medicinal plants by the local communities for the treatment of various prevalent diseases. It contains comprehensive descriptions of each species including family, synonyms, English name, distribution, altitude, habitat, morphological description, life form, part used, mode of utilization, diseases category, recipes, other medicinal uses, phytochemical activity and toxicity.Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1: IntroductionCHAPTER 2: Medicinal Plant Used for HypertensionCHAPTER 3: Medicinal Plant Used for Gynecology DisordersCHAPTER 4: Medicinal Plant Used for ENT DisordersCHAPTER 5: Medicinal Plant Used for Skin DisordersCHAPTER 6: Medicinal Plant Used for Pediatrics or Children DisordersCHAPTER 7: Medicinal Plant Used for Musculoskeletal DisordersCHAPTER 8: Medicinal Plant Used for Glottis disorders
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional
Book SynopsisWhile urban settlements are the drivers of the global economy and centres of learning, culture, and innovation and nations rely on competitive dynamic regions for their economic, social, and environmental objectives, urban centres and regions face a myriad of challenges that impact the ways in which people live and work, create wealth, and interact and connect with places. Rapid urbanisation is resulting in urban sprawl, rising emissions, urban poverty and high unemployment rates, housing affordability issues, lack of urban investment, low urban financial and governance capacities, rising inequality and urban crimes, environmental degradation, increasing vulnerability to natural disasters and so forth. At the regional level, low employment, low wage growth, scarce financial resources, climate change, waste and pollution, and rising urban peri-urban competition etc. are impacting the ability of regions to meet socio-economic development goals while protecting biodiversity. The response to these challenges has typically been the application of inadequate or piecemeal solutions, often as a result of fragmented decision-making and competing priorities, with numerous economic, environmental, and social consequences. In response, there is a growing movement towards viewing cities and regions as complex and sociotechnical in nature with people and communities interacting with one another and with objects, such as roads, buildings, transport links etc., within a range of urban and regional settings or contexts. This comprehensive MRW will provide readers with expert interdisciplinary knowledge on how urban centres and regions in locations of varying climates, lifestyles, income levels, and stages development are creating synergies and reducing trade-offs in the development of resilient, resource-efficient, environmentally friendly, liveable, socially equitable, integrated, and technology-enabled centres and regions.Table of ContentsApproximately 300 chapters listed A-Z
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Culture and Communities Mapping Project
Book SynopsisThis book describes three years of work by the Culture and Communities Mapping Project, a research project based in Edinburgh that uses maps as an object of study and also a means to facilitate research. Taking a self-reflexive approach, the book draws on a variety of iterative mapping procedures and visual methodologies, from online virtual tours to photo elicitation, to capture the voices of inhabitants and their distinctive perspectives on the city. The book argues that practices of cultural mapping consist of a research field in and of itself, and it situates this work in relation to other areas of research and practice, including critical cartography, cultural geography, critical GIS, activist mapping and artist maps. The book also offers a range of practical approaches towards using print and web-based maps to give visibility to spaces traditionally left out of city representations but that are important to the local communities that use them. Throughout, the authors reflect critically on how, through the processes of mapping, we create knowledge about space, place, community and culture.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: The Global Festival City Chapter 2. Theories and Methods of Cultural Mapping Chapter 3. Cultural Mapping in the City of Edinburgh Chapter 4. Neogeography, Software Sorted Geographies and Web Maps Chapter 5. Maps, Memories and Stories of Place
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Adolescent Mental Health in The Middle East and
Book SynopsisThis 2-volume set focuses on adolescent health in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), and presents the latest research on the health risk behaviours and social behaviours that adolescents from the MENA region engage in. While there has been a surge in peer-reviewed research publications on population health in the MENA region in the last couple of decades, very few books offer a resource to address the diverse negative influences that disproportionately affect adolescents and children in the MENA region, including increased tobacco consumption culture, low emphasis on physical activity, increased sedentary behaviours, weak health policies, and societal issues related to displacement and political conflicts. These books offer a synthesis of current knowledge on adolescent health issues in the MENA region, and aim to provide evidence-informed adolescent health care practices that address current issues related to mental, physical, reproductive and nutritional health. Volume 1 focuses on mental health in the MENA region, the development and implementation of youth friendly public policies, and how to strategize in the age of COVID-19. The study will aid health care professionals, policy makers, government organizations and health program planners to assess current policies and practices related to adolescent health in the MENA region, and to identify the best courses of action moving forward. Table of Contents1-Adolescent Mental Health in the MENA Region and the link with Policy and Programming.- 2-There is no Health Without Mental Health: The Middle East and North Africa.- 3-A Silent Epidemic of Depression among Adolescents in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Emerging Tribulation.- 4-Understanding mental illness stigma in Arab youths’ everyday lives.- 5-Developing and Implementing Youth Friendly Public Policies: A perspective into the Arab Region.- 6-Adolescent health in Saudi Arabia: Policy dimensions.- 7-Health Policies of Adolescents in the Middle East and North Africa: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How Do We Strategize in the Age COVID-19?.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Adolescent Health in the Middle East and North
Book SynopsisThis 2-volumeset focuses on adolescent health in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), and presents the latest research on the health risk behaviours and social behaviours that adolescents from the MENA region engage in. While there has been a surge in peer-reviewed research publications on population health in the MENA region in the last couple of decades, very few books offer a resource to address the diverse negative influences that disproportionately affect adolescents and children in the MENA region, including increased tobacco consumption culture, low emphasis on physical activity, increased sedentary behaviours, weak health policies, and societal issues related to displacement and political conflicts. These books offer a synthesis of current knowledge on adolescent health issues in the MENA region, and aim to provide evidence-informed adolescent health care practices that address current issues related to mental, physical, reproductive and nutritional health. Volume 2 focuses on nutritional and reproductive health in the MENA region, predictive modelling of obesity, determinants of sexual and oral health, HIV, and diabetes. The study will aid health care professionals, policy makers, government organizations and health program planners to assess current policies and practices related to adolescent health in the MENA region, and to identify the best courses of action moving forward. Table of Contents1-Adolescent Health in the MENA Region: Determinants and Distribution.- 2-Adolescent nutrition: a focus on the MENA.- 3-Addressing Social Determinants of Oral Health among Adolescents from MENA.- 4-Knowledge, Attitude and Practice in relation to Vitamin D Deficiency among older adolescents.- 5-Activity among Adolescents from the MENA.- 6-Exploring Factors for Predictive Modelling of Obesity and Overweight in Adolescents: Application to MENA Region.- 7-Determinants of Knowledge in relation to Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents in the Middle East and North Africa Region.- 8-Growth Assessment in Adolescence: Measurement and Interpretation for the Middle East and North Africa.- 9-Oral health of adolescents in the MENA region.- 10-Demographic and Geographic Variations in Respiratory and Allergic Conditions among Adolescents in the United Arab Emirates.- 11-The Epidemiology of Diabetes Mellitus among in adolescents and their determinants in from the Middle East and North Africa Region.- 12-HIV and sexual health in MENA’s adolescents.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Systematic Mixed-Methods Research for Social Scientists
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides clear and accessible guidance on the importance and practical application of mixed-methods research. Professor Olsen presents a range of multiple mixed-methods techniques using quantified data. Critical realism underpins key arguments. She offers detailed examples based on wide experience with international applied social-science projects. The book shows readers how to join quantitative and qualitative data together. Detailed methods include: using multiple-level data; constructing new indices based on mixing survey responses and personal interviews; and using focus groups alongside a large survey. The book provides readers with linkages of data between different software packages. It explains the analysis stage in mixed-methods research, interprets complex causality, shows how to transform data, and helps with interpreting social structures, institutions, and discourses. Finally, the book covers some epistemological issues. These include the nature and value of data. The author discusses validity and techniques for ensuring relevant, innovative conclusions. The book also touches on action research as an overarching participatory method.This book is based on clear and explicit definitions, is accessible to students and researchers across disciplines, and shows the appeal of mixed-methods research to those trained in quantitative methods.Table of ContentsPart I Setting Up Systematic Mixed Methods Research (SMMR).1 Mixed Methods for Research on Open Systems. 1.1 The Link Between Quantification and Mixed Methods. 1.2 A Conceptual Introduction to Methodology and Ontology. 1.3 Triangulation. 1.4 Three Domains of Reality, As Realists Approach Research. 1.5 Conclusion. Appendix. References. 2 Mixed Methods with Weakly Structuralist Regression Models. 2.1 Modelling and Methodology for Mixed Methods. 2.2 Strategic Structuralism. 2.3 Logics Used in Strategic Structuralist Research. 2.4 Conclusion. Appendix. References. Part II SMMR Approaches in Practical Terms. 3 Causality in Mixed-Methods Projects That Use Regression. 3.1 Causality in a Regression Model. 3.2 Stages of Research Design Amendment for Mixed-Methods Research. 3.3 Deduction Cannot Stand Alone. 3.4 A Quantitatively Complex Example. 3.5 Conclusion. References. 4 Multiple Logics in Systematic Mixed-Methods Research. 4.1 Multiple Logics in Statistical Research: Some Exemplars. 4.2 An Exemplar Using Participatory Research with Panel Data. 4.3 A Statistical Exemplar with a Randomised Control Trial for a Social Intervention. 4.4 Warranted Arguments and Two Caveats for Strategic Structuralism. 4.5 An Exemplar Using Correspondence Analysis Without Regression. Appendix. References. 5 Factor Analysis in a Mixed-Methods Context. 5.1 Latent Variables and Entities. 5.2 One Could Use Exploratory or Confirmatory Factor Analysis. 5.3 Measurement Issues for the Manifest Variables in a Confirmatory Model. 5.4 Mixed-Methods Research Designs Using Latent Variables. 5.5 Whether to Use Scoping Analysis or Primary Field Research. 5.6 Research Scope and Feedback Loops. 5.7 Closed and Open Retroduction in a Factor Analysis Context. 5.8 The Ontological Element. 5.9 Conclusion. References. 6 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): A Classic Mixed Method Using Theory. 6.1 QCA Is an Umbrella Over Many Procedures. 6.2 Tables Help to Summarise Qualitative Comparative Evidence. 6.3 Data Reduction Has Been Well Theorised. 6.4 Threshold Tests, Quasi-Sufficiency, and Next Steps in QCA. 6.5 Conclusion. Appendix. References. 7 Calibration of Fuzzy Sets, Calibration of Measurement: A Realist Synthesis. 7.1 Two Forms of Calibration: Ordered Categories or Fuzzy Sets. 7.2 Features of Multiple Hypothesis Tests Using Fuzzy Sets. 7.3 Asymmetry of the Causal Mechanisms? Issues Around Counterfactuals. 7.4 How to Make and Illustrate Deep Linkages. Appendix. References. 8 From Content Analysis to Discourse Analysis: Using Systematic Analysis of Meanings and Discourses. 8.1 Methods of Qualitative Analysis and Elaboration of Findings. 8.2 Qualitative Methods, with a Content Analysis Example. 8.3 Three Illustrations Demonstrating Deep Arguments Based on Depth Ontology. 8.4 Conclusion. Appendix. References. Part III Interpretation and the Validity of Research. 9 Interpretations, Meanings, and Validity in Mixed-Methods Research. 9.1 Truth Is Not Simple in a Complex Society. 9.2 Epistemology for Late-Modern Mixed Methods. 9.3 Falsifying Hypotheses: Possible and Desirable, but Not Necessary. 9.4 A Retroductive Approach. 9.5 Conclusion. References. 10 Summary of the Logics and Methods for Systematic Mixed-Methods Research. 10.1 Induction. 10.2 Deduction. 10.3 Retroduction. 10.4 Synthesis. 10.5 Recognising Relevant Irreducible Phenomena (Holism). 10.6 Logical Linkage. 10.7 Conclusion. References. 11 Glossary.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Land Quality and Sustainable Urban Forms:
Book SynopsisIn the panorama of studies related to the ability of lands to support both natural processes and agricultural production activities, this research introduces a still unexplored or under-studied theme which is that of the relationship between urban sprawl in its various forms and land quality.The first part of the book is dedicated to the motivations and the theoretical premises from which the research originates, connected to the concept of land and those of sustainable urban form. The second part concerns the complex path towards a sustainable use of land, both in terms of institutional and regulatory measures, and in terms of knowledge and understanding of soil degradation processes. This research focuses on the Mediterranean area which is discussed in more detail in the third part. In this part of Europe we try to establish relationships between settlement dynamics and land quality: here fragile ecosystems are diffused both from a biological point of view. physical as well as socio-economic, here we find landscapes that are particularly sensitive to land degradation processes (subject to land degradation, considered the antipodes of land quality) and which in recent decades have been particularly affected by anthropic pressure.In the fourth part, an analysis is presented concerning 76 metropolitan areas representative of southern Europe. The methodology used in this analysis is based on the relationship that exists between soil sealing (or soil waterproofing) and land degradation (or land degradation) aimed at an interpretation, at the metropolitan scale, of how in southern Europe the pattern of Urbanization (compact, dispersive, intermediate) affects the land's ability to support both natural processes and agricultural production activities in a diversified way. In particular, the data on land quality and data on land use were considered together in order to analyze the processes of urban growth and the occupation of productive land for a very large area that includes Greece, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and some parts of the Adriatic coast.There is still a long way to go, in terms of sharing, integration and definition of strategies aimed at achieving certain targets. A necessary and innovative look towards land quality could help to consider the protection of the soil as a whole, even at the planning level.Table of ContentsFOREWORDINTRODUCTION- THE UNEVEN TRANSFORMATION OF URBAN EUROPE- SUSTAINABLE URBAN FORMS AND SOCIOECONOMIC CHANGE-FROM LAND TO LANDSCAPETOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE USE OF LAND. CURRENT POLICIES COPING WITH ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION- THE POLICY FRAMEWORK-LAND QUALITY AND SOIL SEALINGMEDITERRANEAN EUROPE, A FRAGILE LANDSCAPE. METROPOLITAN GROWTH AND URBAN SPRAWL- THE INTRINSIC FRAGILITY OF MEDITERRANEAN PERI-URBAN LANDSCAPES-FROM DISPERSED CITIES TO METROPOLITAN NETWORKS-THE MEDITERRANEAN CITY AS AN ENTROPIC SPACE-THREE PROTAGONISTS OF URBAN SPRAWLSOIL CONSUMPTION AND URBAN GROWTH IN MEDITERRANEAN EUROPE-THE LINK BETWEEN URBAN EXPANSION AND LAND QUALITYPRESERVING LAND QUALITY IN EUROPEAN METROPOLIS-MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE ASPECTS--CULTURAL ASPECTS AND GOOD PRACTICESCONCLUSIONSGLOSARYINDEX OF FIGURESINDEX OF TABLESREFERENCES
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Springer International Publishing AG Systems Mapping: How to build and use causal
Book SynopsisThis open access book explores a range of new and older systems mapping methods focused on representing causal relationships in systems. In a practical manner, it describes the methods and considers the differences between them; describes how to use them yourself; describes how to choose between and combine them; considers the role of data, evidence, and stakeholder opinion; and describes how they can be useful in a range of policy and research settings. This book provides a key starting point and general-purpose resource for understanding complex adaptive systems in practical, actionable, and participatory ways. The book successfully meets the growing need in a range of social, environmental, and policy challenges for a richer more nuanced, yet actionable and participatory understanding of the world. The authors provide a clear framework to alleviate any confusion about the use of appropriate terms and methods, enhance the appreciation of the value they can bring, and clearly explain the differences between approaches and the resulting outputs of mapping processes and analysis.Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Rich PicturesChapter 3:Theory of Change diagramsChapter 4: Causal Loop DiagramsChapter 5: Participatory Systems MappingChapter 6: Fuzzy Cognitive MappingChapter 7: Bayesian Belief NetworksChapter 8: System DynamicsChapter 9: What data and evidence can you build system maps from?Chapter 10: Running systems mapping workshopsChapter 11: Comparing, choosing, and combining systems mapping methodsChapter 12: Conclusion.
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Springer International Publishing AG A Geographical Century: Essays for the Centenary of the International Geographical Union
Book SynopsisThis volume of specially commissioned interpretative essays marks the centenary of the establishment of the International Geographical Union in 1922. Written by leading human and physical geographers from all parts of the world, A Geographical Century considers the history and present condition of geography as an international science. Based on the latest research, A Geographical Century provides new and critical analyses of the different forms of geographical internationalism that emerged during the 20th century; the changing relations between geography and cognate disciplines in the natural and social sciences; the geopolitics of international geographical collaboration; and the prospects of geography as a 21st century international science.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Part 1: Geography as International Science: Historical Perspectives on the IGU.- Chapter 2. nternationalising Geography, 1871–1945.- Chapter 3. The International Geographical Union in the Post War Period.- Chapter 4. Internationalization of Geography in the Bipolar World: Socialist Countries During the Cold War.- Chapter 5. The International Circulation and Dissemination of Geographical Concepts and Ideas.- Chapter 6. ‘The International’ in Geography: Concepts, Actors, Challenges.- Chapter 7. Internationalization in the International Geographical Union: Landmarks, Periods and Personalities.- Part 2: The Challenges of International Geography.- Chapter 8. The Challenges of International Geography.- Chapter 9. To Be or not to Be International: Geographic Knowledge, Globalization and the Question of Languages.- Chapter 10. Geography and International Education.- Chapter 11. The ‘North – South’ Problem in Geography.- Chapter 12. Gender and International Geography.- Part 3: International Geography in the 21st Century: A Dream Discipline .- Chapter 13. Interactions of Geography with Other Natural and Social Sciences and the Humanities.- Chapter 14. Global Understanding: A New Geographical Paradigm for the 21st Century?.- Chapter 15. Geography and Environmental Issues.- Chapter 16. Geography and the Information Society.- Chapter 17. Geography and Social Issues. – Chapter 18. Geography and Social Issues
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Springer International Publishing AG The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Development
Book SynopsisWhere can one get a synthesis of research findings on urban development planning in Africa? This book addresses this gap in knowledge by distilling existing research to provide insights into theories, research designs, empirical findings and approaches on urban development planning in Africa. Starting with the overall planning culture and strategies, the book chapters move on to specific themes such as governance, population, poverty, water, recreation, transport, agriculture, air quality and rural-urban linkages. This book reduces the prevailing risk of unnecessary duplication of research and the inadequate attention that is being given to extending research in new areas. This situation has partly been due to existing research remaining scattered in different organizations and publications and has not been subjected to critical synthesis to unearth any new developments that it contains. The book makes available research findings to be utilized in current and future urban development planning in Africa.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Navigating the Urban Development Planning Landscape in AfricaChapter 2: Planning CulturesChapter 3 : Political Management and Governance Chapter 4 : Agriculture Chapter 5 : Financial Resources Chapter 6 : Population Planning and Management Chapter 7 : Managing Poverty Chapter 8 : Public Transport Services Chapter 9 : Water Management Chapter 10 : Rural-urban Linkages Chapter 11 : Recreation Planning and Management Chapter 12 : Air Quality
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Springer International Publishing AG Fourth Places: Informal Social Life and
Book SynopsisThis book challenges current views that public life is in decline and that contemporary urban design trends reliant on privatisation, control, events, and thematic designs are to be blamed. Drawing on detailed and extensive analysis of a case study that illustrates well such urban design trends, it shows that informal social life and interaction occur more than its necessary in new master planned environments and new designed public settings, whether public or private owned and/or managed. Furthermore, it reveals the existence of a new category of informal public social settings which it calls fourth places because of their close relationship to Oldenburg’s third places in terms of social and behavioural characteristics – radical departure from the routines of home and work, inclusivity and social comfort – but distinct in terms of activities, locations and spatial conditions – being characterised by spatial, temporal and managerial in-betweenness, i.e. indeterminacy in form, function and times, and a great sense of publicness.The acceptance of these findings problematises well-established urban design theories about master planning, expands existing social theories about the optimal conditions for public social life by empirically and spatially elaborating on them and redefines several spatial concepts for designing public space in relation to the specific dynamics of informal social interaction. More importantly, it brings optimism to urban design practice, offering new insights into designing more lively and inclusive public spaces.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Is public social life in decline and are contemporary masterplanning And public space design practices to be blamed?- Theorisation of informal public social life and interaction in urban public space.- The sociality and spatiality of social encounters among strangers.- Observations on the theorized conditions that support informal social interactions in new designed public spaces.- Observations on the under-theorized conditions that support informal social.- Interactions in new designed public spaces.- ‘Fourth-places’: The contemporary public settings for informal social life and Interaction.
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