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Taylor & Francis Ltd Agriculture and Rural Development Planning A
Book SynopsisThis book meets the needs of teachers and students of agriculture and rural development project and programme planning, planners employed by governments in developing countries and by external financing agencies. Project planners must understand the aspirations of rural families and their local leaders, the national development and sector planning goals and policies of their governments and the development goals and policy priorities perceived by external financing agencies in relation to their countries. These areas are not always consistent and trade-offs may be required. However it is recognised that poor project planning is a major constraint to the sustainable realization of project and programme objectives and sector goals. Illustrated with case studies and logical framework matrices, this book presents well-established and relatively new practices followed in the context of agriculture and rural development project and programme planning. Although based on experiences gainTrade Review’...a valuable and interesting contribution to the subject of Agriculture and Rural Development Planning. The case studies illustrate, in a practical manner, the main ideas. The African Development Bank Group expects that publicity of previous experiences will lead to the avoidance of similar problems in future projects.’ African Development Bank Group ’Practical and well illustrated by examples, this book provides a clear guide to best practice for agricultural and rural development project planning. Whereas most project planning texts focus on the methods of cost benefit analysis, this fills a gap by explaining the approaches to the project cycle used by the main development agencies today. A valuable reference for students of project planning, monitoring and evaluation, and for planners employed in technical ministries in developing countries.’ Laurence E.D. Smith, Imperial College London, UK ’This book is a welcome addition to the various texts, guidelines and manuals on rural project planning in developing countries. In one volume, it attempts to cover the whole process from the identification of appropriate projects to how they are assessed, implemented and evaluated after completion. The book draws on a number of real case studies which usefully illustrate the various steps in the process.’ Cambridge University Press ’...very helpful for those who are involved in the planning process.’ Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture ’...this book provides a concise but complete view of the institutions, actors, procedures, and techniques involved in agricultural and rural development planning, going beyond a simple description of the planning cycle. After digesting this book, one should be abe to read through almost any project planning or evaluation document with a good degree of familiarity and confidence. It will serve well as an introductory or supplementary text for students of economic development and project planning. It should aTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Programme and project financing agencies; The logical framework approach; Structural and sector adjustment programmes; Programming and identification; Preparation; Financial and economic analyses; Appraisal and loan processing; Implementation and supervision; Ex post evaluation; Agriculture and rural development support services; Summary; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Towards Sustainable Cities East Asian North
Book SynopsisWhile there has been much recent research into achieving sustainability in urban areas, most of this is specific to a particular region. This volume broadens these discussions by extending the analysis from North American and European cities to include East Asian cities. Many cities in Asia have deep historical roots, have sustained dense populations through time and have grown prosperous in recent decades. They also face significant environmental degradation and other planning challenges. In bringing together and comparing strategies and experiences from three distinct global regions, this book offers unique insights and new perspectives on the challenges of moving towards greater urban sustainability. While questioning which strategies can promote sustainable cities in a global context, the book also illustrates that while formulae generated out of American and European experience cannot be universally applied, some of the analytical approaches and experience of the other developed countries can offer insights for those working in different contexts. It argues that managing urban change for greater urban sustainability in diverse regions requires detailed understanding of local issues and regional strategies as well as strong support from local communities.Trade Review’The volume is unique in using the contemporary discourse on urban sustainability as a bridge to research and policy in three different continents - Asia, Europe and North America. In particular, it places the challenges and recent experience in moving toward sustainable cities in Asia - the most rapidly growing part of our urban world - in a comparative context.’ Larry Bourne, University of Toronto, Canada ’The book provides a welcome addition to the Western focus of the literature on urban sustainability...a useful contribution, particularly for those interested in growth management and the Asian experience.’ Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design ’...provides an enthralling treatise of sustainable development issues.’ Centre for Education in the Built Environment: Projects and InitiativesTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Urban Sustainability Questions: Towards sustainable cities, André Sorensen, Peter J. Marcotullio and Jill Grant; Sustainable urbanism in historical perspective, Jill Grant; Why the Asian urbanization experience should make us think differently about planning approaches, Peter J. Marcotullio. Part II: Planning Strategies for More Sustainable Cities in North America and Europe: An inquiry into the promise and prospects of smart growth, Gerrit-Jan Knaap; Varieties of US growth management: lessons from New York and San Francisco, Rolf Pendall; Cross-border impacts of growth management regime: Portland, Oregon, and Clark County, Washington, Chang-Hee Christine Bae; Developing and employing sustainability indicators as a principal strategy in planning: experiences in the Puget sound urban region of Washington State, Donald Miller; Sustainable Portland? A critique, and the Los Angeles counterpoint, Harry W. Richardson and Peter Gordon; Canada's experience in planning for sustainable development, Jill Grant; Coping with the growing complexity of our physical environment: the search for new planning tools in the Netherlands, Gert de Roo; Central Belgium, a 'Park City'? A policy based on de-concentrated clustering, Jef Van den Broeck. Part III: Planning Strategies for More Sustainable Cities in Japan and Korea: Major issues of land management for sustainable urban regions in Japan, André Sorensen; Empowerment in the Japanese planning context, Hideki Koizumi; Green structure plan for a sustainable urban-rural relationship in Japan, Mikiko Ishikawa; Sustainable community improvement in Japan: infill redevelopment where everyone can continue to live, Shigeru Satoh; Reform of planning controls for an urban-rural continuum in Korea, Sang-Chuel Choe; Inner-city growth management problem in Seoul: residential rebuilding boom and planning response, Kwang-Joong Kim; Urban growth management and housing supply in the capital region of South Korea, Sang-Dae Lee. Part IV: Conclusions: Towards land management policies for more sustainable cities, Jill Grant, Peter J. Marcotullio and André Sorensen.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program The Transformation of an Institution and Its Mission Urban Planning and Environment
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States Urban Planning and Environment
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultures of Glass Architecture Design and the Built Environment
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Taylor & Francis Social Constructionism in Housing Research
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performing Tourist Places New Directions in
Book SynopsisThis book looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world. Illustrated through various case-studies from Denmark, it considers how places, performances and peoples intersect. It examines the fascinating circumstances through which visitors to a place, in part, produce that place through their performances. Places are intertwined with people through various systems that generate and reproduce performances in and of that place. These systems comprise networks of âhosts, guests, buildings, objects and machinesâ that contingently realize particular performances of specific places. The studies featured here develop an exciting ânew mobilityâ paradigm emerging within the social sciences.Trade Review’...a very important contribution to the current discussion about tourism and places...the content of the book brings up-to-date perspectives about tourist practices, performances, and mobilities and also raises questions about production, consumption and representation of places where the concepts of time and space are central.’ Professor Lars Aronsson, University of Kalmar, Sweden ’...a genuine theoretical advance in tourism studies, [which] combines philosophical sophistication with lucid, unpretentious writing. With its insistence upon replacing reifying concepts and mechanical theories with a theoretical perspective that does justice to the hybrid nature of human performances, and of the time and space they bring into being, this book transcends the narrow bounds of Tourism Studies, or even Human Geography...’ Dr Judith Adler, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada ’...an insightful new cut on the multilayered and interwoven fabric of tourism. It offers a nuanced account of what tourists and institutions do in order to make holidays happen. With illuminating attention to the fabric of everyday life in a series of ethnographic examples, this book puts the real holiday experience in the foreground.’ Mike Crang, University of Durham, UKTable of ContentsContents: Castles in the sand; Producing tourist places; Consuming tourist places; Staging the beach; Photographing attractions; Memory work; Inhabiting, navigating, drifting; Places, performances and people; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Environmental Planning in the Netherlands Too Good to be True
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Taylor & Francis Environment and Resettlement Politics in China
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Advancing Sustainability at the SubNational Level
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Making Place Making Self
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Russian nature Exploring the environmental consequences of societal change
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Taylor & Francis Earls Colnes Early Modern Landscapes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Community Indicators Measuring Systems Urban and
Book SynopsisCommunity indicators measuring systems represent a mechanism to improve monitoring and evaluation in planning, incorporating citizen involvement and participation. They reflect the interplay between social, environmental and economic factors affecting a region''s or community''s well-being, and, as such, can be extremely valuable to planners and developers. Yet, little research has been conducted on their efficacy. This book provides a comprehensive review of how community development indicators evolved and examines their interplay with planning and development. It questions how we adequately measure concepts associated with indicators systems and whether these systems are sustainable and can best evolve. In doing so, the book allows a better understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of community indicators measuring systems, as well as how best to design and implement them.Trade Review'...makes a significant contribution to our continuing understanding and appreciation of the value of indicators...A clear strength of the book is the impressive range of issues covered...Community leaders, researchers and graduate students in urban studies, environmental management, land use planning and geography will be sure to find something of deep interest among the chapters.' Urban StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Theory And Basis For Community Indicators: Understanding indicators, Heidi Hoernig and Mark Seasons; Historical background of community indicators, Clifford Cobb and Craig Rixford. Relating Community Indicators To Planning And Development: The sustainable Calgary story: a local response to a global challenge, Noel Keough; Indicators and core area planning: applications in Canada's mid-sized cities, Mark Seasons; Integrating community indicators with economic development planning, Rhonda Phillips and Susan Bridges. Technological Dimensions: Community statistical systems: discussion of development and data issues, Naomi Oliver, Christiana Schumann and Marc T. Smith; Role of multi-scalar GIS-based indicators studies in formulating neighbourhood planning policy, Rina Ghose and William Huxhold; Where do we want to be? Making sustainability indicators integrated, dynamic and participatory, Jeff Carmichael, Sonia Talwar, James Tansey and John Robinson; Subject index.
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Taylor & Francis Irelands Heritages Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity Heritage Culture and Identity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Planmaking for Sustainability The New Zealand
Book SynopsisAround the introduction of Agenda 21 at Rio in 1991, some countries like the Netherlands and New Zealand were already leading the way with quite innovative approaches to environmental planning. Focusing on the New Zealand government''s innovations in sustainable and environmental planning, particularly the Resource Management Act of 1991, this book highlights planning and governance under devolved and co-operative mandates. It uses multiple methods to evaluate the quality of policy statements and district plans prepared by regional and local councils respectively, as well as the various inter- and intra-organizational and institutional factors affecting them. It also analyses the quality of the plans'' implementation through the consensus or permits process, and the quality of the environmental outcomes.Trade Review'Plan-making for Sustainability provides a sobering review of New Zealand's experiment in mandating comprehensive planning. The authors bring a wealth of experience and data to provide a balanced, insightful, and highly readable assessment ...The book is essential reading for those who seek to understand the challenges of implementing intergovernmental planning mandates.' Professor Peter J. May, University of Washington, USA 'Neil Ericksen and colleagues have produced an important and fascinating evidence-based analysis of the challenges faced in implementing the pioneering New Zealand Resource Management Act. Their research approach and findings are of considerable relevance, internationally, for all those concerned with planning for sustainability.' Professor John Glasson, Oxford Brookes University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: from Rio to RMA: great expectations. Part I: Approaches to Planning and Governance: Planning mandates: from theory to practice; Making plans: from theory to practice. Part II: Intergovernmental Planning in New Zealand: Central government: walking the talk; Regional government: a non-partner; Mãori interests: elusive partnership. Part III: Plan Quality and Capability Under the RMA: Regional councils: lightweight policy statements and limited capability; District councils: mixed results in planning and capability; Influencing factors: linking mandates, councils, capability and quality. Part IV: Local Case Studies: Far North District: resisting innovation; Queenstown Lakes District: development meets environment; Tauranga District: policy coherence on the coast; Tasman District: political populism; Conclusion: a decade on: unfulfilled expectations. Appendices: Key provisions of the RMA affecting local government functions; Methodology; Plan coding protocol; References cited; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Renewing Urban Communities Environment
Book SynopsisIreland is now an urban society, and both parts of the island have experienced rapid urban-generated growth and new patterns of development in recent years. This inter-disciplinary book adopts an all-Ireland perspective to investigate the tension that exists between sustainable urban development values and rhetoric - such as increased densities, brown field development, the compact city and social inclusion - and the emerging geography of urban Ireland, influenced by consumer and lifestyle choices. The introduction provides an overview of the dynamics of urban change, particularly during the 1990s, and the experience of rapid economic growth. The following chapters are divided into two parts, considering sustainable urban environments, and sustainable communities. This book will appeal to students, academics, policy and decision-makers, given that it adopts both a qualitative and quantitative approach, and introduces a range of new empirical studies covering both physical and social Trade Review’...an excellent overview of the multi-faceted challenge of sustainable development...The book affords a welcome orientation to recent developments in Ireland North and South; it is empirically informative and conceptually evocative, likely to become a valuable resource for both science and policy in the coming years.’ Anne Buttimer, Former President, International Geographical Union ’This timely, well-researched and thought-provoking collection places our sustainable living and future at the heart of social science debates concerning the future of urban areas. The contributions recognize the inter-related problems associated with sustainable living and seek to debate solutions and policy developments that extend beyond any one particular discipline. The political, social, economic and environmental tasks now before us are laid bare and challenge us to understand the complexity of sustainable development.’ Mark Tewdwr-Jones, University College London, UK ’This book is a very useful contribution to the literature of urban sustainability...it provides an up-to-date and readable study of Irish experiences of urban sustainability.’ Geography ’I would recommend this book to any student of urban and planning policy who needs a good grounding in different facets of housing, transport, urban change and sustainable development in Ireland.’ European Journal of Housing Policy '... an excellent examination of one of the most interesting case-studies in Europe in the current effort to integrate regional spatial and planning policies.' Australian Planner, December 2007Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: The geographical and policy context, Niamh Moore and Mark Scott. Sustainable Urban Environments: Re-greening brownfields: land recycling and urban sustainability, Niamh Moore; Higher density or open space: the future role of green space, Craig Bullock; Suburbanising Dublin: out of an overcrowded frying pan into a fire of unsustainability, Andrew MacLaran; Urban form and reducing the demand for car travel: towards an integrated policy agenda for the Belfast metropolitan area?, Malachy McEldowney, Tim Ryley, Mark Scott and Austin Smyth; Improving energy efficiency in urban areas, J. Peter Clinch; From barricades to back gardens: cross-border urban expansion from the city of Derry into Co. Donegal, Chris Paris; Urban-generated rural housing and evidence of counterurbanisation in the Dublin city-region, Menelaos Gkartzios and Mark Scott. Sustainable communities: 'we're too busy for that kind of stuff': progress towards local sustainable development in Ireland, Geraint Ellis, Brian Motherway and William J. V. Neill; Social and ethnic segregation and the urban agenda, Brendan Murtagh; The state and civil society in urban regeneration: negotiating sustainable participation in Belfast and Dublin, Jenny Muir; Active citizenship: resident associations, social capital and collective action, Paula Russell, Mark Scott and Declan Redmond; Housing policy, homeownership and the provision of affordable housing, Declan Redmond and Gillian Kernan; Conclusion: towards a sustainable future for Irish towns and cities, Niamh Moore and Mark Scott; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Global Population Policy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Mobile Century
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reanimating Places
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Senses of Place Senses of Time
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Taylor & Francis Evolving Cities Geocomputation in Territorial Planning Urban and Regional Planning and Development Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Politics of Forests
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Regional Integration Europe and Asia Compared
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Second Homes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Policy Integration for Complex Environmental
Book SynopsisThe quest for policy integration crystallized in the 1990s as awareness was growing that the current supply of narrow, sectoral, and little coordinated, or even overlapping and conflicting, policies could not cope efficiently and effectively with contemporary complex, cross-cutting and interdependent socio-environmental problems. Combining and coordinating policies properly promises to address this institutional misfit, add value to policies, support planning at national and sub-national levels, and facilitate the transition to sustainable development more generally. This book proposes a comprehensive conceptualization of policy integration and negotiates pertinent theoretical, methodological and applied issues from the perspective of selected EU policies - rural development, regional development, transport, social, economic, environmental, water resources, and biodiversity policy. Mediterranean desertification, an exceptionally complex socio-environmental problem, is used as an illustTrade Review’This book is a very timely and important contribution to debates on policy integration and the environment. With its focus on a wide range of theoretical, methodological and applied issues from the perspective of selected EU policies, this book will be of particular interest to those working on European policy issues, European integration, environmental policy implementation and the multi-faceted complexity of today's national and international policy-making.’ Geoff Wilson, University of Plymouth, UK ’This book provides a comprehensive and timely treatment of the theoretical and methodological aspects of policy integration, focusing on EU policies and using Mediterranean desertification as an illustrative example. It is a valuable reading for policy researchers and practitioners alike who grapple with contemporary complex and cross-cutting socio-environmental problems.’ Rudolf S. de Groot, Wageningen University, The Netherlands ’This book provides a very interesting conceptual framework for addressing contemporary policy issues such as coordination, synergy, integration, concerted action, etc., in a policy context which increasingly recognizes the necessity to safeguard for cross-impacts and linkages across sectors.’ Harry Coccossis, University of Thessaly, Greece 'The work overall is highly informative and carefully edited. For a collection the writing style and language are remarkably consistent. Briassoulis and her co-authors should be commended for producing a high-quality collection of essays about the different policies at work in the EU. The work is of a consistently high standard of writing and every chapter is richly detailed and referenced.' European Spatial Research and Policy '...enriches the discussions concerning global climate change...provides inspiring thoughts and proposals...' International Journal of Environment and PollutionTable of ContentsContents: Complex environmental problems and the quest for policy integration, Helen Briassoulis; Analysis of policy integration: conceptual and methodological considerations, Helen Briassoulis; Policy integration in the framework of EU regional policy, Constantinos Liarikos; EU rural development policy: the drive for policy integration within the second pillar of the CAP, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos; European Union social policies: the conundrum of policy integration, Theodoros Iosifides and Helen Briassoulis; Integration of EU water and development policies: a plausible expectation?, Giorgos Kallis, Helen Briassoulis, Constantinos Liarikos and Katerina Petkidi; Biodiversity policies in the European Union: achieving synergies with other policies?, Vassilis Detsis; Sustainable forest management in the European Union: the policy integration question, Aristotelis C. Papageorgiou, Georgios Mantakas and Helen Briassoulis; Policy integration: bringing space back in, Helen Briassoulis; Policy integration: an elusive concept or a realistic goal?, Helen Briassoulis; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Spatial Planning Urban Form and Sustainable Transport Urban Planning and Environment
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Taylor & Francis City Making and Urban Governance in the Americas
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Public Space and the Culture of Childhood
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement
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Taylor & Francis Social Dimensions of Sustainable Transport
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Preservation Tourism and Nationalism
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Taylor & Francis Soft or Hard Borders
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Environment and Society Sustainability Policy and the Citizen By author Stewart Barr published on April 2008
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Citys Hinterland Dynamism and Divergence in Europes PeriUrban Territories Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Space Odysseys Spatiality and Social Relations in the 21st Century
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Taylor & Francis Designing Sustainable Cities in the Developing World Design and the Built Environment
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Regionalism Contested Institution Society and Governance Urban and Regional Planning and Development Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chinese Youth in Transition The Chinese Trade and Industry Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Disposable Cities Garbage Governance and Sustainable Development in Urban Africa Rematerialising Cultural Geography
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Taylor & Francis Emotional Geographies
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Taylor & Francis Environmental Planning in the Caribbean
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Taylor & Francis Expressive Genres and Historical Change
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marginalisation in China Perspectives on Transition and Globalisation Igu Marginal Regions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Geographies of Garbage Governance
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Taylor & Francis Latinos in the New South Transformations of Place
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sustainable Land Management in the Tropics Explaining the Miracle International Land Management
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Wedding Present Domestic Life Beyond Consumption
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