Regional, state and other local government Books
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Governance of Climate Responsive Cities:
Book SynopsisThe book presents governance with a particular focus on the social and spatial aspects of climate responsiveness and reads the practice of governance across different scales. It conceptualizes a framework of scale composed of three main categories including (i) scientific knowledge, (ii) plans and policies, and (iii) authorities of action. This framework presents ‘practice’ as the social context in which these three can interplay adaptively. Within this framework, the book presents case studies from Turkey, Italy, Ecuador, Chile and the UK, that reach meaningful planning and design solutions at national, city, and neighbourhood scales in the face of climate change. It offers implementation clues that are transferable to ever-increasing climate action around the globe. The book will be of interest to both professionals and scholars involved in urban design, urban planning and architecture, especially those in the field of climate responsive urbanism. It will also be a valuable resource for non-governmental organizations and social enterprises dealing with sustainability and climate change policies.Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Public Values for Cities and City Policy
Book SynopsisThis book provides a framework for understanding the creation of public value in urban environments. The ability of cities to produce value is related to their capacity to generate meaningful resources for city residents and workers that enable them to craft meaningfulness in life and work. Meaningfulness and public value require new ways of leading and developing city governance. This extends to designing inclusive structures and processes for people to grapple with the meanings and values underpinning public value creation. A public value framework demands that city governance goes beyond ordinary government to considerations of how to involve city residents and workers in creating and maintaining the common good. The common good is determined by an inclusive associational life characterized by deliberative processes and opportunities for social contribution. When acting upon their entitlements to make the city, urban residents and workers – as members of diverse civic, public and private organizations – co-create the meanings that facilitate the collective action necessary to translate values into value. The experience of cooperating for the common good produces meanings that people can adopt into a sense that their lives have significance and purpose. This is particularly relevant to understanding how to motivate just and inclusive sustainability transitions, especially as cities recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing on cities and urban policy, the main theme of this book is to elaborate on public values for cities and city policies, and to further develop the concept of the meaningful city. This book aims to provide new kinds of tools for city development that can help them co-create resilience against future shocks. Table of Contents1) Introduction Part II The Concept of Public Values and Cities 2) Public Values approach 3) Public Values, cities and services 4) Ethics, Values and Public Value Part III Public Values and the Development of Cities 5) Urbanization and Public Values 6) Knowledge-Based Community and Public Values 7) Economic development policy and Public Values 8) Digitalisation and Public Values Part IV Governance And leadership 9) City Governance 10) City Leadership Part V Case study and conclusions 11) Citizen capabilities for making meaningful cities 12) Conclusions
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Theorising Urban Development From the Global South
Book SynopsisThis edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities. Embracing the evolving post-colonial theory, the volume offers ‘fragments’ of the urban that provide clues to the larger, often-repeated ontological question that continues to hold: Why and what does theory from the South mean? The chapters derive from and speak to the simultaneously homogenous and heterogeneous South. They focus on presenting the alternative realities of Southern cities as critical analytical lenses that can build up to the theorisation of the Southern urban with a potential to (re)understand the contemporary urban world. The contributions explore locally rooted knowledge systems, premised on social and cultural practices, as possible conduits to evolving planning methods. In doing so, the volume breaks apart the linear modernity that urban theory from the North relies on. Chapters [Chapter-1] and [Chapter-11] are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction/A Critical Appreciation of Urban Trajectories in the Global South: Mutual Learning Opportunities (Anjali Karol Mohan, Juliana Gomez and Sony Pellissery). - Part I: Emerging Planning Territories: Co-producing Spaces, Knowledge and Vocabularies. - Chapter 2. Addressing Metropolitan Governance through Suburban Space in an Ordinary City Region (Sarani Khatua). - Chapter 3. Planning for the urban mosaic of a mega-city: the case of urban villages in Delhi (Banashree Banerjee). - Chapter 4. Invisible territories: The visibility of an urban crisis in Medellin (Edwar A. Calderón). - Chapter 5. A Tenure Security-Responsive Approach: The Case of Barrio Cantera, San Martín de los Andes, Argentina. - (Claudia Sakay, Silvia Aún, Akiko Okabe). - Chapter 6. Informality, Everyday Practices, and Public Space (re)appropriation: The caseof El Cisne Dos, Guayaquil (Xavier Méndez Abad, Hans Leinfelder, Kris Scheerlinck). - Part II: Planning Histories and Emerging Conflicts: Juxtaposition of the Traditional and the Modern. - Chapter 7. De-Colonising Gray Space: Bedouin-Arabs Resisting Metropolitan Displacement (Oren Yiftachel, Safa Abu Rabia, Erez Tzfadia). - Chapter 8. Urban Planning and Rationality Conflicts in Malawi (Mtafu Manda). - Chapter 9. Reimagining Urban Planning in a Tribal Region: Reflections from a Fifth Schedule Area of India (Aashish Khakha). - Chapter 10. Religious Urbanism: Emergent Mixed-use Approaches to Planning and (re)development in Lagos, Nigeria (Taibat Lawanson). - Chapter 11. New directions in spatial development in Southern Africa: Outlining the background, influences and significance of co-produced spatial production in Namibia (Guillermo Delgado). - Chapter 12. Urban Planning Practices in Mainland China: Evolution and Paradigm Shifts (Zhi Liu). - Chapter 13: Conclusions (Anjali Karol Mohan, Juliana Gomez and Sony Pellissery)
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy
Book SynopsisThis open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade, colonial history, similarity in culture, and spatial proximity. Networks are viewed as the structural backbone of the diffusion process, and diffusion is anlaysed via several subfields of social policy, in order to interrogate which network dimensions drive this process. The focus is on a global perspective of social policy diffusion via networks, and it is the first book to explicitly follow this macro-quantitative perspective on diffusion at a global scale whilst also comparing different networks. The collection tests the network structures in terms of their relevance to the diffusion process in different subfields of social policy such as old age and survivor pensions, labor and labor markets, health and long-term care, education and training, and family and gender policy.The book will therefore be invaluable to students and researchers of global social policy, sociology, political science, international relations, organization theory and economics.Table of ContentsNetworks of Global Social Policy Diffusion: The Effects of Culture, Economy, Colonial legacies, and Geographic Proximity.- The Global Diffusion of Work-Injury Insurance: The Role of Spatial Networks and Nation Building.- Networks of Global Policy Diffusion. The Introduction of Compulsory Education.- The Global Diffusion of Adult Basic Education.- The Emergence of Healthcare Systems.- Introduction of Long-Term Care Systems: The Nascent Diffusion of an Emergent Field of Social Policy.- Origins of Family Policy: Prerequisites or Diffusion.- From Geneva to the World? Global Network Diffusion of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in Employment and Occupation: The ILO’s C111.- The Diffusion of Workplace Anti-discrimination Regulations for the LGBTQ+ Community.- Critical Summary and Concluding Remarks.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy
Book SynopsisThis open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade, colonial history, similarity in culture, and spatial proximity. Networks are viewed as the structural backbone of the diffusion process, and diffusion is anlaysed via several subfields of social policy, in order to interrogate which network dimensions drive this process. The focus is on a global perspective of social policy diffusion via networks, and it is the first book to explicitly follow this macro-quantitative perspective on diffusion at a global scale whilst also comparing different networks. The collection tests the network structures in terms of their relevance to the diffusion process in different subfields of social policy such as old age and survivor pensions, labor and labor markets, health and long-term care, education and training, and family and gender policy.The book will therefore be invaluable to students and researchers of global social policy, sociology, political science, international relations, organization theory and economics.Table of ContentsNetworks of Global Social Policy Diffusion: The Effects of Culture, Economy, Colonial legacies, and Geographic Proximity.- The Global Diffusion of Work-Injury Insurance: The Role of Spatial Networks and Nation Building.- Networks of Global Policy Diffusion. The Introduction of Compulsory Education.- The Global Diffusion of Adult Basic Education.- The Emergence of Healthcare Systems.- Introduction of Long-Term Care Systems: The Nascent Diffusion of an Emergent Field of Social Policy.- Origins of Family Policy: Prerequisites or Diffusion.- From Geneva to the World? Global Network Diffusion of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in Employment and Occupation: The ILO’s C111.- The Diffusion of Workplace Anti-discrimination Regulations for the LGBTQ+ Community.- Critical Summary and Concluding Remarks.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Marketplace Trade and West African Urban
Book SynopsisThis book analyses how informal economy traders and the marketplace institution dominate the local economy in African cities. According to the World Bank, being an African reduces the probability that an individual is an entrepreneur in the manufacturing sector by more than 95 percent. Exporting unprocessed strategic raw materials and importing large volumes of finished goods stagnate Africa’s informal sector while creating formal jobs overseas. This suggests employment increases in distributive trade and persistence of the marketplace institution in reducing urban unemployment and income inequality. However, there is limited knowledge of the men and women with permanent stalls in large urban marketplaces that function daily as a temporary city within a city, even though they are the major actors in distribute trade. More important their daily out-of-stall contacts resulting from maintaining complex social and economic relationships that determine the financial health of family, business, and the economy are generally unexplored and largely unknown, but have significant unintended consequences on the urban mobility system. Researchers, planners, development practitioners and policymakers have, therefore, not focused their attention and considered the impacts of the powerful economic institution – marketplaces and traders - in framing transport planning processes and urban development policies, and that is the paradox surrounding marketplace trade and urban development in West Africa. Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Marketplace Entrepreneurs and Urban Mobility infrastructureChapter 3: Onitsha: The Largest market in Nigeria - One of the largest in West AfricaChapter 4: Challenges Facing Urban Marketplace TradersChapter 5: Attributes Impacting Out-of-Stall ContactsChapter 6: A Geography of Contacts in a Large Urban MarketplaceChapter 7: Sustainability of Marketplace Institution and TradersChapter 8: Planning and Policy Support for Marketplace Trade
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Introduction to Crowd Management: Managing Crowds
Book SynopsisThis book will guide you in a simple and illustrative way through all aspects related to crowd behaviour, including sociological theories, methods of crowd control, people detection and tracking, and crowd simulation and prediction, while examining previous accidents to learn from the past. Crowds are a constant presence in most cities around the globe and mass gatherings are attracting an increasing number of people. While experience can help manage large crowds and plan mass events, knowledge on crowd behaviour is fundamental for successfully dealing with unexpected situations, improving current practices and implementing state-of-the-art technologies in management strategies. After letting people laugh about the controversy on colliding pedestrians, with this book, two of the Ig Nobel laureates on pedestrian traffic will make you think (and learn) presenting through a collaborative approach, combining theoretical with practical advice, the science behind crowd dynamics and the importance it plays in our increasingly urbanized society. Fundamental aspects related to crowd management are presented using simple concepts requiring little or no knowledge of mathematics or engineering. Professionals involved in pedestrian traffic, as well as students and researchers entering the field of crowd dynamics, will find this book a useful interdisciplinary introduction on the subject, exploring both fundamental background information and more specific topics related to crowd management.Table of Contents1. Crowd Management and its Definition.- 2. Crowd Properties and Characteristics.- 3. Crowd Incidents and their Analysis.- 4. Risk Assessment.- 5. Pedestrian and Crowd Sensing.- 6. Crowd Simulators: Computational Methods, Product Selection, and Visualization.- 7. Crowd Control Methods: Established and Future Practices.- 8. Planning.- 9. Conclusion: Seven Knows.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Introduction to Crowd Management: Managing Crowds
Book SynopsisThis book will guide you in a simple and illustrative way through all aspects related to crowd behaviour, including sociological theories, methods of crowd control, people detection and tracking, and crowd simulation and prediction, while examining previous accidents to learn from the past. Crowds are a constant presence in most cities around the globe and mass gatherings are attracting an increasing number of people. While experience can help manage large crowds and plan mass events, knowledge on crowd behaviour is fundamental for successfully dealing with unexpected situations, improving current practices and implementing state-of-the-art technologies in management strategies. After letting people laugh about the controversy on colliding pedestrians, with this book, two of the Ig Nobel laureates on pedestrian traffic will make you think (and learn) presenting through a collaborative approach, combining theoretical with practical advice, the science behind crowd dynamics and the importance it plays in our increasingly urbanized society. Fundamental aspects related to crowd management are presented using simple concepts requiring little or no knowledge of mathematics or engineering. Professionals involved in pedestrian traffic, as well as students and researchers entering the field of crowd dynamics, will find this book a useful interdisciplinary introduction on the subject, exploring both fundamental background information and more specific topics related to crowd management.Table of Contents1. Crowd Management and its Definition.- 2. Crowd Properties and Characteristics.- 3. Crowd Incidents and their Analysis.- 4. Risk Assessment.- 5. Pedestrian and Crowd Sensing.- 6. Crowd Simulators: Computational Methods, Product Selection, and Visualization.- 7. Crowd Control Methods: Established and Future Practices.- 8. Planning.- 9. Conclusion: Seven Knows.
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Springer International Publishing AG Glocal Governance: How to Govern in the Anthropocene?
Book SynopsisThis open access book develops a conceptual framework for glocal governance as a multi-stakeholder local governance approach based on global human rights norms and democratic principles. It discusses glocal governance as part of an ongoing global transformation process that began in the 1990s, when democracy and individualizing responsibilities for governance became the dominant political system worldwide, and continues through today’s dawn of a New Cold War between those countries which have democratized and those which haven’t. This book will intrigue practitioners and scholars alike who are interested in the concepts of glocality and glocalism, local-global connectivity, and the implementation and dissemination of global norms and concepts such as human rights and democracy, at the local and community level as well as among civil society and private enterprises. The author argues that global norms have now become universal benchmarks which private, political, and civil actors use to assess day-to-day situations and market developments, and to make their decisions accordingly. This book will appeal to students, practitioners, and scholars of the social sciences and humanities who are interested in governance, human rights, public diplomacy and international relations; and in conceptualizing mechanisms for governing and enforcing political decisions locally, on the basis of global universal principles, international norms, and laws.Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Evolution of Glocal Governance.- Chapter 2. The Glocal between the Local and the Global.- Chapter 3. Glocal Challenges in the Present and the Future.- Chapter 4. Glocality is the current State of the Art.- Chapter 5. The System of Glocal Governance
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Springer International Publishing AG Local Governance in Cape Verde: 1970 - 2020
Book SynopsisThe book provides a pioneering overview of the evolution of the local government and urban policy in Cape Verde after independence, offering a multi-scale perspective of local governance in Cape Verde from 1970 - 2020. It examines the process of urban development in the country, and in the capital city in particular, and explores the consequences and challenges for spatial planning, housing, urban heritage, and the environment, namely issues related to climate change in the post-independence period. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Urban Development in Cape Verde between 1970 and 2020.- Chapter 3. Local Government in Cape Verde 1970-2020.- Chapter 4. Spatial Planning and Socio-Spatial Cohesion in Cape Verde.- Chapter 5. Unification of the Land Cadastre with the Land Registry in Cape Verde: Challenges and Opportunities for Local and Urban Governance.- Chapter 6. Genesis and Urban Evolution of Cidade da Praia - Cape Verde.- Chapter 7. Urban Planning in the Municipality of Praia 1970 -2020.- Chapter 8. Urban Heritage in Ribeira Grande de Santiago - Cape Verde: Constraints, Opportunities and Challenges for Urban Governance.- Chapter 9. Housing Policies in Cape Verde, 1970 - 2020: Challenges and Opportunities for Urban Governance.- Chapter 10. Cidade da Praia, Floods and Inundations: Problems and Challenges for Urban Governance- Chapter 11. Cidade da Praia: Natural Risks and Spatial Planning.
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Springer International Publishing AG Planning Cities in Africa: Current Issues and
Book SynopsisThis open access book provides insights into challenges, threats and opportunities of urban development in Africa. It discusses how and why African cities need localised urban planning concepts and theories to deal with challenges and threats of rapid urbanisation and climate change. The book delivers an in-depth view of the nature and gaps of the framework on which current planning practice and education in Africa are based. With that, it discusses the potentials of African cities to mobilise local knowledge, resources and capacity building for sustained and resilient urban growth.This work is addressed to educationists and practitioners in the field of urban development management, climate change adaptation and urban resilience. Specifically, such audiences include researchers, spatial planners, graduate students and member of civil societies working on urban development management.Table of ContentsPlanning cities in Africa – Current issues and future prospects of urban governance and planning: An introduction.- Part I: Planning theories and models - Application and local challenges.- The State, trust and cooperation: Local government-residents’ joint neighbourhood upgrading initiatives in Addis Ababa.- Street vending in downtown Rabat: In resistance to imported urban models.- Revisiting stokes’ theory of slums – Towards decolonised housing concepts from the Global South.- Part II: The state of planning education and planning capacity.- In a state of flux: Urban planning programmes in Asia and Africa.- Climate change adaptation and planning education in Southern Africa.- Is climate change knowledge making a difference in urban planning and practice: Perspectives from practitioners and policy makers in Tanzania Fehler! Textmarke nicht definiert.- Contributions of local authorities to community adaptive capacity to impacts of climate change; A case study of sea level rise in Pangani Division, Pangani District.- Part III: Participatory and multi-level governance approach toward current urban challenges.- Qualities of urban planning and the conflict between participatory planning and planning standards: Evidence from Ethiopia.- Complementing or conflicting rationalities? How self-production practices in collective space can shape urban planning. Insights from Maputo City.- Translating globalised ideals into local settings: The actors and complexities of post-settlement water infrastructure planning in urban Ghana.
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Springer International Publishing AG Identifying Models of National Urban Agendas: A
Book SynopsisThis book utilises comparative diachronic and synchronic analyses to investigate models of national urban agendas. Encompassing cases from Europe, North America, South America and Asia, it examines the changing global geography of national urban agendas since the second post-war period. The book demonstrates that whilst some discontinuities and differences exist between countries, they each demonstrate a common systematic investment in urban policies, that are considered as programmes of intervention and funding schemes for cities. Furthermore, in such programmes a political vision is evident which recognizes an important role for cities and urbanization processes at a national level. The book will appeal to scholars and students of public policy, urban planning and public administration, as well as practitioners and policymakers at the national and local levels.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Knowledge and Craft of Urban AgendasPART I: The “Old” Geography: Between Continuity and ChangeChapter 2: Urban Policies in France: Stronger Metropolises and Steering StateChapter 3: The Financialisation of Urban Policy in the UK: From Area-Based Initiatives to Area-Based Value-CaptureChapter 4: China’s National Urban Agenda: Transition and Reframing CitiesChapter 5: The Politics of U.S. Urban Agendas: Ideology, Government, and Public PoliciesPART II: The Changing Geography: Critical ExamplesChapter 6: Towards a National Urban Policy in ArgentinaChapter 7: The Federal Urban Agenda in Brazil: Democratization and Politicization of Planning PracticeChapter 8: Learning from Mistakes? India’s New Urban Planning Order of 2020.-Chapter 9: The Urban Agenda in Canada. Limited Room for Action in Federal-Municipal RelationsPART III: The Forthcoming Geography: Capacity Building, Social Innovation, and Public ParticipationChapter 10: National Urban Policies in Europe, a Contrasted and Fragmented Picture or a Shared Social Construction?Chapter 11: Analysis of the Spanish Urban Agenda from a Policy Transfer Perspective. Advancing to More Resilient Post-COVID Urban AreasChapter 12: Housing Policy in the Political Agenda: The Trajectory of PortugalChapter 13: Social Innovation, Welfare Regimes and National/Urban Agendas: Going Outside “the Local Trap” in Social Innovation StudiesChapter 14: Connecting the Dots of an Implicit Agenda: The Case of Participatory Budgeting as a Travelling Policy
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Springer International Publishing AG Urban and Transit Planning: City Planning:
Book SynopsisThis book represents a compilation of research in sustainable architecture and planning. Its main focus is offering strategies and solutions that help reducing of the negative impacts of buildings on the environment and emphasizing the suitable management of available resources. By tackling the topic of sustainability from a historical perspective and also as a vision for the future, the book in hands provides new horizons for engineers, urban planners and environmentalists interested in the optimization of resources, space development, and the ecosystem as a whole to address the complex unresolved problems our cities are facing. This book is a culmination of selected research papers from IEREK’s sixth edition of the International Conference on Urban Planning & Architectural Design for Sustainable Development (UPADSD) held online in collaboration with the University of Florence, Italy (2021) and the first edition of the International Conference on Circular Economy for Sustainable Development (CESD) held online in collaboration with the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (2021).Table of ContentsTowards adaptive planning of urban spaces in the context of a new agile urbanism.- A Study of Urban Size Control in the Japanese Understanding of Garden Cities in the Early 1900s.- Energy Efficiency and Building's Envelope: An Integrated Approach to High-Performance Architecture.- Mapping Social Cohesion and Identity in Intercultural Public Spaces: The Case of Germantown.- The Power of Long-Term Residents in Consensus Building for Reconstruction of the Housing Complex area: Case study on Tama City, Tokyo.- Urban regeneration through Climate Adaptive Design for the Mediterranean area.- Understanding Place Attachment Process Through Instagram Narratives and Imagery of Historic Urban Places.- Future Study of Regional Spatial Structure in Iran (Horizon 2040).- Istanbul: The Ecology, Nature and Disasters Designing Future Cities With Innovative Housing Projects.- City-effect: new centralities in post-pandemic regional metropolis Pescara-Chieti.- Compactness as a Condition, Compaction as an Ambition - Potentials and Pitfalls of an Interdisciplinary Global Debate on the Compact City.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Palgrave Handbook of Disability Sport in
Book SynopsisThis handbook explores the various ways in which disability sport is governed and organised across Europe, as well as examining the extent to which persons with a disability participate in sport at the grassroots level. Based upon a solid theoretical framework and up-to-date data, the 19 country-specific chapters in this handbook give a comparative overview of the structuring, steering and supporting elements of disability sport policy and sport participation levels amongst persons with a disability, as well as the extent to which countries adopt policies to promote inclusion in sport in this population. A multitude of authors also identify the various methods and challenges in collecting sport participation data with regard to persons with a disability. This handbook will be a valuable resource for academic study across a range of sport and disability related programs, as well as a point of reference for researchers and policymakers working in this area.Table of Contents1. Introduction. Sport participation a human right for persons with a disabilityCaroline van Lindert, Jeroen Scheerder, and Ian Brittain 2. Understanding disability, disability sport and inclusion Ian Brittain, Caroline van Lindert, and Jeroen Scheerder 3. Participation in sport and physical activity amongst people with a disability. A pan-European comparative approach Jeroen Scheerder, Kobe Helsen, Caroline van Lindert, and Ian Brittain 4. Denmark: Disability sports policy at arm’s length Christian Røj Voldby and Karsten Elmose-Østerlund 5. Finland. Facts behind the long and complicated process of disability inclusion in sports Kati Lehtonen and Aija Saari 6. Disability and sport in Iceland Ingi Þór Einarsson and Vidar Halldorsson 7. Norway Marit Sørensen and Nina Kahrs 8. Beyond inclusion - opportunity structures in sports for all in Sweden Kim Wickman and Linda Torége 9. Ireland Catherine Carty and Paul Kitchin 10. Northern Ireland: Disability Sport in a Shared Space Paul Kitchin and Catherine Carty 11. United Kingdom: An inclusionary approach to sport Matej Christiaens, Ian Brittain, and Christopher Brown 12. Austria: Half Way to Inclusion? Torsten Wojciechowski and Claudia Stura 13. Disability sport in Belgium/Flanders. From a fragmented mosaic towards a more inclusive landscape Debbie Van Biesen and Jeroen Scheerder 14. Complexity and Coexistence: Disability Sport in Germany Jürgen Mittag 15. The Netherlands, towards inclusive sport for people with a disability Caroline van Lindert and Maxine de Jonge 16. Switzerland Julia Albrecht, Siegfried Nagel, and Christoffer Klenk 17. Hungary: Rise of attention given to disability sports Szilvia Perényi and Zsuzsanna Szilárd 18. Disability Sport in Lithuania Jurate Pozeriene and Diana Reklaitiene 19. Structure of the analysis on the development and situation of disability sport in Slovenia Mojca Doupona and Simona Kustec 20. Portugal: pathways of sport for people with disabilities Leonardo José Mataruna-Dos-Santos, Anabela Vitorino and Nuno M. Pimenta 21. Disability sport in Spain Javier Pérez-Tejero and Cati Lecumberri 22. Turkey (Republic of Turkey): Disability Sports, Policies and Implementations Yeşim Albayrak Kuruoğlu 23. The landscape of sport for persons with a disability: a system within a system Caroline van Lindert, Jeroen Scheerder, and Ian Brittain
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Springer International Publishing AG Urban Commons, Future Smart Cities and
Book SynopsisThis book provides a critical theoretical framework for understanding the implementation and development of smart cities as innovation drivers, with long-term effects on productivity, livability, and the sustainability of specific initiatives. This framework is based on an empirical analysis of 21 case studies, which include pioneer projects from various regions. It investigates how successful smart city initiatives foster technological innovation by combining regulatory governance and private agency. The typologies of smart city-making approaches are thoroughly examined. This book presents the holistic approach of smart cities, which start from current issue and challenges, advanced technological development, disaster mitigation, ecological perspective, social issue, and urban governance. The book is organized into five major parts, which reflect interconnection between theories and practice. Part one explains the introduction which reflects the diversity and challenges of the urban commons and its regeneration. Part two covers the current and future situation of urban growth, anglomeration agglomeration, and urban infrastructure. This section includes rethinking urban sprawl: moving towards sustainable cities, drivers of urban growth and infrastructure, urban land use dynamics and urban sprawl and urban infrastructure sustainability and resilience. Part three describes climate crisis, urban health, and waste management. This section includes climate change and health impacts in urban areas, green spaces: an invaluable resource for delivering sustainable urban health, health and wellbeing and quality of life in the changing urban environment, urban climate and pollution—case study, sustainable urban waste management and urban sustainability and global warming and urban heat Island. Part four covers the ecological perspectives, advanced technology, and social impact for i.e., smart building, ecosystem services, society and future smart cities (SSC). This section includes urban ecosystem services, environmental planning, and city management, artificial intelligence and urban hazards and societal impact, and using geospatial application and urban/smart city energy conservation—case study. Part five covers urban governance, smart solutions, and sustainable cities. It includes good governance, especially e-governance and citizen participation, urban governance, space and policy planning to achieve sustainability, smart city planning and management and Internet of things (IoT), advances in smart roads for future smart cities, sustainable city planning, innovation, and management, future strategy for sustainable smart cities and lessons from the pandemic: the future of smart cities.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction.- 1. Diversity and Challenges of the Urban Commons.- 2. Urban Commons and Regeneration.- Part II. Urban Growth, Agglomeration and Urban Infrastructure.- 3. Rethinking Urban Sprawl: Moving Towards Sustainable Cities.- 4. Drivers of urban growth and infrastructure.- 5. Urban Land Use dynamics and sustainable urban management.- Part III. Climate crisis, Urban Health and Waste Management.- 6. Climate Change and Health Impacts in Urban Areas.- 7. Green Spaces: An Invaluable Resource for Delivering Sustainable Urban Health.- 8. Health and wellbeing and Qualityof Life in the changing urban environment.- 9. Sustainable Urban Waste Management and urban sustainability-case study.- 10. Global Warming and urban heat Island.
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Springer International Publishing AG Cycling Through the Pandemic: Tactical Urbanism
Book SynopsisThis open access book provides insight on how the tactical urbanism has the capacity to influence change in mobility practices such as cycling. COVID-19 crisis prompted the public authorities to rethink the use of public space in order to develop means of transport that are both efficient and adapted to the health context and their effects on cycling practices in Europe, North, and South America. Its contributors collectively reveal and evidence through policies analysis, mapping, and innovative qualitative analysis bridging video and interviews, how those new infrastructures and policies can be a trigger for change in a context of mobility transition.This book provides an important element on the way local authorities can act in a quicker and more agile way. While some decisions are specific to the context of the beginning of the pandemic, the analysis offers lessons on the way to implement the transition toward a low-carbon mobility, on the importance of processes based on trials and errors, on the political stakes of reallocating road space.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Has cycling got a boost from the pandemic?- ‘School Streets’ and the adaptation London’s state-led tactical urbanism during COVID-19.- Public action in times of crisis: Trajectories of cycling policies in four French cities.- Press discourse on cycling before, during, and after the first COVID-19 lockdown in France. The rise of the user-group voice.- Tactical urbanism to develop cycling infrastructures: The implementation of COVID cycle lanes in Switzerland.- Temporary urbanism in pandemic times—Disruption and continuity of public action in Montreal.- Pop-up bike lanes and temporary shared spaces in Vienna during the COVID-19 pandemic.- The spatial dimension of “pop-up cycle paths” in metropolitan areas: A comparative study of France and Colombia.- Cycling in Bogotá during a pandemic. The influence of tactical urbanism and perceived in-security on bicycle usage.- Changing cycling practices and Covid cycle lanes in five French cities.
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Springer Nature Switzerland Aging Aging Populations and Welfare
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Springer Urban Governance in Southeast Asia
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Springer Emerging Technologies for Smart Cities
Book SynopsisPart 1: Introduction and Setting the Scene.- Chapter 1: Emerging Technologies and Concept of Transportation and Development.- Chapter 2: Transportation Development in the Global North: Lessons from Germany, United States and Singapore.- Chapter 3: Transport Situation in the Global South: Evidence from Nigeria, South Africa and India.- Part 2: Sustainable Development, Smart Cities and Emerging Technologies.- Chapter 4: Sustainable Transport Planning.- Chapter 5: Smart Cities and Their Impact on Urban Transportation.- Chapter 6: Transportation Technologies and Transportation.- Chapter 7: Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data as a Revolutionary Approach for Traffic Management.- Part 3: Prospects of Emerging Technologies and The role of Government and Citizen in Smart Cities and Urban Transportation Development.- Chapter 8: Benefits and Challenges of Emerging Technologies in Urban Transportation Pl
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Privatizing Democracy: Global Ideals, European
Book SynopsisDemocratization is a process of collective emancipation through self-government. Continuous political contestation is essential for emancipation but, in order to know which strategies and conditions will emancipate us, we also need to know which ones subjugate us. Political mechanisms with the capacity to modulate our individual and collective bodies and make them docile tend to be close relatives of those which make us equal and free. Drawing on the latest theories concerning globalization and democracy, this book argues that postnational and postsovereign multilevel governance regimes, including the European Union, should be understood as mechanisms of global capitalism aimed at privatizing democracy. Through a detailed applied analysis of the Basque case, the author illustrates how democratization is closely linked to ideas about territory, collective empowerment and institutional political capacity. Democratization always takes place partially: it never «ends». Contrary to the dominant thinking, this book argues that the incomplete nature of democratization is a positive aspect, with perpetual conflict leading to perpetual change. This is precisely what allows, and obliges, each generation to shape its own forms of emancipation.Table of ContentsCONTENTS: Introduction: Privatizing democracy – Global capitalism, democracy and the European Union – Democratization – Territory, political economy and the nation-state – Basque territories: Federation, nation and self-determination – Basque democratization.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften The Middle East: Thinking About and Beyond
Book SynopsisIn this edited book, several leading scholars address a number of security-related issues, all connected to one main research question: What (in)security means from the perspective of people living in the Middle East and North Africa? In doing so, the contributors shed light on the contours of a stable and legitimate order that responds to the needs of the peoples in the region, on what history tells us about the ongoing debates on security and stability in the region, and, last but not least, on «human security», which encompasses the dimension of human rights, political rights and social/economic security.Table of ContentsFrom Sectarianization to De-Sectarianization: How to Advance Human Security in the Middle East – Selective Arms Flows and Arms Control: Producing Insecurity in the Middle East … and Beyond – Insecurity, Order and Pluralism in the Middle East: An Agenda for a Critical Approach to Security Studies – Beyond Security and Stability – Contra-Identity: Psycho-Nationalism After the ‹Middle East› – Islamists and the Arab Counter-Revolutions – Dahlan vs Belhaj: The Maghreb in the Arab War of Narratives – Dialogues in New Middle Eastern Politics: On (the Limits of) Making Historical Analogies to the Classic Arab Cold War in a Sectarianized New Middle East – Whose Stability? Assessing the ‘Iranian Threat’ through History
£38.88
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Collapse and Rebirth of Cultural Heritage: The
Book SynopsisCultural heritage and illicit trafficking in the Middle East are two key topics of our time. The book sheds light on both aspects, and identifies the need to democratize cultural heritage, by giving greater control to local communities. It also investigates the link between local hotbeds of conflict and violence in countries such as Syria and Iraq, as well as war economics, transnational criminal networks and the politics of deliberate destruction and theft of cultural heritage. Finally, the chapters analyze the impact of non-violent and violent non-state actors, fragile states, forced migration, environmental degradation, as well as how local and international institutions have reacted to the dramatic events which the region and its inhabitants have experienced in recent yearsTable of ContentsEttore Greco and Nicolo Russo Perez Foreword Lorenzo Kamel Introduction Elijah J. Magnier Chapter 1: The Steep Cost of Destabilizing Iraq and Syria Francesco Bandarin Chapter 2: The Reconstruction and Recovery of Syrian Cultural Heritage. The Case of the Old City of Aleppo Stefano de Martino Chapter 3: The Italian Response to the Cultural Heritage Emergency in Iraq Omar Mohammed Chapter 4: Space, Time and People: How the Destruction of Mosul’s Heritage Reshaped the Future of the People Abdul Salam Taha Chapter 5: The Role of Academia in Enabling the Illicit Antiquities Market: The Damage to Iraq’s Cultural Heritage Lorenzo Kamel Chapter 6: Cultural Heritage as a Process of Accumulation: The ‘Paradigm of Gilgamesh’ Contributors Abbreviations
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de Gruyter de Gruyter Handbook of Citizens Assemblies
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£21.85
Bohlau Verlag Heritage Conservation and Research in India: 60
Book Synopsis2009 marked the 60th anniversary of the diplomatic relations of the Republic of India and the Republic of Austria. The Conservation Department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna presents this volume largely based on papers reported at the conference Cultural Heritage Counts - Research, Conservation and Management held in New Delhi in August, 2009. The conference was a crucial contribution initiated by the Austrian Cultural Forum New Delhi to celebrate this important jubilee. The successful and intensive cooperation of both countries in the fields of the research and conservation of cultural heritage is reflected in numerous research and conservation projects presented in this book.
£40.84
Bohlau Verlag Vom Lowen Zum Adler: Der Ubergang
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£63.28
Campus Verlag Metropolitan Governance: Different Paths in
Book SynopsisAs urban areas have grown and sprawl has spread in recent decades, metropolitan governments around the world have begun to look beyond city borders, establishing regional partnerships to help them deal with issues of transit, resource use, and more. "Metropolitan Governance" examines this trend through a close comparative study of seven metropolitan areas in Israel and Germany. While not neglecting the reasons behind these changes in governance, the authors pay particular attention to their effects on - and diminishing of - democratic participation and accountability.
£52.39
Peter Lang AG Handbuch Zur Kommunalen Wirtschaftsfoerderung
Book SynopsisDie Hoffnung auf die Jahrhundert-Ansiedlung geistert immer noch durch manchen kommunalpolitischen Kopf, vor allem bei Ratsmitgliedern. Der große Ansiedlungserfolg soll alle Probleme der Gemeinde lösen. Diese Hoffnung ist für die große Mehrheit der Gemeinden jedoch reine Illusion. Die Erfahrung zeigt: Es ist sinnvoller auf die Entwicklung und Pflege des vorhandenen Gewerbebestandes zu setzen. Friedhelm Boyken stellt kurz und prägnant die rechtlichen und tatsächlichen Handlungsmöglichkeiten von Kommunalpolitikern und -beamten vor.
£23.84
Peter Lang AG Politische Partizipation Jugendlicher in Der
Book SynopsisDas Interesse Jugendlicher an der Politik ist in Deutschland und Frankreich rückläufig. Wie kann es gelingen, diesem Trend entgegenzuwirken und das Interesse Jugendlicher an der Demokratie zu fördern? Am Vergleich von zwei Partizipationsmodellen, dem Leipziger Jugendforum VOICE und dem Jugendgemeinderat in Lyon zeigt der Autor, wie diese Gremien entstanden sind, wie sie arbeiten und welche Rechte ihnen gewährt werden. Untersucht wird der Einfluss, den Erwachsene ausüben. Dargestellt wird, welche Effekte damit in der Kommune erreicht werden und welche Wirkungen das Engagement bei den Jugendlichen hinterlässt. Die Arbeit basiert auf einer quantitativen und qualitativen Datenerhebung bei Jugendlichen und Vertretern aus Politik, Verwaltung und von freien Trägern beider Gemeinden. Der Autor unterbreitet Vorschläge, die Jugendliche und Erwachsene bei der Gründung und Arbeit dieser Gremien unterstützen sollen.
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Peter Lang AG Perspektiven Dezentraler Infrastrukturen Im
Book SynopsisIn der dreijährigen Forschungspartnerschaft INFRAFUTUR kooperierten das Wuppertal Institut, dreizehn Unternehmen der kommunalen Wirtschaft und der Verband kommunaler Unternehmen. Sie untersuchten, welche Strategien geeignet sind, um die Ver- und Entsorgung von privaten Haushalten und der Wirtschaft in den Sparten Energie, Wasser/Abwasser und Abfall zu sichern und zu stärken. Zu diesem Zweck wurden in Form von Szenarien die Zukunftsaussichten kommunalwirtschaftlicher Infrastrukturunternehmen im Spannungsfeld von Wettbewerb, Klimaschutz und Qualität intensiv analysiert. Die Methoden der Forschungspartnerschaft INFRAFUTUR können auch von anderen kommunalwirtschaftlichen Unternehmen gewinnbringend eingesetzt werden. Auch die erarbeiteten strategischen Konzepte stehen hiermit einem breiteren Kreis für die Umsetzung zur Verfügung.
£33.93
Peter Lang AG Neue Chancen fuer Kommune und Region:
Book SynopsisEntstaatlichung, Finanzkrise und demographischer Wandel werden in Politik, Verwaltung und Wissenschaft heute intensiv diskutiert. Resignative Töne sind allgegenwärtig. Wo aber sind Chancen zu erkennen? Es geht um Verantwortung in einer neuen Zivilgesellschaft! Hier gewinnt der Dritte Sektor, das Steuerungselement neben Staat und Markt, an Bedeutung: nicht macht- und nicht gewinnorientiert. Von historischen Reflexionen am Beispiel einer mittelalterlichen Stadt über den Umgang mit alltäglicher Lebensführung in der regionalen Planung oder den Tücken des kommunalpolitischen Alltags bis hin zu der Bedeutung akademischer Bildungseinrichtungen für eine Region vereint der Band Handlungsstrategien im Kommunalen und Regionalen. Allen Beiträgen eigen ist die Überlegung, dass den kleinteiligen räumlich-gesellschaftlichen Formationen unter den aktuellen Bedingungen eine besondere Aufmerksamkeit zukommen muss.
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Peter Lang AG Regionale Energiewende: Akteure und Prozesse in
Book SynopsisWelche Faktoren fördern den regionalen Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien? Vier untersuchte Regionen mit unterschiedlichen Rahmenbedingungen, Prozessen und Akteuren bauen erneuerbare Energien aus und liefern Vorbilder für Nachahmer. Interviews mit Experten zeigen ein detailliertes Bild der Landkreise Hameln-Pyrmont, Marburg-Biedenkopf und der Regionen Oberland und Lübow-Krassow. Beobachtungen von Veranstaltungen vor Ort und Dokumentenanalysen ergänzen die Darstellung. Als zentrales Ergebnis präsentiert die Untersuchung acht Erfolgsfaktoren: Maßnahmen, mit denen die Kommunen den Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien fördern und Strukturen schaffen, von denen die Menschen vor Ort langfristig profitieren. Die Ergebnisse sind Ideengeber und Wegweiser für den weiteren Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien in den Regionen.
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Peter Lang AG Kulturpolitik als Strukturpolitik?: Konzepte und
Book SynopsisKann Kulturpolitik als Strukturpolitik wirksam werden? Welche Kulturbegriffe liegen der deutschen und italienischen Kulturpolitik zugrunde? Wie wirken sich die historischen, strukturellen und finanziellen Ausgangsbedingungen für Kulturpolitik auf die konkreten Aktivitäten der verschiedenen Regierungsebenen in Deutschland und Italien aus? Diesen Fragen geht die Autorin in ihrer komparatistisch angelegten Studie nach. Zudem bietet sie umfassende Einblicke in die aktuelle Kulturpolitik beider Länder: Mit Hilfe der empirischen Methode leitfadengestützter ExpertInneninterviews analysiert sie anhand konkreter Fallstudien zu Essen/Nordrhein-Westfalen und Turin/Piemont die kulturpolitischen Konzepte, Strategien und Zielsetzungen der kommunalen sowie regionalen Ebene in Deutschland und Italien.
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Peter Lang AG Eine institutionenoekonomische Analyse von
Book SynopsisDie Grundsteuer ist Gegenstand langjähriger Reformdiskussionen. Ob sie sich darüber hinaus auch in den Immobilienpreisen kapitalisiert, wurde bislang nur unzureichend für den deutschen Immobilienmarkt untersucht, wohingegen für den US-amerikanischen Immobilienmarkt die Kapitalisierungsforschung weit aufgestellt ist. Für die Immobilienmärkte Bremen und Niedersachsen wird jeweils eine Regressionsanalyse durchgeführt, um zu überprüfen, ob sich öffentliche Leistungen und Grundsteuerbelastung in den Immobilienwerten kapitalisieren. Weiterhin dienen das Governance-Konzept und die Neue Institutionenökonomik als erweiterte Analyseinstrumente des Kapitalisierungsprozesses im Hinblick auf Dynamiken von Akteuren und Institutionen sowie auf Reformauswirkungen.
£45.72
Peter Lang AG Urban Policy System in Strategic Perspective:
Book SynopsisThe book focuses on the cities and urban policy systems analysed in the strategic (long-term) perspective. Due to this unique perspective, the book enables the multifactorial analysis of the conditions and mechanisms of creating the urban policy system in the Visegrad Group states and Ukraine. Undoubtedly, there is a lack of studies presenting the strategic approach to creating urban policy system discussed in the broad context of the transformations of the modern democratic state and, what is connected with it, through the prism of the processes of decentralization, Europeanization and regionalization. The monograph, in the intention of the editor and the team of authors, is to fill this undeniable gap.Table of ContentsUrban development: Spatial and technological context – National interpretations of urban policy – V4 towards Ukraine's urban policy – Urban policy in action.
£41.72
Peter Lang AG Experimentalist Regional Governance: Policy
Book Synopsis Today, decision-making increasingly takes place in highly complex situations where the optimal solution is unclear upfront. If the decision-making process extends over several years – as in cases of large infrastructure projects – best available technologies, the group of people affected, and the institutions involved change over time. The presented research provides a decision-making concept for such situations. Based on a sound content analysis with over 400 documents and more than 31,000 pages, the regulatory structure of governance of the extension of Frankfurt Airport since the 1960s is analyzed. As a result, the theoretically derived concept of Experimentalist Regional Governance to analyze regulatory structures of governance in highly complex decision-making processes is confirmed.Table of ContentsContent analysis of the regulatory structure of governance, decision-making process, and institutional arrangement in metropolitan regions. Confirmation of the theoretical derived concept of Experimentalist Regional Governance. Presentation of a decision-making process for highly complex situations.
£50.26
Peter Lang AG Local Governance and Regional Development:
Book SynopsisLocal governance and regional development are key concepts for socioeconomic development of countries. With the increase in urbanization after the Industrial Revolution, success in local governance and balanced regional development has become even more important for the increase of overall welfare. This book provides up-to-date information about regional development and local governance.Table of ContentsLocal Governance, Regional Development, Economic Development, International Trade, Local Politics, Regional Policy, Public Authorities, Technology and Innovation, Regional Development Agencies, Development Plans, Rural Development.
£48.06
Peter Lang AG Demokratien und ihre gefaehrdete Zukunft
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Peter Lang AG Die Kunst der Gesetzgebung
Book SynopsisWas sind die Modalitäten der Gesetzgebung und werden diese wirklich eingehalten? Inwiefern sind welche Verfahrenselemente bzw. die Einbeziehung Dritter verfassungsrechtlich vorgeschrieben? Wie sind Omnibus-Verfahren und Sunset-Legislation einzuordnen? Welche Funktionen erfüllen verschiedene Verfahrensschritte wie z.B. die Anhörungen? Was ist davon zu halten, außerparlamentarische Kommissionen in das Gesetzgebungsverfahren einzubinden, wie es im Gesundheitsrecht immer wieder geschieht? Aus Anlass komplexer und überhasteter Gesetzgebungsverfahren im Gesundheitsrecht während der Corona-Pandemie wurden diese Fragen im Rahmen einer Tagung des ineges diskutiert.
£25.65
Peter Lang AG Die Transparenz voelkerrechtlicher
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG History of Social Law in Germany
Book SynopsisThe sole available comprehensive history of social law and the model of social welfare in Germany. The book explains the origins since the medieval times, but concentrates on the 19th and 20th centuries, especially on the introduction of the social insurance 1881-1889, of the expansion of the system in the Weimar Republic, under the Nazi-System and after World War II in the FRG and the GDR. The system of social welfare in Germany is one of the pillars of economic stability.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Social Protection in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern State: Alms, Poor Relief, Care, Social Help.- Social Policy in the Empire: The Insurance Solution.- The First World War.- The Weimar Republic.- The Nazi State.- The Post-War Period, the Federal Republic, and the German Democratic Republic.- Social Law as a Scientific Discipline.- Europeanization of Social Law.- Long Term Perspectives for Social Protection.- References.- Index.
£116.99
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Pension Reform in Six Countries: What Can We Learn From Each Other?
Book SynopsisAxeI Borsch-Supan and Meinhard Miegel The provision of retirement income is a dynamic system that needs to be adapted constantly to the ever changing economic and societal environment. Sometimes, incremental adaptations suffice; sometimes, however, larger reform steps are necessary. We see this evolutionary process both through history and across countries. Over and again societies are confronted with new challenges, not the least with respect to old age social security. At this juncture of history, almost all industrialized countries face rapid population aging and need. to adapt their pension systems to this historically unprecedented demographic change. The six countries in this study (Chile, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States) have responded very differently to this new challenge. This is the point of departure for this book. Why did the countries respond so differently? What can we learn from each other? It is not the point of this book to provide a universally optimal solution to the pension problems caused by population aging. The six countries are simply too different in terms of their demographic and cultural, and in particular in terms of their historical and economic backgrounds. However, since national discussions tend to be surprisingly narrowly focussed even in times of globalization, there is much to learn by looking over the neighbor' s fence. And since some countries have reformed earlier than others, we even have the benefit of quite a few trials and errors in one country from which all other countries can learn.Table of ContentsSix Countries — And No Pension System Alike.- References.- 1 The German Retirement Insurance System.- 1.1 A Brief History of the German Public Pension System.- 1.2 The Pillars Providing Retirement Income in Germany.- 1.3 Future Developments.- 1.4 Current Reform Options.- References.- 2 The Dutch Pension System.- 2.1 A Brief History of the Dutch Pension System.- 2.2 The Pillars Providing Retirement Income in the Netherlands.- 2.3 Future Developments.- 2.4 Current Reform Options.- 2.5 Conclusions.- References.- 3 The Swiss Three—Pillar Model.- 3.1 A Brief Look at How the Swiss System of Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Evolved.- 3.2 The Three Pillars of Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance in Switzerland.- 3.3 Future Developments.- 3.4 Amendments under Discussion.- References.- 4 The UK System of Pension Provision.- 4.1 The Evolution of the UK Pension System.- 4.2 The Development of a Multi-Pillar Pension System from 1975 to 1999.- 4.3 Future Prospects for the UK Pension Scheme.- 4.4 Public Attitudes to Pension Reform.- 4.5 A Summing Up.- References.- 5 United States: Support in Retirement: Where We Are and Where We Are Going.- 5.1 Overview of the United States Social Security System.- 5.2 Social Security and Other Forms of Retirement Support.- 5.3 Future Developments.- 5.4 Social Security Reform.- 5.5 Summary.- References.- 6 Chile’s Pension Revolution Coming of Age.- 6.1 A Brief History: From Public Pay-As-You-Go to Private Fully-Funded Pensions.- 6.2 The Pillars.- 6.3 Current Shortcomings Of Chile’s Pension System And Reform Options.- 6.4 Conclusions.- References.- Abbreviations.- List of Contributors.
£40.49
Lit Verlag Local Governance in the Global Context: Theory
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£23.36
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Philanthropic Foundations and Social Welfare: A Comparative Study of Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom (England)
Book SynopsisThe existing welfare regime literature identifies differences in welfare state systems. Sarah Förster asks, if we can learn something on the organizational level about the embedding of philanthropic foundations in the field of social welfare in different welfare state systems. This investigation is based on comparative insights from the three country cases of Germany, Sweden and the UK (England). Guided by propositions from theoretical analysis of welfare regime literature, comparative explorative case studies based on interview data and secondary sources give insights into the field and the embedding of philanthropic social welfare foundations in the three different welfare state systems. Each type of foundation has different levels of independence from external constraints and is embedded to different degrees according to the propositions from welfare regime theory. These differences hold further implications for the investigation of foundations as a special organizational form.Table of ContentsResearch Problem and Broader Research Context.- Welfare Regimes and the Underlying Logic of Country Differences.- Plan of Inquiry.- Country Case Studies.- Regime Influence, Theoretical Propositions.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Von Beteiligung zur Koproduktion: Wege der
Book SynopsisDer Open-Access-Band stellt die Bedingungen, Verfahrensweisen und Organisationsformen einer gemeinschaftlichen Entwicklung von Gemeinden, Städten und Regionen in den Mittelpunkt einer wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung.Da Kommunen angesichts der Anforderungen aus globalen, nationalen und regionalen Veränderungen die damit verbundenen komplexen Aufgaben nicht mehr alleine lösen können – es fehlen u.a. Ressourcen, Wissen, Ideen –, gehen sie Bündnisse mit Bürger*innen und anderen Akteuren vor Ort ein. Die Bandbreite dieser neuen Allianzen ist groß: Sie reicht von der kommunalen Förderung bürgerschaftlichen Engagements und der Aktivierung „stiller“ Bevölkerungsgruppen über die stärkere Verzahnung der Kommunen mit zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen und die Initiierung und Verstetigung von Nachbarschaftsprojekten, die gemeinsam von Kommunen und Zivilgesellschaft getragen werden, bis zur Gründung von Genossenschaften, in denen Kommunen und Bürger*innen gleichberechtigt zusammenarbeiten.Die HerausgebendenJan Abt ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Deutschen Institut für Urbanistik in Berlin.Lutke Blecken ist Projektleiter am Institut Raum & Energie in Wedel.Dr. Stephanie Bock ist Wissenschaftliche Projektleiterin und Teamleiterin „Stadt und Raum“ am Deutschen Institut für Urbanistik in Berlin.Julia Diringer ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Deutschen Institut für Urbanistik in Berlin.Katrin Fahrenkrug ist Geschäftsführerin des Instituts Raum & Energie in Wedel.Trade Review“... Den Herausgeber*innen gelingt es durchaus, eine stringente Publikation vorzulegen, die gute Beispiele (best practice) für sektorenübergreifende Zusammenarbeit in verschiedenen Handlungsfeldern und Regionen aufzeigt. So erhalten zivilgesellschaftliche, kommunale und auch privatwirtschaftliche Akteure viele praktische Anregungen zu Verfahren und Handlungsansätzen. Bei der eigenen Umsetzung können diese im besten Fall aus den Erfahrungen der durchgeführten Projekte lernen ...” (Prof.'in Dr. Andrea Walter, in: Voluntaris, Jg. 10, Heft 2, 2022)Table of ContentsEinführung: heute das Morgen gestalten – veränderte Formen der Zusammenarbeit in den Gemeinden, Städten und Regionen.- Beteiligung – ein Grundstein für gemeinschaftliche Aufgaben in der Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung.- Koproduzieren – eine lebenswerte Stadt gemeinschaftlich entwickeln, umsetzen und bewahren.
£40.49
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Gemeinwohlorientiert, ökologisch, sozial:
Book SynopsisDer Klimawandel gefährdet die Existenzgrundlage zukünftiger Generationen. Damit zukunftsfähige und klimaverträgliche Gesellschaften entstehen können, sind tiefgreifende Änderungen von Produktionsprozessen, aber auch von Konsummustern und Lebensstilen notwendig. In diesem Sammelband werden Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Ausweitung alternativer Wirtschafts- und Lebensformen erkundet. Dabei werden kleine Unternehmen und nachhaltige Bildungsinitiativen genauso betrachtet wie Regionen, Berufszweige und Großunternehmen auf ihrem Weg in eine nachhaltige Zukunft.Table of ContentsForschungen zur Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie.- Forschungen zu solidarischen Wirtschaftspraktiken in der Zivilgesellschaft.- Forschungen zur lokalen Entstehung nachhaltiger Entwicklung.- Forschungen zu Bildungsprojekten für eine sozialökologische Transformation.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Basic Income - From Vision to Creeping Transformation of the Welfare State
Book SynopsisThe present publication constitutively expands the field of discourse on the topic of basic income and explores the possibilities of its introduction as well as the opportunities and risks. Although all visionary proposals for an unconditional basic income (BGE) have so far not been implemented politically, at least in democratically constituted welfare states, the question of implementation or the conditions for success and the identification of possible blockades have only been dealt with marginally. Recent publications on a BGE also show this political-institutional "blindness" and do not address enough the reasons for the failure so far. Without a transfer strategy, however, the idea will fail in Germany due to such implementation naivety. In this book, therefore, the state of the debate on basic income is developed further to the extent that it is integrated into welfare-state development processes and current challenges for the "safeguarding of social security". In addition, a social-scientific classification of hitherto visionary guarantee elements of a basic income model is undertaken, linking up with the "silent" change to a socially investing state.Table of ContentsCrises as a focal point of socio-economic problems.- Conjunctures of the welfare state crisis: the cracks are deepening.- The silent transformation to the transfer and investment state.- From "muddling through" to policy change: obstacles and success factors.- Risks of continuing the status quo without a change of strategy.- Conclusion and outlook: Universalist welfare state as an emancipatory guiding model.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Zukunft smarte Kommune: Modellentwurf, Vorgehen
Book SynopsisDas Konzept der Smart City wird in wissenschaftlicher, politischer, medialer und projektpraktischer Hinsicht bislang überwiegend in großen Städten bearbeitet. Demgegenüber empfinden kleine, ländlich geprägte Gemeinden den Smart-City-Diskurs überwiegend als fremd. Es mangelt an inhaltlichen Modellentwürfen, Vorgehensmodellen und an kommunale Entscheidungsträger gerichtete Handlungsempfehlungen, die sich am Aufgabenportfolio, den speziellen Rahmenbedingungen und Herausforderungen kreisangehöriger Gemeinden in einer Größenklasse bis 20.000 Einwohner orientieren. Dieses Buch widmet sich diesen Aufgabenstellungen und entwirft erstens ein inhaltliches Modell einer smarten Kommune als Spiegelbild zur smarten Stadt. Zweitens wird in dieser Analyse auf der Grundlage von Erfahrungen baden-württembergischer Pilotkommunen ein schrittweises Vorgehen zur Entwicklung eines individuellen Modells der smarten Kommune für kleine Gemeinden aufgezeigt.Table of ContentsGegenstandsbereich der empirischen Untersuchung.- Basisinterviewleitfaden der Expertengruppe Bürgermeister.- Basisinterviewleitfaden der Expertengruppe Verwaltungsmitarbeiterinnen.- Anonymisiertes Rekrutierungsschreiben.- Hierarchisches Kategoriensystem.- Thesen der Gruppendiskussion.- Anonymisierte Protokolle und Berichte zu Gemeinderatssitzungen.- Anonymisiertes Fotoprotokoll zum Zukunftsforum der mittelgroßen Gemeinde E.- Post-Interview-Memo zum Interview mit BGMI.- Kategorienlandkarte.- Häufigkeitsanalyse: Kodierungen aller Kategorien über alle Dokumente.- Häufigkeitsanalyse: kodierte Kategorien pro Dokument.- Durchschnitt von Kodierungen.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Integration in Kommunen: Bedeutung, aktuelle
Book SynopsisDieses Buch greift ein Thema auf, das sowohl für die kommunale Praxis als auch für die Forschung von aktueller Relevanz ist: die Integration in Kommunen. Neben Themen von allgemeiner Bedeutung wird auch die organisatorische Perspektive der Integration in Kommunen behandelt. Die Teilhabe und Partizipation bildet einen weiteren Themenschwerpunkt des Bandes. Nicht zuletzt wird die Integration in der kommunalen Praxis unter verschiedenen Blickwinkeln beleuchtet und diskutiert.Table of ContentsIntegration – eine Einführung.- Kommunale Bedeutung der Integration am Beispiel der Stadt Dormagen.- Rechtliche Grundlagen der Integration.- Die Bedeutung räumlicher Unterschiede im Kontext der Integration: Stadt und Land.- Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland im Kontext der Integration.- Die Bedeutung von Stadtteilen für Integration.- Kommunale Integrationspolitik.- Strategische Steuerung der Integration in Kommunen.- Interkulturelle Öffnung der Verwaltung – Dynamik und Perspektiven.- Interkulturelles Personalmanagement in Kommunen: Ziele – Handlungsfelder – Perspektiven.- Wirkungen eines kommunalen Integrationsmonitorings.- Rechtliche Aspekte der kommunalpolitischen Teilhabe von Migrant*innen am Beispiel der nordrhein-westfälischen Kommunalverfassung.- Deskriptive Repräsentation von Migranten bei den Bürgermeisterwahlen in NRW 2020.- Die Bedeutung bürgerschaftlichen Engagements für die Integration in Kommunen.- Das Programm „Kommunales Integrationsmanagement“ des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.- Local Governance im Politikfeld Integration unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kommunalen Integrationszentren in Nordrhein-Westfalen.- Programme zur Integration in der Kommune: „Miteinander in der StädteRegion Aachen“.- Berufliche Integration von Geflüchteten.- Kommunale Integrationspolitik aus internationaler Perspektive - Going Dutch?.- Diversity Management im Landesamt für Flüchtlingsangelegenheiten.- Kommunale Aufnahme von Geflüchteten aus der Ukraine – eine rassismuskritische Perspektive auf aktuelle Herausforderungen.
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