City Planning category: 1330 books
Land Use Changes in the Czech Republic 1845–2010
Socio-Economic Driving Forces
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The objective of this book is to analyze changes in the landscape of Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic since the first half of the 19th century. The text focuses not only on describing these considerable changes by means of statistical and spatial data, but also on explaining the processes, societal,...
Households and Housing
Choice and Outcomes in the Housing Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Residential relocation is the household decision that generates housing consumption changes. It is not merely a decision about changing locations; it is also a decision about tenure—about whether to own or to rent. Research into housing markets has been largely focused on the process of changing...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The contributed volume collects cutting-edge research in GeoComputational Analysis of Regional Systems. The contributions emphasize methodological innovations or substantive breakthroughs on many facets of the socio-economic and environmental reality of regional contexts.
LED Street Lighting Best Practices
Lessons Learned from the Pilot LED Municipal Streetlight and PLN Substation Retrofit Project (Pilot LED Project) in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting technologies and designs can cut energy costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Asian Development Bank, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia, and the country’s state-owned electric utility have collaborated on...
Insuring Life
Value, Security and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book is a contribution to the scholarly engagement with the wider problem of governing through risk and the politics of uncertainty. It takes life insurance as an empirical site from which to ask: what is the kind of governance created through insurance an instance of, and how does it contribute...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Rural regions in Europe are evolving under powerful boundary conditions such as globalisation, socio-cultural transformations and climate change, which in turn increases natural hazards. The regional land use and the evolvement of landscapes is increasingly shaped trends and drivers like infrastructural,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Bringing together experts on regionalism and federalism this collection explores the impact of legislative regions on parties and voters. It reflects on the 1980 publication of Small Worlds by David Elkins and Richard Simeon, which outlined how and why voters and policies differ across Canadian provinces....
by John A. Flannery, Karen M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
The ancient pairing of architecture and books has always been an interesting topic for debate, and the increasing popularity of electronic books has recently added fuel to the fire. However, the bonfires built for the printed version remain unlit. Research undertaken for this publication suggests...
From Studies to Streams
Managing Evaluative Systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Recent developments in policy evaluation have focused on new notions of process and use or, notably, "influence." But this debate among evaluators on how evaluations are used has been essentially a closed one—evaluators talking only among themselves. The debate has gone on seemingly oblivious...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Role Theory in International Relations provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of recent theoretical scholarship on foreign policy roles and extensive empirical analysis of role behaviour of a variety of states in the current era of eroding American hegemony.
Taking stock of the evolution...
Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness
From Pretreatment Strategies to Psychologically Informed Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness Reveal New Insights
This groundbreaking book presents compelling narratives and innovative approaches for addressing the psychological traumas that can underlie homelessness and is the first to explore in-depth what the US and UK can learn from one another.
Authors...
Hazardous Waste Sites
The Credibility Gap
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Mutual distrust defines the relationship between those who are the sources of hazardous wastes and those who oversee their activities. A lack of credibility, argue the authors, is a formidable, if not the biggest, obstacle to properly managing hazardous waste in the United States. Nowhere is the credibility...
Deleuze and World Politics
Alter-Globalizations and Nomad Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The central argument of this book is that the univocal ontology and corresponding immanent metaphysics of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) can provide a theoretical perspective capable of accounting for the complex nature of world politics.
Drawing on a wide variety of Deleuze’s...
The Business of Leadership: An Introduction
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Specifically tailored to business students, this undergraduate textbook features a "how-to" approach and is filled with with current, lively examples and well-crafted learning tools. It takes readers from the kind of leradership they can exhibit in supervisory roles to the visionary leadership they must exhibit in management and executive roles.