City Planning category: 1330 books
Urbicide
The Politics of Urban Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
The term ‘urbicide’ became popular during the 1992-95 Bosnian war as a way of referring to widespread and deliberate destruction of the urban environment. Coined by writers on urban development in America, urbicide captures the sense that the widespread and deliberate destruction of buildings...
Nature-Based Solutions for Building Resilience in Towns and Cities
Case Studies from the Greater Mekong Subregion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Urban populations are projected to increase from 54% to 66% of the global population by 2050, with close to 90% of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa. Cities and towns---a growing source of greenhouse gas emissions---will need to address challenges posed by climate change. A nature-based...
by Scott G Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
This volume examines and critiques several of the classical theoretical foundations of domestic and international organization, concentrating on the contestable conceptions of community, order, justice, freedom, responsibility and wealth developed by the major political theorists of the modern epoch.
Nelson...
International Migration and Crisis
Transition Toward a New Migratory Phase
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book presents an analysis of the various transformation processes at work in the international migratory dynamic of Mexicans as a consequence of the 2008 international economic crisis and the implementation of an increasingly strict American migration policy. Employing a methodology that combines...
Security Without Weapons
Rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Few questions of global politics are more pressing than how to respond to widespread violence against civilians. Despite the efforts of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) proponents to draw attention away from exclusively military responses, debates on humanitarian intervention and R2P’s “Third Pillar”...
Intersecting Interregionalism
Regions, Global Governance and the EU
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2013
This book has two mutually reinforcing aims/parts. The first aim is to contribute to a more productive debate between different theoretical standpoints. There is surprisingly little theoretical and conceptual debate in this burgeoning field, which is one major reason for the failure to fully grasp...
Decentralisation and Regional Development
Experiences and Lessons from Four Continents over Three Decades
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This book analyzes decentralisation, regional development paths and success factors in different governance sectors in Ghana, the Philippines, Tanzania and Chile, and discuss overarching aspects of relevance. Decentralisation, which refers to the delegation of administrative responsibilities, political...
International Intervention in a Secular Age
Re-Enchanting Humanity?
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
International intervention is not just about ‘saving’ human lives: it is also an attempt to secure humanity’s place in the universe.
This book explores the Western secular beliefs that underpin contemporary practices of intervention—most importantly, beliefs about life, death and the...
by Kyung Sik Woo, Young Kwan Sohn, Ung San Ahn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This book will deal with geological as well as cultural, historical, archaeological and biological aspects in Jeju Global Geopark. It will start with introduction of Jeju Global Geopark, geographic setting, habitats, history, economy and tourism, management, general geology and geosites, future geosites,...
Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East
Case Studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping, transactions, and conflict resolution, this book offers a new reading...
Rethinking sustainable cities
Accessible, green and fair
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Sustainable urbanisation has moved to the forefront of global debate, research and policy agendas over recent years. Rapid urbanisation throughout China, India and many other low and middle income countries poses new challenges both locally and internationally...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
This edited volume sheds new light on the impact of rapid Land Use/Cover Changes (LU/CC) on greenhouse gases (GHG’s) and aerosol emissions in South and Southeast Asia. Several countries in South/Southeast Asia have the highest population growth rates in the world, which is the main cause for LU/CC....
Evidence-Based Public Management: Practices, Issues and Prospects
Practices, Issues and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Evidence-based management (EBMgt) derives principles of good management from scientific research, meta-analysis, literature reviews, and case studies, and then translates them into practice. This book is the first systematic assessment of EBMgt and its potential application in public management.
The State of Pacific Towns and Cities
Urbanization in ADB's Pacific Developing Member Countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This report investigates urbanization trends across the 14 Pacific developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank. It examines the history of Pacific urbanization, current state of infrastructure and service provision within urban areas, and systems of urban governance. It presents key...