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by J. M. Hurst
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book investigates why networks, some with joined-up governance remits, appeared ineffective in handling neighbourhood unemployment even in periods when the national unemployment levels dropped. It deploys a multi-theoretical and methodological framework to investigate this empirical puzzle, and...
Successful Adaptation to Climate Change
Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
What does successful adaptation look like? This is a question we are frequently asked by planners, policy makers and other professionals charged with the task of developing and implementing adaptation strategies. While adaptation is increasingly recognized as an important climate risk management strategy,...
Whose Black Politics?
Cases in Post-Racial Black Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new vanguard in African American political leaders. They came of age after Jim Crow segregation and the Civil Rights Movement, they were raised in integrated neighborhoods and educated in majority white institutions, and they are more likely to embrace...
Energy, Cities and Sustainability
An historical approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
According to some estimates, humanity has now passed the point at which city dwellers outnumber country dwellers. This simple fact encapsulates a multitude of historical trends and contentions, not the least being "is this sustainable"?
Energy, Cities and Sustainability aims to illuminate...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
By examining the various policy subfields of European economic integration such as agriculture, trade, banking, economic governance and sustainability this book offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of developments that have taken place in the past five years aimed at exploring the path of economic integration in Europe.
Block Granting Medicaid
A Model for 21st Century Health Reform?
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Medicaid is the largest grant-in-aid program in the United States. Reform in this area, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to study the intersection between federal and state policy making in an area recently characterized by substantial uncertainty deriving from the lingering effects of the...
America's 'War on Terrorism'
New Dimensions in U.S. Government and National Security
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1955
How has 9/11 and George W. Bush's self-declared 'war' on terror changed American government and US foreign policy? This is the central question addressed in the nine original essays in this book. Following an introduction by the editors, in which they survey issues and debates raised by America's...
Global Food Futures
Feeding the World in 2050
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
By 2050 the world will be faced with the enormous challenge of feeding 9 billion people despite being affected by climate change, rising energy costs and pressure on food growing land and other major resources. How will the world produce 70% more food by 2050 to feed a projected extra 2.3 billion...
Across the Great Divide
Explorations In Collaborative Conservation And The American West
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Amid the policy gridlock that characterizes menvironmental debates, a new conservation movemhas emerged. Known as “collaborative conservation,” it emphasizes local participation, sustainability, and inclusion of the disempowered, and focuses on voluntary compliance and consrather than legal and...
Troubled Partnership
U.S.-Turkish Relations in an Era of Global Geopolitical Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
U.S.-Turkish relations, long a vital element of U.S. policy, have seriously deteriorated in recent years. However, the arrival of a new U.S. administration offers an opportunity to repair recent fissures. Priority should be given to harmonizing policy toward Iraq and the Middle East as well as Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Water, Power and Identity
The Cultural Politics of Water in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global policy-making institutions and elites; and how grassroots defend against encroachment, question the self-evidence...
Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability
Between past and future
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective. By examining the interactions between people and communities in the places where they live it exemplifies the diverse ways in which a people-centred heritage builds identities and...
Who Governs the Internet?
A Political Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book will present a new conceptual framework for analysis that deconstructs the Internet into four policy “layers” with the aim of formulating a new political architecture that accurately maps out and depicts authority on the Internet today. Foremost, it will seek to draw a distinction between...
by Jordi Diez
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This book explores environmental policymaking in Mexico as a vehicle to understanding the broader changes in the policy process within a system undergoing a democratic transformation. It constitutes the first major analysis of environmental policymaking in Mexico at the national level, and examines...