Regional Planning category: 486 books
Global gentrifications
Uneven development and displacement
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, working in tandem with other urban processes to lay the foundations for the exploitative processes of gentrification world-wide. Global gentrifications: Uneven development and displacement critically assesses...
Mobility in Daily Life
Between Freedom and Unfreedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Why do we choose specific modes of transport and what are the perceived rationalities for our choice? How are different theoretical concepts within mobility research actually perceived and lived in everyday life? At this book's core is a conceptual and empirical contribution to critical mobility research....
Parties, Elections and Electoral Contests
Competition and Contamination Effects
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
According to the Duvergerian theories, in the long run, only viable parties are expected to stand for elections. Non-viable parties should join a pre-electoral coalition with another party or withdraw from competition entirely. Why then do non-viable political parties throughout the world systematically...
Natural Hazards, Second Edition
Explanation and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
What can we learn from the spatial patterns of disasters? What human and structural factors need to be addressed to explain hazard vulnerability? As populations grow and the climate warms, how can natural hazards be mitigated? Thoroughly revised and updated, and now with a more global perspective,...
Euro-Mediterranean Relations after the Arab Spring
Persistence in Times of Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The ’Arab Spring’ triggered paradigmatic shifts but, despite these changes, much in the Euro-Mediterranean region remains the same. Utilising ’Logics of Action’, an innovative theoretical framework designed to capture the complexity of political interaction in one of the fastest changing regions...
Municipal Shared Services and Consolidation
A Public Solutions Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Municipal Shared Services and Consolidation provides a comprehensive and clear review of the theories and practices of structuring and managing complex local government services. Intended for both students and practitioners, this volume in the Public Solutions Handbook Series addresses concepts and...
The Citizens at Risk
From Urban Sanitation to Sustainable Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Local environments such as cities and neighbourhoods are becoming a focal point for those concerned with environmental justice and sustainability. The Citizens at Risk takes up this emerging agenda and analyses the key issues in a refreshingly simple yet sophisticated style. Taking a comparative look...
by Water Environment Federation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
A must-read for agencies and public works departments interested in developing charge systems for stormwater programs based on fee structures. User-Fee-Funded Stormwater Programs will specify the drivers for stormwater user-fee formation and explore the responsibilities, costs, and entire implementation process
Rural Development
Putting the last first
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders. Dr Chambers contends that researchers, scientists, administrators and fieldworkers rarely appreciate the richness and validity of rural people's knowledge or the hidden nature of rural poverty. This is a challenging book for all concerned with rural development, as practitioners, academics, students or researchers.
Capitalising on Change in a Globalising World
A View from Hamburg
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
These are powerful times. Fundamental change is around the corner, but the concrete manifestations are unpredictable. Past trends will, less than ever, be a reliable orientation for desirable action. Adopting familiar game plans, reinforcing standard procedures and implementing strategies which were...
by Yrjo Virtanen, Sten Nilsson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Public concern for the conservation of natural resources and a general awareness of the environmental consequences of waste disposal is reflected in current legislation aimed at reducing waste. Recycling is commonly cited as one of the preferred methods of waste reduction and this book summarizes...
Labour, state and society in rural India
A class-relational approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Behind India's high recent growth rates lies a story of societal conflict that is scarcely talked about. Across its villages and production sites, state institutions and civil society organisations, the dominant and less well-off sections of society are engaged in antagonistic relations that determine...
Strategies for Sustainable Mobilities
Opportunities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Sustainable mobility is a qualitative, vague and normative vision. Although this vagueness is often criticized and seen as a drawback it also allows diverse stakeholders to commit to the goal of sustainable mobility. It allows for consensus, which can also help achieve a transport system that enables...
De-coding New Regionalism
Shifting Socio-political Contexts in Central Europe and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Bringing together comparative case studies from Central Europe and South America, this book focuses on 'new' regions - regions created as political projects of modernization and 're-scaling'. Through this approach it de-codes 'New Regionalism' in terms of its contributions to institutional change,...