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  • Cities Learning from a Pandemic

    Towards Preparedness

    Edited by Simonetta Armondi, Alessandro Balducci, Martina Bovo, Beatrice Galimberti ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    COVID-19 has stressed the condition of radical uncertainty that increasingly characterises our times and compels cities to learn new ways to cope with unexpected global urban challenges. The volume proposes preparedness as a key concept in urban geography, planning, and policy, inviting international scholars to discuss its pros and cons.Firstly, it builds a critical theoretical framework around ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Participatory Research and Planning in Practice

    Edited by Janez Nared, David Bole ...
    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This open access book provides in-depth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. In particular, it describes theoretical and methodological aspects of participatory research and planning, as well as the implementation of participatory processes in fields such as transport planning, cultural heritage management, environmental planning and post ... Read more

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  • The Creative City

    Cultural policies and urban regeneration between conservation and development

    by Alessia Usai ...
    Series Book 2 - Cultural Management and Cultural Policy Education
    This book focuses on the relationships between the creative city principles and the planning approach introduced by the European Landscape Convention in order to identify best practices for the development of innovative cultural policies and new urban regeneration tools.The research is characterized by a cross-cutting approach to cultural heritage. It proposes a new model for the design of ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Local and Global

    The Management of Cities in the Information Age

    by Jordi Borja, Manuel Castells ...
    This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Co-Cities

    Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities

    by Sheila R. Foster, Christian Iaione ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city’s infrastructure and services.The majority of the world’s inhabitants live in cities, but even with the vast wealth and resources these cities generate, their most vulnerable populations live without adequate or affordable housing, safe water, healthy food, and other essentials. And yet, cities also often ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development

    Exploring the nexus of private and public interests

    Edited by Lez Rayman-Bacchus, Philip Walsh ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sustainability and Business
    Corporate responsibility and sustainable development are two concepts that may be able to reconcile many of the big challenges facing the world; challenges such as tensions between respect for the natural environment, social justice, and economic development; the long view versus short-term imperatives and the competing priorities between developed and developing economies.This book explores the ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Humanistic Governance in Democratic Organizations

    The Cooperative Difference

    Edited by Sonja Novković, Karen Miner, Cian McMahon ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open access edited book brings together a number of theories under the umbrella of humanistic governance to develop a persuasive alternative perspective on governance, particularly for democratic organisations such as co-operatives. It examines how we can move beyond a profit-first approach to governance, into a framework that prioritises human dignity in all aspects of an operation. This ... Read more

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  • Social and Solidarity Economy

    Beyond the Fringe

    by Suzanne Bergeron, Stephen Healy, Carina Millstone, Bénédicte Fonteneau, Georgina Gómez, Marguerite Mendell, Paul Nelson, John-Justin McMurtry, Cecilia Rossel, Abhijit Ghosh, Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, Jean-Louis Laville, Justine Nannyonjo, Professor Bina Agarwal, Béatrice Alain, Prof Cristina Grasseni, Francesca Forno, Silvana Signori, Darryl Reed, Roldan Muradian, José Luis Coraggio, Milford Bateman ...
    Series series Just Sustainabilities
    As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on 'social and solidarity economy' as a distinctive approach to sustainable and rights-based development.While we are beginning to understand what social and solidarity economy is, what it promises and how it differs from 'business as usual ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Local Governance in the New Urban Agenda

    Edited by Carlos Nunes Silva, Anna Trono ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book explores and discusses some of the changes, challenges and opportunities confronting local governance in the context of the new urban paradigm associated with the HABITAT III New Urban Agenda, a 20-year strategy for sustainable urbanization, adopted in October 2016 in Quito, Ecuador. The chapters included in the book address public policy issues from different theoretical perspectives and ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Chinese Migration to Europe

    Prato, Italy, and Beyond

    by Graeme Johanson, Narelle McAuliffe, Massimo Bressan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Through an analysis of Chinese migration to Europe, this volume examines the most pressing migration and integration issues facing many societies today, from the political and policy-based challenges of managing increasingly diverse communities, to individual lived experiences of identity and belonging. In addition to chapters on the UK, France and Italy, the book spotlights one of the most ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Pandemic Societies

    Edited by Jean-Louis Denis, Catherine Régis, Daniel Weinstock ...
    At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many thought the changes taking place would be fleeting. It is now widely recognized that COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic in our highly interconnected world, and “pandemic societies” will be with us for some time.Pandemic Societies brings together experts in a wide range of academic disciplines to reflect on how their fields might be transformed in ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD