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  • COVID-19 and Cities

    Experiences, Responses, and Uncertainties

    Edited by Miguel A. Montoya, Aleksandra Krstikj, Johannes Rehner, Daniel Lemus-Delgado ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book brings together the work of more than 25 scholars from different parts of the world who analyze the challenges posed by the new coronavirus and how it can transform the lives of the cities. Through 19 chapters organized into three sections - experiences, responses and uncertainties - the authors offer a novel perspective about the resilience of the metropolis to face the most important ... Read more

    $179.39 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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  • Untamed Urbanisms

    Edited by Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis, Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... Read more

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  • High-Risk Feminism in Colombia

    Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts

    by Julia Margaret Zulver ...
    High-Risk Fe**minism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia’s armed conflict. In doing so, it illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger. Despite a well-established ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Root-Cause Regulation

    Protecting Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century

    by Michael J. Piore, Andrew Schrank ...
    Work is now more deadly than war, killing approximately 2.3 million people a year worldwide. The United States, with its complex regulatory system, has one of the highest rates of occupational fatality in the developed world, and deteriorating working conditions more generally. Why, after a century of reform, are U.S. workers growing less safe and secure? Comparing U.S. regulatory practices to ... Read more

    $42.89 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

  • The Drug Company Next Door

    Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico

    by Alexa S. Dietrich ...
    "This fascinating and most timely criticalmedical anthropology study successfully binds two still emergent areas ofcontemporary anthropological research in the global world: the nature andsignificant impact of multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers on humansocial life everywhere, and the contribution of corporations to the fast-paceddegradation of our life support system, planet Earth. . . . ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Knowledge Society and Education in the Asia-Pacific

    Recent Trends and Future Challenges

    Edited by José Ernesto Rangel Delgado, Antonina Ivanova Boncheva ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores recent trends in the knowledge-based society and education field in Asia-Pacific and discusses future challenges in the region. It presents studies on the development of scientific thought in the field on the knowledge-based society in the Pacific Circle. This book explores the theoretical framework of the knowledge-based society framed by the borders imposed by the Pacific ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD

  • Urban Transport Environment and Equity

    The Case for Developing Countries

    by Eduardo Alcantara Vasconcellos ...
    Traditional transport planning has generated transport systems that propagate an unfair distribution of accessibility and have environmental and safety issues. This book highlights the importance of social and political aspects of transport policy and provides a methodology to support this approach. It emphasizes the importance of co-ordinating urban, transport and traffic planning, and addresses ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Fourth Sector

    Sustainable Best-Practices from Across the World

    Edited by María Isabel Sánchez-Hernández, Luísa Carvalho, Conceição Rego, Maria Raquel Lucas, Adriana Noronha ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    “The fourth sector” consists of for-benefit organizations that combine market-based approaches of the private sector with the social and environmental aims of the public and non-profit sectors. This book examines successful experiences around the world in entrepreneurship in the fourth sector in recent times. The chapters also reveal the pivotal role of the public sector collaboration with private ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • Urban Planning Against Poverty

    How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Global South

    by Jean-Claude Bolay ...
    Series Book 14 - Future City
    This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions of the world. For instance, the case of Koudougou, a medium-sized city in one of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso, with a population of 115.000 inhabitants, allows ... Read more

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  • Worker Mobility and Urban Policy in Latin America

    Policy Interactions and Urban Outcomes in Mexico City

    by David López-García ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    This book argues that urban outcomes are better understood as the result of the interactions between policies from distinct policy domains rather than from any single policy silo. In doing so, the book develops and applies the Policy Interactions Framework to the study of the mobility experience of workers in Greater Mexico City.Four empirical studies provide the reader with a comprehensive view ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD