Regional, state and other local government

First Published in 1952, The Local Government Service describes in general terms the character and extent of the tasks which the body of public servants employed by the local authorities is called upon to perform.

This book holds a distinguished promise of an intellectual understanding and complete account of that shifts in laying out resilient planning, development, and policy landscapes for the cities to come.

Willkommen in der verborgenen Welt der modernen Kriminalität, wo die Grenzen zwischen Recht und Unrecht zunehmend verschwimmen.

Originally published in 1970 this book quickly became a classic textbook.

Originally published in 1976, this book examines how and why local government reforms came about and what influences, pressures and compromises were involved.

Greater Manchester and Liverpool were among the first areas of England to undergo urban devolution.

The Mediterranean basin holds immense geostrategic importance, linking Asia, Europe, and Africa.

This short book focuses on the Disappearances that occurred during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Originally published in 1985, this book was a study of one example of an all-purpose, unitary, borough council in the UK.

In Zeiten wachsender Herausforderungen stehen kommunale Verwaltungen zunehmend unter Druck, ihre Strukturen und Prozesse zu modernisieren.

Wer hätte nicht die Schnauze gestrichen voll und wäre froh, dass sie vorbei sind, diese Zeiten.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of post-Games legacy governance including stakeholder relationships, institutional conditions, and policy environments, while also empirically exploring the modes of governance employed by select cases of the Winter Olympic Games.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of post-Games legacy governance including stakeholder relationships, institutional conditions, and policy environments, while also empirically exploring the modes of governance employed by select cases of the Winter Olympic Games.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of China's drive for common prosperity from an insider's perspective.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of China's drive for common prosperity from an insider's perspective.

This book updates scholarship related to media-state relations for the social media age.

The main aim of this book is to understand the interplay between the SDGs and urban health.

The main aim of this book is to understand the interplay between the SDGs and urban health.

This book provides a detailed description of fluvial processes and their influence on urban sites.

The perfect Christmas gift for the history-lovers in your family.

Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions, and one where the implementation of the SDGs is particularly urgent.

Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions, and one where the implementation of the SDGs is particularly urgent.

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Originally published in 1982, this book was the first comprehensive, critical assessment of the outcome of the controversial reorganisation of British local government outside London which took place between 1973 and 1975.

This book investigates the mixed economy of welfare that assisted socially marginalised people in interwar Europe, namely the state, local authorities, and a combination of voluntary and informal actors.

Originally published in 1978, this book covers all aspects of the development of local authorities; the changing types of people who worked in them - solicitors, trade unionists, politicians and reformers; the growing influence of political parties in local affairs; the widening concept of the purpose of local government and the attendant financial problems; the partnership and conflict with central government; the rise of the associations of local authorities and their influence over the many proposals to change the structure of local government in the late 20th Century.

This book provides important new and actionable tools for diverse cities and communities facing climate disasters to engage in risk assessment and green recovery.

"e;Urban Climate Change Adaptation"e; is a timely and informative book that delves into the complex challenges posed by climate change and explores the pathways to achieving environmental sustainability.

"e;Urban Climate Change Adaptation"e; is a timely and informative book that delves into the complex challenges posed by climate change and explores the pathways to achieving environmental sustainability.

This book provides important new and actionable tools for diverse cities and communities facing climate disasters to engage in risk assessment and green recovery.

Originally published in 1980, this book provides an analysis and assessment of events in local government management during the late 20th Century set within an overall conceptual framework of organisation theory.

Originally published in 1974, this book filled a gap in its examination and evaluation of the way in which English local government forms a part of democratic society.

2025 WCoNA Book of the Year Finalist The Best Narrative & Biography Books of 2024, Selected by Porchlight When a progressive college professor runs for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in a deeply conservative rural district, he loses.

2025 WCoNA Book of the Year Finalist The Best Narrative & Biography Books of 2024, Selected by Porchlight When a progressive college professor runs for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in a deeply conservative rural district, he loses.

This book comprehensively applies social gender theory, life course theory, and spatiotemporal sociology theory to explore social work actions for poverty alleviation among women based on empirical investigations and social work practice.

This book comprehensively applies social gender theory, life course theory, and spatiotemporal sociology theory to explore social work actions for poverty alleviation among women based on empirical investigations and social work practice.

This book presents a set of chapters produced by six research groups that developed the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Thematic Project Environmental Governance of the Sao Paulo macrometropolis (SPMM) in the face of Climate Variability (2017-2022).