Regional, state and other local government

This book investigates the integration of Syrian refugees in the United States, and it identifies the challenges that hinder their successful integration.

A vast amount has been written on climate change and what should be our response.

As the world undergoes huge demographic shifts with aging populations and increasing life expectancy, it is essential to recognize the importance of understanding aging in different international, cultural, social, and economic contexts.

This book gives a unique description of urban geography of Europe and specifically, Southern Europe, and provides a fine guide to urban complexity and resilience in the light of metropolitan sustainability.

This book provides multidisciplinary approaches to smart and sustainable urban ecosystems.

This book characterizes a type of city, i.

This book provides a machine-generated overview of social work across the globe, providing an in-depth understanding on social work education, practice and research.

The story of Sydney's metropolitan food landscapes is one of dramatic transformations of First Nations land amidst jostles for power and wealth.

Particulate matter (PM) in the ambient air is a key indicator of air pollution.

This book provides a machine-generated overview of social work across the globe, providing an in-depth understanding on social work education, practice and research.

This book provides a comprehensive manual for researchers, practitioners, policymakers as well as students striving to achieve environmental sustainment.

This book offers an in-depth look at the development, social significance, and role of graffiti in China's local culture.

This book is a product of human-machine collaboration in social work and is a premier in global social work education and practice.

This book characterizes a type of city, i.

This book explains the dynamics of revenue generation and allocation reality of city corporations in Bangladesh.

This book critically analyzes how European countries manage family-related challenges as they grapple with social and political transformations.

This short Pivot explores the the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of the lived experiences of asylum seekers on the staff and volunteers of third sector organisations who assist and support them.

This book bridges the disciplines of micro-economics and social policy in general, and, in particular, behavioral/explanatory social policy and public choice theory, plus Leibenstein's X-efficiency theory.

This book is a product of human-machine collaboration in social work and is a premier in global social work education and practice.

As the world undergoes huge demographic shifts with aging populations and increasing life expectancy, it is essential to recognize the importance of understanding aging in different international, cultural, social, and economic contexts.

This book examines the use of smart city-associated technologies to enhance sustainable transportation planning in cities of both the global north and south, focusing specifically on sustainable transportation.

This book delves into the values, attitudes, and behaviours of Koreans over the course of the past twenty years.

This book focuses on the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns on the welfare of the urban poor in the city of Harare, Zimbabwe.

This book examines the use of smart city-associated technologies to enhance sustainable transportation planning in cities of both the global north and south, focusing specifically on sustainable transportation.

This book explains the dynamics of revenue generation and allocation reality of city corporations in Bangladesh.

Focusing on the street as a socio-spatial catalyst, this book fosters a comprehensive conversation on the past, present, and future of streets and public space.

This book critically analyzes how European countries manage family-related challenges as they grapple with social and political transformations.

This book provides a timely review on what has been accomplished, and what remains amiss, following the World Health Organization's 1978 'Health for All' campaign, by identifying enduring gaps in health care within a global context.

This book bridges the disciplines of micro-economics and social policy in general, and, in particular, behavioral/explanatory social policy and public choice theory, plus Leibenstein's X-efficiency theory.

The book utilises Gramsci's concepts of hegemony, counter-hegemony, organic intellectuals, and integral state to interrogate how modes of engagement between the state and civil society have contributed to a polarised polity in Zimbabwe, and in turn how this has impacted democratisation processes.

This Compendium was conceived as a "e;pocket compass"e;, a practical guide that may help readers to orientate themselves while they explore global affairs and attempt to make sense of the highly interconnected, multidimensional challenges of contemporary human development.

This book thoroughly prepares intermediate-level readers for research in social science, organization studies, economics, finance, marketing science, and business science as complex adaptive systems.

This book explains farmer suicides in India in the backdrop of rural politics as a determining factor.

This book investigates the integration of Syrian refugees in the United States, and it identifies the challenges that hinder their successful integration.

This book advocates the application of holistic and humanistic approaches in elderly care and services to achieve the goal of ageing with dignity in Hong Kong and Asia.

Political Parties and Coalitions in European Local Government (1989) brings together two separate fields in political science - the study of coalitions and the study of local government.

There are many reasons why it is important to study local politicspolitical culture, government, political processin Communist party states.

Tennessee played a critical and vital role in national politics in the mid-nineteenth century.

This volume presents the most important public papers of Bert T.

Political Parties and Coalitions in European Local Government (1989) brings together two separate fields in political science - the study of coalitions and the study of local government.

This comprehensive study highlights the importance of legislative and extralegal committees in the political and institutional development of early American history, showing how the colonial experience modified a basic British institution, using it in the cause of legislative supremacy and, eventually, independence.

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Edward Thompson Breathitt Jr.

Kentucky's counties though theoretically provinces of the state were in reality powerful semi-sovereign entities during the latter half of the 19th century.

Every American war has brought conflict over the extent to which national security will permit protesters to exercise their constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression.

Tensions in the Territorial Politics of Western Europe (1987) examines the massive postwar increase in European government intervention, a major element being the development of welfare services provided by sub-central units of government.