Regional, state and other local government

To a backdrop of ageing societies, pension crises and labour market reforms, this book investigates how the policy shift from early retirement to active ageing has affected individual retirement behaviour.

This book overcomes the dichotomies, generalizations and empirical shortcomings that surround the understanding of return migration within the migration-development-peace-building nexus.

We present a Machine Learning (ML) approach to monitoring and classifying noise pollution.

We present a Machine Learning (ML) approach to monitoring and classifying noise pollution.

This book analyzes the adoption of stakeholders' engagement in various fields and scales while providing the readers with an international outlook of the topic.

This book analyzes the adoption of stakeholders' engagement in various fields and scales while providing the readers with an international outlook of the topic.

This book draws together writers from various backgrounds to discuss issues that affect those working in rural social work settings, on themes ranging from current issues that are common to rural localities (including those arising from the Covid-19 pandemic) to future challenges.

The study of local climate zones (LCZ) links urban morphology, land use and land cover types, human activity, and thermal properties, and provides a standard framework for studying urban climatic issues.

Originally published in 1975, this book advocates a certain approach to the study of government: the focus should be institutional, the method comparative and the level practical.

Originally published in 1975, this book advocates a certain approach to the study of government: the focus should be institutional, the method comparative and the level practical.

Originally published in 1964, this book was an important addition to the growing field of comparative government and administration.

This contributed volume reports on a multidisciplinary collective work on the topic of Smart City, merging scientific reflections and operational issues.

This contributed volume reports on a multidisciplinary collective work on the topic of Smart City, merging scientific reflections and operational issues.

This book presents research conducted with children and young people about online harms, with a UK focus, while aiming to stimulate comparative analyses of other countries too.

This book presents research conducted with children and young people about online harms, with a UK focus, while aiming to stimulate comparative analyses of other countries too.

The annexation of Texas was one of the most momentous actions the United States government took in the antebellum period.

This book aims to draw careful distinctions between the various forms of housing insecurity and personal circumstances research participants experience.

The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games.

The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games.

This book discusses the major issues currently affecting the accountability of executive power in Europe.

25 Jahre nach der Wiederherstellung der Deutschen Einheit wird es Zeit für eine Bilanz.

Local Government in the Soviet Union (1987) analyses the Soviet Union's limited success in improving local government between in the 1960s to 1980s, as the country made a drive toward centralized policy control.

How local contexts help us understand why White voters in America's heartland are shifting to the rightOver the past several decades, predominantly White, postindustrial cities in America's agriculture and manufacturing center have flipped from blue to red.

This book is the first to consider the roles, challenges and governance responses of secondary cities in southern Africa to changing circumstances.

This book is the first to consider the roles, challenges and governance responses of secondary cities in southern Africa to changing circumstances.

Providing a comprehensive overview of volunteer involvement in UK universities, this book addresses a distinct and substantive policy and management issue.

This book provides an ethnographic examination of the everyday lives and struggles of street-involved youth in Canada.

Providing a comprehensive overview of volunteer involvement in UK universities, this book addresses a distinct and substantive policy and management issue.

First published in 1989, Political Change in Spain provides a stimulating and innovative account of Spain's maturing democracy since 1982.

This book first attempts to explore the nexus between urban innovation and sustainable development goals (SDGs).

The case studies in this volume examine the activities of faith-based institutions in a representative sample of African and Latin American countries, including societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and states with different levels and types of government-provided social services.

Dieses Buch umfasst die wesentlichen Grundlagen einer praxisorientierten Mobilitätsplanung.

First published in 1989, Political Change in Spain provides a stimulating and innovative account of Spain's maturing democracy since 1982.

The case studies in this volume examine the activities of faith-based institutions in a representative sample of African and Latin American countries, including societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and states with different levels and types of government-provided social services.

Dieses Buch umfasst die wesentlichen Grundlagen einer praxisorientierten Mobilitätsplanung.

This collection revisits Steven Box's book, Power, Crime and Mystification, published in 1983, and considers its relevance forty years on.

The book provides a critical analysis of the geographies of everyday life, looking at how spatial practices craft w(r)iggle room to cope with the boundaries saturated by normativity, power relations, and inequalities.

This book provides an invaluable overview of neoliberalising trends in urban policies and governance by presenting novel perspectives on municipal entrepreneurship support policies.

This book explores the ethical problems of algorithmic bias and its potential impact on populations that experience health disparities by examining the historical underpinnings of explicit and implicit bias, the influence of the social determinants of health, and the inclusion of racial and ethnic minorities in data.

This collection revisits Steven Box's book, Power, Crime and Mystification, published in 1983, and considers its relevance forty years on.

This book explores the ethical problems of algorithmic bias and its potential impact on populations that experience health disparities by examining the historical underpinnings of explicit and implicit bias, the influence of the social determinants of health, and the inclusion of racial and ethnic minorities in data.

Analyzing the importance of Thailand's blue economy, this report considers ways to mobilize and scale up private sector investment in areas such as aquaculture and marine renewable energy to help bolster sustainable blue development.

Wie hat die Bevölkerung Bad Goiserns die Jahre 1900 bis 1955 erlebt?

This book concerns the values and practices of participation in municipal public parks, and the connections they have with cultural policy, urbanism, and social life.

Es gibt nur wenige Themen, die so stetig und intensiv im Mittelpunkt der politik- und rechtswissenschaftlichen, aber auch der öffentlichen Diskussion stehen wie die Politikfinanzierung.

This book provides the historical and political context for the security interventions in Mali over the past three decades.

Rudolf Bahro: Vorlesungen 1990 – 1993 Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

This book examines the impact of population growth and urbanization on the household registration system in China.