Regional, state and other local government

In this fourth edition of the best-selling core introductory textbook, Pete Alcock and Margaret May provide an essential up-to-date guide on social policy.

This book presents the integrating of economics and urban geography to create a framework of cooperation around the idea of urban economic stability.

Introducing the institutional logics perspective to street-level analysis, this book examines how street-level workers deal with the institutional logics that guide their organization - whether they follow or challenge them.

This handbook highlights a range of ground breaking, radical and liberatory clinical and critical community psychology projects from around the world.

This book analyses issues related to the political use and economical misappropriation of urban cultural events, cultural infrastructures, public resources, and cultural traditions in the city of Valencia, Spain.

This edited volume critically reflects on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect women in India.

Dieses Lehrbuch führt systematisch in das breite Spektrum von Geschichte, Strukturen, Problemlagen und Lösungswegen der Sozialpolitik ein.

As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams.

This book presents a holistic integral sustainable design and planning method embedded in the hypothesis of biophilia, our innate connection to nature, used as a platform to chart a biophilic pattern language framework.

On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted Resolution 70/1, "e;Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development"e;.

This book provides an original cross-thematic and wide scope review of crime prevention processes in urban areas that are explicitly based on the cooperation between different scientific and professional fields.

This book presents a unified approach to the problem of inequality, combining results from a variety of research fields - the human life cycle, group dynamics, networks, markets, and economic geography.

This book is the first systematic account of mega urban projects in China, covering their construction, operation and planning.

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This book presents the future development of Malaysia.

This book ties restorative justice into the exercise of patriarchal power.

Der Band untersucht die Motivbildung für ein Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr (FSJ) bei jungen Erwachsenen und Jugendlichen.

This book describes the political, social, and economic connections between gender and the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book analyzes how quality of life research results can be transferred to policy making, and considers the role of actors in this process---researchers, policy makers, and citizens---as well as their interrelationships.

This book presents the welfare regime of China as a liminal space where religious and state authorities struggle for legitimacy as new social forces emerge.

The book deals with the concept of urban infrastructure and the strong evolution of globalization, in particular the driving force taken by global cities.

This book examines desistance from offending amongst men in County Cork - the largest county in the Republic of Ireland.

This book explores, situates, and discusses the contours of urban inclusivity amidst and beyond the well-researched neoliberal turn in urban governance.

The book explores the key factors affecting the successful implementation of public participation spatial systems in participatory planning as part of the urban governance system.

This is to summarise current new developments in public transport and, with the concept of public mobility, to outline the concrete idea of a sustainable public transport system.

This book offers a new interpretation of the evolution and modernization of social order in China's grass-roots communities.

This book represents a compilation of research in sustainable architecture and planning.

This book analyses how public toilets were provided by the government and local business in Hong Kong between the 1860s and 1930s through a process that was embedded in class and racial politics.

This book compares two urban regeneration models, namely piecemeal and comprehensive redevelopments.

This book looks at how digital economy can help energy businesses to meet their sustainability goals.

This book introduces a comprehensive and updated analysis of the role of public policies to promote territorial cohesion processes and trends in a given territory.

This book presents perspectives by eminent economists, social scientists and policy makers, exploring in depth the post-reform developments in India, including issues pertaining to growth and equity, issues which have been at the core of life-time work of Prof.

Stephen L.

This book analyzes ancient cities that are facing crisis, and their coping mechanism to maintain resiliency and sustainability to remain economically viable and historically relevant.

The present publication constitutively expands the field of discourse on the topic of basic income and explores the possibilities of its introduction as well as the opportunities and risks.

This book provides an important overview of how climate-driven natural hazards like river or pluvial floods, droughts, heat waves or forest fires,  continue to play a central role across the globe in the 21st century.

Life must be understood as the result of evolution, and human life as the emergence of the species Sapiens from the genus Homo of the family of apes.

This book explores how power relationships, measured through qualitative social network analysis, impact planning participation and livelihood strategies of a marginalized group of farmers cultivating the Yamuna River floodplain in Delhi, India.

Urban expansion beyond the city's administrative boundaries has altered villages to a great extent.

Das ultimative Leitfadenbuch zur Politik, Medien und GesellschaftTauchen Sie ein in das Ergebnis eines jahrzehntelangen, tiefgreifenden Studiums der Tagespresse, und entdecken Sie die verborgenen Verbindungen und Wechselwirkungen zwischen Mensch, Medien und Politik.

IMAGINE THAT THE FUTURE WELL-BEING OF YOUR STATE is handed by 38% of its voters to a governor who tells the NAACP to 'kiss my butt'; who jokes that the worst his lax policies on toxic chemicals in consumer products will do is cause women to grow 'little beards'; who falsely claims that an active wind turbine is fake and run by 'a little electric motor'; and who loudly condemns your state's public schools as the worst in the nation while a national news magazine is ranking them among the best.

Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year has taken on a new relevance with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic.

ALA TimesBestseller[A] compelling history of our citys last half century, as conveyed through the life of one of our most impactful leaders.

This book speaks to those interested in topics related to punitiveness and public attitudes to crime and punishment.

This book provides comprehensive information about various types of gender-based violence (GBV) and abuse.

This is the first scholarly book to examine the UN Sustainable Development Goals from an indigenous perspective and, specifically, with reference to the right to self-determination.