Regional, state and other local government

This book discusses the architecture, design and implementation of critical components of Sustainable Smart Cities to support governance, transportation, energy, healthcare, factories, technologies, securities, agriculture and education.

Renommierte Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis behandeln die wichtigsten Herausforderungen, denen sich die Wirtschaftspolitik zu Beginn des 21.

This is the first book tackling the topic of world suffering.

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

Volume II of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales traces, for the first time, the genesis and early evolution of two principal institutions in the criminal justice system, the Crown Court and the Crown Prosecution Service.

This comprehensive volume studies the vices and virtues of regionalisation in comparative perspective, including countries such as Belgium, Germany, Spain, and the UK, and discusses conditions that might facilitate or hamper responsiveness in regional democracies.

Strategic Management in Public Organizations: European Practices and Perspectives offers the first wide-ranging survey and assessment of strategic management practices at various levels of government and public service in European countries.

Considered a microcosm of the nation, the state of Illinois stretches almost four hundred miles from its northern limit at the Wisconsin line to its southern tip at Cairo, nestled between Kentucky and Missouri.

This book examines the foundation and progress of the Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI).

State climate and clean energy policy will play a critical role in the future of the political dialogue and economic development.

After Ross Benes left Nebraska for New York, he witnessed his polite home state become synonymous with Trump country.

Economists and political scientists have recently begun to study formally how conftict and the possibility of conftict affects resource allocation and economic performance.

In Risk Analysis of Complex and Uncertain Systems acknowledged risk authority Tony Cox shows all risk practitioners how Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) can be used to improve risk management decisions and policies.

North Carolina represents a perfect distillation of the promise and peril of modern American democracy: hyperpartisanship, gerrymandering, dissatisfaction with the two-party system, the urban-rural dividethese issues are all brought into sharp relief in the Tar Heel State.

Our world stands at a critical crossroads.

In a fragile and conflict-ridden context such as the Gaza Strip, where the de facto Hamas government faces isolation and lacks international recognition, the provision of aid and development schemes challenges donors and CSOs delivering services to Palestinians.

This focused case study analyses the roots of super-diversity in a place where immigration is an emerging phenomenon, Northwestern Spain (Galicia).

Global Perspectives on Well-Being in Immigrant Families addresses how immigrant families and their children cope with the demands of a new country in relation to psychological well-being, adjustment, and cultural maintenance.

This book addresses the challenge for social integration posed by immigration into Western liberal democracies.

Building, largely, on insights from India, and case studies in Brazil, China, and South Africa, this book provides insights into the contested topic of 'governance and governed' from a state-society inter-relationship perspective.

This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of the ECOWAS' intent of transmuting the sub-region into a single socio-economic (and political) entity.

This volume is a collection of original essays prepared by colleagues, collaborators, and former students on the occasion of Helmut K.

South Africa is widely recognised as a middle-income, industrialised nation, but it also ranks amongst the most unequal countries in the world in terms of its income distribution and human development.

Dieses Buch analysiert theoretisch und empirisch, warum einige alleinerziehende Mütter weniger benachteiligt sind als andere.

The Public Servant's Guide to Government in Canada is a concise primer on the inner workings of government in Canada.

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

This book explores the Afro-diasporic experiences of African skilled migrants in Australia.

Caring for people with disabilities often becomes an all-encompassing responsibility for one or more family members.

In recent years, attacks on the rise of 'gender ideology' and 'genderism' as a political force, on gender studies as an academic field, and on feminist, queer and trans individuals seen to be their embodied representatives, have grown in scope and intensity.

Focusing on Malawi, Johnson proposes a shift in emphasis to gender justice as an alternative to human and women''s rights.

In an age of globalization there is frequent migration across national borders, resulting in a reconsideration of the notion, practice and social institution of national citizenship.

According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighbourhoods social life is often thriving, depending on the talents of particular citizens or of local institutions.

This book draws on the author's ten years of participatory work to examine core themes of (mis)representation, re-presentation, and resistance within place-health research and practice.

This book examines the ways in which universities can play a crucial role in inclusive development, social innovation and social entrepreneurship.

This book is a social critique of the cultural taboo of the female virginity in the Middle East.

Who governs?

Despite committed effort to integrate postcolonial theory and decolonizing practices in human rights education in social work, there is scant literature offering a more balanced global perspective.

This volume explores intergenerational practices and their impact on social sustainability, with an emphasis on developing programmatic efforts to address profound social challenges such as underperforming educational and work-related systems, failing support systems for dependent or vulnerable populations, and community renewal and regeneration efforts.

Wie gewinnt man die Herzen der Wähler?

This book examines financial vulnerability: a state in which a person or household cannot absorb any substantial spending or negative income shock without substantial financial and ultimately broader harm such as job loss, emotional harm, or mental illness.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2018'This is a funny, pointed love letter to Texas, at once elegiac and clear-eyed' Ben Macintyre, The TimesFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America.

This book focuses on the intricacies of elections within Russian ethnic republics and political loyalty in these regions.

This book overturns the idea that psychiatric drugs work by correcting chemical imbalance and analyzes the professional, commercial and political vested interests that have shaped this view.

Analysing in-depth data from 11 European countries, this collection explores the rise of the European running market, the reasons and motives for running, and the most important players in the field.