Regional, state and other local government

This book explores the possibilities of understanding the concept of climate refugees in order to ascribe to a consensual agreement that climate refugees are evident and this situation is a reality.

In this textbook, governance aspects are presented and explained in a comprehensible way at different levels: After a look at the roots of the governance discussion in economics and political science, political and economic negotiation and problem-solving processes are discussed on the macro level "e;Orders of Governance"e; and institutional and normative framework conditions are considered; on the meso level "e;Cooperation"e;, forms of steering and control as well as cooperation and coordination of social economy enterprises are dealt with; and on the micro level "e;Interactions"e;, governance is dealt with from the perspective of the actors and their interactions.

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 explores the possibilities of understanding the concept of climate refugees in order to ascribe to a consensual agreement that climate refugees are evident and this situation is a reality.

Understanding Municipal Fiscal Health provides an in-depth assessment of the fiscal health of cities throughout the United States.

Understanding Municipal Fiscal Health provides an in-depth assessment of the fiscal health of cities throughout the United States.

This book explores the factors at the individual, institutional and systemic levels which contribute to children's home residents coming to the attention of the youth justice system, and the consequent implications for policy and practice.

First published in 2003, Decentring the Indian Nation examines the various centrifugal forces apparent in recent Indian politics.

First published in 2003, Decentring the Indian Nation examines the various centrifugal forces apparent in recent Indian politics.

This book argues for the need to rethink governance through the lens of 'resilience as self-governance'.

Immer mehr Menschen wollen sich für gesellschaftliche, soziale oder ökologische Ziele einsetzen.

Immer mehr Menschen wollen sich für gesellschaftliche, soziale oder ökologische Ziele einsetzen.

This book concentrates on the politics of allocation and dispersal, the involvement of non-state actors, the role of social workers and street level bureaucrats and the subversive nature of grassroots initiatives as far as reception policies and practices are concerned.

This book concentrates on the politics of allocation and dispersal, the involvement of non-state actors, the role of social workers and street level bureaucrats and the subversive nature of grassroots initiatives as far as reception policies and practices are concerned.

This book offers insight into the most important scientific society on urban morphology worldwide: the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF).

This book offers insight into the most important scientific society on urban morphology worldwide: the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF).

This book studies China's urbanization with the theory of production of space.

Few men have been more important to the life of Kentucky than three of those who governed it between 1930 and 1963Albert B.

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 examines contemporary food systems in Italy, paying particular attention to the landscape, innovative local practices and local cultural history.

This book examines contemporary food systems in Italy, paying particular attention to the landscape, innovative local practices and local cultural history.

This edited volume offers a rich collection of up-to-date research and critical scholarship from various African institutions on incidents of youth violence, intervention and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.

Der Band versammelt mobilitäts- und politikwissenschaftliche Beiträge zu verkehrspolitischen Entscheidungen und Richtungswechseln auf verschiedenen Ebenen (Bund, Land, Kommune) und zu verschiedenen Verkehrsträgern bzw.

This report shows how the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) can leverage its regional position to boost trade, increase agriculture, and harness the power of its cities to promote inclusive and equitable growth.

This book is an essential clinician's guide to understanding, unpacking, treating, and healing individual, familial, and communal wounds associated with parental incarceration.

Since the 1980s, neoliberalism has had a major impact on social life and, in turn, research in the social sciences.

This book examines public-nonprofit collaborations in the context of federal homeless policy.

This textbook introduces students to the various arguments for and against the prohibition of recreational drugs.

This book provides a much-needed analysis of the pivotal role of the urban kampung in Indonesia's urbanization process and importantly, provides a deeper understanding of how these communities create their complex socio-physical environments through self-organization.

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is believed to affect one in eight children worldwide (UNICEF, 2020).

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.

This book examines the pathways to decarbonising African cities, structured around strategies and applications in renewable energy, waste management, healthcare, telecommunication, education and governance reconfigurations for Petro-cities.

Ecological and livable cities need an objective method to be examined.

This edited volume offers a rich collection of up-to-date research and critical scholarship from various African institutions on incidents of youth violence, intervention and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.

Dieses Buch setzt sich kritisch mit einer Reihe von provokanten Fragen auseinander: Warum sind die heutigen Gesellschaften so abhängig von den konstruktiven und destruktiven Auswirkungen der Individualisierung?

What images come to mind when you read the word 'intoxication'?

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.

The debate on governance originates in the OECD world.

In the late eighteenth century, the Upper Valley of Virginia experienced a conflict between the elitist culture of the gentry and the more republican values of the populace.

Curtain up explores city diplomacy in global migration governance.

Der Klimawandel gefährdet die Existenzgrundlage zukünftiger Generationen.

Industrie und Dienstleistungen sind durch einen Wandel geprägt, der tiefgreifende Auswirkungen auf die Beschäftigten und deren Arbeitswelt hat.

Dagobertshausen – ein Ortsteil im Westen von Marburg – droht erstickt zu werden: erdrückt von den Zumutungen der ortsansässigen Freizeitindustrie, einer beispiellosen Expansion von großformatigen Unterhaltungsbetrieben und von dem Geschäft der vorhandenen Locations, die jährlich viel Lärm und Verkehr sowie Besuchermassen in den kleinen Ort schwemmen.

This book assesses Ecological Migration and Precision Poverty Alleviation Measures, based on research conducted in Ningxia.

This book gathers the outcomes of various, extensive research efforts on building a moderately prosperous society in minority areas, which would allow China's poor and poverty-stricken areas to comprehensively join the rest of society.

This book provides novel insights into how Chinese provinces have developed into major sources of China's outbound investments.

How does the ideal state look like?