Regional, state and other local government

Contemporary Clinical Practice: The Holding Environment Under Assault is devoted to the examination of contemporary social problems and their impact on the clinical process.

This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China.

Although Japanese economic development is often discussed, less attention is given to social development, and much less to gender related issues.

How have immigration and diversity shaped urban life and local governance?

This book situates culture as a determining factor in the development of diverse welfare states, exploring the impact of traditional familialism on South Korean and Taiwanese programs.

This book presents the key interactions in local government and public enterprise, drawing together the challenges for local governance in the practice of public entrepreneurship and its response to collaboration, place and place making.

This book interrogates Conservative government penal policy for adult and young adult offenders in England and Wales between 2015 and 2021.

This book presents new scientific knowledge on using developmental science to improving lives of children and youth across the globe.

Scholars widely agree that a federal system cannot work effectively without democracy.

This book reviews the development of China's social security system from 1949 onwards and analyzes its features in each stage.

This book examines questions of change and inertia in the context of the longstanding grievances over excessive taxation in rural China.

This book argues that masculine identity is in deep crisis in Western culture - the old forms are disintegrating, while men struggle to establish new relations with women and with each other.

The effects of neoliberal economic reforms in the Southern Mediterranean are now widely regarded as a main underlying cause of the Arab uprisings.

This book considers that contextual factors are important for the achievement of social justice and it recognizes that vulnerability to which children are exposed is a phenomenon throughout the planet, particularly in the South.

There is a large and growing literature on Turkish politics in general, and the AKP in particular.

Human security is becoming increasingly pronounced in recent years due to changes in the security landscape of world politics.

This book illustrates how global economic progress has reached its upper limit under the current economic paradigm, and how the next major revolution in global progress will rely on our ability to tap into the collective knowledge of the "e;everyday genius"e; to drive innovation, free market competition, artistic influence, and other advances that will allow humanity to overcome its greatest challenges.

The contributors assess to what extent regional organizations in Europe and Latin America provide a space for the regulation and provision of social policies in the area of social protection, higher education and health.

"e;Urban Climate Change Adaptation"e; is a timely and informative book that delves into the complex challenges posed by climate change and explores the pathways to achieving environmental sustainability.

This book provides a focused and comprehensive overview of the status of children across society, with special reference to emerging features and measures of child safety, welfare, and overall well-being.

This book examines the dynamics of neoliberal urban governance through a comparative analysis of Buenos Aires and Chicago, with a special focus on gentrification processes in both cities from 2011 to 2021.

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.

Chicago and New York share similar backgrounds but have had strikingly different fates.

This book uses a variety of empirical cases on topics including drug development, egg donation, and governance of healthcare facilities, to investigate how actors navigate the uncertainties that permeate the interfaces of health, technologies, and politics in post-Soviet settings and what the implications of their chosen navigation routes are.

Community safety is a narrowly defined concept that allows states to ignore arguably more serious threats caused by pro-market policies and the actions of major corporations.

This book argues that, given the complex nature of the urban environment, we cannot find one optimal solution to reducing environmental injustice, in part because there is no singular cause.

Central Asia remains on the periphery, both spatially and in people's imaginations.

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.

Addressing the specific contexts of communal leadership, educational policy, inter-communal relations, legal reform, media production, public discourse, public opinion, and responses to government policy, this volume examines Western-Muslim relations and makes proposals for enhancing Self-Other interaction to improve societal harmony.

Governors can be powerful actors in the lawmaking process, but what they''re bargaining over shapes their strategy and effectiveness.

Lehrbuch der Wirtschaftspolitik für Juristen, Volks- und Betriebswirte: Jetzt bereits in der 7.

With limited fiscal capabilities, effective and efficient budgeting is a necessity for local governments in the United States.

This book discusses the role of ESD stakeholders at university level, involving civil society and the private sector and public sectors (including local, national and intergovernmental bodies).

This book investigates the dynamics and the role of green urban regeneration using nature-based solutions (NBS) in contributing to the cultural aspects of public spaces.

This book examines the relationship between development economics, social protection and democratization in the specific context of Sub-Saharan Africa.

With limited fiscal capabilities, effective and efficient budgeting is a necessity for local governments in the United States.

Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-century American cities.

The concept of community development is often misunderstood, holding different meanings across different academic disciplines.

The European Union is becoming increasingly involved in health policy.

This book analyzes the mechanism of transnational private regulations (TPRs) in the global property investment market and the conditions of their effectiveness for sustainable urban development.

Trade unions in Europe face a range of cross-cutting challenges.

A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the presentOver the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved coastal access, improved energy efficiency, and, most recently, addressed global climate change.