Regional, state and other local government

This contributed volume analyzes flooding scenarios in Brazilian cities using a geographic and spatiotemporal approach to explore impacts and ways to mitigate future disasters.

This collection addresses the complexity of care arrangements in contemporary Europe, developing new insights into debates about the care crisis, gender equality, the division of work and the reconciliation of care and work.

This book examines the issues of urban governance and local democracy in South India.

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.

Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America proposes, tests and analyses the liberal captured model.

We all strive for personal happiness in one way or another, but what about public happiness?

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.

Frank Porter Graham (18861972) was one of the most consequential white southerners of the twentieth century.

The book  establishes a philosophical base for the economic principles of Irish republicanism in the 21st century.

This volume brings together perspectives on social identityand peace psychology to explore the role that categorization plays in both conflictand peace-building.

The perfect Christmas gift for the history-lovers in your family.

This book is about public education reform and the future of pubHc education funding.

Federalism is widely believed to be an efficient tool to quell ethnic conflict, yet recently there has been a pronounced global tendency among ethnic minorities to break away from larger nations.

It is widely appreciated that policies, however carefully formulated, too often fall down at the implementation stage.

This scoping review furnishes the reader with a contemporary overview of research about employment conditions related to persons on the autism spectrum.

Die Idee einer Ringvorlesung, gemeinsam gestaltet und getragen von Wis­ senschaftlerinnen der ortsansässigen Universität und Gewerkschafterinnen des DGB, ist so neu nicht.

This book is a comprehensive collection of key scholarship on informality from the whole post-socialist region.

The book draws from regulation theory to explain urban planning policies and outcomes in Southeast Asia as a function of governance structures and processes.

This book is the general report of the targeted poverty alleviation and elimination project of 100 villages, presenting the overall progress of poverty alleviation and development of all sample villages in the tide of poverty alleviation.

In Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory, Nancy Hirschmann demonstrates not merely that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis but that they must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be understood at all.

Taking a unique comparative approach to the respective development paths of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), this book shows that people and governments in all three countries are faced with similar challenges of heightened insecurity, caused by liberalization and structural adjustment.

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

This fully revised fourth edition of a well-respected textbook seeks to build social workers' confidence in legal interpretation and implementation - practitioners must not only know the law; they must also have a critical appreciation of its implications for human rights, civil liberties and social justice.

Rapid advances in cognitive neuroscience and converging technologies have led to a vigorous debate over cognitive enhancement.

This book analyses the legitimacy deficits in democratic welfare work using Habermas' theories of communicative action, law and  morality.

The book analyses intersections between gender and diversity through cross-national studies of European public spheres.

We began to research for this book in 2000, with the idea that we might contribute to the search for solutions to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic by c- bining perspectives from different disciplines.

This book demonstrates to the world by a series of replicable case studies, how the Indo-Pacific developmental initiatives of QUAD, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Australia, and others can be implemented using the design of "e;Core Digital Economic Communities"e; within the 21 megacities that form Indo pacific megacity system and outside with independent country strategies to engage with these megacity systems where "e;Peripheral Digital Economic Communities"e; are located.

This book provides the first sustained empirical evidence on the relationships between marriage migration and processes of integration, focusing on two of the largest British ethnic minority groups involved in these kinds of transnational marriages - Pakistani Muslims and Indian Sikhs.

Have de-industrialization, expanding services and occupational upgrading put an end to class divisions?

As the world experiences a rapid increase in the aging population, it is essential to address the challenges and opportunities that arise as a result.

Examining essential aspects of American life, John Budd investigates how informational sources (print and broadcast media and other resources) fall short when it comes to informing citizens, failing our democracy and damaging the public good.

This collection explores sexualities, families, caring practices, and the ways in which people practice intimacy in an ever-changing social and political landscape.

This book analyzes the cosmopolitan lives of British Asian Muslim women.

This book illuminates how the profound challenges faced by contemporary societies over the past few decades, encompassing climate change and other environmental risks, global health threats, warfare, and mass migration, manifest themselves in European cities.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative account of the movement towards co-production of public services and outcomes, a topic which has recently become one of the most intensely debated in public management and administration, both in practice and in the academic literature.

Municipal image-building now promotes cities globally, and also to their own citizens.

This book examines contemporary attitudes towards ethnic minorities in Germany.

This book combines modern evolutionary economics and classical political economy.

This book brings together cutting-edge contemporary research and discussion concerning drinking practices among young adults (individuals aged approximately 18-30 years old).

Marktentwicklungen und technischer Fortschritt haben zu veränderten Kosten und Leistungsstrukturen geführt.

Anliegen dieser Einführung ist es, Bedeutung und Funktion zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen im Wohlfahrtsstaat zu thematisieren und einen Eindruck von dem sich wandelnden Verhältnis von Wohlfahrtsstaat und Zivilgesellschaft in Deutschland zu vermitteln.

This book addresses the social and environmental justice challenge to live sustainably and well.

This book examines the use of smart city-associated technologies to enhance sustainable transportation planning in cities of both the global north and south, focusing specifically on sustainable transportation.

This book examines the history of the French welfare state from the mid-twentieth century to the present day.

Sich mit dem politischen Streit in der Demokratie zu beschäftigen, scheint derzeit nicht »en vogue«.