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Cover Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China
Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China
A Governmentality Perspective
Le-Yin Zhang
Utilizing a governmentality lens, this timely book offers an explanation for China’s decarbonization performance in the early 21st century. Le-Yin Zhang investigates one of the most ambitious governing projects in history, analyzing the political rationalities of Chinese leaders for decarbonization and the governing techniques and technologies at multiple levels of governance.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
19 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977395
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Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover Social Innovation and Urban Governance
Social Innovation and Urban Governance
Citizenship, Civil Society and Social Movements
Editors: Marc Pradel-Miquel, Ana B. Cano-Hila, and Marisol García Cabeza
Presenting social innovation initiatives that emerged from organized citizenry in Southern European cities, this book explores the response to austerity policies implemented after the 2008 economic crisis. Chapters look at the common aim of these initiatives in responding to social needs and challenging social exclusion.
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Monograph Book
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19 Jun 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839102325
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover A Companion to Transport, Space and Equity
A Companion to Transport, Space and Equity
Editors: Robin Hickman, Beatriz Mella Lira, Moshe Givoni, and Karst Geurs
With social inequity in urban spaces becoming an increasing concern in our modern world, The Elgar Companion to Transport, Space and Equity explores the relationships between transport and social equity. Transport systems and infrastructure investment can lead to inequitable travel behaviours, with certain socio-demographic groups using particular parts of the transport system and accessing particular activities and opportunities.
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Reference & Dictionaries
Publication Date:
25 Oct 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788119825
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Handbook of Gentrification Studies
Handbook of Gentrification Studies
Editor: Loretta Lees with Martin Phillips
It is now over 50 years since the term ‘gentrification’ was first coined by the British urbanist Ruth Glass in 1964, in which time gentrification studies has become a subject in its own right. This Handbook, the first ever in gentrification studies, is a critical and authoritative assessment of the field. Although the Handbook does not seek to rehearse the classic literature on gentrification from the 1970s to the 1990s in detail, it is referred to in the new assessments of the field gathered in this volume. The original chapters offer an important dialogue between existing theory and new conceptualisations of gentrification for new times and new places, in many cases offering novel empirical evidence.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
27 Apr 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785361746
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Social and Political Science 2018
Cover Interculturalism in Cities
Interculturalism in Cities
Concept, Policy and Implementation
Editor: Ricard Zapata-Barrero
Cities are increasingly recognized as new players in diversity studies, and many of them are showing evidence of an intercultural shift. As an emerging concept and policy, interculturalism is becoming the most pragmatic answer to concrete concerns in cities. Within this framework, this book covers two major concerns: how to conceptualize and how to implement intercultural policies. Through the use of theoretical and comparative case studies, the current most prominent contributors in the field examine an area that multicultural policies have missed in the past: interaction between people from different cultures and national backgrounds. By compiling the recent research in Europe and elsewhere this book concludes that interculturalism is becoming both an attractive and efficient new paradigm for diversity management.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
24 Apr 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784715328
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Social And Political Science 2015
Cover Regenerative Sustainable Development of Universities and Cities
Regenerative Sustainable Development of Universities and Cities
The Role of Living Laboratories
Editor: Ariane König
Now that the Earth has reached the limits of its biophysical carrying capacity, we have to change technologies, social practices and social norms relating to material production and consumption to ensure that we do not further jeopardize the functioning of our planet’s life support systems. Through research, education and civic engagement, universities have a pivotal role to play in this transition. This timely book explores how universities are establishing living laboratories for sustainable development, and examines the communication networks and knowledge infrastructures that underpin impact both on and beyond the campus.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 Sep 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781003640
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Social And Political Science 2013
Cover Extraordinary Cities
Extraordinary Cities
Millennia of Moral Syndromes, World-Systems and City/State Relations
Peter J. Taylor
In this innovative, ambitious and wide-ranging book, Peter Taylor demonstrates that cities are the epicenters of human advancement. In exploring cities as sites through which economies flourish, by harnessing the creative potential of myriad communication networks, the author considers cities from varying temporal and spatial perspectives. Four stories of cities are told: the origins of city networks; the domination of cities by world-empires; the genesis of a singular modern creative interval in which innovation culminates in today’s globalised cities; and finally, the need for cities to act as centres for human creativity to produce a more resilient global society in the current crisis century.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
28 Feb 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781954829
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Economics 2013
Cover The Aging Population and the Competitiveness of Cities
The Aging Population and the Competitiveness of Cities
Benefits to the Urban Economy
Peter Karl Kresl and Daniele Ietri
While much of the current literature on the economic consequences of an aging population focuses on the negative aspects, this enlightening book argues that seniors can bring significant benefits – such as vitality and competitiveness – to an urban economy.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 Jul 2010
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849806930
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Social And Political Science 2010 and before