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Cover Defining Public Goods
Defining Public Goods
An Institutional Approach to Community-Building and Negotiating Inter-Community Conflict
David J. O’Brien
Through the lens of an economist’s notion of public goods, David J. O’Brien analyzes the dual problems of declining communities and polarizing conflicts between metropolitan and rural communities. The author describes in detail how seemingly intractable community-level problems and inter-community conflicts have been substantially reduced by framing them in terms of the self-interest of a larger polity. O’Brien’s extensive community-level research experience in urban and rural communities that covers multiple historical periods, will appeal to inter-disciplinary social scientists, development specialists and persons looking for a hopeful, practical approach to solving the challenges of globalization.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
15 Jul 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800885431
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Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
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Geographies of Cosmopolitanism
Barney Warf
Invigorating and timely, this book provides a thorough overview of the geographies of cosmopolitanism, an ethical and political philosophy that views humanity as one community. Barney Warf charts the origins and developments of this line of thought, exploring how it has changed over time, acquiring many variations along the way.
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Monograph Book
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09 Jul 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789902471
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover A Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research
A Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research
Editors: Beverley A. Searle, Jessica Pykett, and Maria J. Alfaro-Simmonds
This insightful Modern Guide explores heterodox approaches to modern wellbeing research, with a specific focus on how wellbeing is understood and practised, exploring policies and actions which are taken to shape wellbeing. It evaluates contemporary trends in wellbeing research, including the sometimes competing definitions, methods and approaches offered by different disciplinary perspectives.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
15 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900163
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Field Guide for Research in Community Settings
Field Guide for Research in Community Settings
Tools, Methods, Challenges and Strategies
Editors: M. R. Islam, Niaz A. Khan, Siti H.A.B. Ah, Haris A. Wahab, and Mashitah B. Hamidi
This insightful book offers practical advice to fieldworkers in social research, enabling robust and judicious applications of research methods and techniques in data collection. It also outlines data collection challenges that are commonly faced when working in the field.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
07 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376328
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Business 2021
Cover Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change
Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change
Editors: David C. Holmes and Lucy M. Richardson
Drawing together key frameworks and disciplines that illuminate the importance of communication around climate change, this Research Handbook offers a vital knowledge base to address the urgency of conveying climate issues to a variety of audiences.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
08 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900408
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Globalization and Spatial Mobilities
Globalization and Spatial Mobilities
Commodities and People, Capital, Information and Technology
Aharon Kellerman
Presenting a comparative examination of five major voluntary global movements: commodities, people, capital, information and technology, this book traces and develops discussions of globalization and spatial mobility. The book further covers the means and media used for these mobilities: ports and ships, airports and airplanes, international banking electronic media, and the Internet, telephony and TV. Two concluding chapters focus on the mobile globe, highlighting present and future global mobility in general, and the relationships among the five global mobilities, in particular.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
28 Feb 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789901221
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover A Research Agenda for Housing
A Research Agenda for Housing
Editor: Markus Moos
Housing is one of the most pertinent issues of our time. Shaped by rapid urbanization, financialization, and various changes in demography, technology, political ideology and public policy, the provision of affordable, adequate, and suitable housing has become an increasingly challenging feat. From high-rise apartment towers constructed in global cities around the world to informal settlements rapidly expanding across the global south, this volume focuses on how political, economic, and societal changes are shaping housing in a variety of contexts.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 Jul 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788116510
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover A Research Agenda for Global Crime
A Research Agenda for Global Crime
Editors: Tim Hall and Vincenzo Scalia
This multidisciplinary collection of essays by leading international scholars explores many pressing issues related to global crime. The book opens with essays that look across this diverse terrain and then moves on to consider specific areas including organised crime, cyber-crime, war-crimes, terrorism, state and private violence, riots and political protest, prisons, sport and crime and counterfeit goods. The book emphasises the centrality of crime to the contemporary global world and mobilises diverse disciplinary positions to help understand and address this.
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Monograph Book
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28 Jun 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786438676
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Defining Landscape Democracy
Defining Landscape Democracy
A Path to Spatial Justice
Editors: Shelley Egoz, Karsten Jørgensen, and Deni Ruggeri
This stimulating book explores theories, conceptual frameworks, and cultural approaches with the purpose of uncovering a cross-cultural understanding of landscape democracy, a concept at the intersection of landscape, democracy and spatial justice. The authors of Defining Landscape Democracy address a number of questions that are critical to the contemporary discourse on the right to landscape: Why is democracy relevant to landscape? How do we democratise landscape? How might we achieve landscape and spatial justice?
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Jun 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786438348
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Social and Political Science 2018
Cover De-Centering State Making
De-Centering State Making
Comparative and International Perspectives
Editors: Jens Bartelson, Martin Hall, and Jan Teorell
Bridging the gap between international relations and comparative politics, this book transposes Eurocentric theories and narratives of state-making to new historical and geographical contexts in order to probe their scope conditions. In doing this, the authors question received explanations of the historical origins and geographical limits of state-making, questioning the unilinear view of the emergence of the modern state and the international system. Theoretically and methodologically eclectic, the volume explores a range of empirical cases not often discussed in the literature.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
25 May 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112994
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Social and Political Science 2018