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The Globalized City
Economic Restructuring and Social Polarization in European Cities
Av Frank Moulaert, Arantxa Rodriguez m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
4414 kr
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This book explores the dynamics that have accompanied the implementation of large-scale Urban Development Projects (UDPs) in nine European cities within the European Union (EU). It contributes to the analysis of the relationship between urban restructuring and social exclusion/integration in the …
The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City
Av David Ley
Inbunden, 1997
3589 kr
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What factors lay behind the rehabilitation of central city districts across the world? Set against the contexts of international transformations in a post-industrial postmodern society, this book examines the creation and self-creation of a new middle class of professional and managerial workers …
Culture and the City in East Asia
Av Won Bae Kim, Mike Douglass m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
2490 kr
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The significance of the relationship between culture and urban transformation in Asian cities is increasingly recognized. Culture and the City in East Asia is one of the first studies that illustrates and explains these complex processes as they occur in a wide variety of contexts. The book …
Homelessness, AIDS, and Stigmatization
The NIMBY Syndrome in the United States at the End of the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 1998
3791 kr
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Homelessness, AIDS, and Stigmatization: The NIMBY Syndrome in the United States at the End of the Twentieth Century argues that it is the rise in community opposition across race, class, and region that should be considered in terms of the changing social construction of stigma, i.e. the ways in …
War Epidemics
An Historical Geography of Infectious Diseases in Military Conflict and Civil Strife, 1850-2000
Av Matthew Smallman-Raynor, Andrew Cliff
Inbunden, 2004
6510 kr
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Down the ages, war epidemics have decimated the fighting strength of armies, caused the suspension and cancellation of military operations, and have brought havoc to the civil populations of belligerent and non-belligerent states alike. This book examines the historical occurrence and geographical …
Manufacturing Culture
The Institutional Geography of Industrial Practice
Inbunden, 2004
3635 kr
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Recent years have seen a lively debate over the role of tacit knowledge and interactive learning in privileging the local over the global. Yet, our continuing inability to answer questions such as 'when and why is the local important in production and innovation processes?' indicates that our …
Dynamics of Regional Growth in Europe
Social and Political Factors
Inbunden, 1998
2994 kr
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In a period of deep economic, social, and political transformation, regional disparities seem to be particularly resistant to change. The emergence of a global economy, the shift in production methods, and the greater mobility of capital, labour, and raw materials have not brought about a radical …
Class, Ethnicity, and Community in Southern Mexico
Oaxaca's Peasantries
Av Colin Clarke
Inbunden, 2000
897 kr
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The state of Oaxaca has been studied intensively by archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists, but this is the first comprehensive overview of rural communities in the twentieth century. The study is rooted in the colonial and post-independence periods; but the text concentrates primarily on …
Social Power and the Urbanization of Water
Flows of Power
Inbunden, 2004
3635 kr
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Taking as his case-study the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador, where 600,000 people lack easy access to potable water, Erik Swyngedouw aims to reconstruct, theoretically and empirically, the political, social, and economic conduits through which water flows, and to identify how power relations infuse …
Indigenous Land Management in West Africa
An Environmental Balancing Act
Inbunden, 2000
1481 kr
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The success of rural development schemes in Africa, particularly those involving land, is heavily dependent on understanding the local ecology. Any farmer knows this, yet rarely has development project design catered adequately for the vicissitudes of the African environment. Although environmental …
A Critical Geography of Britain's State Forests
Inbunden, 2001
1736 kr
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Attitudes in Britain to forests and trees are changing. Plantation forests - the product of the 'strategic reserve of timber' vision that held sway in the early twentieth century, and was turned into a physical reality by the Forestry Commission - are no longer fashionable. Today's forests are …
Sustainable Livelihoods in Kalahari Environments
A Contribution to Global Debates
Av Deborah Sporton, David S. G. Thomas
Inbunden, 2002
1604 kr
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This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamics of contemporary natural resource based livelihoods and implications for their sustainability in the context of the Kalahari environment of southern Africa, a region subject to marked spatial and temporal natural variability. …
Island Epidemics
Av Andrew Cliff, Peter Haggett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
4933 kr
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Ever since Charles Darwin landed on the Galápagos islands in September 1835, small islands have had a special place in scientific history. In Island epidemics, the authors show that the complex warfare of invasion and extinction observed by Darwin for plants and animals applies today with equal …
Of States and Cities
The Partitioning of Urban Space
Av Peter Marcuse, Ronald van Kempen
Inbunden, 2002
4873 kr
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The nature and effects of globalization are coming under critical scrutiny across all continents. This book focuses on one aspect, the globalization of cities. It examines the claim that the state is powerless to influence events, and that history, geography, and culture have become irrelevant in …
Russia's Unknown Agriculture
Household Production in Post-Socialist Rural Russia
Av Judith Pallot, Tat'yana Nefedova
Inbunden, 2007
2123 kr
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Basing their findings on four years of research during which they studied rural districts drawn from a variety of contrasting regions of European Russia, the authors discuss the place of rural households in Russia's agri-food production system. They show that far from being solely concerned with …
Geopolitics and Empire
The Legacy of Halford Mackinder
Av Gerry Kearns
Inbunden, 2009
2705 kr
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Geopolitics and Empire examines the relations between two phenomena that are central to modern conceptions of international relations. Geopolitics is the understanding of the inter-relations between empires, states, individuals, private companies, NGOs and multilateral agencies as these are …
Pension Fund Capitalism
Av Clark
Häftad, 2000
1228 kr
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The growth of pension funds has been nothing short of astronomical. Pension funds now dominate the world's financial markets, affecting nations' wealth, community development, and industrial well being. Yet little is known about their structure and organization. Pension funds and their agents in …
The Modalities of European Union Governance
New Institutionalist Explanations of Agri-Environment Policy
Inbunden, 2001
2164 kr
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This book is the culmination of four years' research by the authors on European Union governance and agri-environment policy making. It is a timely contribution to the debate on Europe; it exposes the myriad processes underlying the European integration project, and demonstrates the implications …
Globalization and Integrated Area Development in European Cities
Inbunden, 2000
1225 kr
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In this book the author seeks to rebut the somewhat fatalistic argument that socio-economic prosperity in the cities can only be achieved by the application of global market-led policies. He argues that urban society and policy makers do have sufficient freedom of action to make local decisions on …
Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of Conquest
Av Thomas M. Whitmore, B. L. Turner II
Inbunden, 2002
5773 kr
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The human-environment conditions in the Americas on the eve of the sixteenth-century European conquest have of late attracted growing interest in both academic and public circles. Focusing on Middle America, this book completes a trilogy which has made the most comprehensive survey ever achieved of …
Infectious Diseases: A Geographical Analysis
Emergence and Re-emergence
Av A. D. Cliff, M.R. Smallman-Raynor m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
5018 kr
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The last four decades of human history have seen the emergence of an unprecedented number of 'new' infectious diseases: the familiar roll call includes AIDS, Ebola, H5N1 influenza, hantavirus, hepatitis E, Lassa fever, legionnaires' and Lyme diseases, Marburg fever, Rift Valley fever, SARS, and …
Poliomyelitis
A World Geography: Emergence to Eradication
Av M.R. Smallman-Raynor, A.D. Cliff
Inbunden, 2006
8327 kr
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For parents, few infections scored higher than poliomyelitis on the 'dread' factor from the early years of the twentieth century as each successive wave of the disease outdid its predecessor in the number of children it crippled and killed. But, from the 1950s, this picture abruptly changed when …
Cultivated Landscapes of Native North America
Av Doolittle
Häftad, 2001
2273 kr
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Cultivated Landscapes of Native North America is unlike any other book dealing with native agriculture in North America. The book takes a geographical stance, focusing on fields, field features, and field systems. Grounded in the traditional landscapes of landscape studies, emphasis is placed on …
An Uncooperative Commodity
Privatizing Water in England and Wales
Inbunden, 2004
3557 kr
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Privatization of water suply is an emotive and controversial topic. The 'British model' of water privatization is unique: no other country has entirely privatized its water supply and sewerage systems. This book analyzes the socio-economic and environmental dimensions of privatization in England …
Conflict, Consensus, and Rationality in Environmental Planning
An Institutional Discourse Approach
Av Yvonne Rydin
Inbunden, 2003
2581 kr
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We all now recognize the importance of talk today. In policy settings, there are more and more calls for consultation, collaboration, and deliberation. This is particularly the case in environmental planning, with its disputes over genetically modified organisms, power plants, and new roads. Rydin …
Globalization and Urban Change
Capital, Culture, and Pacific Rim Mega-Projects
Av Olds
Häftad, 2002
1019 kr
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This book provides a grounded analysis of globalization and urban change in the late 20th century. Drawing upon multi-locale field work in Vancouver, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Paris, and London, the author highlights the role of two transnational cultures - ethnic Chinese property developers and 'brand …
Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes
Av Denevan
Häftad, 2003
2399 kr
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The Andes and Amazonia are two of the harshest regions on earth. The opportunities for productive agriculture, even with modern methods, seem limited, given conditions of climate, terrain, and soils. Nevertheless, indigenous people, both prehistoric and more recent, have developed systems of …
Thailand at the Margins
Internationalization of the State and the Transformation of Labour
Av Jim Glassman
Inbunden, 2004
3697 kr
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Jim Glassman addresses the role of the state in the industrial transformation of what was, before the economic crisis of 1997-98, one of Southeast Asia's fastest growing economies. Approaching this issue from a different angle to those dominating 1980s and 1990s debates about the role of states in …
Putting Voters in their Place
Geography and Elections in Great Britain
Av Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie
Inbunden, 2006
1298 kr
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Why do people living in different areas vote in different ways? Why does this change over time? How do people talk about politics with friends and neighbours, and with what effect? Does the geography of well-being influence the geography of party support? Do parties try to talk to all voters at …
Putting Voters in their Place
Geography and Elections in Great Britain
Av Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie
Häftad, 2006
1060 kr
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Why do people living in different areas vote in different ways? Why does this change over time? How do people talk about politics with friends and neighbours, and with what effect? Does the geography of well-being influence the geography of party support? Do parties try to talk to all voters at …
