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Platformisation of Urban Life : Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of …
The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban s…
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- 1
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- 9783837659641
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- 304p.
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- 300 PLA s
The Berlin Reader; A Compendium On Urban Change And Activism
By drawing together widely dispersed yet central writings, the Berlin Reader is an essential resource for everyone interested in urban development in one of the most interesting and important metropolises in Europe. It provides scholars as well as students, journalists and visitors with an overview of the most central discussions on the tremendous changes Berlin experienced since the fall of th…
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- 9783839424780
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Greening the greyfields
This open access book outlines new concepts, development models, governance and implementation processes capable of addressing the challenges of transformative urban regeneration of cities at precinct scale.
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- 1st
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- 9789811662386
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- xxi, 192 p ; ill
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- 220.91 GRE g
Decolonising blue spaces in the anthropocene: freshwater management in Aotear…
This open access book crosses disciplinary boundaries to connect theories of environmental justice with Indigenous people’s experiences of freshwater management and governance. It traces the history of one freshwater crisis – the degradation of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Waipā River– to the settler-colonial acts of ecological dispossession resulting in intergenerational injustices for Indi…
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- -
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- 9783030610715
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- xii, 494p. : ill
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- Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management
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- 363.700993 MEG d
Indigenous peoples, natural resources and governance : agencies and interactions
This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing relationships between states, indigenous peoples and industries in the Arctic and beyond. It offers insights from Nordic countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Russia to present different systems of resource governance and practices of managing industry-indigenous peoples’ relations in the mining industry, renewable resour…
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- 9781003131274
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- xiv, 216 p. : ill.
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- 333.2 TEN i
Universities and regional engagement : from the exceptional to the everyday
The study of universities’ role in regional engagement has traditionally been focusing on exceptional cases. This book presents a reconceptualision which embraces its underlying complexity, and proposes a roadmap for a renewed research agenda. Starting from the grassroots level of universities’ "everyday" engagements, the book delves into the manifold ways in which university knowledge agen…
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- -
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- 9781003150299
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- xiv, 246 p. : ill.
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- 378.103 IAK u
Global political demography : the politics of population change
This open access book draws the big picture of how population change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040. Leading social scientists from a wide range of disciplines discuss, for the first time, all major political and policy aspects of population change as they play out differently in each major world region: North and South America; Sub-Saharan Africa and the MENA regio…
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- 9783030730659
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- x, 459. : ill.
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- 304.6 GOE g
Geographic Citizen Science Design : No one left behind
Little did Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and other ‘gentlemen scientists’ know, when they were making their scientific discoveries, that some centuries later they would inspire a new field of scientific practice and innovation, called citizen science. The current growth and availability of citizen science projects and relevant applications to support citizen involvement is massive; every cit…
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- 9781787356122
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- 365p. ; ill.
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- 303.483 ART g
Asia-Pacific fishing livelihoods
This open access book explores fishing livelihoods in the context of the wider contexts in which they are embedded. Drawing on case studies from across the Asia-Pacific region, the book highlights how fishing livelihoods are shaped by globalisation, social relationships and governance. The book concludes by showing how better understanding these relationships can contribute to governance for he…
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- 9783030795917
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- xv, 112 p. : ill.
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- 333.956095 FAB a
Green economy in the transport sector : a case study of Limpopo Province, Sou…
This open access book is interdisciplinary and provides cross-sectoral and multi-dimensional exploration of sustainable development and transportation in South Africa. Drawing on work from different disciplines, the book contributes not only to academia but also seeks to inform urban and regional policy with the view of contributing to the national aspirations of South Africa as espoused in the…
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- -
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- 9783030861780
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- xiii, 119 p. : color, ill.
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- 388.096825 ODI g
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