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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “keith kintrea”
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  • New Drivers of Division

    Urbanisation and Spatial Inequality in Africa and Asia

    Edited by Ya Ping Wang, Keith Kintrea, David Everatt, Debolina Kundu ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book provides recent trends of urbanization and inequality in Africa and Asia. It addresses the inequality challenges of urbanization and large-scale rural-to-urban migration. It answers questions around socio-economic and spatial inequalities and how serious those are in cities in Africa and Asia under 21st-century urbanization. Chapters demonstrate how the old neighborhood ... Read more

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  • Transforming Glasgow

    Beyond the Post-Industrial City

    by Venda Louise Pollock, Douglas Robertson, David Baruffati, David MacLeod, Gordon Kennedy, Hugh Kippen, Ellie Murtagh, Larissa Naylor, Rebecca Madgin, James White0, Annette Hastings1, Claire Bynner2, Steve Rolfe3, Paulina Trevena4, Rebecca Kay5, Bruce Whyte6, Mhairi Mackenzie7, Julie Clark8, Mark Livingston9, Iain Docherty0, David Waite1, Stuart Patrick2, Ian Levitt3, Chik Collins4 ...
    Some 30 years after Glasgow turned towards regeneration, indicators of its built environment, its health, its economic performance and its quality of life remain below UK averages. This interdisciplinary study examines the ongoing transformation of Glasgow as it transitioned from a de-industrial to a post-industrial city during the 20th and 21st centuries. Looking at the diverse issues of urban ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Urban Policy for Sustainable Development in the Global South

    New Strategies for New Challenges

    Edited by Debolina Kundu, David Everatt, Keith Kintrea, Ya Ping Wang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book is the first of its kind that examines the urban development trajectory, sustainability, and urban policies' role across seven different countries in Asia and Africa. It offers theoretical and policy contributions emerging from a rigorous analysis of conditions on the ground in each city, combined with a critical engagement with urban policy in the respective city/country. It ... Read more

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    by Sean Fox, Tom Goodfellow ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    For the first time in human history more people now live and towns and cities than in rural areas. In the wealthier countries of the world, the transition from predominantly rural to urban habitation is more or less complete. But in many parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America, urban populations are expanding rapidly. Current UN projections indicate that virtually all population growth in the ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • High-Skilled Migration

    Drivers and Policies

    Edited by Mathias Czaika ...
    Political and scientific debates on migration policies have mostly focused on governments' efforts to control or reduce low-skilled, asylum, and irregular migration or to encourage the return migration of these categories. Less research and constructive discourse has been conducted on the role and effectiveness of policies to attract or retain high-skilled workers. An improved understanding of the ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • The Companion to Development Studies

    Edited by Vandana Desai, Rob Potter ...
    The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the ... Read more

    $162.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Non-Traditional Security Studies

    A Transnational Approach

    Edited by Mely Caballero-Anthony ...
    With the end of the Cold War, threats to national security have become increasingly non-military in nature. Issues such as climate change, resource scarcity, infectious diseases, natural disasters, irregular migration, drug trafficking, information security and transnational crime have come to the forefront. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Non-Traditional Security concepts. It ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Urban Geography

    A Global Perspective

    by Michael Pacione ...
    Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importance – for the distribution of population within countries; in the organization of economic production, distribution and exchange; in the structuring of social reproduction and cultural life; and in the allocation and exercise of power. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Beyond Gridlock

    by Thomas Hale, David Held ...
    It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational. It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013 book Gridlock argued, the world increasingly needs effective international cooperation, but multilateralism appears unable to deliver it in ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Planetary Gentrification

    by Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin, Ernesto López-Morales ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and London with that in Shanghai, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro? This book argues that gentrification is one of the most ... Read more

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  • Struggling for Effectiveness

    CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid

    by Stephen Brown ...
    The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) allocates vast sums of money each year, providing vital assistance to countless individuals across the developing world. Yet many observers and insiders have sharply criticized CIDA for its lack of concrete results.Presenting a range of work by scholars and practitioners, this collection offers the most comprehensive examination of CIDA's ... Read more

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  • Migration and Pandemics

    Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception

    Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical insights on the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers in different world regions including North America, Europe and Asia.The book addresses several ... Read more

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