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“francesca blanc”

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  • Spatial Governance and Planning in Latin America

    A Comparative Account

    Edited by Juan E. Cabrera, Francesca Blanc, Giancarlo Cotella ...
    This book is the first to provide an in-depth discussion of spatial governance and planning systems (SGPSs) in Latin America, with analysis and comparison across 10 different countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. The primary function of SPGSs is to empower the public sector to exert control over spatial development. Originally understood ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Spatial Governance and Planning Policy Transfer in the Global South

    The Role of International Agency and the Recirculation of Policies

    Edited by Francesca Blanc, Giancarlo Cotella, Marcin Dąbrowski ...
    Spatial Governance and Planning Policy Transfer in the Global South examines how spatial governance and planning concepts and ideas circulate within and beyond the Global South, highlighting the actors, power relations and institutional contexts that shape how these ideas are adopted, adapted, or resisted.As regions and cities are being faced with an increasing number of challenges – from climate ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America

    Edited by Pedro López-Roldán, Sandra Fachelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the ... Read more

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  • Urban Design Under Neoliberalism

    Theorising from Santiago, Chile

    by Francisco Vergara Perucich ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Urban Studies
    This book discusses the status of urban design as a disciplinary field and as a practice under the current and pervasive neoliberal regime.The main argument is that urban design has been wholly reshaped by neoliberalism. In this transformation, it has become a discipline that has neglected its original ethos – designing good cities – aligning its theory and practice with the sole profit-oriented ... Read more

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  • Education and Development in Central America and the Latin Caribbean

    Global Forces and Local Responses

    by Vanessa Pietras, Tobias Roberts, Matthew Aruch, Nanette Archer Svenson, María Carolina Bodewig, Loida M. Martínez-Ramos, Kate Maloney Williams, Kristin Rosekrans, Katharine Summers, Celia Margarita Morán, Alejandro Caravaca, Wim Savenije, Felix Alvarado, Xavier Bonal, Mariana Leon, Rachel Dyl, Changha Lee, Shue-kei Joanna Mok, Michael Lisman ...
    Series series Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education
    Rooted in an international political economy theoretical framework, this book provides unique insights into the global forces and local responses that are shaping education systems in Central America and the Latin Caribbean (CALC).The book covers all Spanish-speaking countries of the CALC region and examines the effects of macro-economic pressures, geopolitical intervention, neo-colonial ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • European Union Support for Colombia's Peace Process

    Civil Society, Human Rights and Territorial Peace

    Edited by Karlos Pérez de Armiño ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU's crucial support for the implementation of the Havana Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. It explores the use of new approaches and instruments that, despite some limitations and criticisms, could go beyond conventional liberal peace and provide useful lessons. Particular attention is paid to three ... Read more

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  • Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context

    by J. Gideon ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Using a political economy of health, Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context demonstrates how the development of health systems in Latin America was closely linked to men's participation in formal labor. This established an inherent male bias that continues to shape health services today. While economic liberalization has created new jobs that have been taken up mainly by ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Welfare and Social Protection in Contemporary Latin America

    Edited by Gibrán Cruz-Martínez ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American Development
    Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income and develop human capital. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of international experts to analyse social protection systems and welfare regimes across contemporary Latin America.The book starts with a section tracking the expansion of social ... Read more

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  • Hybrid Urbanisms in Secondary Cities of the Global South

    Insights from Urban Planning and Infrastructure Delivery in Ghana and Peru

    Edited by Christian Rosen, Nina Gribat ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    This book presents the concept of 'Hybrid Urbanisms' aiming to deconstruct the still-existing and often critiqued dualism of formalised and informalised practices in urban planning and infrastructure delivery.Using an innovative perspective, the book addresses this issue by focusing on the complex configurations in which both forms always co-exist and compete as powerful social constructs. It ... Read more

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  • Dimensions of Development

    History, Community, and Change in Allpachico, Peru

    by Susan Vincent ...
    Dimensions of Development traces the 'development' of Allpachico, a village in the Peruvian central highlands. Susan Vincent examines four aid projects in the area, each following distinct international trends, that took place between 1984 and 2008 within the context of wider state and global political and economic systems.A unique historical ethnography, Dimensions of Development illustrates how ... Read more

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  • Social Enterprise in Latin America

    Theory, Models and Practice

    Edited by Luiz Inácio Gaiger, Marthe Nyssens, Fernanda Wanderley ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social Enterprise & Social Innovation
    In the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social enterprise (SE), a large research project, the "International Comparative Social Enterprise Models" (ICSEM) Project, was carried out over a five-year period; it involved more than 200 researchers from 55 countries and relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the SE phenomenon. This strategy made it possible to take into account ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Public Management in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Edited by Maria P. Aristigueta, Edgar E. Ramírez de la Cruz ...
    Series series Elgar Handbooks in Public Administration and Management
    This essential Handbook provides an overview of the study and practice of public management in Latin America and the Caribbean. Expert authors discuss the evolution of topics, instruments, methods and research in the field, highlighting the continued influence of past events on present-day politics.Chapters examine key challenges facing governments in Latin America and the Caribbean, shedding ... Read more

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