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    Learning from Global Case Studies of Stakeholder Partnerships

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  • Handbook of Flood Risk Management and Community Action

    An International Perspective

    Recurring and worsening flood incidence around the world has necessitated the understanding and strengthening of community-based flood risk management from an international perspective.This handbook emphasises the need for community action as part of an integrated flood risk management approach, highlighting case studies that have received recognition and made positive impacts, resulting in ... Leer más

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  • Online Learning for STEM Subjects

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    The Global Collaboration initiatives related in this book are examples of how educators have experimented with different mechanisms to provide science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education programmes through information and communication technologies. In many cases, these programmes have looked at the allied personal communication and collaboration skills that students of these ... Leer más

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    This book is a collection of essays by thought and advocacy leaders, policymakers, and academics in Singapore who have been and are in positions of influence in shaping social policies, and hence the social context, in the country. These essays are meant to initiate discussion, promote debate and broaden understanding of the social issues at play, the challenges faced, and the trade-offs involved ... Leer más

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  • Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

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  • Planning Cities in Africa

    Current Issues and Future Prospects of Urban Governance and Planning

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book provides insights into challenges, threats and opportunities of urban development in Africa. It discusses how and why African cities need localised urban planning concepts and theories to deal with challenges and threats of rapid urbanisation and climate change. The book delivers an in-depth view of the nature and gaps of the framework on which current planning practice and ... Leer más

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  • Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development

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  • Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation

    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
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  • Sustainable Futures in Southern Africa’s Mountains

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    This open access book presents multiple disciplinary perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in the South African mountain city of Phuthaditjhaba. These challenges are embedded in the complex environmental, socio-cultural and political contexts of the region. Established as the capital of the QwaQwa ‘homeland’ under Grand Apartheid, this city is now home to ... Leer más

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

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