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  • Gradualist Lawfare, Urban Politics, and Local Power in Angola

    de Sylvia Croese ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations
    Angola is among a handful of African countries where local elections are yet to materialize. Gradualist Lawfare, Urban Politics, and Local Power in Angola situates the persistent deferral of local elections in Angola within wider debates around the contested nature of local government in African cities. Advancing the notion of 'gradualist lawfare', this book examines how recurrent legal changes ... Leer más

    $103.49 USD

  • Localizing the SDGs in African Cities

    Edición de Sylvia Croese, Susan Parnell ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume brings together a unique set of interventions from a variety of contributors to bridge the gap between research and policy with a distinct focus on Africa, drawing on work conducted as part of multiple interconnected research projects and networks on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and global policy implementation in African cities. Through the framework of the SDGs, and in ... Leer más

    $107.09 USD

  • Comparative Urban Research From Theory To Practice

    Co-Production For Sustainability

    de Beth Perry, Ileana Versace, Joakim Nordqvist, Sylvia Croese, Lillian Omondi, Helena Kraff, Eva Maria Jernsand, Nils Björling, Erica Righard, Shelley Kotze, Mirek Dymitrow, Gareth Haysom, Rike Sitas, Barry Ness, Michael Oloko, Warren Smit ...
    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Reporting on the innovative, transdisciplinary research on sustainable urbanisation undertaken by Mistra Urban Futures, a highly influential research centre based in Sweden (2010-19), this book builds on the Policy Press title Rethinking Sustainable Cities to make a significant contribution to evolving theory about comparative urban research ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa

    Knowledge Co-production from the South

    Edición de Ntombini Marrengane, Sylvia Croese ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cities and Development
    This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa’s urban population.Africa’s urban age is underway. With the world’s fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidence on the ... Leer más

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  • Development Management

    Theory and practice

    Edición de Justice Nyigmah Bawole, Farhad Hossain, Asad K. Ghalib, Christopher J. Rees, Aminu Mamman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Despite significant financial investments, the rate of development and pace of poverty reduction in developing and transitional countries has not always matched expectations. Development management typically involves complex interactions between governmental and non-governmental organisations, donors and members of the public, and can be difficult to navigate.This volume brings together a group of ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Governance for Development in Africa

    Solving Collective Action Problems

    de David Booth, Diana Cammack ...
    Drawing on in-depth empirical research spanning a number of countries in Africa, Booth and Cammack's path-breaking book offers both an accessible overview of issues surrounding governance for development on the continent, whilst also offering a bold new alternative. In doing so, they controversially argue that externally imposed 'good governance' approaches make unrealistic assumptions about the ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Beyond Gridlock

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $24.00 USD

  • Undocumented

    How Immigration Became Illegal

    de Aviva Chomsky ...
    A longtime immigration activist explores what it means to be an undocumented American in this “impassioned and well-reported case for change” (New York Times).In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

    The Innovation Economy and Society Nexus

    de G. Bruce Doern, David Castle, Peter Phillips ...
    Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy presents new critical analysis about related developments in the field such as significantly changed concepts of peer review, merit review, the emergence of big data in the digital age, and the rise of an economy and society dominated by the internet and information.The authors scrutinize the different ways in which federal and provincial ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Fixing Failed States

    A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World

    de Ashraf Ghani, Clare Lockhart ...
    Today between forty and sixty nations, home to more than one billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on the brink of failure. The world's worst problems--terrorism, drugs and human trafficking, absolute poverty, ethnic conflict, disease, genocide--originate in such states, and the international community has devoted billions of dollars to solving the problem. Yet by and large the ... Leer más

    $17.09 USD

  • Latin American Politics and Society

    de Gerardo L. Munck, Juan Pablo Luna ...
    Taking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region's past and present in an accessible and engaging style well-suited to undergraduate students. The book provides historical insights into modern states and critical issues they are facing, with insightful analyses that are supported by empirical data, maps and timelines. Drawing ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Global Shift

    Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy

    de Peter Dicken ...
    The definitive text on globalization, this book provides an accessible, jargon-free analysis of how the world economy works and its effects on people and places. Peter Dicken synthesizes the latest ideas and empirical data to blaze a clear path through the thicket of globalization processes and debates. The book highlights the dynamic interactions among transnational corporations, nations, and ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD