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Infrastructure systems provide the services we all rely upon for
our day-to-day lives. Through new conceptual work and fresh
empirical analysis, this book investigates how financialisation
engages with city governance and infrastructure provision,
identifying its wider and longer-term implications for urban and
regional development, politics and policy. Proposing a more
people-oriented approach to answering the question of 'What kind of
urban infrastructure, and for whom?', this book addresses the
struggles of national and local governments to fund, finance and
govern urban infrastructure. It develops new insights to explain
the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial,
entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and
limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure
fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national
'rebalancing' efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the
country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and
prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.
This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the
fields of business and management, economics, geography, planning,
and political science. Its conclusions will be valuable to
policymakers and practitioners in both the public and private
sectors seeking insights into the intersections of
financialisation, decentralisation and austerity in the UK, Europe
and globally.
Conservation Policies for Agricultural Biodiversity: A Comparative
Study of Laws and Policies focuses on the challenge of securing the
ecological future of the planet and its inhabitants by exploring
the Convention of Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol on
Access and Benefit Sharing and WTO laws, such as SPSS, TBT GATT.
This book demonstrates how the urgent problem of biodiversity loss
can be addressed by challenging notions of national self-interest
and security for the purpose of implementing policies that will
benefit humanity and, more importantly, ensure the future of our
planet.
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