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Smart Futures, Challenges of Urbanisation, and Social Sustainability (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Mohammad Dastbaz, Wim Naude,... Smart Futures, Challenges of Urbanisation, and Social Sustainability (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Mohammad Dastbaz, Wim Naude, Jamileh Manoochehri
R6,345 Discovery Miles 63 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book tackles the challenges posed by accelerating urbanization, and demystifies Social Sustainability, the least understood of all the different areas of sustainable development. The volume's twin focus on these profoundly intertwined topics creates a nuanced and vitally important resource. Large migrations from rural areas to cities without appropriate planning and infrastructure improvements, including housing, education and health care optimization, have created significant challenges across the globe. The authors suggest technology-rich strategies to meet these challenges by careful application of data on population growth and movement to the planning, design, and construction of operational infrastructures that can sustainably support our increasingly rapid population growth.

Doreen Massey - Selected Political Writings (Paperback): Doreen Massey Doreen Massey - Selected Political Writings (Paperback)
Doreen Massey
R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
New Approach to Cultural Heritage - Profiling Discourse Across Borders (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Le Cheng, Jianping Yang,... New Approach to Cultural Heritage - Profiling Discourse Across Borders (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Le Cheng, Jianping Yang, Jianming Cai
R4,253 Discovery Miles 42 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book addresses questions about theories of heritage, its methodologies of research, and where its boundaries lie with tourism, urban development, post-disaster recovery, collective identities, memory, or conflict. This book is a collection of heritage studies from a critical perspective as a product of the 2018 ACHS (Association of Critical Heritage Studies) Conference in Hangzhou, the largest conference of its kind in Asia. The contributors cover a wide spectrum of issues in heritage studies, such as heritage management, accessibility to heritage, heritage conservation and heritage policy, and heritage representation. It also examines the various contexts within which heritage emerges and how heritage is constructed within that context. Analyses are based on not only representations of heritage but also on the performativity. Explorations touch upon community involvement, landscape history, children's literature, endangered food, architecture, advertisement, allotment garden, and gender and visual art. As heritage has always been a locus of contested verities, the book offers a variegated approach to heritage studies. It provides students and scholars new perspectives on heritage study.

Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2009 (Hardcover, 2009 ed.): Roland Conrady, Martin Buck Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2009 (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Roland Conrady, Martin Buck
R1,553 Discovery Miles 15 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As other industries, the global travel and tourism industry has been facing immense challenges and highly visible upheaval since the beginning of the new millennium. The International Tourism Exchange ITB Berlin, the world's leading travel trade show, aims at pinpointing the most important challenges, identifying the trends and offering a platform to solve pressing problems. The ITB Convention Market Trends & Innovations has developed into a centre of excellence and a driving force for the global travel and tourism industry, generating a much needed information platform. This compilation unites the highlights of the convention in articles prepared by renowned professionals and scientists from the industry. Readers may benefit from this comprehensive vision of the developments that are shaping the structure of the global tourism industry today and in the future. This book is indispensable for tourism and travel professionals as well as for academics and students anal- ing current global tourism and travel trends.

An Environmental History of Southern Malawi - Land and People of the Shire Highlands (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Brian Morris An Environmental History of Southern Malawi - Land and People of the Shire Highlands (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Brian Morris
R3,322 R3,084 Discovery Miles 30 840 Save R238 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is a pioneering and comprehensive study of the environmental history of Southern Malawi. With over fifty years of experience, anthropologist and social ecologist Brian Morris draws on a wide range of data - literary, ethnographic and archival - in this interdisciplinary volume. Specifically focussing on the complex and dialectical relationship between the people of Southern Malawi, both Africans and Europeans, and the Shire Highlands landscape, this study spans the nineteenth century until the end of the colonial period. It includes detailed accounts of the early history of the peoples of Northern Zambezia; the development of the plantation economy and history of the tea estates in the Thyolo and Mulanje districts; the Chilembwe rebellion of 1915; and the complex tensions between colonial interests in conserving natural resources and the concerns of the Africans of the Shire Highlands in maintaining their livelihoods. A landmark work, Morris's study constitutes a major contribution to the environmental history of Southern Africa. It will appeal not only to scholars, but to students in anthropology, economics, history and the environmental sciences, as well as to anyone interested in learning more about the history of Malawi, and ecological issues relating to southern Africa.

Contested Landscapes of Poverty and Homelessness In Southern Europe - Reflections from Athens (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017):... Contested Landscapes of Poverty and Homelessness In Southern Europe - Reflections from Athens (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Vassilis P. Arapoglou, Kostas Gounis
R1,876 Discovery Miles 18 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book uses Athens as a case study to identify the key features of urban anti-poverty policies in Greece and to discuss them in relation to policy developments in the crisis-ridden countries of Southern Europe. The idea of contested landscapes shapes the focus of the book on urban poverty and homelessness. Contested landscapes refer to the complex dynamics between visible and invisible poverty and to competing strategies on how to address them. The book takes a path-dependent view on the development of post-welfare arrangements, devolution, and pluralism that are being shaped by both neoliberal mentality, solidarity and communitarian practices. The authors draw on their own research and advocacy background in New York and Athens to shape their conceptual and methodological tools; however, rather than uncritically 'importing' North American and North European concepts to Greece, the book highlights the significance of distinctive Mediterranean features for analysing homelessness and anti-poverty policies. This will be a useful read for academics policy makers in areas of urban studies, sociology, social policy, human geography and anthropology.

Acculturating the Shopping Centre (Paperback): Janina Gosseye, Tom Avermaete Acculturating the Shopping Centre (Paperback)
Janina Gosseye, Tom Avermaete
R1,369 Discovery Miles 13 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that effortlessly moves across national and cultural borders in the slipstream of neo-liberal globalization, or should instead be understood as a geographically and temporally bound expression of negotiations between mall developers (representatives of a global logic of capitalist accumulation) on the one hand, and local actors (architects/governments/citizens) on the other. It explores how the shopping centre adapts to new cultural contexts, and questions whether this commercial type has the capacity to disrupt or even amend the conditions that it encounters. Including more than 50 illustrations, this book considers the evolving architecture of shopping centres. It would be beneficial to academics and students across a number of areas such as architecture, urban design, cultural geography and sociology.

Ethnic Cleansing and the European Union - An Interdisciplinary Approach to Security, Memory and Ethnography (Hardcover): L.... Ethnic Cleansing and the European Union - An Interdisciplinary Approach to Security, Memory and Ethnography (Hardcover)
L. Tesser
R1,980 Discovery Miles 19 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An enlarged European Union introduces new opportunities for ethnic remixing, bringing fears over potential minority return and even sovereignty in some cases. How does a border-effacing EU impact territory subject to ethnic cleansing? Why is potential minority return considered a security threat in some recently 'unmixed' areas, but not others?
"Ethnic Cleansing and the European Union" offers the first multi-case analysis of ethnic remixing in an expanding EU. The book's two major theoretical innovations include an explanatory frame elucidating variation in Central Europe, the Balkans, and Cyprus, and an analysis of repeated minority removal for conflict resolution purposes in the early- to mid-twentieth century. Tesser argues that the Western-dominated international community's earlier endorsement of separation brought potent after-effects: incentives for ethnic cleansing and the politics of ethnic remixing in an enlarging EU.
This book will appeal to all scholars interested in the European Union, Nationalism, Forced Migration Studies, and International Relations.

Mediated Identities in the Futures of Place: Emerging Practices and Spatial Cultures (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Lakshmi Priya... Mediated Identities in the Futures of Place: Emerging Practices and Spatial Cultures (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Lakshmi Priya Rajendran, NezHapi Delle Odeleye
R2,909 Discovery Miles 29 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the emerging problems and opportunities that are posed by media innovations, spatial typologies, and cultural trends in (re)shaping identities within the fast-changing milieus of the early 21st Century. Addressing a range of social and spatial scales and using a phenomenological frame of reference, the book draws on the works of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Don Hide to bridge the seemingly disparate, yet related theoretical perspectives across a number of disciplines. Various perspectives are put forward from media, human geography, cultural studies, technologies, urban design and architecture etc. and looked at thematically from networked culture and digital interface (and other) perspectives. The book probes the ways in which new digital media trends affect how and what we communicate, and how they drive and reshape our everyday practices. This mediatization of space, with fast evolving communication platforms and applications of digital representations, offers challenges to our notions of space, identity and culture and the book explores the diverse yet connected levels of technology and people interaction.

Diversity and Local Contexts - Urban Space, Borders, and Migration (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Jerome Krase, Zdenek Uherek Diversity and Local Contexts - Urban Space, Borders, and Migration (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Jerome Krase, Zdenek Uherek
R2,728 Discovery Miles 27 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book, an international team of urban anthropologists, sociologists, and ethnographers argue that politics, intergroup relations, and development in cities cannot be understood without reference to the local contexts that endow each city with specific characteristics. They also show how local urban economic, social, and cultural lives are influenced by powerful external forces. In these 'glocal' regards, the authors demonstrate how city images, borders, and social processes such as migration, tourism, and local development must be seen in broader contexts. The contributors examine them through the lenses of foreign investment, migration, and history. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach and employs a range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. Contributors' multidisciplinary expertise and insights about spaces and places are applied to nine unique cities across three continents.

A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia - Planning, Environmental Management, and Landscape Change (Hardcover, 1st ed.... A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia - Planning, Environmental Management, and Landscape Change (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Laura E. Taylor, Patrick T Hurley
R4,215 R3,646 Discovery Miles 36 460 Save R569 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is about politics and planning outside of cities, where urban political economy and planning theories do not account for the resilience of places that are no longer rural and where local communities work hard to keep from ever becoming urban. By examining exurbia as a type of place that is no longer simply rural or only tied to the economies of global resources (e.g., mining, forestry, and agriculture), we explore how changing landscapes are planned and designed not to be urban, that is, to look, function, and feel different from cities and suburbs in spite of new home development and real estate speculation. The book's authors contend that exurbia is defined by the persistence of rural economies, the conservation of rural character, and protection of natural ecological systems, all of which are critical components of the contentious local politics that seek to limit growth. Comparative political ecology is used as an organizing concept throughout the book to describe the nature of exurban areas in the U.S. and Australia, although exurbs are common to many countries. The essays each describe distinctive case studies, with each chapter using the key concepts of competing rural capitalisms and uneven environmental management to describe the politics of exurban change. This systematic analysis makes the processes of exurban change easier to see and understand. Based on these case studies, seven characteristics of exurban places are identified: rural character, access, local economic change, ideologies of nature, changes in land management, coalition-building, and land-use planning. This book will be of interest to those who study planning, conservation, and land development issues, especially in areas of high natural amenity or environmental value. There is no political ecology book quite like this-neither one solely focused on cases from the developed world (in this case the United States and Australia), nor one that specifically harnesses different case studies from multiple areas to develop a central organizing perspective of landscape change.

Neoliberal Urbanism and its Contestations - Crossing Theoretical Boundaries (Hardcover): M. Mayer, Jenny Kunkel Neoliberal Urbanism and its Contestations - Crossing Theoretical Boundaries (Hardcover)
M. Mayer, Jenny Kunkel
R3,374 Discovery Miles 33 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume brings a plurality of approaches, from political economic to Foucauldian, to bear on the broad range of contestations around urban neoliberalism. The contributors explore the range of resistant agency and reveal the heterogeneity of intersecting power relations that movements mobilize against.

Employment Location in Cities and Regions - Models and Applications (Hardcover, 2013 ed.): Francesca Pagliara, Michiel De Bok,... Employment Location in Cities and Regions - Models and Applications (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Francesca Pagliara, Michiel De Bok, David Simmonds, Alan Wilson
R4,763 R3,618 Discovery Miles 36 180 Save R1,145 (24%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The focus of this book is the modeling of the location of economic activities, measured in terms of employment, in land-use and transportation systems. These measures are key inputs to models at intra-urban scales of the flows of persons and goods for both urban and transport planning. The models described here are either components of comprehensive models or specialist studies. Economic activities can be defined in terms of jobs or private-sector firms and public service organisations. Different levels of aggregation are used both in terms of organisational and geographical dimensions. In the case of firms and public organizations, a distinction can be made between the organizations themselves and corresponding establishments. For urban simulation models, it is the location of establishments that is important. At the more coarse levels of aggregation that are usually used in comprehensive models, firms and organizations are aggregated into sectors.

Tourism in Global Society - Place, Culture, Consumption (Hardcover, New): Kevin Meethan Tourism in Global Society - Place, Culture, Consumption (Hardcover, New)
Kevin Meethan
R4,918 Discovery Miles 49 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There is a wealth of scholarship on tourism from a variety of different disciplines, but few attempts to synthesize its broad themes into a coherent analytical framework. This book addresses this problem by analyzing tourism in light of contemporary social theory. By focusing on tourism in terms of consumption, commodification, and the political and cultural economy, the relationships between tourism, globalization, people, and place are explored in an empirically grounded but theoretically informed analysis.

Urbanization and Its Impact in Contemporary China (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Peilin Li Urbanization and Its Impact in Contemporary China (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Peilin Li
R2,268 Discovery Miles 22 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book addresses a wide range of social issues in connection with urbanization, which is providing new momentum for China's economic restructuring and social progress, including the educational gap; the middle class in urbanization; consumption; division of labor; and social integration. All chapters are based on updated nation-wide sampling survey data. Taken together, they provide a lens for understanding various aspects of urbanization and its impacts on China's economy and society.

Swarming Landscapes - The Art of Designing For Climate Adaptation (Hardcover, 2012 ed.): Rob Roggema Swarming Landscapes - The Art of Designing For Climate Adaptation (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
Rob Roggema
R2,901 Discovery Miles 29 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book advocates a fresh approach to planning that anticipates, rather than reacts to, the changes in climate currently in process. Today's spatial planning procedures rely on historical evidence instead of preparing for factors that by definition lie in the future, yet which are relatively uncontroversial: shortages of water, sea level rise and rises in average temperatures being but three examples. Arguing for more flexibility, the contributors view 'complexity' as the key to transforming the way we plan in order to better equip us to face uncertainties about our future environment.

The Ecological Modernisation Reader - Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice (Paperback): Arthur P.J. Mol, David A.... The Ecological Modernisation Reader - Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
Arthur P.J. Mol, David A. Sonnenfeld, Gert Spaargaren
R1,809 Discovery Miles 18 090 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Environmental reform by governmental, intergovernmental agencies, private firms and industries and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is a worldwide phenomenon. This definitive collection showcases an introduction to Ecological Modernisation Theory; state-of-the-art review essays by key international scholars and a selection of the key articles from a quarter-century of social science scholarship. It is aimed at students, researchers and policymakers interested in a deep understanding of contemporary environmental issues

A Research Agenda for Cities (Hardcover): John R. Short A Research Agenda for Cities (Hardcover)
John R. Short
R3,663 Discovery Miles 36 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Nowadays, the majority of people live in cities, and these cities constitute the heart of the global political economy. In a time of planetary urbanization, this contemporary and visionary book provides a critical assessment of the key areas of urban scholarship across the globe. Following a comprehensive introduction, 11 stimulating chapters from expert contributors examine a range of important topics, including: sustainability, gentrification, feminist interventions, globalization, security and food issues. Ensuring a global coverage, a further eight regionally informed expert reviews examine recent urban research in sub-Saharan Africa, South America, South and East Asia, the Middle East, Australia and Eastern Europe. These chapters show how urban growth and resurgence unfolds in different ways across the different regions of the world. This Research Agenda provides polemical assessments of current work and signposts for future research. This book will be an indispensable and accessible guide to students and scholars working in urban studies, urban geography, urban sociology, urban planning and comparative urbanization. City leaders will also find the case studies enlightening and informative. Contributors include: J. Beaverstock, L. Benton-Short, G. Brown, J. Farrer, R. Freestone, O. Golubchikov, A. Gorman-Murray, B. Hanlon, P. Hubbard, T. Hutton, A. Kanna, M. Keeley, Y.-H. Kim, L. Kong, L. Martinez, C.J. Nash, L. Peake, E. Pieterse, B. Randolph, X. Ren, J.R. Short, T.J. Vicino, A. Wheeler, D.M. Wood, O. Woods, E. Wyly

Using Space: Critical Geographies of Drugs and Alcohol (Paperback): Christopher M.  Moreno, Robert Wilton Using Space: Critical Geographies of Drugs and Alcohol (Paperback)
Christopher M. Moreno, Robert Wilton
R1,136 Discovery Miles 11 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The consumption of drugs and alcohol, and the pleasures and problems arising from this consumption, can be understood as embedded and constitutive elements of social, family, and recreational life. At the same time, they are key sites of intervention for a broad array of state and non-state actors focused on regulation, treatment, and recovery. This edited volume showcases current research on the complex social and cultural geographies of drugs and alcohol. Taking an avowedly critical approach, the authors draw from a variety of theoretical traditions to explore the socially and spatially embedded nature of alcohol and drug consumption, regulation and treatment, and the ways in which these give rise to particular lived experiences, while foreclosing on others. Together, the chapters question taken-for-granted assumptions about the nature of, and motivations for, drug and alcohol use, and pay direct attention to both the intended and unintended consequences of regulation and treatment initiatives. Despite and, in part, because of this critical stance, chapters hold immediate implications for drug and alcohol policy and public health interventions. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social and Cultural Geography.

Border Politics - Defining Spaces of Governance and Forms of Transgressions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Cengiz Gunay, Nina Witjes Border Politics - Defining Spaces of Governance and Forms of Transgressions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Cengiz Gunay, Nina Witjes
R4,184 Discovery Miles 41 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the light of mass migration, the rise of nationalism and the resurgence of global terrorism, this timely volume brings the debate on border protection, security and control to the centre stage of international relations research. Rather than analysing borders as mere lines of territorial demarcation in a geopolitical sense, it sheds new light on their changing role in defining and negotiating identity, authority, security, and social and economic differences. Bringing together innovative and interdisciplinary perspectives, the book examines the nexus of authority, society, technology and culture, while also providing in-depth analyses of current international conflicts. Regional case studies comprise the Ukraine crisis, Nagorno-Karabakh, the emergence of new territorial entities such as ISIS, and maritime disputes in the South China Sea, as well as the contestation and re-construction of borders in the context of transnational movements. Bringing together theoretical, empirical and conceptual contributions by international scholars, this Yearbook of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs offers novel perspectives on hotly debated issues in contemporary politics, and will be of interest to researchers, graduate students and political decision makers alike.

Residential Location Choice - Models and Applications (Hardcover, 2010 ed.): Francesca Pagliara, John Preston, David Simmonds Residential Location Choice - Models and Applications (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)
Francesca Pagliara, John Preston, David Simmonds
R3,020 Discovery Miles 30 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The effective planning of residential location choices is one of the great challenges of contemporary societies and requires forecasting capabilities and the consideration of complex interdependencies which can only be handled by complex computer models. This book presents a range of approaches used to model residential locations within the context of developing land-use and transport models. These approaches illustrate the range of choices that modellers have to make in order to represent residential choice behaviour. The models presented in this book represent the state-of-the-art and are valuable both as key building blocks for general urban models, and as representative examples of complexity science.

Participatory Sensing, Opinions and Collective Awareness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Vittorio Loreto, Muki Haklay, Andreas... Participatory Sensing, Opinions and Collective Awareness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Vittorio Loreto, Muki Haklay, Andreas Hotho, Vito D.P. Servedio, Gerd Stumme, …
R4,095 R3,769 Discovery Miles 37 690 Save R326 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book introduces and reviews recent advances in the field in a comprehensive and non-technical way by focusing on the potential of emerging citizen-science and social-computation frameworks, coupled with the latest theoretical and modeling tools developed by physicists, mathematicians, computer and social scientists to analyse, interpret and visualize complex data sets. There is overwhelming evidence that the current organisation of our economies and societies is seriously damaging biological ecosystems and human living conditions in the short term, with potentially catastrophic effects in the long term. The need to re-organise the daily activities with the greatest impact - energy consumption, transport, housing - towards a more efficient and sustainable development model has recently been raised in the public debate on several global, environmental issues. Above all, this requires the mismatch between global, societal and individual needs to be addressed. Recent advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can trigger important transitions at the individual and collective level to achieve this aim. Based on the findings of the collaborative research network EveryAware the following developments among the emerging ICT technologies are discussed in depth in this volume: * Participatory sensing - where ICT development is pushed to the level where it can support informed action at the hyperlocal scale, providing capabilities for environmental monitoring, data aggregation and mining, as well as information presentation and sharing. * Web gaming, social computing and internet-mediated collaboration - where the Web will continue to acquire the status of an infrastructure for social computing, allowing users' cognitive abilities to be coordinated in online communities, and steering the collective action towards predefined goals. * Collective awareness and decision-making - where the access to both personal and community data, collected by users, processed with suitable analysis tools, and re-presented in an appropriate format by usable communication interfaces leads to a bottom-up development of collective social strategies.

Barcelona 92 - A Legacy Case Study (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Francesc Solanellas, Alain Ferrand, Andreu Camps Barcelona 92 - A Legacy Case Study (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Francesc Solanellas, Alain Ferrand, Andreu Camps
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Barcelona 92: A Legacy Case Study examines the effects of the organisation of Barcelona's Olympic Games in 1992. Divided into five compelling chapters, the authors discuss issues concerning the definition of legacy, whilst also presenting new models of legacy management and measurement methods, and providing an in-depth examination of sporting, economic and social dimensions. This book offers the most significant studies and research on the 92 Olympics to date, presenting cutting-edge proposals for comparing different Olympic hosting cities into the future.

Contemporary China's Land Use Policy - The Link Policy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Long Cheng Contemporary China's Land Use Policy - The Link Policy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Long Cheng
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book discusses contemporary China's land use policy - the Link Policy - which calls for land consolidation and rural resettlement to achieve the goal of preserving farmland while also providing more space for urban development. Given the limited analyses and commentaries on the Link Policy in the literature, particularly in English-language articles, the book systematically presents and analyzes China's land use policy by assessing the impacts of the Link Policy on rural life and how effective the Link Policy is in achieving its objectives. It also examines how satisfied farmers are with the policy and what the contributing factors are. Drawing on a critical review of the literature, field observations and interviews with resettled farmers, the book offers insights into China's land use policy, and compares it with similar policy instruments in other countries. Presenting research findings that help readers gain a holistic understanding of the Link Policy in China and its implications, the book is a valuable resource for professionals in other developing countries that are facing similar challenges in terms of balancing urban development and farmland conservation.

Fair Play - A Daniel Dorling Reader on Social Justice (Book, New): Fair Play - A Daniel Dorling Reader on Social Justice (Book, New)
R3,150 Discovery Miles 31 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Fair Play" brings together a selection of Danny Dorling's highly influential writings examining inequality and social justice. Offering crucial insight into the popular feeling that the United Kingdom is in crisis--a feeling made manifest in last summer's riots--Dorling provides a wealth of evidence that the country is becoming more politically, socially, and economically divided despite progress in areas such as education and reduced segregation. Dorling's work covers a broad range of subjects and will be of interest to anyone concerned with where one of the world's leading democracies is headed.

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