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Clean, Green and Responsible? - Soundings from Down Under (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Gabriel Eweje, Ralph J. Bathurst Clean, Green and Responsible? - Soundings from Down Under (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Gabriel Eweje, Ralph J. Bathurst
R2,895 Discovery Miles 28 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

New Zealand and Australia are broadly considered to be countries in which sustainability and responsibility discourses are being pursued by governments and business alike, and in which incentives and initiatives are helping confront and overcome sustainability-related challenges. This book takes a closer look behind and beyond the marketing mantras of both Australia's and New Zealand's "clean and green" campaigns and, on the basis of representative examples and cases, critically evaluates the status quo. The book assesses the effectiveness of sustainability and responsibility models with a focus on the South Pacific and argues that the ways in which issues have been dealt with in this more closely defined geographical region are most likely a good indicator of how similar issues are (or soon will be) dealt with around the globe. As such, the book offers a rich source of cases on sustainability and responsibility in the business arena, a critical review, and an inspirational affirmation of responsible business practice.

World Heritage and Human Rights - Lessons from the Asia-Pacific and global arena (Paperback): Peter Bille Larsen World Heritage and Human Rights - Lessons from the Asia-Pacific and global arena (Paperback)
Peter Bille Larsen
R1,623 Discovery Miles 16 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The World Heritage community is currently adopting policies to mainstream human rights as part of a wider sustainability agenda. This interdisciplinary book combines a state of the art review of World Heritage policy and practice at the global level with ethnographic case studies from the Asia-Pacific region by leading scholars in the field. By joining legal reviews, anthropology and practitioner experience through in-depth case studies, it shows the diversity of human rights issues in both natural and cultural heritage sites. From site-designation to their conservation and management, the book explores the various rights issues and analyses the diverse social, cultural and legal challenges and responses at both regional and global level. Detailed case studies are included from Australia, Cambodia, China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines and Vietnam. The book will appeal to both natural and cultural heritage professionals and human rights and heritage scholars, and will serve as a useful compendium for courses use allowing students to compare, contrast and contextualize different contexts.

New Border and Citizenship Politics (Hardcover): H. Schwenken, S. Russ, Sabine Russ-Sattar New Border and Citizenship Politics (Hardcover)
H. Schwenken, S. Russ, Sabine Russ-Sattar
R2,648 R1,972 Discovery Miles 19 720 Save R676 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection examines the intersections and dynamics of bordering processes and citizenship politics in the Global North and Australia. By taking the political agency of migrants into account, it approaches the subject of borders as a genuine political and socially constructed phenomenon and transcends a state-centered perspective.

Sustainability in the Maritime Domain - Towards Ocean Governance and Beyond (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Angela Carpenter, Tafsir... Sustainability in the Maritime Domain - Towards Ocean Governance and Beyond (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Angela Carpenter, Tafsir M. Johansson, Jon A. Skinner
R4,616 Discovery Miles 46 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume explores options for a sustainable maritime domain, including maritime transportation, such as, Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP), maritime education and training, maritime traffic and advisory systems, maritime security. Other activities in the maritime domain covered in the book include small-scale fisheries and sustainable fisheries, and greening the blue economy. The book aims to provide the building blocks needed for a framework for good ocean governance; a framework that will serve through the next decade and, and hopefully, well beyond the 2030 milepost of the UN Agenda for Sustainable Development. In short, this book brings together the problems of the current world and sustainable solutions that are in the development process and will eventually materialize in the not so distant future. Additionally, the book presents a trans-disciplinary analysis of integral sustainable maritime transportation solutions and crucial issues relevant to good ocean governance that have recently been discussed at different national, regional and international fora, highlighting ongoing work to develop and support governance systems that facilitate industry requirements, and meet the needs of coastal states and indigenous peoples, of researchers, of spatial planners, and of other sectors dependent on the oceans. The book will be of interest to researchers across many disciplines, especially those that are engaged in cross-sectoral research and developments in the maritime transport sector and across the wider maritime domain. To this end, the book covers areas including natural and social sciences, geographical studies, spatial planning, maritime security and gender studies, as they relate to transport and the wider maritime sector. In addition, the book explores frameworks for sustainable ocean governance being developed under the UN's Agenda for Sustainable Development to 2030. It will also look beyond the 2030 milepost under that Agenda, and will be of use to national and international policymakers and practitioners, government actors at the EU and other regional and national levels and to researchers of ocean governance, sustainability and management, and maritime transport.

Bottleneck - Humanity's Impending Impasse (Hardcover): William R. Catton Bottleneck - Humanity's Impending Impasse (Hardcover)
William R. Catton
R917 Discovery Miles 9 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Geopolitics of Anglo-Irish Relations in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover): G.R. Sloan The Geopolitics of Anglo-Irish Relations in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
G.R. Sloan
R5,620 Discovery Miles 56 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Anglo-Irish relations in the 20th century can be described as being close but tortuous. This paradox is fused with Ireland's geographical: both isolation from Europe and proximity to the main island of the British archipelago. Using a geopolitical analysis, based on the theories of Sir Halford MacKinder, this text offers an understanding of the strategic imperatives that have driven British policy throughout the events of the 20th century. It presents a different perspective on the reality of Irish neutrality, and the importance of Northern Ireland in the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. Furthermore, using US archival material, it gives an insight into Ireland's geopolitical importance in the First World War, and her contribution to victory against the German U-boats.

Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Surajit Chakravarty, Rohit Negi Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Surajit Chakravarty, Rohit Negi
R3,382 Discovery Miles 33 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This insightful volume examines the politics and contestations around urban space in India's national capital, Delhi. Moving beyond spectacular megaprojects and sites of consumption, this book engages with ordinary space and everyday life. Sites and communities analysed in this volume reveal the processes, relations, and logics through which the city's grand plans are executed. The contributors argue that urbanization is negotiated and muddled, particularly in the spaces occupied by informal labour, resettled communities, and small-scale investors. The critical analyses in this volume shed light on the disjunctures between planning and ideology, narratives of growth and realities of immobility, and facades of modernity and the spaces and practices produced in its pursuit. The book is organized in four parts - (I) Dis/locating Bodies, (II) Claims at the Urban Frontier, (III) Informalization and Investment, and (IV) Gendered Mobility. The studies report current empirical work from a variety of sites, investigating the dynamics of capital investment, state planning and citizen response in these spaces. These studies, set in ordinary spaces in Delhi, reveal a subliminal disarray of thought and action, stemming from the impetus to make the city attractive to capital, while having to manage marginality and reorganize welfare functions. The volume provides fresh insights into the nature of urban planning and governance in an Indian megacity two decades after the neoliberal shift.

Memories on the Move - Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Monika Palmberger, Jelena Tosic Memories on the Move - Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Monika Palmberger, Jelena Tosic
R4,247 Discovery Miles 42 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Through a series of excellent essays this volume uses concrete ethnographic analyses of memory practices in different parts of the globe to offer theoretical reflections on how memory shapes and is shaped by mobility in time and space.' - Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA 'Memories on the Move is a brilliant edited volume that fills an important gap in the field of memory studies as it weaves together issues of mobility and remembering. Drawing on fine-grained ethnographical cases, it offers a rich and complex portrait of mnemonic constructions in the context of forced migration, exile and transnationalism. It is clearly a must-read for anthropologists, sociologists, historians and political scientists as well as for all scholars interested in the contemporary dynamics of memory, identity and mobility.' - David Berliner, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 'This thought-provoking volume disentangles, ethnographically, the complexity of meaning-making practices of memory/forgetting in various contexts of (im)mobility.' - Noel B. Salazar, University of Leuven, Belgium Bringing together vivid ethnographic material, this book opens up a timely conversation between memory and mobility/migration studies. It goes beyond the idea of the nation state as the primary unit of analysis to explore how people on the move use different forms and media of remembering to make sense of their lives and act as political subjects. Investigating when and by what means people on the move remember and communicate memories in the context of various forms of (im)mobility, the authors examine photographs, films, the reinhabiting of pre-exilic homes, pseudo-historical performances, transgenerational mnemonic gatherings and transnational political activism. This edited collection will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science, human geography, history and oral history.

Regional Integration in East Asia - From the Viewpoint of Spatial Economics (Hardcover): Masahisa Fujita Regional Integration in East Asia - From the Viewpoint of Spatial Economics (Hardcover)
Masahisa Fujita
R2,857 Discovery Miles 28 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With the globalization of economic activity bringing about the expansion of markets and deepening of economic interdependency beyond state-borders, a new political challenge arises: how to effectively integrate the interdependent economies into a harmonious unity through the creation of new super-state institutions? This book applies a spatial economics perspective to the understanding of the recent dynamism of the global economy, with particular focus on East Asia. In addition, it examines the prospects of regional integration in East Asia.

Epidemic and Peace, 1918 (Hardcover): Epidemic and Peace, 1918 (Hardcover)
R1,433 Discovery Miles 14 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Social Movement to Address Climate Change - Local Steps for Global Action (Hardcover, New): Danielle Endres, Leah Sprain, Tarla... Social Movement to Address Climate Change - Local Steps for Global Action (Hardcover, New)
Danielle Endres, Leah Sprain, Tarla Rai Peterson
R3,213 Discovery Miles 32 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Deniers of climate change have benefited from political strategies developed by conservative think tanks and public relations experts paid handsomely by the energy industry. With this book, environmental activists can benefit from some scholarly attention turned to their efforts. This book exhibits the best that public scholarship has to offer. Its authors utilize sophisticated rhetorical theory and criticism to uncover the inventional constraints and possibilities for participants at various sites of the Step-It-Up day of climate activism. What makes this book especially valuable is that it is not only directed to fellow communication scholars, but is written in a clear and accessible style to bring the insights of an academic field to a broader public of activists committed to building an environmental social movement." - Prof. Leah Ceccarelli, University of Washington "This is an unusually interesting volume grounded in a sustained and coordinated analysis of the Step It Up campaign. Generating a multifaceted and shared archive for analyzing the SIU campaign on global warming, the volume's multiple authors critically examine intersecting dimensions of the SIU campaign-its persuasive strategies, organizational dynamics, and political practices for everyday citizens-with an eye on implications for enhancing the larger environmental movement. Readers with a practical and theoretical interest in social and political movements will find this book engaging and leavened with heuristic value." - Professor Robert L. Ivie, Indiana University, Bloomington

Diversified Cropping Pattern and Agricultural Development - A Case Study from Malda District, India (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021):... Diversified Cropping Pattern and Agricultural Development - A Case Study from Malda District, India (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Hasibur Rahaman
R2,912 Discovery Miles 29 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines how crop diversification strategies can help to ensure sustainable agricultural development across different land-size categories, with a focus on Malda District in West Bengal, India. Using Malda as the study area, a region with nearly 4 million people, the book assesses the extent, pattern, factors and future of crop diversification and its contribution to the development of agriculture in Malda and in India as a whole. The work presents data from 1995-2015 concerning changing cropping patterns at various land-size distributions, and analyzes the information over the twenty year period to understand the link between crop diversification and agricultural development, in order to combat major agricultural issues and make suitable policy recommendations at micro (rural) and macro (urban) levels of agricultural planning. The study is a unique contribution to the field of agricultural geography, and will be of use to students and researchers, as well as government organizations, city/community planners and agriculture managers.

Constructing Transnational Political Spaces - The Multifaceted Political Activism of Mexican Migrants (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Constructing Transnational Political Spaces - The Multifaceted Political Activism of Mexican Migrants (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Stephanie Schutze
R2,715 R1,895 Discovery Miles 18 950 Save R820 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book analyzes Mexican migrant organizations in the US and their political influence in home communities in Mexico. By connecting multifaceted arenas of Mexican migrant's activism, it traces the construction of transnational political spaces. The author's ethnographic work in the state of Michoacan and in Chicago shows how these transnational arenas overcome the limits of traditional political spaces - the nation state and the local community - and bring together intertwined facets of 'the political'. The book examines how actors engage in politics within transnational spaces; it delineates the different trajectories and agendas of male and female, indigenous and non-indigenous migrant activists; it demonstrates how the local and actor-centered levels are linked to the regional or state levels as well as to the federal levels of politics; and finally, it shows how these multifaceted arenas constitute transnational spaces that have implications for politics and society in Mexico and the US alike.

The Sustainable Development Theory: A Critical Approach, Volume 2 - When Certainties Become Doubts (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021):... The Sustainable Development Theory: A Critical Approach, Volume 2 - When Certainties Become Doubts (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Ion Pohoata, Delia Elena DIACONASU, Vladimir Mihai CRUPENSCHI
R2,886 Discovery Miles 28 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the present conflictual relationship between the economy, the environment, and society. The current mainstream economic model is analysed from the perspective of the founding economists to review its suitability to tackle issues of sustainable development. The problems of redistribution and social justice are debated at length; alongside those concerning the giant state, degrowth, and a vision of sustainability that is founded on the idea of a self-regulating free market economy. Business cycle sustainability, anti-crisis therapy, technological unemployment, the natural rate of interest, and the Bruntland matrix are also examined. This book aims to present a holistic approach to sustainable development where social, ecological, and economic components are balanced. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in this topic.

Earth Observation of Ecosystem Services (Paperback): Domingo Alcaraz Segura, Carlos Marcelo Di Bella, Julieta Veronica... Earth Observation of Ecosystem Services (Paperback)
Domingo Alcaraz Segura, Carlos Marcelo Di Bella, Julieta Veronica Straschnoy
R2,467 Discovery Miles 24 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A balanced review of differing approaches based on remote sensing tools and methods to assess and monitor biodiversity, carbon and water cycles, and the energy balance of terrestrial ecosystem. Earth Observation of Ecosystem Services highlights the advantages Earth observation technologies offer for quantifying and monitoring multiple ecosystem functions and services. It provides a multidisciplinary reference that expressly covers the use of remote sensing for quantifying and monitoring multiple ecosystem services. Rather than exhaustively cover all possible ecosystem services, this book takes a global look at the most relevant remote sensing approaches to estimate key ecosystem services from satellite data. Structured in four main sections, it covers carbon cycle, biodiversity, water cycle, and energy balance. Each section contains a review of conceptual and empirical methods, techniques, and case studies linking remotely sensed data to the biophysical variables and ecosystem functions associated with key ecosystem services. The book identifies relevant issues and challenges of assessment, presents cutting-edge sensing techniques, uses globally implemented tools to quantify ecosystem functions, and presents examples of successful monitoring programs. Covering recent developments undertaken on the global and national stage from Earth observation satellite data, it includes valuable lessons and recommendations and novel ways to improve current global monitoring systems. The book delineates the use of Earth observation data so that it can be used to quantify, map, value, and manage the valuable goods and services that ecosystems provide to societies around the world.

Geology and Mineral Resources of Nigeria (Hardcover, 2009 ed.): Nuhu George Obaje Geology and Mineral Resources of Nigeria (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Nuhu George Obaje
R4,238 Discovery Miles 42 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Contains details on the geological units of Nigeria and the associated mineral resources. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 discusses the geology of the crystalline rocks and their regional distribution while the sedimentary basins constitute the subject of Part 2. Part 3 takes the mineral resources of Nigeria one on one, their geological environment, mode of occurrence, localities and where possible the reserves estimation. Thereafter, an account of the previous and current mining policies (including that of petroleum) of the Nigerian government is given and goes ahead to list some specific investment opportunities in the solid minerals sector.

Moving the Masses: Bus-Rapid Transit (BRT) Policies in Low Income Asian Cities - Case Studies from Indonesia (Hardcover, 1st... Moving the Masses: Bus-Rapid Transit (BRT) Policies in Low Income Asian Cities - Case Studies from Indonesia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Suryani Eka Wijaya, Muhammad Imran
R1,533 Discovery Miles 15 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Public transport in low-income Asian (LIA) cities fails to meet people's mobility needs, generates high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and worsens social exclusion. Following successful Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects in Bogota and Curitiba, LIA countries promoted BRT in their large to medium-sized cities. However, the political and institutional structure distinctive to LIA cities makes their implementation difficult. This book investigates policy tensions by examining the planning and attempted implementation of BRT projects, taking Bandung and Surabaya in Indonesia as case studies. It analyses BRT to understand how power and communication gaps in institutional relationships between different actors at multiple levels of governance create conflict, and concludes that top-down policies and funding mechanisms cause tension in intergovernmental relationships. It also found that BRT solutions generated socio-political tension arising from the socio-economic realities and local political dynamics that shaped city structure, mobility patterns and capacity in resolving conflicts. The superimposed BRT solution generated discursive tension because conflicting discourses were not aligned with local economic, social, and environmental issues. The book highlights the need to take into consideration the vital role of local social and political actors, institutions and planning processes as they respond to and shape policies that are imposed by higher levels.

Government Intervention and Suburban Sprawl - The Case for Market Urbanism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Michael Lewyn Government Intervention and Suburban Sprawl - The Case for Market Urbanism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Michael Lewyn
R2,071 Discovery Miles 20 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book shows how suburban sprawl is at least partially a consequence of government spending and regulation, and suggests anti-sprawl policies that can make government smaller and/or less intrusive. Thus, the book responds to the widely held view that automobile-dependent suburban development (also known as "suburban sprawl") is a natural result of the free market and of affluence, and accordingly cannot be altered without massive government regulation.

Governing Territorial Development in the Western Balkans - Challenges and Prospects of Regional Cooperation (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Governing Territorial Development in the Western Balkans - Challenges and Prospects of Regional Cooperation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Erblin Berisha, Giancarlo Cotella, Alys Solly
R4,944 Discovery Miles 49 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book offers a multifaceted overview of the evolution of spatial development, governance and planning in the Western Balkans from an institutionalist perspective. Written by experts in the field, it features various regional and national studies covering topics such as regional and spatial planning, territorial development and governance, and regional and cross-border cooperation in the Western Balkans. Offering a wealth of national, regional and local insights on territorial cooperation, development and planning, this book will appeal to scholars in regional and spatial sciences and related fields alike.

Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth - Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development across Greater... Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth - Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development across Greater Seattle (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Yonn Dierwechter
R4,913 Discovery Miles 49 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book investigates the new urban geographies of "smart" metropolitan regionalism across the Greater Seattle area and examines the relationship between smart growth planning strategies and spaces of work, home, and mobility. The book specifically explores Seattle within the wider space-economy and multi-scaled policy regime of the Puget Sound region as a whole, 'jumping up' from questions of city politics to concerns with what the book interprets as the "intercurrence" of city-regional "ordering." These theoretical terms capture the state-progressive effort to promote smarter forms of regional development but also the societal/institutional tensions and outright contradictions that such urban development invariably entails, particularly around problems of social equity. Key organizing themes in the text include: the historical path-dependencies of uneven economic and social development, particularly between Tacoma-Pierce County and Seattle-King County; current patterns of high-wage, medium-wage, and low-wage jobs; the emerging spatial and social structure of recent residential changes, especially with respect to class and race composition; and, finally, transit trends and new urban spaces associated with policy efforts to mitigate highway congestion and car-dependency. Greater Seattle, then, is mapped as a key US urban region inscribed spatially by the uneven search for a more sustainable order. Historically-sensitive, theoretically-informed and empirically topical, this book is of interest to scholars and students at all levels in regional planning, urban geography, political science, sustainability studies, urban sociology and public policy.

Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 1 - Innovations, Regional Growth and Migration (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Randall Jackson,... Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 1 - Innovations, Regional Growth and Migration (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Randall Jackson, Peter Schaeffer
R4,712 Discovery Miles 47 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume focuses on frontiers in regional research and identifies trends and future developments in the areas of innovation, regional growth and migration. It also addresses topics such as mobility, regional forecasting, and regional policy, and includes expert contributions on disasters, resilience, and sustainability. Building on recent methodological and modelling advances, as well as on extensive policy-analysis experience, top international regional scientists identify and evaluate emerging new conceptual and methodological trends and directions in regional research. This book will appeal to a wide readership, from regional scientists and economists to geographers, quantitatively oriented regional planners and other related disciplines. It offers a source of relevant information for academic researchers and policy analysts in government, and is also suitable for advanced teaching courses on regional and spatial science, economics and political science.

GPS and GNSS Technology in Geosciences (Paperback): George P. Petropoulos, Prashant K Srivastava GPS and GNSS Technology in Geosciences (Paperback)
George P. Petropoulos, Prashant K Srivastava
R3,582 Discovery Miles 35 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

GPS and GNSS Technology in Geosciences offers an interdisciplinary approach to applying advances in GPS/GNSS technology for geoscience research and practice. As GPS/GNSS signals can be used to provide useful information about the Earth's surface characteristics and land surface composition, GPS equipment and services for commercial purposes continues to grow, thus resulting in new expectations and demands. This book provides case studies for a deeper understanding of the operation and principles of widely applied approaches and the benefits of the technology in everyday research and activities.

Tourism and Regional Science - New Roads (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Soushi Suzuki, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp Tourism and Regional Science - New Roads (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Soushi Suzuki, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp
R4,921 Discovery Miles 49 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides new roads, perspectives, and a synthesis for tourism and regional science research. Tourism has become one of the most dynamic sectors in the economy and has exhibited a structurally growing importance over the past decades. In many countries the economic significance of tourism now exceeds that of traditionally strong sectors like agriculture or transportation. It is noteworthy that in recent times, tourism research has gained great momentum from the perspective of: the leisure society; the psychological tension between hard work and a more relaxed lifestyle; and the productivity-enhancing or productivity-diminishing effects of leisure, recreation, and tourism. An abundance of new literature in the field of tourism management can also be found, for instance, in the areas of hospitality management, cultural events management, destination competitiveness policy and marketing, and transportation and logistics strategies, while much attention is also being paid to the opportunities provided by digital technology for the tourism sector. In addition, in the light of the many negative externalities of a rapidly growing tourism sector, there is also an abundant literature on the environmental and sustainability effects of tourism. This book has the following objectives: to explore the interwoven connection between regional science and tourism research; to suggest promising pathways for innovative regional science research at the interface of tourism and space; and to demonstrate the need for a new perspective on the tourism and regional science nexus by means of empirical studies.

The Political Economy of Devolution in Britain from the Postwar Era to Brexit (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Nick Vlahos The Political Economy of Devolution in Britain from the Postwar Era to Brexit (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Nick Vlahos
R2,904 Discovery Miles 29 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the political economy of devolution in Britain from the postwar period to the present. It situates devolution in Britain within an understanding of the partisan recalibration of political, economic and democratic scales (or levels) of the state. The author utilizes various explanatory tools to unpack complex social, economic, spatial and political phenomena across national, regional and local scales. The book further contributes to our conceptual understanding of decentralization as a broader, comparative, phenomenon. Particular emphasis is placed on examining why decentralization and devolution occur at particular points in time, which enables the investigation into how political and fiscal powers are (re)organized at different levels of the state.

Empire of Wealth - The Epic History of American Economic Power (Paperback): John Steele Gordon Empire of Wealth - The Epic History of American Economic Power (Paperback)
John Steele Gordon
R509 R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way -- through the continued creation of staggering wealth. In this authoritative, engrossing history, John Steele Gordon captures as never before the true source of our nation's global influence: wealth and the capacity to create more of it.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

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