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Informed Cities looks at the knowledge brokerage processes between
cities and higher education institutions, and in particular
evaluates governance mechanisms for monitoring local sustainability
and the role of research within this. The first part of the book
provides an analysis of tools for governing sustainable cities and
develops a typology of existing tools. It then considers approaches
to monitor local sustainability on a European level, focusing on a
number of key tools such as the Covenant of Mayors, Reference
Framework for Sustainable Cities, and Green Capital Award. The
second part of the book introduces an explorative application of
two tools that the author team have used in practice to monitor
local sustainability, Urban Ecosystems Europe and Local Evaluation
21, presenting and evaluating European level data collected from
local governments. The third part of the book looks deeper into a
number of case studies discussing how a working and rewarding
city-university connection can be created and nourished in an
administrative and political setting. Finally, the last part of the
book reflects on lessons learned from the application of the tools
and accompanying research process and makes recommendations for
further developing monitoring tools for urban sustainability on a
European level. This book will be essential reading for
professionals in urban and regional planning who are tasked with
monitoring the effects of sustainability policies, as well as for
graduate students in planning, environmental governance,
sustainable development and related disciplines.
Informed Cities looks at the knowledge brokerage processes between
cities and higher education institutions, and in particular
evaluates governance mechanisms for monitoring local sustainability
and the role of research within this. The first part of the book
provides an analysis of tools for governing sustainable cities and
develops a typology of existing tools. It then considers approaches
to monitor local sustainability on a European level, focusing on a
number of key tools such as the Covenant of Mayors, Reference
Framework for Sustainable Cities, and Green Capital Award. The
second part of the book introduces an explorative application of
two tools that the author team have used in practice to monitor
local sustainability, Urban Ecosystems Europe and Local Evaluation
21, presenting and evaluating European level data collected from
local governments. The third part of the book looks deeper into a
number of case studies discussing how a working and rewarding
city-university connection can be created and nourished in an
administrative and political setting. Finally, the last part of the
book reflects on lessons learned from the application of the tools
and accompanying research process and makes recommendations for
further developing monitoring tools for urban sustainability on a
European level. This book will be essential reading for
professionals in urban and regional planning who are tasked with
monitoring the effects of sustainability policies, as well as for
graduate students in planning, environmental governance,
sustainable development and related disciplines.
In Enlightenment Edinburgh, Allan Ramsay (c. 1684 1758) was a
foundationally important poet, dramatist, song collector, theatre
owner, cultural leader in art and music, and innovative
entrepreneur in many spheres from language to libraries. This
series, the result of an international research project, presents
Ramsay's complete works in a dependable scholarly edition for the
first time, thereby illuminating a body of work crucial in its own
right and essential to both the Scottish Enlightenment and the
Vernacular Revival associated with Fergusson, Burns and others.
Ramsay's pastoral comedy The Gentle Shepherd (1725; 1729) went
through over a hundred editions, was performed many hundreds of
times and inspired a wide range of visual representations and
critiques. Although it is one of the most important printed texts
in Scots literature, there has never been a scholarly edition which
does justice to its complicated genesis and to the music of its
many songs. This groundbreaking and definitive edition will be
welcomed by scholars, teachers and practitioners of literature,
drama and music, and opens up new avenues for research and
performance.
Situated in the hip foodie enclave of Sydney's Surry Hills is the
original Bourke Street Bakery, a cozy nook selling artisanal baked
goods of the highest order. The bakery's long queue of customers
waiting for their daily fix is testament to the popularity of their
utterly delicious wares, from rustic breads such as their famous
spelt sourdough to the flaky pork and fennel sausage rolls and the
most addictive sweet pastries like ginger brulee and pistachio
tart. "Bourke Street Bakery" is the ultimate baking companion with
clear and concise instructions, aimed at the novice home baker
while remaining an inspirational and technical reference for
professionals of the crust and crumb world.
N-heterocyclic carbenes have become established as efficient
ancillary ligands for homogeneous catalysis, and an increasing
number of catalytic transformations have been carried out using
transition-metal carbene complexes. This book describes the
synthesis of a broad range of heterocyclic carbene complexes of
transition metals, their fundamental reaction chemistry and their
use as catalysts in a number of reactions. Mechanistic studies have
been performed in order to gain insight into likely catalytic
cycles and the decomposition processes of the complexes. The
reductive elimination of carbenes with alkyl, aryl, acyl and
hydride groups to give the imidazolium cation was discovered, and
it was demonstrated that this reaction represents a serious mode to
catalyst deactivation for late transition metals. Some strategies
to alleviate this effect have been identified, resulting in the
development of highly active catalysts for a number of reactions.
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