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Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design: Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design
Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld
R6,401 Discovery Miles 64 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This ground-breaking Encyclopedia provides a nuanced overview of the key concepts of urban and regional planning and design. Embracing a broad understanding of planning and design within and beyond the professions, it examines what planners and designers can do in and for a community. Covering both classic and novel planning theories, this Encyclopedia adopts an evolutionary perspective, reflecting on the changing meanings of terms over time. Featuring over 140 contributions drawn from diverse fields, it highlights the cross-disciplinary nature of planning and design. Contributors give practical insight into the field, and advance scientific knowledge and public conversation on planning and design. The Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design will be an essential resource for students and scholars of planning, design, urban studies, and governance. It will also be highly useful for practitioners and civil servants seeking to deepen their understanding of public works, planning, and environmental policy. Key Features: Critical perspectives on core concepts and debates Reflection on how to avoid reproducing current power/knowledge relations Explores connections between fields and disciplines in planning and design Extensive cross-referencing between entries

Resource Communities - Past Legacies and Future Pathways: Kristof Van Assche, Monica Gruezmacher, Lochner Marais, Xaquin Perez... Resource Communities - Past Legacies and Future Pathways
Kristof Van Assche, Monica Gruezmacher, Lochner Marais, Xaquin Perez Sindin
R4,133 Discovery Miles 41 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides an innovative approach to understanding the governance of resource communities, by showcasing how the past and present informs the future. Resource communities have complicated relationships with the past, and this makes their relationship with the future, and the future itself, also complicated. The book digs deeply into the myriad legacies left by a history of resource extraction in a community and makes use of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives to understand the complex issues being faced by a range of different communities who are reliant on different types of resources across the world. From coal and gold mining, to fishing towns and logging communities, the book explores the legacies of boom and bust economies, social memory, trauma and identity, the interactions between power and knowledge and the implications for adaptive governance. Balancing conceptual and theoretical understandings with empirical and practical knowledge of resource communities, natural resource use and social- ecological relationships, the book argues that solutions for individual communities need to be embraced in the community and not just in the perspectives of visiting experts. Linking past, present and futures of resource communities in a new way, the book concludes by providing practical recommendations for breaking open dependencies on the past, including deepening awareness of the social, economic and environmental contexts, establishing strong governance and developing community strategies, plans and policies for the future. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource governance and management, extractive industries, environmental policy, community planning and development, environmental geography and sustainable development, as well as policymakers involved in supporting community development in natural resource-dependent communities across the world.

Resource Communities - Past Legacies and Future Pathways: Kristof Van Assche, Monica Gruezmacher, Lochner Marais, Xaquin Perez... Resource Communities - Past Legacies and Future Pathways
Kristof Van Assche, Monica Gruezmacher, Lochner Marais, Xaquin Perez Sindin
R1,180 Discovery Miles 11 800 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book provides an innovative approach to understanding the governance of resource communities, by showcasing how the past and present informs the future. Resource communities have complicated relationships with the past, and this makes their relationship with the future, and the future itself, also complicated. The book digs deeply into the myriad legacies left by a history of resource extraction in a community and makes use of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives to understand the complex issues being faced by a range of different communities who are reliant on different types of resources across the world. From coal and gold mining, to fishing towns and logging communities, the book explores the legacies of boom and bust economies, social memory, trauma and identity, the interactions between power and knowledge and the implications for adaptive governance. Balancing conceptual and theoretical understandings with empirical and practical knowledge of resource communities, natural resource use and social- ecological relationships, the book argues that solutions for individual communities need to be embraced in the community and not just in the perspectives of visiting experts. Linking past, present and futures of resource communities in a new way, the book concludes by providing practical recommendations for breaking open dependencies on the past, including deepening awareness of the social, economic and environmental contexts, establishing strong governance and developing community strategies, plans and policies for the future. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource governance and management, extractive industries, environmental policy, community planning and development, environmental geography and sustainable development, as well as policymakers involved in supporting community development in natural resource-dependent communities across the world.

Evolutionary Governance Theory - Theory and Applications (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015): Raoul... Evolutionary Governance Theory - Theory and Applications (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015)
Raoul Beunen, Kristof Van Assche, Martijn Duineveld
R4,016 Discovery Miles 40 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume presents empirical studies and theoretical reflections on Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT), its most important concepts and their interrelations. As a novel theory of governance, EGT understands governance as radically evolutionary, which implies that all elements of governance are subject to evolution, that these elements co-evolve and that many of them are the product of governance itself. Through this book we learn how communities understand themselves and their environment and why they create the complex structures and processes we analyze as governance paths. Authors from different disciplines develop the EGT framework further and apply it to a wide rage networks of power, governance of agricultural resources etc. The contributors also reflect on the possibilities and limitations of steering, intervention, management and development in a world continuously in flux. It bridges the gap between more fundamental and philosophical accounts of the social sciences and applied studies, offering theoretical advancements as well as practical recommendations.

Local Cosmopolitanism - Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places (Paperback, 2015 ed.): Kristof Van Assche, Petruta Teampau Local Cosmopolitanism - Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
Kristof Van Assche, Petruta Teampau
R1,988 Discovery Miles 19 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a unique perspective on cosmopolitanism, examining the ways it is constructed and reconstructed on the small scale in an ongoing process of matching the local with the global, a process entailing mutual transformation. Based on a wide range of literatures and a series of case studies, it analyzes the different versions and functions of cosmopolitanism and points to the need to critically re-examine current conceptions of globalization. The book first illustrates the interplay between networks and narratives in the construction of cosmopolitan communities in three specific cities: Trieste, Odessa and Tbilisi. Each has a past more cosmopolitan than the present and each uses that cosmopolitan past to guide them towards the future. Next, the book focuses on narrative dynamics by isolating several discourses on the cosmopolitan place and figure in European cultural history. It then goes on to detail the internal representations and local functions of larger wholes in smaller communities, shedding a new light on issues of inter- disciplinary interest: self- governance, participation, local knowledge, social memory, scale, planning and development. Of interest to political scientists, anthropologists, economists, geographers and philosophers, this book offers an insightful contribution to theories of globalization and global/ local interaction, bringing the local discursive mechanics into sharper focus and also emphasizing the semi- autonomous character of narrative constructions of self and community in a larger world.

Evolutionary Governance Theory - An Introduction (Paperback, 2014 ed.): Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld Evolutionary Governance Theory - An Introduction (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld
R1,835 Discovery Miles 18 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This short booksoffers the reader a remarkable new perspective on the way markets, laws and societies evolve together. It can be of use to anyone interested in development, market and public sector reform, public administration, politics & law. Based on a wide variety of case studies on three continents and a variety of conceptual sources, the authors develop a theory that clarifies the nature and functioning of dependencies that mark governance evolutions. This in turn delineates in an entirely new manner the spaces open for policy experiment. As such, it offers a new mapping of the middle ground between libertarianism and social engineering. Theoretically, the approach draws on a wide array of sources: institutional & development economics, systems theories, post-structuralism, actor- network theories, planning theory and legal studies."

The Bio-Politics of the Danube Delta - Nature, History, Policies (Hardcover): Constantin Iordachi, Kristof Van Assche The Bio-Politics of the Danube Delta - Nature, History, Policies (Hardcover)
Constantin Iordachi, Kristof Van Assche; Contributions by Denie Augustijn, Sandra Bell, Raoul Beunen, …
R5,313 Discovery Miles 53 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Danube Delta is one of the largest and most valuable wetlands in Europe. Throughout history it has been a contested area and subject to conflicting claims and policies from the Ottoman Empire, Russia, Romania, the Soviet Union, and Ukraine. In this volume Constantin Iordachi and Kirstof Van Assche take an interdisciplinary look at the history, policy, and culture of the development and politics of the Danube Delta.

Lakeshore Living - Designing Lake Places and Communities in the Footprints of Environmental Writers (Paperback): Paul J.... Lakeshore Living - Designing Lake Places and Communities in the Footprints of Environmental Writers (Paperback)
Paul J. Radomski, Kristof Van Assche
R819 Discovery Miles 8 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this remarkable and remarkably accessible synthesis of ecology, landscape design, and social sciences, the authors present an approach to lakeshore living that addresses the need to create rich, sustainable places and communities on the water, where both the loon and the family find a place, and where the cabin can be handed down with integrity to the grandchildren. Fragile shorelands require care, and that caring comes from knowledge, experience, and an environmental ethic.

Radomski and Van Assche argue that an environmentally sensitive lakeshore place and community design is the way forward. While many factors affect the quality of lakes and lakeshore living, property owners and local communities do not have to wait until policies are perfect: the design approach advocated here can be applied in any place people living lakeside can get together and collaborate. The approach presented here is proactive and context sensitive: new designs have to fit the existing ecological, cultural, and policy landscapes. Development is always re-development in this sense. The authors introduce the reader step-by-step to this approach and carefully discuss leverage points that can be helpful in implementation and system change.

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