Disruptive Urbanism examines how different forms and modes of the so called "sharing economy" are manifesting in cities and regions throughout the world, and how policy makers are responding to these disruptions. The emergence of the so called "sharing economy" and the "disruptive technologies" have profound implications for urban policy and governance. Initial expectations that "sharing" of homes, offices or vehicles could solve urban problems such as congestion or housing affordability have given way to concerns over job precarity, neighbourhood transformation, and the growing power of platforms in disrupting urban governance and regulation. Contributors to this volume canvas these issues, examining how the "sharing economy" is manifesting in urban areas, the implications of this for urban living, and how policy makers are responding to these changes. Implications for urban research, policy, and practice are highlighted through chapters which address forms of urban "sharing" across housing, transport, work, and food and wider processes of globalisation and neoliberalism as they disrupt cities and urban policy making. Disruptive Urbanism will be of great interest to scholars of urban planning, urban governance, the sharing economy, and housing studies. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Urban Policy and Research.

Directly elected mayors are political leaders who are selected directly by citizens and head multi-functional local government authorities. This book examines the contexts, features and debates around this model of leadership, and how in practice political leadership is exercised through it. The book draws on examples from Europe, the US, and Australasia to examine the impacts, practices, and debates of mayoral leadership in different cities and countries. Themes that recur throughout include the formal and informal powers that mayors exercise, their relationships with other actors in governance - both inside municipalities and in broader governance networks - and the advantages and disadvantages of the mayoral model. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches are used to build a picture of views of and on directly elected mayors in different contexts from across the globe. This book will be a valuable resource for those studying or researching public policy, public management, urban studies, politics, law, and planning.

This book presents and discusses a strategy which includes four approaches to dealing with the risk of sea-level rise and other water hazards. It also offers opportunities for cities to explore urban extensions such as marine estates, aquatic food production systems, new sea related industries, maritime transport developments, new oceanic tourist attractions, and the designation of additional coastal ecological zones. The urban interface between Sea and Cities generates, therefore, both burning issues and valuable opportunities and raises the question of whether it is possible to solve the former by exploiting the latter?

Directly elected mayors are political leaders who are selected directly by citizens and head multi-functional local government authorities. This book examines the contexts, features and debates around this model of leadership, and how in practice political leadership is exercised through it. The book draws on examples from Europe, the US, and Australasia to examine the impacts, practices, and debates of mayoral leadership in different cities and countries. Themes that recur throughout include the formal and informal powers that mayors exercise, their relationships with other actors in governance - both inside municipalities and in broader governance networks - and the advantages and disadvantages of the mayoral model. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches are used to build a picture of views of and on directly elected mayors in different contexts from across the globe. This book will be a valuable resource for those studying or researching public policy, public management, urban studies, politics, law, and planning.

Genetic epidemiology is a very rapidly developing field that has acquired a central role in modern biomedical science. Driven by fast-paced technological advances arising from the sequencing of the human genome, and the rolling-out of these technologies into population-based studies, remarkable advances have occurred recently in our ability to detect genetic polymorphisms which contribute to susceptibility to complex human disease. This new science has begun to transform epidemiology, clinical medicine, and public health. Epidemiologists and public health students who in the past only had to learn a minimum of genetics are now required to acquire more detailed knowledge of the field, yet until now there has been no text set at the appropriate introductory level. This book brings together leading international experts to provide an introduction to genetic epidemiology that begins with a primer in human molecular genetics (requiring no prior specialist knowledge) and then examines all the standard methods in population genetics and genetic epidemiology required for an adequate grounding in the field. Among much else, the book contains discussion of the public health aspects of the new genetics, and of epidemiological methods for studying genes and environmental factors in complex diseases. Supplemented by a glossary and in-chapter guides to further reading, this introduction to genetic epidemiology will be widely welcomed by teachers and students on a burgeoning number of courses across the world.

South East Queensland has been one of the fastest growing regions of Australia, both in terms of its rapidly growing population and an ever-expanding built environment. It is also on eof the most vulnerable regions likely to suffer from the adverse impacts of climate change, especially increased flooding, storms, coastal erosion and drought. Responding to Climate Change: Lessons from an Australian Hotspot brings together the results of cutting edge research from members of the Griffith Climate Change Response Program, showing how to overcome barriers to adaptation. The authors treat climate change adaptation as a cross-cutting, multi-level governance policy challenge extending across human settlements, infrastructure, ecosystems, water management, primary industries, emergency management and human health.

Dean Burton is not an author per se, but a man who felt compelled to tell his story. After meeting an intriguing woman on the Internet, who would later become his wife, he began a relationship that started out with promise and slowly turned into a nightmarish dysfunctional dance. Over time, his wife's emotional outbursts and abusive behavior led him to discover that she most likely suffered from borderline personality disorder, or BPD. His reasons for staying in such a hopeless relationship would eventually lead him to discover his own emotional deficiencies. DREAMS DESCENDING...MY JOURNEY TO THE BORDERLINE AND BACK is an honest, albeit harrowing chronicle of an extremely chaotic period in the author's life, but ultimately a story of survival and self-discovery. Burton's memoir was partially compiled from a collection of journal entries, emails, blogs, voice messages, and tape recordings, as well as his own remembrances. "Dean Paul Burton has encapsulated-in all its pain, confusion and horror-the experiences of a partner to someone with borderline personality disorder." Lynn Melville Author, Breaking Free from Boomerang Love

If you find media at all levels fascinating, you'll enjoy Tales from the Newsrooms: An Offbeat Look, by Paul Burton. Displaying his trademark feistiness, Paul shares many newsroom stories from his years as an editor and reporter in the U.S. Northeast at the local, regional and international levels. He shares examples of bad writing he has encountered, employees of all kinds and how he has handled them, and some of the zaniest readers, sources and other people imaginable. Non-journalists will also appreciate Paul's accounts of personnel moves. Paul shares memories of his interviews with major newsmakers, and his dealings with editors and writers. He recalls his less brilliant moments, too. After reading Tales from the Newsrooms: An Offbeat Look, you'll see journalism in a completely different light.

About the Author

Paul Burton is an Occupational Therapist with over 15 years experience of working in the field of mental health. Paul has worked in a community mental health team, a primary care mental health team, a rehabilitation unit and an inpatient department. He has also worked as a family therapy practitioner.

Paul studied for his Occupational Therapy degree at Exeter University. Paul has always been a keen advocate of therapeutic group work and has not only delivered but has also constructed groups in; Assertiveness training, Anger management, Anxiety management and coping with depression.

Paul's inspiration for this book came from some of the clients that he has worked with, by combining relevant information with practical exercises and drawings, clients can immediately start to put positive pro-active strategies into place.