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This work on environmental planning focuses on open-cast mining. It
addresses the issues around open-cast mining that are central to
the context of social science debate: risk; the division of public
and private; environmental protest and politics; and new social
movements.
It is forty years since the Miners' Strike against Thatcher's
shutdown of the coal industry. The Shadow of the Mine tells the
story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of
1984-85, and what happened to mining communities after the last
pits closed. This new edition includes a Postscript looking back on
the Miners' Strike and at just transitions to clean energy and the
state of the Labour Party in the 2020s. No one personified the age
of industry more than the miners. Coal was central to the British
economy, powering its factories and railways. It carried political
weight, too. Defeat in 1984-85 foretold the death of a way of life.
Soon tens of thousands were cast onto an unforgiving labour market
or incapacity benefits. The lingering sense of abandonment in these
areas is difficult to overstate. As one former miner puts it,
people feel like 'kites without a wind'. Yet British electoral
politics revolves around the coalfield constituencies that lent
their votes to the Conservatives in 2019. Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson
draw on decades of research to chronicle these momentous changes
through the words of the people who lived through them.
In recent years there has been a great deal of discussion about the social economy and the term 'the third way' has attained a level of household recognition, especially in America and Britain. Academics and commentators have debated the usefulness of the social economy as a restraint on capitalist excesses with some arguing that the 'third way' is but a poor substitute for a welfare state. This book provides a refreshing and accessible account of real life experience in a social economy. By focusing on new evidence, this book critically analyses such themes as: *the range of academic and policy expectation that have emerged in recent years in the developed world *the policies of New Labour in Britain *the dynamics of social enterprises in Bristol, London, Middlesbrough and Glasgow. These critical assessments lead the authors to reflect in the future potential of the social economy and the possible policy changes that are necessary to maximise whatever opportunity the sector provides.
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Land Use (Hardcover)
David Rhind, Ray Hudson
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R2,469
Discovery Miles 24 690
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Originally published in 1980, this book draws together a wide range
of studies dealing with various aspects of land use in a text
specifically designed to guide students through the complexities of
the subject. It examines the history of the subject, its
techniques, applications, the models that it applies and the
frameworks within which it has been carried out. Land use remains a
central political and practical issue in contemporary society.
In common with most other advanced capitalist economies of the
Global North, the UK has experienced a decline in the manufacturing
industry and an increase in the service sector in recent decades.
At the same time, there has been a substantial manufacturing growth
in a number of countries in the Global South, especially China and
India. Why have these changes occurred? What have been their
economic and ecological consequences? How can we best understand
the way the contemporary economy functions? This book explores the
answers to these questions, proposing that the contemporary
capitalist economy is best understood as a complex socio-spatial
system of co-production involving relations between people, things
and non-human entities. It is argued that these people typically
have conflicting and competitive interests yet can come together to
resolve their differences or find ways of regulating their
conflicting interests. National states continue to have a critical
role in establishing these systems of regulation. At the same time,
many companies draw on the knowledge of their customers while
others enrol animals, insects and plants as co-producers. As a
result, the improbable processes of commodity production and
capital accumulation continue more or less routinely; with problems
and occasional crises overcome in a variety of ways. Co-produced
Economies will be of interest to students of economic geography,
political economy and economic development, and more generally to
social scientists interested in issues of the causes and
consequences of economic change. It will also be of relevance to
policy makers seeking to develop economic policies in the
increasingly volatile global economy and in the context of growing
environmental concerns.
Originally published in 1989. The international steel industry
suffered a major decline after the onset of world recession in
1973, perhaps suffering more plant closures and job losses than any
other sector. This book analyses the decline, surveying the various
factors which have contributed to it, such as changing production
strategies, changes in demand and world trade and changing regional
production trends. It goes on to examine the impact of decline on
steel-making communities, considering the various local, national
and international initiatives to assist the affected areas and the
way these initiatives have been devised and implemented. The
authors conclude that none of these policies has satisfactorily
resolved the crisis in the old steel producing areas and that a
major crisis in these areas continues. Finally they discuss the
social and political options open to these localities for the
future.
Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be
somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and have
been largely confined to the literatures of anthropology,
criminology, policing and, to an extent, political science.
However, these debates have impinged little on cognate literatures,
not least those of urban and regional studies which remain almost
entirely undisturbed by such issues. This volume aims to open up
debates across a range of cognate disciplines. The Illicit and
Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development is a
multidisciplinary volume that aims to open up these debates,
extending them empirically and questioning the dominant discussions
of governance and development that have been rooted largely or
entirely in the realm of licit and legal actors. The book
investigates these issues with reference to a variety of different
geographical contexts, including, but not limited to, places
traditionally considered to be associated with illegal activities
and extensive illicit markets, such as some regions in the
so-called Global South. The chapters consider the ways in which
these questions deeply affect the daily lives of several cities and
regions in some advanced countries. Their comparative perspectives
will demonstrate that the illicit and the illegal are an
underappreciated structural aspect of current urban and regional
governance and development across the globe. The book is an edited
collection of research-informed essays, which will primarily be of
interest to those taking advanced undergraduate and taught
postgraduate courses in human geography, urban and regional
planning and a range of social science disciplines that have an
interest in urban and regional issues and issues related to crime
and corruption.
Originally published in 1989. The international steel industry
suffered a major decline after the onset of world recession in
1973, perhaps suffering more plant closures and job losses than any
other sector. This book analyses the decline, surveying the various
factors which have contributed to it, such as changing production
strategies, changes in demand and world trade and changing regional
production trends. It goes on to examine the impact of decline on
steel-making communities, considering the various local, national
and international initiatives to assist the affected areas and the
way these initiatives have been devised and implemented. The
authors conclude that none of these policies has satisfactorily
resolved the crisis in the old steel producing areas and that a
major crisis in these areas continues. Finally they discuss the
social and political options open to these localities for the
future.
The last four decades have seen major changes in the global
economy, with the collapse of communism and the spread of
capitalism into parts of the world from which it had previously
been excluded. Beginning with a grounding in Marxian political
economy, this book explores a range of new ideas as to what
economic geography can offer as it intersects with public policy
and planning in the new globalised economy. Approaches to Economic
Geography draws together the formidable work of Ray Hudson into an
authoritative collection, offering a unique approach to the
understanding of the changing geographies of the global economy.
With chapters covering subjects ranging from uneven development to
social economy, this volume explores how a range of perspectives,
including evolutionary and institutional approaches, can further
elucidate how such economies and their geographies are reproduced.
Subsequent chapters argue that greater attention must be given to
the relationships between the economy and nature, and that more
consideration needs to be given to the growing significance of
illegal activities in the economy. The book will be of interest to
students studying economic geography as well as researchers and
policy makers that recognise the importance of the relationships
between economy and geography as we move towards a sustainable
future economy and society.
First published in 1985, Uneven Development in Southern Europe is
an essential reference in the analysis of the significant changes
that have taken place within southern Europe. The shifts within the
region's economic, political and social structures raise important
questions about the nature of uneven development, the meaning of
dependency and the political consequences of social change. These
underlying processes are reflected in debates on issues such as the
protracted process of the Mediterranean enlargement of the European
Community, the plight of 'guest workers' in northern Europe and the
competition presented by goods and produce from southern Europe.
Within the broad framework of tendencies in the movements of labour
and capital that are outlined in the introduction, successive
chapters examine the regional and national impact of labour
migration and return, evaluate the social consequences of new forms
of agricultural production or industrial investment and demonstrate
the relationships between uneven development and the growing crisis
of legitimacy of southern European states. The emphasis on detailed
case studies ensures that the key theoretical questions are
addressed with unusual precision, while individual chapters also
provide useful insights for those interested in France, Greece,
Italy, Portugal, Spain or Turkey in their own right. The book will
be of interest to students of development, economy, history and
migration.
In common with most other advanced capitalist economies of the
Global North, the UK has experienced a decline in the manufacturing
industry and an increase in the service sector in recent decades.
At the same time, there has been a substantial manufacturing growth
in a number of countries in the Global South, especially China and
India. Why have these changes occurred? What have been their
economic and ecological consequences? How can we best understand
the way the contemporary economy functions? This book explores the
answers to these questions, proposing that the contemporary
capitalist economy is best understood as a complex socio-spatial
system of co-production involving relations between people, things
and non-human entities. It is argued that these people typically
have conflicting and competitive interests yet can come together to
resolve their differences or find ways of regulating their
conflicting interests. National states continue to have a critical
role in establishing these systems of regulation. At the same time,
many companies draw on the knowledge of their customers while
others enrol animals, insects and plants as co-producers. As a
result, the improbable processes of commodity production and
capital accumulation continue more or less routinely; with problems
and occasional crises overcome in a variety of ways. Co-produced
Economies will be of interest to students of economic geography,
political economy and economic development, and more generally to
social scientists interested in issues of the causes and
consequences of economic change. It will also be of relevance to
policy makers seeking to develop economic policies in the
increasingly volatile global economy and in the context of growing
environmental concerns.
Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be
somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and have
been largely confined to the literatures of anthropology,
criminology, policing and, to an extent, political science.
However, these debates have impinged little on cognate literatures,
not least those of urban and regional studies which remain almost
entirely undisturbed by such issues. This volume aims to open up
debates across a range of cognate disciplines. The Illicit and
Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development is a
multidisciplinary volume that aims to open up these debates,
extending them empirically and questioning the dominant discussions
of governance and development that have been rooted largely or
entirely in the realm of licit and legal actors. The book
investigates these issues with reference to a variety of different
geographical contexts, including, but not limited to, places
traditionally considered to be associated with illegal activities
and extensive illicit markets, such as some regions in the
so-called Global South. The chapters consider the ways in which
these questions deeply affect the daily lives of several cities and
regions in some advanced countries. Their comparative perspectives
will demonstrate that the illicit and the illegal are an
underappreciated structural aspect of current urban and regional
governance and development across the globe. The book is an edited
collection of research-informed essays, which will primarily be of
interest to those taking advanced undergraduate and taught
postgraduate courses in human geography, urban and regional
planning and a range of social science disciplines that have an
interest in urban and regional issues and issues related to crime
and corruption.
The deepening social and territorial divisions within Europe are
examined in this comprehensive and authoritative book. Using a
global perspective, the contributors argue that social and
territorial cleavages are inextricably linked, and that only a
detailed examination of economic, political and geographical
differences can lead to a clearer understanding of the social
tensions and inequalities that exist across Europe. Topics covered
include: gender; age; social integration; citizenship; and
migration and race in Europe's complex and changing territorial
system.
Drawing upon 25 years of original research, Production, Places and
Environment provides a unique combination of rich, varied and
theoretically informed case studies, along with more general
analyses of processes and changing theoretical and methodological
perspectives in economic geography that are informed by original
empirical research. Through a huge range of his own groundbreaking
case material the author explores such essential factors as space,
production, social and political concerns, and environmental
issues, being careful to ground the more complex theory in the more
general tendencies in economic geography and the social sciences.
Drawing upon 25 years of original research, Production, Places and
Environment provides a unique combination of rich, varied and
theoretically informed case studies, along with more general
analyses of processes and changing theoretical and methodological
perspectives in economic geography that are informed by original
empirical research.Through a huge range of his own groundbreaking
case material the author explores such essential factors as space,
production, social and political concerns, and environmental
issues, being careful to ground the more complex theory in the more
general tendencies in economic geography and the social sciences.
In recent years there has been a great deal of discussion about the social economy and the term 'the third way' has attained a level of household recognition, especially in America and Britain. Academics and commentators have debated the usefulness of the social economy as a restraint on capitalist excesses with some arguing that the 'third way' is but a poor substitute for a welfare state. This book provides a refreshing and accessible account of real life experience in a social economy. By focusing on new evidence, this book critically analyses such themes as: *the range of academic and policy expectation that have emerged in recent years in the developed world *the policies of New Labour in Britain *the dynamics of social enterprises in Bristol, London, Middlesbrough and Glasgow. These critical assessments lead the authors to reflect in the future potential of the social economy and the possible policy changes that are necessary to maximise whatever opportunity the sector provides.
Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She
was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday
morning in June 1942 when the Japanese military invaded Attu Island
and Etta became a prisoner of war. Etta and her sister moved to the
Territory of Alaska in 1922. She planned to stay only one year as a
vacation, but this 40 something year old nurse from back east met
Foster Jones and fell in love. They married and for nearly twenty
years they lived, worked and taught in remote Athabascan, Alutiiq,
Yup’ik and Aleut villages where they were the only outsiders.
Their last assignment was Attu. After the invasion, Etta became a
prisoner of war and spent 39 months in Japanese POW sites located
in Yokohama and Totsuka. She was the first female Caucasian taken
prisoner by a foreign enemy on the North American Continent since
the War of 1812, and she was the first American female released by
the Japanese at the end of World War II. Using descriptive letters
that she penned herself, her unpublished manuscript, historical
documents and personal interviews with key people who were involved
with events as they happened, her extraordinary story is told for
the first time in this book.
The last four decades have seen major changes in the global
economy, with the collapse of communism and the spread of
capitalism into parts of the world from which it had previously
been excluded. Beginning with a grounding in Marxian political
economy, this book explores a range of new ideas as to what
economic geography can offer as it intersects with public policy
and planning in the new globalised economy. Approaches to Economic
Geography draws together the formidable work of Ray Hudson into an
authoritative collection, offering a unique approach to the
understanding of the changing geographies of the global economy.
With chapters covering subjects ranging from uneven development to
social economy, this volume explores how a range of perspectives,
including evolutionary and institutional approaches, can further
elucidate how such economies and their geographies are reproduced.
Subsequent chapters argue that greater attention must be given to
the relationships between the economy and nature, and that more
consideration needs to be given to the growing significance of
illegal activities in the economy. The book will be of interest to
students studying economic geography as well as researchers and
policy makers that recognise the importance of the relationships
between economy and geography as we move towards a sustainable
future economy and society. Winner of the Regional Studies
Association Best Book Award 2017.
This book is the product of four years of collaborative work within
the framework of the European Science Foundation's Regional and
Urban Restructuring in Europe (RURE) programme. With one exception,
all of the chapters have been prepared by participants in RURE -
the exception being that commissioned from Conti and Enrietti on
Fiat and Italy to provide a fuller coverage of changes in the main
automobile producing companies and countries of Europe. A - perhaps
the - central theme around which the RURE programme was conceived
is that the restructuring of the production system lies at the
heart of the changing map of Europe. Equally, it continues to be
the case that the automobile industry lies at the cutting edge of
the search for viable new models of production. Some eighty years
ago the automobile industry occupied a pivotal position in the
transition from craft to mass production - indeed "Fordism" came to
denote not just a particular micro-economic model of production
organisation in the factory but a macro-scale model of economic
development, characterized by a particular pattern of relations
between mass production, mass consumption and national state
regulation. From the late 1960s, however, it became increasingly
clear that Fordism as a macro-scale model of advanced capitalist
development was reaching its limits.
No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The
Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday - and
what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed.
Coal was central to the British economy, powering its factories and
railways. It carried political weight, too. In the eighties the
miners risked everything in a year-long strike against Thatcher's
shutdowns. Defeat foretold the death of their industry. Tens of
thousands were cast onto the labour market with a minimum amount of
advice and support. Yet British politics all of a sudden revolves
around the coalfield constituencies that lent their votes to Boris
Johnson's Conservatives in 2019. Even in the Welsh Valleys, where
the 'red wall' still stands, support for the Labour Party has
halved in a generation. Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson draw on decades
of research to chronicle these momentous changes through the words
of the people who lived through them.
Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She
was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday
morning in June 1942 when the Japanese military invaded Attu Island
and Etta became a prisoner of war. Etta and her sister moved to the
Territory of Alaska in 1922. She planned to stay only one year as a
vacation, but this 40 something year old nurse from back east met
Foster Jones and fell in love. They married and for nearly twenty
years they lived, worked and taught in remote Athabascan, Alutiiq,
Yup’ik and Aleut villages where they were the only outsiders.
Their last assignment was Attu. After the invasion, Etta became a
prisoner of war and spent 39 months in Japanese POW sites located
in Yokohama and Totsuka. She was the first female Caucasian taken
prisoner by a foreign enemy on the North American Continent since
the War of 1812, and she was the first American female released by
the Japanese at the end of World War II. Using descriptive letters
that she penned herself, her unpublished manuscript, historical
documents and personal interviews with key people who were involved
with events as they happened, her extraordinary story is told for
the first time in this book.
In common with most other advanced capitalist economies of the
Global North, the UK has experienced a decline in the manufacturing
industry and an increase in the service sector in recent decades.
At the same time, there has been a substantial manufacturing growth
in a number of countries in the Global South, especially China and
India. Why have these changes occurred? What have been their
economic and ecological consequences? How can we best understand
the way the contemporary economy functions? This book explores the
answers to these questions, proposing that the contemporary
capitalist economy is best understood as a complex socio-spatial
system of co-production involving relations between people, things
and non-human entities. It is argued that these people typically
have conflicting and competitive interests yet can come together to
resolve their differences or find ways of regulating their
conflicting interests. National states continue to have a critical
role in establishing these systems of regulation. At the same time,
many companies draw on the knowledge of their customers while
others enrol animals, insects and plants as co-producers. As a
result, the improbable processes of commodity production and
capital accumulation continue more or less routinely; with problems
and occasional crises overcome in a variety of ways. Co-produced
Economies will be of interest to students of economic geography,
political economy and economic development, and more generally to
social scientists interested in issues of the causes and
consequences of economic change. It will also be of relevance to
policy makers seeking to develop economic policies in the
increasingly volatile global economy and in the context of growing
environmental concerns.
Along a thousand-mile chain of treeless and windswept islands,
Unalaska is perched at the end of the world, or, as some prefer to
say, the beginning. In 1964, Ray Hudson, 22, landed in Unalaska
village with a brand-new college degree, eager to teach. The Aleuts
had seen many outsiders who had come but seldom stayed more than a
year. Yet Hudson was no short-timer. Captivated by Unalaska and the
history and traditions of its enduring people, he stayed. As the
years passed--one, then five, ten, then twenty--he was embraced by
his Aleut neighbors, sharing their celebrations and tragedies,
teaching their children, exploring their language, and, much to
their surprise, learning their delicate art of grass basketry. Ray
Hudson's intimate memoir weaves together landscape and language,
storytelling and silence, ancient mythology and day-to-day village
life. Ultimately he pays homage to the people he came to teach, and
who, in the end, were his teachers.
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