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  • Civic Engagement in Scandinavia

    Volunteering, Informal Help and Giving in Denmark, Norway and Sweden

    Edited by Lars Skov Henriksen, Kristin Strømsnes, Lars Svedberg ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Since the 1990’s, a number of studies have documented a remarkable high and stable amount of popular engagement in civic organizations in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Often these countries have been considered deviant cases against the proliferating decline of social capital studies.However, despite great international interest in the Scandinavian region, the volume argues that the civil societies ... Read more

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    by Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field."- Allen J. Scott, University of California"Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of ... Read more

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  • Gender Inequalities in Tech-driven Research and Innovation

    Living the Contradiction

    by Oili-Helena Ylijoki, Marja Vehviläinen, Hanna-Mari Ikonen, Päivi Korvajärvi, Charlotte Silander, Maria Pietiälä, Liza Reisel, Ida Drange, May-Linda Magnussen, Rebecca Lund, Trond Stalsberg Mydland, Malin Lindberg, Ulf Mellström, Paula Wennberg, Siri Øyslebø Sørensen, Guro Korsnes Kristensen, Gilda Seddighi, Hilde Corneliussen, Carol Azungi Dralega ...
    ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The Nordic countries are regarded as frontrunners in promoting equality, yet women’s experiences on the ground are in many ways at odds with this rhetoric.Putting the spotlight on the lived experiences of women working in tech-driven research and innovation areas in the Nordic countries, this volume explores why, despite numerous ... Read more

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  • Economics in Sweden

    An Evaluation of Swedish Research in Economics

    Edited by Lars Engwall ...
    Economics in Sweden contains the results of one of the most comprehensive attempts to evaluate research in economics ever undertaken. A team of Swedish and international researchers, including Avinash K. Dixit, Seppo Honkapohja and Robert M. Slow, examined the structure of economics in Sweden and its results. They identified postgraduate education as a key area, and their findings will be of ... Read more

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  • Keys to the City

    How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development

    by Michael Storper ...
    Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, looks at why we should consider economic development issues within a regional context--at the level of the city-region--and why city economies develop unequally. Storper ... Read more

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  • Introducing Just Sustainabilities

    Policy, Planning, and Practice

    by Julian Agyeman ...
    Series series Just Sustainabilities
    This unique and insightful text offers an exploration of the origins and subsequent development of the concept of just sustainability.Introducing Just Sustainabilities discusses key topics, such as food justice, sovereignty and urban agriculture; community, space, place(making) and spatial justice; the democratization of our streets and public spaces; how to create culturally inclusive spaces; ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The Creative Class Goes Global

    Edited by Charlotta Mellander, Richard Florida, Bjørn T. Asheim, Meric Gertler ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    The whole landscape of research in urban studies was revolutionized by the publication of Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class in 2002, and his subsequent book entitled The Flight of the Creative Class has helped to maintain a decade-long explosion of interest in the field. While these two books examine the creative class in the context of the United States, research has emerged which ... Read more

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  • Understanding Sustainability Economics

    Towards Pluralism in Economics

    by Peter Soderbaum ...
    This highly readable yet challenging book provides a critical examination of the failings of mainstream economics and the resultant environmental problems we are facing. Most importantly, it articulates what an alternative economics for sustainability would look like in both theory and practice.The book provides a brief history of economics and looks at the intersection between politics and the ... Read more

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  • Rural Tourism Development

    Localism and Cultural Change

    by Prof. E. Wanda George, Heather Mair, Prof. Donald G. Reid ...
    Series Book 17 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    Rural tourism represents a merging of perhaps two of the most influential yet contradictory features of modern life. Not only are the forces of economic, social, cultural, environmental and political change working to redefine rural spaces the world over, but broad global transformations in consumption and transportation patterns are reshaping leisure behaviour and travel. For those concerned with ... Read more

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  • Transformative Leadership in Action

    Allyship, Advocacy & Activism

    Edited by Jacklyn A. Bruce, Katherine E. McKee ...
    Series series Building Leadership Bridges
    In a time when the world is facing significant challenges, leaders who work for justice and equity for all people are necessary. Transformative Leadership in Action: Allyship, Advocacy, and Activism challenges the reader to do the essential self-work required of a 21st century leader, and provides the road map to developing the skills necessary to take on increasing public leadership roles to ... Read more

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  • Gender, Intersectionality and Climate Institutions in Industrialised States

    Edited by Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir, Annica Kronsell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Gender and Environments
    This book explores how climate institutions in industrialized countries work to further the recognition of social differences and integrate this understanding in climate policy making.With contributions from a range of expert scholars in the field, this volume investigates policy-making in climate institutions from the perspective of power as it relates to gender. It also considers other ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Modernity

    The Nordic Model and Beyond

    Edited by Nina Witoszek, Atle Midttun ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.In the 21st century, Norway, Denmark and Sweden remain the icons of fair societies, with high economic productivity and quality of life. But they are also an enigma in a cultural-evolutionary ... Read more

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