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Abitare la Terra n.46-47/2018 – Dwelling on Earth

Rivista di geoarchitettura

by Paolo Portoghesi, Angela Alessandra Badami, Manuela Barbolla, Giovanni Bello, Graziella Bernardo, Ignacio Bisbal Grandal, Lucie Boissenin, Maria Carolina Campone, Maurizio Carta, Francesca Castagneto0, Giuliana Chierchiello1, Roland Chih-Hung Lin2, Alessandro Ciambrone3, Cristina Coscia4, Rocco Curto5, Claudia De Biase6, Stefania De Medici7, Francesco Di Paola8, Katia Fabbricatti9, Giovanni Fatta0, Enrico Formato1, Valeria Gadaleta2, Carmine Gambardella3, Ottavia Gambardella4, Giuseppe Guida5, Danila Jacazzi6, Salvatore Losco7, Françoise Anais Loubiès8, Elena Manzo9, Pasquale Miano0, Nicolás Andrés Moraga Herrera1, Maria Dolores Muñoz Rebolledo2, Francesca Muzzillo3, Akane Nakamura4, Takeyuki Okubo5, Andrea Ortega6, Luis Manuel Palmero Iglesias7, Rosaria Parente8, Maria Rita Pinto9, Mario Pisani0, Mosè Ricci1, Diana Rolando2, Mechtild Rössler3, Riccardo Serraglio4, Elena Shlienkova5, Elena Sperk6, Fosca Tortorelli7, Calogero Vinci8 ...

EDITORIALE / EDITORIAL REPRESENTATION, RESTORATION, REDESIGN, RESILIENCE Paolo Portoghesi RESILIENCE OF THE ROYAL SITE OF CARDITELLO. GOVERNANCE AND REGENERATION OF THE TERRITORY OF FERDINANDO DI BORBONE Carmine Gambardella THE WORK OF THE ARCHITECT FRANCESCO COLLECINI Riccardo Serraglio FOR THE SAFEGUARDING AND MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPES: UNESCO-GREECE MELINA MERCOURI INTERNATIONAL PRIZE ... Read more

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EDITORIALE / EDITORIAL REPRESENTATION, RESTORATION, REDESIGN, RESILIENCE Paolo Portoghesi RESILIENCE OF THE ROYAL SITE OF CARDITELLO. GOVERNANCE AND REGENERATION OF THE TERRITORY OF FERDINANDO DI BORBONE Carmine Gambardella THE WORK OF THE ARCHITECT FRANCESCO COLLECINI Riccardo Serraglio FOR THE SAFEGUARDING AND MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPES: UNESCO-GREECE MELINA MERCOURI INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
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Many Voices, One Vision: The Early Years of the World Heritage Convention

by Christina Cameron, Mechtild Rössler ...

In 1972, UNESCO put in place the World Heritage Convention, a highly successful international treaty that influences heritage activity in virtually every country in the world. Focusing on the Convention's creation and early implementation, this book examines the World Heritage system and its global impact through diverse prisms, including its normative frameworks, constituent bodies, programme ... Read more

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In 1972, UNESCO put in place the World Heritage Convention, a highly successful international treaty that influences heritage activity in virtually every country in the world. Focusing on the Convention's creation and early implementation, this book examines the World Heritage system and its global impact through diverse prisms, including its normative frameworks, constituent bodies, programme
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The Full Value of Parks

From Economics to the Intangible

by P.S Ramakrishnan, Anthony J. English, Ellen Lee, John Shultis, enneth Angu Angu, Terence Hay-Edie, Holmes Rolston III, Eduardo Crespo de Nogueira, Consuelo Martinez Flores, Gary E. Davis, David M. Graber, Steven A. Acker, Alan Ewert, Steven J. Hollenhorst, Leo McAvoy, Keith C. Russell, Bradley W. Barr, Rod Ehler, Peter Wiley, German I. Andrade, Thomas Schaaf, Mechtild Rossler, Neema Pathak, Ashish Kothari, Natalia Danilina, Vladimir Boreyko, Fausto O. Sarmiento, Michael J. Tranel, Adrienne Hall, Johnathan I. Barnes, Bron Taylor, Joel Geffen, Mercedes Otegui ...

The Full Value of Parks is the first comprehensive look at the values associated with parks and other kinds of protected areas. Much has been written about the importance of parks to the tourism industry, yet the reasons why people care deeply about them usually have little or nothing to do with money. Instead, people value parks as sacred sanctuaries and places of spiritual self-discovery, as ... Read more

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The Full Value of Parks is the first comprehensive look at the values associated with parks and other kinds of protected areas. Much has been written about the importance of parks to the tourism industry, yet the reasons why people care deeply about them usually have little or nothing to do with money. Instead, people value parks as sacred sanctuaries and places of spiritual self-discovery, as
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Twilight of the Elites

Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France

by Christophe Guilluy ...

A passionate account of how the gulf between France's metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apartChristophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society"—one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France has replaced the old ... Read more

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A passionate account of how the gulf between France's metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apartChristophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society"—one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France has replaced the old
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Hard Lessons

The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement

Edited by Dieter K. Buse, Peter Suschnigg, Mercedes Steedman ...

This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The union, which began in 1893 as the Western Federation of Miners and grew to a membership of over one hundred ... Read more

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This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The union, which began in 1893 as the Western Federation of Miners and grew to a membership of over one hundred
... Read more
University Governance in Canada

Navigating Complexity

by Julia Eastman, Claude Trottier, Olivier Bégin-Caouette, Glen Jones ...

Universities play essential roles in Canadian society. The internal and external governance of these complex institutions faces ever-evolving challenges within a rapidly shifting international context.Written by a national team of scholars, University Governance in Canada asks how institutional decisions are made and who is behind these choices. By exploring the historical evolution and regional ... Read more

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Universities play essential roles in Canadian society. The internal and external governance of these complex institutions faces ever-evolving challenges within a rapidly shifting international context.Written by a national team of scholars, University Governance in Canada asks how institutional decisions are made and who is behind these choices. By exploring the historical evolution and regional
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Women and Power

The Case for Parity

by Pascale Navarro ...

It’s already passé to ask if parity is important for today’s Canada. What’s needed now is to ask how we can make sure more women run for office and that they’re well-represented in government. There are no easy answers to this, but it’s clear that half-measures just won’t do. Pascale Navarro argues that quotas are essential for women to achieve parity with men in politics. Over a hundred other ... Read more

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It’s already passé to ask if parity is important for today’s Canada. What’s needed now is to ask how we can make sure more women run for office and that they’re well-represented in government. There are no easy answers to this, but it’s clear that half-measures just won’t do. Pascale Navarro argues that quotas are essential for women to achieve parity with men in politics. Over a hundred other
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A History of UNESCO

Global Actions and Impacts

Edited by Poul Duedahl ...

Series series History (R0)
The mission UNESCO, as defined just after the end of World War II, is to build 'the defenses of peace in the minds of men'. In this book, historians trace the routes of selected UNESCO mental engineering initiatives from its headquarters in Paris to the member states, to assess UNESCO's global impact. ... Read more

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The mission UNESCO, as defined just after the end of World War II, is to build 'the defenses of peace in the minds of men'. In this book, historians trace the routes of selected UNESCO mental engineering initiatives from its headquarters in Paris to the member states, to assess UNESCO's global impact.
... Read more
Human Rights and Development in International Law

by Tahmina Karimova ...

Series series Human Rights and International Law
This book addresses the legal issues raised by the interaction between human rights and development in contemporary international law. In particular, it charts the parameters of international law that states have to take into account in order to protect human rights in the process of development. In doing so, it departs from traditional analyses, where human rights are mainly considered as a ... Read more

$62.99 USD

This book addresses the legal issues raised by the interaction between human rights and development in contemporary international law. In particular, it charts the parameters of international law that states have to take into account in order to protect human rights in the process of development. In doing so, it departs from traditional analyses, where human rights are mainly considered as a
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Oral History at the Crossroads

Sharing Life Stories of Survival and Displacement

by Steven High ...

Series series Shared: Oral and Public History
When hundreds of people displaced by mass violence volunteered to tell their stories to the Montreal Life Stories project, they challenged long-held beliefs about how oral stories should be recorded, collected, and shared.Using the Montreal Life Stories project as an example of collective storytelling, Oral History at the Crossroads rejects the idea that there must be “critical distance” between ... Read more

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When hundreds of people displaced by mass violence volunteered to tell their stories to the Montreal Life Stories project, they challenged long-held beliefs about how oral stories should be recorded, collected, and shared.Using the Montreal Life Stories project as an example of collective storytelling, Oral History at the Crossroads rejects the idea that there must be “critical distance” between
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Tackling Social Exclusion in Europe

The Contribution of the Social Economy

Edited by Roger Spear, Jacques Defourny, Jean-Louis Laville ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
This book is the result of an international study by leading economists and sociologists from across Europe and North America. The response of the new social economy (primarily voluntary and co-operative sectors) to social exclusion and employability in the context of crises of unemployment and the welfare state is of wide international concern. This book looks specifically at the growth of ... Read more

$39.95 USD

This book is the result of an international study by leading economists and sociologists from across Europe and North America. The response of the new social economy (primarily voluntary and co-operative sectors) to social exclusion and employability in the context of crises of unemployment and the welfare state is of wide international concern. This book looks specifically at the growth of
... Read more
The Making of Grand Paris

Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century

by Theresa Enright ...

Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris—the “Grand Paris” initiative—and the building of today's networked global city.In 2007 the French government announced the “Grand Paris” initiative. This ambitious project reimagined the Paris region as integrated, balanced, global, sustainable, and prosperous. Metropolitan solidarity would unite divided populations; a new transportation ... Read more

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A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris—the “Grand Paris” initiative—and the building of today's networked global city.In 2007 the French government announced the “Grand Paris” initiative. This ambitious project reimagined the Paris region as integrated, balanced, global, sustainable, and prosperous. Metropolitan solidarity would unite divided populations; a new transportation
... Read more

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