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“qingli meng”

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  • Infrastructure in Africa

    Lessons for Future Development

    by Oliver Chinganya, Qingli Meng, Duncan Lishman, Mergen Chetty, Conor Teljeur, Tito Yepes, Ebong Saidi, George Kararach ...
    Good infrastructure is essential for socio-economic growth and sustainable development. Safe and accessible water supplies, reliable energy, good transport networks and communications technology are all vital to a region’s development agenda.This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the state of infrastructure in Africa and provides an integrated analysis of the challenges the sector faces ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Fields of Authority

    Special Purpose Governance in Ontario, 1815-2015

    by Jack Lucas ...
    Series series IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
    Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics – from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities – we encounter a peculiar institutional animal: the special purpose body. These “ABCs” of local government – library boards, school boards, transit authorities, and many others – provide vital public services, spend large sums of public money, and raise important questions ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Creative City

    Cultural policies and urban regeneration between conservation and development

    by Alessia Usai ...
    Series Book 2 - Cultural Management and Cultural Policy Education
    This book focuses on the relationships between the creative city principles and the planning approach introduced by the European Landscape Convention in order to identify best practices for the development of innovative cultural policies and new urban regeneration tools.The research is characterized by a cross-cutting approach to cultural heritage. It proposes a new model for the design of ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Smart City

    How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space

    Edited by Renata Paola Dameri, Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive overview of the various aspects for the development of smart cities from a European perspective. It presents both theoretical concepts as well as empirical studies and cases of smart city programs and their capacity to create value for citizens. The contributions in this book are a result of an increasing interest for this topic, supported by both national ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Brooklyn Wars

    The Stories Behind the Remaking of New York's Most Celebrated Borough

    by Neil deMause ...
    Across the globe, the word “Brooklyn” has come to represent cutting-edge cuisine, a vibrant music and literary culture, and the epitome of hip. But most of the world doesn’t see the price that local residents pay as their neighborhoods are swallowed by change. In The Brooklyn Wars, masterful storyteller and award-winning journalist Neil deMause turns a spotlight on the borough’s transformation. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Quiet Evolution

    The Emergence of Indigenous-Local Intergovernmental Partnerships in Canada

    by Christopher Alcantara, Jen Nelles ...
    Series series IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
    Much of the coverage surrounding the relationship between Indigenous communities and the Crown in Canada has focused on the federal, provincial, and territorial governments. Yet it is at the local level where some of the most important and significant partnerships are being made between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.In A Quiet Evolution, Christopher Alcantara and Jen Nelles look closely at ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities

    by Douglas Morgan, Kent S. Robinson, Dennis Strachota, James A. Hough ...
    Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and finance in an MPA programme.Many currently available texts for this course suffer from a combination of defects that include a focus on federal and state budgeting, a lack of a theoretical governance framework, an omission of important topics, and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Resilience and Opportunity

    Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita

    Edited by Amy Liu, Richard M. Mizelle, Roland Vanglin ...
    Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. Commentary and analysis typically focused on what went wrong in the post-disaster emergency response. This forward-looking book, however, presents a more cautiously optimistic view about the region's ability to bounce back after multiple disasters.Catastrophes come in different forms-hurricanes, recessions, and oil spills, to name a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Governance Report 2015

    by The Hertie School of Governance ...
    Series series Hertie Governance Report
    The promise of an ever-closer union that has guided Europe from the Treaty of Rome to the present time rests on the evolution of democratic governance to meet the many challenges that European communities face. Now after years of managing the financial and fiscal crises, the European Union has to take stock and focus on the issues that will fundamentally shape its long-term prospects. The ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Paradoxes of Modernization

    Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reform

    Edited by Helen Margetts, Christopher Hood, Perri 6 ...
    This book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with 'modernization' projects and tackles the key question that they provoke - why do policy-makers persist in such enterprises in the face of evidence that they tend to fail? Paradoxes of Modernization first discusses what is meant by 'modernization' and 'unintended consequences', placing public policy reform within more ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Disaster Governance in Urbanising Asia

    Edited by Michelle Ann Miller, Mike Douglass ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited book approaches the threat and impact of environmental disasters on Asia’s urban populations from a governance perspective. It adopts a multi-sector and multi-disciplinary approach to disaster governance that emphasises the importance of multiple stakeholders in preparing for, responding to and recovering from disasters and their cascading impacts in Asia’s cities. The contributors to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Land Policies in India

    Promises, Practices and Challenges

    Edited by Sony Pellissery, Benjamin Davy, Harvey M. Jacobs ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book examines how property rights are linked to socio-economic progress and development. It also provides a theoretical analysis, an economic/social analysis of planning, case studies of the implementation of planning and regulation instruments, practices related to law and planning, analysis of case laws in a particular segment. The interconnection between property, law and planning is a ... Read more

    $89.99 USD