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The citizen's guide to climate success : overcoming myths that hinder progress
Sometimes solving climate change seems impossibly complex, and it is hard to know what changes we all can and should make to help. This book offers hope. Drawing on the latest research, Mark Jaccard shows us how to recognize the absolutely essential actions (decarbonizing electricity and transport) and policies (regulations that phase out coal plants and gasoline vehicles, carbon tariffs). Rath…
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- 9781108783453
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- xiv, 292 p. : ill
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- 363.73874 JAC t
Living for the city : social change and knowledge production in the Central A…
Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing w…
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- 9781108973120
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- xiii, 380 p. : ill
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- 967 LAR l
Cybersecurity : public sector threats and responses
The Internet has given rise to new opportunities for the public sector to improve efficiency and better serve constituents. But with an increasing reliance on the Internet, digital tools are also exposing the public sector to new risks. This accessible primer focuses on the convergence of globalization, connectivity, and the migration of public sector functions online. It examines emerging tren…
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- 9781439846643
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- xxix, 354 p. : ill
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- 352.379 AND c
Migration, workers, and fundamental freedoms : pandemic vulnerabilities and s…
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a mass exodus of India’s migrant workers from the cities back to the villages. This book explores the social conditions and concerns around health, labour, migration, and gender that were thrown up as a result of this forced migration. The book examines the failings of the public health systems and the state response to address the humanitarian crisis which u…
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- 9781003145509
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- ix, 127 p. : ill.
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- 331.5440954 HAN m
Comparative federalism and COVID-19 : combating the pandemic
This comprehensive scholarly book on comparative federalism and the Covid-19 pandemic is written by some of the world’s leading federal scholars and national experts. The Covid-19 pandemic presented an unprecedented emergency for countries worldwide, including all those with a federal or hybrid-federal system of government, which account for more than 40 per cent of the world’s population. …
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- 9781003166771
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- xx, 433 p. : ill.
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- Routledge Studies in Federalism and Decentralization
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- 362.1962414 STE c
Electoral politics in crisis after the great recession : change, fluctuations…
This book examines to what extent politics in Iceland have been transformed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The book focuses on whether the short-term sudden shock caused by the Great Recession has permanently transformed politics, political behaviour and the Icelandic party system or whether its effect was primarily transitory. These questions remain highly relevant to the wider…
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- 9780429436345
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- xii, 182 p. : ill.
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- Routledge Advances in European Politics
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- 324.24912 ONN e
The local dimension of migration policymaking
This book prompts a fresh look on immigrant integration policy. Revealing just where immigrants and their receiving societies interact everyday, it shows how societal inclusion is administered and produced at a local level. The studies presented focus on three issue areas of migration policy - citizenship, welfare services and religious diversity - and consider cities in very different national…
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- 22
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- 9789048512430
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- 204 p. : ill.
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- 325.4 CAP t
The politics and science of prevision : governing and probing the future
"This book inquires into the use of prediction at the intersection of politics and academia, and reflects upon the implications of future-oriented policymaking across different fields. The volume focuses on the key intricacies and fallacies of prevision in a time of complexity, uncertainty and unpredictability. The first part of the book discusses different academic perspectives and contributio…
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- 10
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- 9780367900748
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- xi, 272 p. : ill.
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- 320.6 WEN t
The Great Reset: 2021 European Public Investment Outlook
This timely and insightful collection of essays written by economists from a range of academic and policy institutes explores the subject of public investment through two avenues. The first examines public investment trends and needs in Europe, addressing the initiatives taken by European governments to tackle the COVID-19 recession and to rebuild their economies. The second identifies key doma…
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- 9781800643529
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- xxvii, 222 p. : ill. ; 17.8 cm.
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- 332.64 CER t
Democratising Participatory Research: Pathways to Social Justice from the South
In this book Carmen Martinez-Vargas explores how academic participatory research and the way it is carried out can contribute to more, or less, social justice. Adopting theoretical and empirical approaches, and addressing multiple complex, intersectional issues, this book offers inspiration for scholars and practitioners to open up alternative pathways to social justice, viewed through a Global…
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- 9781800643109
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- x, 244 p. : ill. ; 15.6m.
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- 321.872 MAR d
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