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Volume 4: Policy and Planning

by Richard Shearmur, Maurilio Pirone, Mattia Frapporti, Sandro Mezzadra, Rebecca Mayers, Manuel Garcia Ruiz, Rosa Danenberg, Oleg Golubchikov, Geoff Deverteuil, Christiane Stephan, Mario Schmidt, Eric Kioko, Mohamed Munas, Lothar Smith, Dilshani N. Ranawaka, Maxwell Hartt, Samantha J. Norberg, Julie Kearns, Maliha Majeed, Barry Pendergast, Özgür Sayın, Savaş Zafer Şahin, Claudia González-Muzzio, Vicente Sandoval, Carmen Paz Castro, Carlos Cadena-Gaitán, Alejandro Álvarez-Vanegas, María Flórez-Munoz, Jagath Munasinghe, Michael Martin, Julie Rudner, G.R. Ratnayake, Shauna Brail, Kerstin Stark, Julia Schuppan, Ariane Kehlbacher, Laura Gebhardt, Julia Jarass, Wojciech Kębłowski, Louise Sträuli, Tonio Weicker, Peter Timko, Wladimir Sgibnev, Marcus Finbom, Tauri Tuvikene, Jonathan Gross, Tamsyn Dent, Roberta Comunian, Per Gunnar Røe, Lars Böcker, Elling Oftedal, Paola Pucci, Giovanni Lanza, Bruna Vendemmia, Roger Keil, Samantha Biglieri, Lorenzo De Vidovich, Julian Iacobelli ...

Series series Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities
Cities play a major role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic as many measures are adopted at the scale of cities and involve adjustments to the way urban areas operate.Drawing from case studies across the globe, this book explores how the pandemic and the policies it has prompted have caused changes in the ways cities function. The contributors examine the advancing social inequality brought on by ... Read more

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Cities play a major role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic as many measures are adopted at the scale of cities and involve adjustments to the way urban areas operate.Drawing from case studies across the globe, this book explores how the pandemic and the policies it has prompted have caused changes in the ways cities function. The contributors examine the advancing social inequality brought on by
... Read more
Understanding and fostering soil carbon sequestration

by Dr C. Rumpel, Prof Ingrid Kӧgel-Knabner, Dr Martin Wiesmeier, Dr Stefanie Mayer, Prof Xiaojuan Feng, Prof Patrick Lavelle, Prof Sebastian Doetterl, Dr Rose Abramoff, Dr Jean-Thomas Cornelis, Dr Aline Frossard0, Dr Peter Fiener1, Dr Gina Garland2, Dr Michael Kaiser3, Dr Moritz Laub4, Dr Sophie Opfergelt5, Dr Marijn Van de Broek6, Dr Sarah van den Broek7, Dr Sophie F. von Fromm8, Dr Beverley Henry9, Dr C. Chenu0, Dr F. Amiraslani1, Dr Kazem Zamanian2, Prof Yakov Kuzyakov3, Prof Muhammad Sanaullah4, Dr T. Afzal5, Dr T. Shahzad6, Dr María de la Luz Mora7, Dr Jorge Medina8, Dr Patricia Poblete-Grant9, Dr Rolando Demanet0, Dr Paola Durán1, Dr Patricio Barra2, Dr Cecilia Paredes3, Dr Marcela Calabi-Floody4, Dr Matthias Kuhnert5, Dr Pete Smith6, Dr Christopher Poeplau7, Dr Edward Gregorich8, Dr Amin Sharififar9, Prof Budiman Minasny0, Dr Carlos A. Sierra1, Dr Susan E. Crow2, Dr Matt Aitkenhead3, Prof Rattan Lal4, Prof Thomas Kätterer5, Dr Martin A. Bolinder6, Dr Hyeon Ji Song7, Dr Pil Joo Kim8, Dr Abad Chabbi9, Dr K. Klumpp0, Dr Alan Franzluebbers1, Dr Andreas Schindlbacher2, Dr Mathias Mayer3, Dr Robert Jandl4, Dr Stephan Zimmermann5, Dr Frank Hagedorn6, Prof Lydie Stella Koutika7, Dr Nicolas Marron8, Dr Rémi Cardinael9, Dr Sonja Paul0, Dr Jens Leifeld1, Dr Deborah Dick2, Dr Cimélio Bayer3, Dr Jeferson Dieckow4, Dr Inigo Virto5, Dr Isabel de Soto6, Dr Rodrigo Antón7, Dr Rosa M. Poch8, Dr J.-C. Lata9, Dr C. Marques-dos-Santos Cordovil0, Dr E. Nartey1, Dr C. Staudhammer2, Dr E. Yeboah3, Dr Luca Montanarella4, Dr Ram Dalal5, Dr Matthew Tom Harrison6, Dr Brian Keating7, Prof Siân Mooney8, Dr Kathryn Janoski9, Dr Carmen M. Ugarte0, Dr Alexandra Langlais-Hesse1, Professor Michelle M. Wander2, Dr Abdul Wakeel3, Dr Sylvia Vetter4 ...

Series Book 121 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Highlights the increasing role of soils as an important and dynamic part of the global carbon cycle and their potential role in counteracting increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrationsExplores key aspects of soil carbon sequestration in different environments and soil typesProvides a comprehensive review of socioeconomic, legal and policy issues surrounding the adoption of soil carbon sequestration ... Read more

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Highlights the increasing role of soils as an important and dynamic part of the global carbon cycle and their potential role in counteracting increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrationsExplores key aspects of soil carbon sequestration in different environments and soil typesProvides a comprehensive review of socioeconomic, legal and policy issues surrounding the adoption of soil carbon sequestration
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Peri-urban futures: Scenarios and models for land use change in Europe

Edited by Kjell Nilsson, Stephan Pauleit, Simon Bell, Carmen Aalbers, Thomas A. Sick Nielsen ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Presently, peri-urbanisation is one of the most pervasive processes of land use change in Europe with strong impacts on both the environment and quality of life. It is a matter of great urgency to determine strategies and tools in support of sustainable development. The book synthesizes the results of PLUREL, a large European Commission funded research project (2007-2010). Tools and strategies of ... Read more

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Presently, peri-urbanisation is one of the most pervasive processes of land use change in Europe with strong impacts on both the environment and quality of life. It is a matter of great urgency to determine strategies and tools in support of sustainable development. The book synthesizes the results of PLUREL, a large European Commission funded research project (2007-2010). Tools and strategies of
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Social Policy Review 37

Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2025

by Lee Gregory, Gerardo Javier Arriaga-Garcia, Yunyan Li, Carmen Walenta-Bergmann, Carl-Johan Sommar, Johan Nordensvärd, Katherine A. Smith, Aniela Wenham, Antonios Roumpakis, Poland Lai, Jolanta Aidukaite, Rūta Ubarevičienė, Kristina Senkuvinė, Florian Blank ...

Series series Social Policy Review
Leading international experts review recent social policy developments in this latest edition of the longstanding Social Policy Review series.Available Open Access and published in association with the Social Policy Association, this edited book provides a comprehensive review of the past year’s key policy trends and most significant scholarship. Featuring expert contributions around elections, ... Read more

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Leading international experts review recent social policy developments in this latest edition of the longstanding Social Policy Review series.Available Open Access and published in association with the Social Policy Association, this edited book provides a comprehensive review of the past year’s key policy trends and most significant scholarship. Featuring expert contributions around elections,
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Education Policies in the 21st Century

Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...

Series series Maarif Global Education Series
This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are
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Untamed Urbanisms

Edited by Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis, Mark Swilling ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... Read more

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An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based
... Read more
The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy

Edited by Rense Nieuwenhuis, Wim Van Lancker ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller organizations and employers. At each of these levels, a multidisciplinary group of expert scholars assess policies and their implementation, such ... Read more

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This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller organizations and employers. At each of these levels, a multidisciplinary group of expert scholars assess policies and their implementation, such
... Read more
Beyond Smart Cities

How Cities Network, Learn and Innovate

by Tim Campbell ...

The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US. The promise is focussed on global talent and knowledge economies and not on learning and innovation. But to really achieve smart cities – that is to create the conditions of continuous learning and innovation – this book argues that there is a need to understand what is below the ... Read more

$79.99 USD

The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US. The promise is focussed on global talent and knowledge economies and not on learning and innovation. But to really achieve smart cities – that is to create the conditions of continuous learning and innovation – this book argues that there is a need to understand what is below the
... Read more
The Care Crisis

What Caused It and How Can We End It?

by Emma Dowling ...

An examination of the global economic crisis from the perspective of careValuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go further.In this groundbreaking book, Emma Dowling charts the multi-faceted nature of care in the modern world, from the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties, to the state of ... Read more

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An examination of the global economic crisis from the perspective of careValuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go further.In this groundbreaking book, Emma Dowling charts the multi-faceted nature of care in the modern world, from the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties, to the state of
... Read more
Knowledge and Institutions

Edited by Johannes Glückler, Roy Suddaby, Regina Lenz ...

Series Book 13 - Knowledge and Space
This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, ... Read more

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This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation,
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Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning

An International Evaluation

by Michael Short, Mark Baker, Jeremy Carter, Stephen Jay, Carys Jones ...

'A wonderfully international and up-to-date perspective on strategic environmental assessment of land use plans by leading experts in the field. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning covers not only how much such SEAs are carried out and in what context, but whether they are effective and why. It provides invaluable insights for practitioners and researchers in this rapidy ... Read more

$70.99 USD

'A wonderfully international and up-to-date perspective on strategic environmental assessment of land use plans by leading experts in the field. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning covers not only how much such SEAs are carried out and in what context, but whether they are effective and why. It provides invaluable insights for practitioners and researchers in this rapidy
... Read more
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

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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;
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