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  • Water Resilience for Human Prosperity

    by Johan Rockström, Malin Falkenmark, Carl Folke, Mats Lannerstad, Jennie Barron, Elin Enfors, Line Gordon, Jens Heinke, Holger Hoff, Claudia Pahl-Wostl ...
    The world's human population now constitutes the largest driving force of changes to the biosphere. Emerging water challenges require new ideas for governance and management of water resources in the context of rapid global change. This book presents a new approach to water resources, addressing global sustainability and focusing on socio-ecological resilience to changes. Topics covered include ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • The Role of Non-State Actors in the Green Transition

    Building a Sustainable Future

    Edited by Jens Hoff, Quentin Gausset, Simon Lex ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This book argues that there is no way to make progress in building a sustainable future without extensive participation of non-state actors.The volume explores the contribution of non-state actors to a sustainable transition, starting with citizens and communities of different kinds and ending with cities and city-networks. The authors analyse social, cultural, political and economic drivers and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Community Governance and Citizen-Driven Initiatives in Climate Change Mitigation

    Edited by Jens Hoff, Quentin Gausset ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    One of the most heartening developments in climate change mitigation in recent years has been the increasing attention paid to the principle of ‘thinking globally and acting locally’. The failure of the international community to reach significant global agreements on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions has led local governments, environmental organisations and citizens themselves to focus ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Democratic Governance and New Technology

    Edited by Jens Hoff, Ivan Horrocks, Pieter Tops ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    Drawing on case studies from Denmark, The Netherlands and the UK, this book discusses new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Contributors argue that ICTs play an important role in the process of restructuring and redefining basic relations within the political systems of Western democracies. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    Transformation for the Digital Age

    by Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    The rapid expansion of the Internet has fueled the emergence of electronic government at all levels in Canada. E-government's first decade featured online service underpinned by a technically secure infrastructure. This service-security nexus entails internal governance reforms aimed at realizing more customer-centric delivery via integration and coordination across departments and agencies. Yet, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Participation

    From Tyranny to Transformation: Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development

    Edited by Samuel Hickey, Giles Mohan ...
    Participation has established itself as a significant approach to project implementation, policy-making and governance in developing and developed countries alike. Recently, however, it has become fashionable to dismiss participation as more rhetoric than substance, and subject to manipulation by agencies and social change agents intent simply on pursuing their own agendas under cover of community ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Publicity and the Canadian State

    Critical Communications Perspectives

    Edited by Kirsten Kozolanka ...
    Publicity pervades our political and public culture, but little has been written that critically examines the basis of the modern Canadian “publicity state.” This collection is the first to focus on the central themes in the state’s relationship with publicity practices and the “permanent campaign,” the constant search by politicians and their strategists for popular consent. Central to this ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Global Creative Industries

    by Terry Flew ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    The creative industries are the subject of growing attention among policy-makers, academics, activists, artists and development specialists worldwide. This engaging book provides a global overview of developments in the creative industries, and analyses how these developments relate to wider debates about globalization, cities, culture and the global creative economy.Flew considers creative ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • A Globalizing World?

    Culture, Economics, Politics

    Edited by David Held ...
    Series series Understanding Social Change
    Today's news media is full of references to 'globalization' - a buzz word that is quickly becoming ubiquitous. But what exactly is globalization? What are its main driving forces? Does it truly embrace all aspects of our lives, from economics to cultural developments?A Globalizing World? examines these and other key questions in a highly accessible fashion, offering a clear and intelligent guide ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Democratic Governance

    by Mark Bevir ...
    Democratic Governance examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy. Mark Bevir shows how new ideas about governance have gradually displaced old-style notions of government in Britain and around the world. Policymakers cling to outdated concepts of representative government while at the same time placing ever more faith in expertise, ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Digital, Political, Radical

    by Natalie Fenton ...
    Digital, Political, Radical is a siren call to the field of media and communications and the study of social and political movements. We must put the politics of transformation at the very heart of our analyses to meet the global challenges of gross inequality and ever-more impoverished democracies.Fenton makes an impassioned plea for re-invigorating critical research on digital media such that it ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Information Society

    Issues and Illusions

    by David Lyon ...
    This book provides an overview of debates about whether we are entering into a phase of social existence without precedent - the 'information society'. Intended as a bridge between the literatures of 'social theory' and the 'social impact of technology', this study exposes the myths surrounding the creation of the information society, discussing technologies such as cable TV and robotics. ... Read more

    $21.00 USD