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  • Security, Resilience and Planning

    Planning's Role in Countering Terrorism

    by Jon Coaffee ...
    Series series Concise Guides to Planning
    This book offers key concepts and practical guidance about the planner's role in countering terrorist risk. Public safety and security has always been a fundamental premise of successful public spaces, and a material consideration in planning processes, but especially so since the events of 9/11 2001. Recent attacks in Berlin, Nice, Stockholm, London, Melbourne, Barcelona, New York and elsewhere ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The War on Terror and the Normalisation of Urban Security

    by Jon Coaffee ...
    Series series Interventions
    This book explores the processes by which, in the 20 years after 9/11, the practices of urban security and counter-terrorism have impacted the everyday experiences of the Western city. Highlighting the localised urban responses to new security challenges, it reflects critically upon the historical trajectory of techniques of territorialisation and physical protection, urban surveillance and the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City

    Reconfiguring London for 2012 and Beyond

    by Pete Fussey, Jon Coaffee, Dick Hobbs ...
    Often seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking, accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seismic changes to both the physical and social geography of its destination. Since 1976, the defence of the spectacle has become the central feature of its planning, one that has assumed even greater prominence following the bombing of the 1996 Atlanta ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Futureproof

    How to Build Resilience in an Uncertain World

    by Jon Coaffee ...
    A compelling and definitive account of why we need to radically rethink our approach to dealing with catastrophic eventsCatastrophic events such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Tohoku "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that hit the eastern seaboard of Japan in 2012 are seen as surprises that have a low probability of occurring but have a debilitating impact when ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Terrorism, Risk and the City

    The Making of a Contemporary Urban Landscape

    by Jon Coaffee ...
    The development of defensive strategies encompassing the fortification and privatization of the city has attracted significant attention during recent years, and has become particularly relevant in the aftermath of September 11th. Dealing with issues of risk, security and the spatial restructuring of contemporary western cities, this book examines how the perceived risk of terrorist attack led to ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Futureproof

    How to Build Resilience in an Uncertain World

    by Jon Coaffee ...
    A compelling and definitive account of why we need to radically rethink our approach to dealing with catastrophic eventsCatastrophic events such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Tohoku "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that hit the eastern seaboard of Japan in 2012 are seen as surprises that have a low probability of occurring but have a debilitating impact when ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of International Resilience

    Edited by David Chandler, Jon Coaffee ...
    Resilience is increasingly discussed as a key concept across many fields of international policymaking from sustainable development and climate change, insecurity, conflict and terrorism to urban and rural planning, international aid provision and the prevention of and responses to natural and man-made disasters. Edited by leading academic authorities from a number of disciplines, this is the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Terrorism, Risk and the Global City

    Towards Urban Resilience

    by Jon Coaffee ...
    First published in 2003, this account of the anti-terrorist measures of London's financial district and the changes in urban security after 9/11 has been revised to take into account developments in counter-terrorist security and management, particularly after the terrorist attack in London on July 7th 2005. It makes a valuable addition to the current debate on terrorism and the new security ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • What Matters in Policing?

    Change, Values and Leadership in Turbulent Times

    by Auke van Dijk, Frank Hoogewoning, Maurice Punch ...
    Policing is at a turbulent turning point: the pace of change is accelerating with renewed emphasis on crime reduction yet with austerity. This topical book examines what matters in policing, rather than just what works. It compares the implications of restructuring in the UK and The Netherlands, also in the USA, regarding police systems, policing paradigms and research knowledge. The authors, who ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Planning for Crime Prevention

    A Transatlantic Perspective

    by Ted Kitchen, Richard H Schneider ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Crime and the fear of crime are issues high in public concern and on political agendas in most developed countries. This book takes these issues and relates them to the contribution that urban planners and participative planning processes can make in response to these problems. Its focus is thus on the extent to which crime opportunities can be prevented or reduced through the design, planning and ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Policing

    Edited by Tim Newburn ...
    This new edition of the Handbook of Policing updates and expands the highly successful first edition, and now includes a completely new chapter on policing and forensics. It provides a comprehensive, but highly readable overview of policing in the UK, and is an essential reference point, combining the expertise of leading academic experts on policing and policing practitioners themselves. ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • US-UK Counter-Terrorism after 9/11

    A qualitative approach

    by Edgar Tembo ...
    Series series Contemporary Terrorism Studies
    This book provides a qualitative analysis of post-9/11 counter-terrorism strategy undertaken by the United Kingdom and United States of America.Since 9/11, both the UK and the U.S have significantly revamped their counter-terrorism approaches. The approaches apply, to varying degrees, three key policy instruments – intelligence, law enforcement and military force. However, the success or failure ... Read more

    $65.99 USD