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“kes mccormick”

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  • Urban Nature

    New Directions for City Futures

    by Kes McCormick, Bernadett Kiss, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Harriet Bulkeley, McKenna Davis, Rob Raven, Andrés Luque-Ayala, Kathrin Hörschelmann ...
    This introductory textbook with a global scope aims to train students of geography, sustainability, and urban and environmental studies to re-imagine and transform cities to meet climate, biodiversity, and sustainability challenges. A dedicated team of authors critically examine the relationships between nature and urban areas, sharing an inspiring account of how nature helps us re-think our ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Smart and Sustainable Cities?

    Pipedreams, Practicalities and Possibilities

    Edited by James Evans, Andrew Karvonen, Chris Martin, Andres Luque-Ayala, Kes McCormick, Rob Raven, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan ...
    Smart cities promise to generate economic, social and environmental value through the seamless connection of urban services and infrastructure by digital technologies. However, there is scant evidence of how these activities can enhance social well-being and contribute to just and equitable communities.Smart and Sustainable Cities? Pipedreams, Practicalities and Possibilities provides one of the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Urban Living Labs

    Experimenting with City Futures

    Edited by Simon Marvin, Harriet Bulkeley, Kes McCormick, Lindsay Mai, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan ...
    All cities face a pressing challenge – how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion while achieving environmental sustainability? In response, new collaborations are emerging in the form of urban living labs – sites devised to design, test and learn from social and technical innovation in real time. The aim of this volume is to examine, inform and advance the governance of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Evidence and Results in International Development eBook

    Playing the game to change the rules?

    Edited by Rosalind Eyben, Irene Guijt, Chris Roche, Cathy Shutt ...
    Understanding and demonstrating the effectiveness of efforts to improve the lives of those living in poverty is an essential part of international development practice. But who decides what counts as good or credible evidence? Can the drive to measure results do justice to and promote transformational change – change that challenges the power relations that produce and reproduce inequality, ... Read more

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  • The Business School in the Twenty-First Century

    Emergent Challenges and New Business Models

    by Howard Thomas, Peter Lorange, Jagdish Sheth ...
    Questions about the status, identity and legitimacy of business schools in the modern university system continue to stimulate debate amongst deans, educational policy makers and commentators. In this book, three world experts share their critical insights on management education and new business school models in the USA, Europe and Asia, on designing the business school of the future, and how to ... Read more

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  • Innovating in Urban Economies

    Economic Transformation in Canadian City-Regions

    Edited by David A. Wolfe ...
    Series series Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions
    In a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, innovation and creative capacity lead to economic prosperity. Starting in 2006, the Innovation Systems Research Network began a six year-long study on how city-regions in Canada were surviving and thriving in a globalized world. That study resulted in the “Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions” series, which examines the impact ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Learning Futures

    Education, Technology and Social Change

    by Keri Facer ...
    In the twenty-first century, educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy. Too rarely, however, do we ask whether this future vision is robust, achievable or even desirable, whether alternative futures might be in development, and what other possible futures might demand of ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Urban Development Volume 4

    Changing Professional Practice

    Edited by Ian Cooper, Martin Symes ...
    Series series Sustainable Urban Development Series
    This new book explores how the professions responsible for enhancing the built environment's sustainability seek to deliver this new agenda, offering multi-perspective case studies and discussion to argue for a rethinking of the role of urban development professional.Showing how sustainability is rapidly becoming the norm for practitioners, the authors consider new types of professional knowledge, ... Read more

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  • Knowledge Economies

    Clusters, Learning and Cooperative Advantage

    by Philip Cooke ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy
    This book traces the theoretical explanation for clusters back to the work of classical economists and their more modern disciples, who saw economic development as a process involving serious imbalances in the exploitation of resources. Initially, natural resource endowments explained the formation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century industrial districts. Today, geographical concentrations ... Read more

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  • Transnational Marketing and Transnational Consumers

    by Ibrahim Sirkeci ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Transnational Marketing and Transnational Consumers are becoming increasingly common in today's globalizing and fast moving world of business. This book presents a fresh perspective focusing on the transnational character of organizations and firms while underlining the importance of the transnationality of marketing strategies for success. At the same time, it introduces the novel concepts of ... Read more

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  • Governing Technology for Sustainability

    by Joseph Murphy ...
    In a world of growing complexity and dwindling resources, the relationship between technology and sustainability is a pressing issue of concern at the highest levels. This book improves our understanding by examining the ways that people, technology and governance shape each other with implications for sustainability. It is the first book to link technology studies and governance research to this ... Read more

    $45.99 USD