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  • Municipal Waste Management in Europe

    European Policy between Harmonisation and Subsidiarity

    Edited by N. Buclet ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Nicolas Buclet Waste management issues can be approached in several ways. The question of which treatment technique to adopt is essentially a downstream problem. In our view the issue needed to be tackled further upstream. Waste management is not only a technical problem, it is also an area which involves various actors throughout society. In this book, as in the previous volume (Buclet, Godard, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Municipal Waste Management in Europe

    A Comparative Study in Building Regimes

    Edited by N. Buclet, Olivier Godard ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Nicolas Buclet and Olivier Godard In terms of economic scale, waste management is one of the two most important environmentally oriented sectors. 1 It stands at the cross-roads in the material organization of society, resource management, changing lifestyles and consumption patterns, and ecological issues. For many years waste management has been perceived as aresources and health issue, confined ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Territorial Ecology and Socio-ecological Transition

    by Nicolas Buclet ...
    In the same realm as social ecology, industrial ecology and the circular economy, a new interdisciplinary field is growing: territorial ecology. Based on the analysis of the metabolism of human societies at a local level, it helps us diagnose a socioecosystem. This diagnostic is not only based on what is circulating, but also on how it is organized and why. Who is at the origin of a flow? What are ... Read more

    $132.00 USD

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  • The Black Hole of Public Administration

    by Ruth Hubbard, Gilles Paquet ...
    Series series Governance Series
    Public administration in Canada needs to change. A handful of scholars across Canada have been sounding the alarm for years but to no avail. Talented young bureaucrats have been joining the public service with fresh ideas capable of creating real change, but the black hole consumes all.In The Black Hole of Public Administration, experienced public servant Ruth Hubbard and public administration ... Read more

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  • Transitions to Sustainable Development

    New Directions in the Study of Long Term Transformative Change

    by John Grin, Jan Rotmans, Johan Schot ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions
    Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and increasing ... Read more

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  • The New Spirit of Capitalism

    by Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello ...
    Translated by Gregory Elliott ...
    New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalismIn this established classic, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello get to the heart of contemporary capitalism. Delving deep into the latest management texts informing the thinking of employers, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. They argue that beginning in the mid-1970s, capitalism ... Read more

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  • Knowledge for Sale

    The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education

    by Lawrence Busch ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and argue that the only knowledge worth pursuing is that with more or less ... Read more

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  • Globalising the Climate

    COP21 and the climatisation of global debates

    Edited by Stefan Aykut, Jean Foyer, Edouard Morena ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    Frequently presented as a historic last chance to set the world on a course to prevent catastrophic climate change, the 21st Conference of the Parties to the Climate convention (COP21) was a global summit of exceptional proportions. Bringing together negotiators, scientists, journalists and representatives of global civil society, it also constituted a privileged vantage point for the study of ... Read more

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  • Innovation and development in agricultural and food systems

    by Guy Faure, Yuna Chiffoleau, Frédéric Goulet, Ludovic Temple, Jean-Marc Touzard ...
    Series series Synthèses
    The book looks at innovation in agriculture and food systems against the backdrop of the great challenges facing humanity today. It does so by exploring the different dimensions of change and by focusing on the meaning accorded to innovation by these systems’ stakeholders. Innovation is apprehended in its cognitive, technical, organizational and institutional complexity. Methods and mechanisms to ... Read more

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  • Living territories to transform the world

    by Patrick Caron, Elodie Valette, Tom Wassenaar, Geo Coppens d'Eeckenbrugge, Vatché Papazian ...
    What resources underpin the development of a territory? What does territorial management of resources mean? What specific characteristics and opportunities does territorial organization offer for agricultural production, regulation of sectors, and services? How are territorial public policies conceived and applied? But also, what are the limits of the territorial approach? How does a territorial ... Read more

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  • Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures

    A Plea for Experimentalism

    by Gilles Paquet ...
    Series series Governance Series
    In Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures, Gilles Paquet criticizes the prevailing practices of the social sciences on the basis of their inadequate concepts of knowledge, evidence and inquiry, concepts he claims have become methodological “mental prisons”. Paquet describes the prevailing policy development process in Canada in terms of its weak information infrastructure, poor ... Read more

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