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  • A Decade of Disaster Experiences in Ōtautahi Christchurch

    Critical Disaster Studies Perspectives

    Edición de Shinya Uekusa, Steve Matthewman, Bruce C. Glavovic ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book critically surveys a decade of disasters in Ōtautahi Christchurch. It brings together a diverse range of authors, disciplinary approaches and topics, to reckon with the events that commenced with the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence. Each contribution tackles its subject matter through the frame of Critical Disaster Studies (CDS). The events and the subsequent recovery provide a ... Leer más

    $134.09 USD

  • Adapting to Climate Change

    Lessons from Natural Hazards Planning

    Edición de Bruce C. Glavovic, Gavin P. Smith ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book identifies lessons learned from natural hazard experiences to help communities plan for and adapt to climate change. Written by leading experts, the case studies examine diverse experiences, from severe storms to sea-level related hazards, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods, earthquakes and tsunami, in North America, Europe, Australasia, Asia, Africa and Small Island Developing ... Leer más

    $143.09 USD

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  • Nga Kahui Pou

    Launching Maori Futures

    de Mason Durie ...
    by 2051 the ethnic Maori population will almost double in size to close to a million, or twenty-two percent of the total New Zealand population. Even more dramatically, by 2051 thirty-three percent of all children in the country will be Maori ...' This substantial change in our society will have major implications for Maori and wider society. Professor Durie discusses traditions and customs and ... Leer más

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  • Quarterly Essay 49 Not Dead Yet

    Labor's Post-Left Future

    de Mark Latham ...
    Series Libro 49 - Quarterly Essay
    With an election looming and criticism of the ALP now a national pastime, Mark Latham considers the future for Labor. The nation has changed, but can the party?With wit and insight, Latham reveals an organisation top-heavy with factional bosses protecting their turf. At the same time Labor’s traditional working-class base has long been eroding. People who grew up in fibro shacks now live in double ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Nga Tini Whetu

    Navigating Maori Futures

    de Mason Durie ...
    Nga Tini Whetu - Navigating Maori Futures brings together twenty-five papers Mason Durie has presented at national and international conferences between 2004 and 2010. It discusses Maori moving towards a future involving new technologies, alliances, economies and levels of achievement and being equipped to respond to the changes in a way that enables Maori to prosper and live in a changing world ... Leer más

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  • Voice of Reason

    On Recognition and Renewal: Quarterly Essay 90

    de Megan Davis ...
    Series Libro 90 - Quarterly Essay
    Why a First Nations Voice to Parliament is a ‘constitutional moment’ that offers a new vision of AustraliaAt Uluru, an invitation was issued to the Australian people. With the upcoming referendum, the nation will decide whether to accept that invitation. In this compelling, fresh and imaginative essay, Megan Davis draws out the significance and the promise of this “constitutional moment” – what it ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • The New Zealand Project

    de Max Harris ...
    By any measure, New Zealand must confront monumental issues in the years ahead. From the future of work to climate change, wealth inequality to new populism these challenges are complex and even unprecedented. Yet why does New Zealand’s political discussion seem so diminished, and our political imagination unequal to the enormity of these issues? And why is this gulf particularly apparent to young ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Island Time

    New Zealand's Pacific Futures

    de Damon Salesa ...
    Series Libro 64 - BWB Texts
    The task of living in modern New Zealand and especially in modern Auckland is not just to understand how to live with different peoples, but how to adapt to the future that has already happened.New Zealand is a nation that exists on Pacific Islands, but does not, will not, perhaps cannot, see itself as a Pacific Island nation. Yet turning to the Pacific, argues Damon Salesa, enables us to grasp a ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Precarity

    Uncertain, insecure and unequal lives in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Edición de Bridgette Masters-Awatere, Clifford van Ommen, Natasha Matamua, Shiloh Groot ...
    Leading UK economist Guy Standing has referred to the precariat as a class-in-the-making. The Precariat are our fellow citizens — be they poor, elderly, disabled, homeless, estranged from their cultural communities, refugees, engaged in casual work — who lead lives of uncertainty, dependency, powerlessness, perilousness and insufficiency. They are the outcome of the gradual dismantling of the ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Boyer Lectures 2012

    The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom

    de Marcia Langton ...
    Professor Marcia Langton's 2012 Boyer Lectures discuss the dependency of Aboriginal businesses and not-for-profit corporations on the resources industry and their resultant vulnerability to economic downturns.'My aim with the 53rd Boyer Lectures has been to inject new ideas and new ways of thinking about the status of Indigenous people in Australia and about the impact of the mining boom in the ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Tourism and Sustainability

    Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

    de Martin Mowforth, Ian Munt ...
    By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct.So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring ... Leer más

    $95.99 USD

  • Planning Australia

    An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning

    de Susan Thompson, Paul Maginn ...
    Planning Australia provides a comprehensive introduction to the major issues and activities that constitute urban and regional planning in Australia today. Incorporating contemporary theory and practice, it contextualises planning in terms of its theoretical, ideological and professional foundations. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, underpinned by the principles of ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD