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Living with Pandemics
Edited by John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy, Louise Reardon
‘This book captures a very specific moment in our current lives: the rise of a formidable pandemic, one more aggressive and more global than prior pandemics. It has already killed more people than have some of our major wars. The authors... -
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Advanced Introduction to Water Politics
Ken Conca
‘This book is a must read for those wanting to understand the importance of water. While water is life, Conca reminds us that it is also highly political. In demonstrating the political challenges for governing water, Conca surveys such ... -
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Geographies of Cosmopolitanism
Barney Warf
‘Truly an insightful pathbreaking tour de force on an evolving concept related to cultures, politics and economies in the contemporary world. It is a world where empathy, generosity, diversity and understanding are central and the meanin... -
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EU Cohesion Policy and Spatial Governance
Edited by Daniel Rauhut, Franziska Sielker, Alois Humer
‘“The course of true love never did run smooth,” Shakespeare would say about EU Cohesion Policy, one which Europe both underestimates and depends excessively upon. This volume explores the reasons behind this complex phenomenon, by weavi... -
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Defining Public Goods
David J. O’Brien
Through the lens of an economist’s notion of public goods, David J. O’Brien analyzes the dual problems of declining communities and polarizing conflicts between metropolitan and rural communities. The author describes in detail how seemi... -
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Advanced Introduction to the Experience Economy
Jon Sundbo
‘This book offers a comprehensive overview and summary of research on the experience economy. It elaborates on the differences of functional services and experiences, and primary and secondary experiences, points at the importance of exp... -
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Handbook of Cities and Networks
Edited by Zachary P. Neal, Céline Rozenblat
‘If you want to understand cities – the innovation and dynamism they generate and the way they sort and segregate people by class, race and other dimensions – you have to start by understanding that cities are networks. Zachary Neal and ... -
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![Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency]()
Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency
Edited by Satu Teerikangas, Tiina Onkila, Katariina Koistinen, Marileena Mäkelä
This innovative Research Handbook answers crucial questions about how individuals and organizations can make a difference toward sustainability. Offering an integrative perspective on sustainability agency, it reviews individual, active,... -
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![Advanced Introduction to Marxism and Human Geography]()
Advanced Introduction to Marxism and Human Geography
Kevin R. Cox
‘Cox explains in clear language the central categories of classical Marxism, before showing how urbanization, environmental destruction, difference, uneven development, and geopolitics have evolved under capitalism and help reproduce cap... -
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Global Production Networks and Rural Development
Edited by Bill Pritchard
‘This edited volume brings together a set of timely and much needed research contributions on the pattern, nature and dynamics of the exports of fresh fruit from Southeast Asian countries to China. A palette of detailed case studies join... -
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Predatory Urbanism
Agatino Rizzo, Anindita Mandal
‘This book gives much needed attention to the violence of state-led megaprojects in Asia’s contemporary cities. The challenges of “predatory urbanism” examined in Qatar, Malaysia, and India are not harbingers of change; they are the chan... -
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![Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies]()
Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies
Edited by Jan Fransen, Meine P. van Dijk, Jurian Edelenbos
‘The authors argue that cities in emerging economies can increase their sustainable competitiveness by replacing their traditional system of urban planning and management with a modern system of urban governance. This is a must read for ...
