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A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city's infrastructure and services. The majority of the world's inhabitants live in cities, but even with the vast wealth and resources these cities generate, their most vulnerable populations live without adequate or affordable housing, safe water, healthy food, and other essentials. And yet, cities also oft…
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Urban and Industrial Environments,
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Coal and Energy in South Africa
Coal and Energy in South Africa: Considering a Just Transition investigates the consequences of shifting social responsibilities, new inequalities and the sustainability concerns created by the likely energy transition in Africa to end the fossil-fuel era. Focusing on the local realities in a growing coal and energy town of South Africa, Emalahleni, it explores whether a just transition from co…
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Chapter 1 The Common Denominator: Persistent Racial Gaps in the Administratio…
Issues of race permeate virtually every corner of policy creation and implementation in the United States, yet theoretically driven research on interactions of policy, race, and ethnicity rarely offers practical tools that can be readily applied by current and future civil servants, private contractors, or nonprofit boards. Arguing that scholarship can and should inform practice to address issu…
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Challenges to feminist knowledge? The economisation of EU gender equality policy
Such developments have been typical of the European Union’s (EU) gender equality policy. In comparison to other international institutions, the EU has been seen as a progressive gender equality actor
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Policy Mixes for Addressing Environmental Challenges
The systemic nature of today’s complex and often interconnected environmental challenges, such as the climate crisis or biodiversity loss, and their urgency require multi-faceted but often politically contested policy interventions that go beyond the realm of environmental policy and single policy instruments. This calls for the combination of policies addressing these environmental chall…
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- 9780367489922, 9781032503110
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Simulation Modeling as a Policy Tool
This chapter describes the use of the agent-based model as a scenario tool to aid policymakers anticipate effects of policy intervention. The text frames policy as a complex system and presents the concept, advantages and limitations of ABM as a tool. We present a few applications of ABM for policy that were useful.
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Assessment for Inclusion in Higher Education
Bringing together international authors to examine how diversity and inclusion impact assessment in higher education, this book provides educators with the knowledge and understanding required to transform practices so that they are more equitable and inclusive of diverse learners. Assessment drives learning and determines who succeeds. Assessment for Inclusion in Higher Education is written to…
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American Politics and the Environment, Second Edition
Changing our environmental policy has been at the forefront of many political discussions. But how can we make this change come about? In American Politics and the Environment, Second Edition, Byron W. Daynes, Glen Sussman and Jonathan P. West argue it is critical that we must understand the politics of environmental decision making and how political actors operate within political institutions…
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- 9781438459349
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Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities : Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass…
This open access book focuses on the meanings, agendas, as well as the local and global implications of bioeconomy and bioenergy policies in and across South America, Asia and Europe. It explores how a transition away from a fossil and towards a bio-based economic order alters, reinforces and challenges socio-ecological inequalities. The volume presents a historically informed and empirically r…
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Alberta's Day Care Controversy: From 1908 to 2009 and Beyond
Day care in Alberta has had a remarkably durable history as a controversial issue. Since the late 1950s, disputes over day care programs, policies, and funding have been a recurring feature of political life in the province. Alberta's Day Care Controversy traces the development of day care policies and programs in Alberta, with particular emphasis on policy decisions and program initiatives tha…
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