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Reflexive governance for global public goods
Governance challenges and solutions for the provision of global public goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301213
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages) :illustrations.
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Health and medicine on display : International Expositions in the United Stat…
This work offers a book-length examination of how international expositions, through their exhibits and infrastructures, sought to demonstrate innovations in applied health and medical practice.
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The natural resources trap :private investment without public commitment
Volatility in commodity prices has been accompanied by perpetual renegotiation of contracts between private investors in natural resource production and the governments of states with mineral and energy wealth. When prices skyrocket, governments want a larger share of revenues, sometimes to the point of nationalization or expropriation; when prices fall, larger state participation becomes a bur…
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- 9780262275538
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 519 pages) :illustrations
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Data action :using data for public good
"Data Action will offer a model for reading, collecting, visualizing, and putting data to work on civic change. Using arresting graphics and influential case studies, as well as incorporating cultural and historical context, Data Action presents a helpful corrective to standard practice. Historically, data has been used and manipulated to make policy decisions without input from the general pub…
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- 0262359146
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Bridging the silos :collaborating for environment, health, and justice in urb…
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262354981
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- 1 online resource (376 pages) :illustrations.
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Remaking Berlin :a history of the city through infrastructure, 1920-2020
"The first carefully researched historical analysis of the co-evolution of Berlin and its infrastructure services"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262360906
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Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming
"How do Americans think about energy? Is the debate over fossil fuels highly partisan and ideological? Does public opinion about fossil fuels and alternative energies divide along the fault between red states and blue states? And how much do concerns about climate change weigh on their opinions? In Cheap and Clean, Stephen Ansolabehere and David Konisky show that Americans are more pragmatic th…
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- 0262321068
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- 1 online resource (x, 261 pages)
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Sidewalks :conflict and negotiation over public space
Examines the evolution of an undervalued urban space and how conflicts over competing uses--from the right to sit to the right to parade--have been negotiated.Urban sidewalks, critical but undervalued public spaces, have been sites for political demonstrations and urban greening, promenades for the wealthy and the well-dressed, and shelterless shelters for the homeless. On sidewalks, decade aft…
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- 9780262255462
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- 1 online resource (x, 328 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Co-Cities: innovative transitions toward just and self-sustaining communities
"A new framework for experimental and innovative "city-making" for urban resources and services to be developed and governed in a collaborative, socially, and economically inclusive ways"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262369930
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A History of American Privateers
American privateers played a significant role during the American War of Independence and the Anglo-American war of 1812, as the American regular navy was very small. Reinforcement by privateers sailing under the government's jurisdiction carrying Letters of Marque was essential, and in fact both sides made use of privateers, capturing each other's merchant ships as prizes. Many successful sail…
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