Selective garbage collection and separation involves many of the urban poor. For them solid
waste means resources and recycling becomes a survival strategy. In Brazil, almost a million …

International migration and refugee scholars have made extensive use of the concept of
solidarity in light of the recent arrival of migrants and refugees in Europe and elsewhere …

Going against both the naive techno-optimism of'greening business as usual'and a
resurgent'catastrophism'within green thinking and politics, The Politics of Actually Existing …

Scholars have offered important critiques of the socio‐spatial processes of contemporary
technological development, including the rise of “smart city” urban development models …

My first acquaintance with the very idea of a Gruppo di Acquisto Solidale (GAS; solidarity
purchase group) happened through a younger colleague, an expert in agricultural history …

This book underlines the growing importance of knowledge for the competitiveness of cities
and their regions. Examining the role of knowledge-in its economic, socio-cultural, spatial …

Doktorarbeit/Dissertation aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich BWL-Unternehmensführung,
Management, Organisation, Ostravská univerzita v Ostrave (Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche …

These days, it is easy to be cynical about democracy. Even though there are more
democratic societies now (119 and counting) than ever before, skeptics can point to low …

Jim Bauer reaches toward his upper back, as his wife Doris looks on. Two weeks ago, I'd
diagnosed Jim's muscle spasm, but it is no better after daily ibuprofen and 3 physical …

Dominant governance theories are drawn primarily from Euro-American sources, including
emergent theories of network and collaborative governance. The authors contest this narrow …