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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781139923316 , 9781107431720 , 9781107076280
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 404 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Series Statement: New directions in sustainability and society
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sustainability in the global city
    DDC: 307.116
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    Keywords: Urbanization; Social aspects. ; Sustainable urban development. ; Urban anthropology. ; Urban ecology (Sociology) ; Urbanization Social aspects ; Sustainable urban development ; Urban anthropology ; Urban ecology (Sociology) ; Urbanization ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Stadtentwicklung ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of hope. Yet, we know little about how the concept is implemented in daily life - particularly with regard to questions of social justice and equity. This volume provides a unique and vital contribution to ongoing conversations about urban sustainability by looking beyond the promises, propaganda, and policies associated with the concept in order to explore both its mythic meanings and the practical implications in a variety of everyday contexts. The authors present ethnographic studies from cities in eleven countries and six continents. Each chapter highlights the universalized assumptions underlying interpretations of sustainability while elucidating the diverse and contradictory ways in which people understand, incorporate, advocate for, and reject sustainability in the course of their daily lives.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Urban Sustainability as Myth and Practice; PartOne Building the myth: Branding the Green Global City; Chapter 1 ""We're Not that Kind of Developing Country"": Environmental Awareness in Contemporary China; Setting the Stage: Global Coronations, Local Conditions; ""The Future is 3D"": Linking Technology and the Environment; ""[We] are More EducatedWe Pay More Attention to the Environment"": Sustaining Quality and Privilege
    Description / Table of Contents: We are not the ""Sick Man of Asia"" Any Longer: Sustaining the State""The Expo is a Face Project"": Hidden Narratives/Critical Voices; Conclusion: Environmental Subjects in the Global Order; Acknowledgments; Works Cited; Chapter 2 Green Capitals Reconsidered; Introduction: Sustainability in the City; The Pride of the Capital: Eco-Efficiency and the Ecological Footprint; Alternative Accounting and Frames of Vision: On Consumption and Global Justice; Beyond Eco-Efficiency: Reducing Embodied Emissions; Conclusion: Framing ""Environmental"" Problems and Imagining Solutions; Acknowledgments
    Description / Table of Contents: Works CitedSnapshot 1 Lessons of Unsustainability: Learning from Hong Kong; Works Cited; Chapter 3 Going Green? Washing Stones in World-Class Delhi; Introduction; ""Green City"" Aesthetics and Washerpeople; Shifting Contexts: From Washing Stones to ""Green"" Laundries; Going ""Greener""? The Sustainability of Already Green and ""Greening"" Laundries; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Works Cited; PartTwo Planning, Design, and Sustainability in the Wake of Crisis; Chapter 4 ""The Sustainability Edge"": Competition, Crisis, and the Rise of Green Urban Branding
    Description / Table of Contents: Sustainability in the Neoliberal ""Urban Age""The Institutional Fields of Urban Sustainability Branding; Urban Sustainability Branding in Post-Crisis New York and New Orleans; TwoTwelve and Planyc 2030; Nolabound and Sustainable Entrepreneurial Culture; Conclusion; Works Cited; Snapshot 2 Developing Sustainable Visions for Post-Catastrophe Communities; Chapter 5 I've Got a House but No Room for My Hammock: the Tragedy of the Commons, or Another Common Tragedy Among the Añu of Sinamaica, Venezuela; Introduction; The context
    Description / Table of Contents: La Gran Misión Vivienda Venezuela: Substituting Shacks for Suitable HousesI've got a House but No Room for My Hammock; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 6 Green is the New Brown: "Old School Toxics" and Environmental Gentrification on a New York City Waterfront; Introduction: Of Ferris Wheels and Floods; Too Close for Comfort; Building the Bigger, ""Green"" Apple; Brown Spots on the Apple; Storage Wars; Constricted by the BOA; Conclusion: While You Were Out; Works Cited; Snapshot 3 Producing Sustainable Futures in Post-Genocide Kigali, Rwanda; Do-It-Yourself Sustainability
    Description / Table of Contents: Specters of a Sustainable Future
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781139612678
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The book examines the mechanisms that generate myopia in organizations and explores how organizations can foresee and contain unexpected events.
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521515467 , 9780511744457 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 426 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780511744457
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 304.6408832095
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    Keywords: Sozialpolitik ; Medizinische Versorgung ; Demokratie ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Ostasien ; Lateinamerika ; Electronic books
    Abstract: James W. McGuire explores why some East Asian and Latin American societies have done better than others at raising life expectancy and reducing infant mortality.
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511288531
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (310 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Print version The Logics and Politics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe
    DDC: 304.8/4
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    Keywords: Europe, Western ; Emigration and immigration ; History ; 20th century ; Electronic books ; Europe, Western Emigration and immigration 20th century ; History ; Europe History 1945- ; Europe, Western Emigration and immigration ; Government policy
    Abstract: This book traces the evolution of immigration for the immigration-receiving states of Western Europe.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- The Logics and Politics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe -- 1 Introduction: Immigration and State Sovereignty -- Framing the core puzzles of post-wwii immigration -- Overview and argument -- Linking immigration and state sovereignty -- Policy challenges posed by post-wwii immigration -- Challenge of Unwanted Immigration -- Challenge of a Contested Domestic Immigration Policy -- Challenge from Anti-Immigrant Groups -- Challenge of Immigrant Political Incorporation -- Plan of the book -- 2 The Origins and Trajectory of Post-WWII Immigration -- Three waves of postwar immigration -- First Wave: Labor Immigration and the Postwar Economy (1945-79) -- Seasonal Immigration -- Second Wave: Secondary Immigration and Permanent Settlement (1973-2007) -- Third Wave: Irregular and Forced Immigration (1989-2007) -- Irregular Immigration -- "Crisis" of Asylees and Refugees -- Postwar immigration as a coherent phenomenon -- Securitization of immigration and its emergence as a meta-issue -- Conclusion: immigration's shifting benefits and costs -- 3 The Organized Nativist Backlash: The Surge of Anti-Immigrant Groups -- The phenomenon of anti-immigrant groups -- A Brief Survey -- Varied Orientations, Forms, and Strategies of Anti-Immigrant Groups -- Generic Groups -- Neo-Fascist Groups -- Opportunistic Right -- New Radical Right -- Ethnonational Right -- The logic of anti-immigrant groups -- Filling a Unique Niche within the Domestic Political Marketplace -- Violating the Conspiracy of Silence -- Immigrants as a Perceived Threat -- Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and Unemployment -- Size of the Foreign Population -- Subjective versus Objective Opposition -- Anti-Immigrant Groups as a Post-1980 Phenomenon.
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511152948
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
    Series Statement: Themes in European Governance
    DDC: 306.094
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Sozialpolitik ; Moral ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book examines European integration and national policies on moral issues such as abortion, drugs and alcohol.
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