Handbook on Local and Regional Governance

Handbook on Local and Regional Governance
Author: Filipe Teles
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2023-01-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1800371209

Holistic in approach, this Handbook’s international range of leading scholars present complementary perspectives, both theoretical and empirically pertinent, to explore recent developments in the field of local and regional governance.

Using the Narcotrafico Threat to Build Public Administration Capacity between the US and Mexico

Using the Narcotrafico Threat to Build Public Administration Capacity between the US and Mexico
Author: Donald E. Klingner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1040181694

The current drug trafficking crisis between the US and Mexico is a "perfect storm" that has caused deaths, disappearances, and widespread fear of violence and insecurity in the border area between these two countries. Current US drug control policies with Mexico are based on a militarized system of border control and characterized by domestic gridl

Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies

Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies
Author: Mark Shucksmith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 729
Release: 2016-05-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317619862

Rural societies around the world are changing in fundamental ways, both at their own initiative and in response to external forces. The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies examines the organisation and transformation of rural society in more developed regions of the world, taking an interdisciplinary and problem-focused approach. Written by leading social scientists from many countries, it addresses emerging issues and challenges in innovative and provocative ways to inform future policy. This volume is organised around eight emerging social, economic and environmental challenges: Demographic change. Economic transformations. Food systems and land. Environment and resources. Changing configurations of gender and rural society. Social and economic equality. Social dynamics and institutional capacity. Power and governance. Cross-cutting these challenges are the growing interdependence of rural and urban; the rise in inequality within and between places; the impact of fiscal crisis on rural societies; neoliberalism, power and agency; and rural areas as potential sites of resistance. The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies is required reading for anyone concerned with the future of rural areas.

Global Administrative Law and EU Administrative Law

Global Administrative Law and EU Administrative Law
Author: Edoardo Chiti
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2011-07-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3642202640

This book seeks to enrich and refine global administrative law and EU administrative law analytical tools by examining their manifold relations. Its aim is to begin to explore the complex reality of the interactions between EU administrative law and global administrative law, to provide a preliminary map of such legal and institutional reality, and to review it. The book is the first attempt to analyze a dense area of new legal issues. The first part of the book contains core elements of a general theory of the relationships between global and EU administrative law: comparative inquiries, exchanges of legal principles, and developing linkages. The second part is devoted to special regulatory regimes, in which global and European law coexist, though not always peacefully. Several sectors are considered: cultural heritage, medicines, climate change, antitrust, accounting and auditing, banking supervision, and public procurement.

Socio-ecological Studies in Natural Protected Areas

Socio-ecological Studies in Natural Protected Areas
Author: Alfredo Ortega-Rubio
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 809
Release: 2020-11-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 3030472647

This book explores the interactions of local inhabitants and environmental systems in the Protected Natural Areas of Mexico. Its goal is to help understand how social groups contextualize ecological knowledge, how human activities contribute to modifying the environmental matrix, how cultural and economic aspects influence the use, management and conservation of their ecological environment, and how social phenomena are to be viewed against the backdrop of ecological knowledge. The book reviews the epistemological and historical bases of the socio-ecological relationship, and addresses the evolution of human-natural systems. From a methodological standpoint, it assesses the tools required for the integration of “human” and “natural” dimensions in the management of the environmental matrix. Further, in the case studies section, it reviews valuable recent experiences concerning the retro-interactions of local inhabitants with their environmental matrix. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable asset for researchers and professionals all over the world, especially those working in Latin American countries.

Sustainability, Green IT and Education Strategies in the Twenty-first Century

Sustainability, Green IT and Education Strategies in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Tomayess Issa
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2017-07-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319570706

This work presents and discusses the latest approaches and strategies for implementing Sustainability and Green IT into higher education and business environments. Following the global financial crisis in 2007/2008, businesses began to struggle coping with the increased IT/IS cost and their environmental footprint. As a consequence, action by universities to incorporate sustainability and ‘Green IT’ as parts of their teaching and learning materials, acknowledging their importance for global and local businesses, is being increasingly implemented. The book addresses the cooperation and coordination between academics and practitioners needed in order to achieve the changes required to obtain sustainability. Intended for researchers, lecturers and post-graduate students, as well as professionals in the Information Society and ICT and education sectors, and policy makers.

Systems Thinking and E-Participation: ICT in the Governance of Society

Systems Thinking and E-Participation: ICT in the Governance of Society
Author: Cordoba-Pachon, Jose Rodrigo
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2009-12-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1605668613

The development of information-based societies worldwide is now impacting public organizations and their delivery of services to citizens. Systems Thinking and E-Participation: ICT in the Governance of Society provides a systemic-based inquiry platform to explore boundaries, limits, and advantages of information and communication technology use in the public decision making processes. With theoretical and practical contributions, this publication examines the impact of governmental technologies useful to those involved with politics, sociology, and information systems.

Communication: Innovation & Quality

Communication: Innovation & Quality
Author: Miguel Túñez-López
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2018-07-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319918605

This book explores the disruptive changes in the media ecosystem caused by convergence and digitization, and analyses innovation processes in content production, distribution and commercialisation. It has been edited by Professors Miguel Túñez-López (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Valentín-Alejandro Martínez-Fernández (Universidade da Coruña, Spain), Xosé López-García (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Xosé Rúas-Araújo (Universidade de Vigo, Spain) and Francisco Campos-Freire (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain). The book includes contributions from European and American experts, who offer their views on the audiovisual sector, journalism and cyberjournalism, corporate and institutional communication, and education. It particularly highlights the role of new technologies, the Internet and social media, including the ethics and legal dimensions. With 30 contributions, grouped into diverse chapters, on information preferences and uses in journalism, as well as public audiovisual policies in the European Union, related to governance, funding, accountability, innovation, quality and public service, it provides a reliable media resource and presents lines of future development.

Europe as a Common

Europe as a Common
Author: Walter Baier
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-11
Genre:
ISBN: 3643912986

To cope with the problems of today's world, we need to enter into a dialogue regardless of political, religious and philosophical beliefs - a transversal dialogue as Pope Francis called for in the private audience, he gave to Alexis Tsipras, Walter Baier and Franz Kronreif in September 2014. This conversation resulted in the DIALOP initiative - a transversal dialogue between Socialists and Christians. Since then, a network of universities and NGOs have been exploring paths of what they call a transversal social ethics. In this book authors from Austria, Belgium, Colombia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal and the Vatican air their views on topics like social equality, European Unity, democracy, the commons and ecology.