The Elgar Companion to Urban Infrastructure Governance

The Elgar Companion to Urban Infrastructure Governance
Author: Finger, Matthias
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2022-04-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1800375611

A comprehensive overview of the governance of urban infrastructures, this Companion combines illustrative cases with conceptual approaches to offer an innovative perspective on the governance of large urban infrastructure systems. Chapters examine the challenges facing urban infrastructure systems, including financial, economic, technological, social, ecological, jurisdictional and demand.

Events and Infrastructures

Events and Infrastructures
Author: Barbara Grabher
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2024-05-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1040026699

Innovative and the first of its kind, this informative and multidisciplinary book explores the socio-cultural significance inherent in event infrastructures. While mainstream event management literature addresses event infrastructures mainly through its operational relevance, this carefully compiled edited volume takes infrastructures as an analytical point in respect to its social, political, economic and cultural potential of the study of events. Borrowing from the ongoing social scientific debates on the geography, sociology and anthropology of infrastructures, critical questions are posed in relation to the event contexts. With references to events in Argentina, Malawi, Spain and the UK, among others, the volume combines an international perspective with a highly relevant subject for contemporary event management education. By bringing together theoretical as well as empirical readings on the question of event infrastructures from a critical point of view, the debates are relevant to practitioners and researchers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field of events, leisure, tourism, anthropology, sociology, geography and urban planning – among others.

Sustainable, Innovative and Intelligent Societies and Cities

Sustainable, Innovative and Intelligent Societies and Cities
Author: Carlos Filipe da Silva Portela
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2023-06-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031305140

This book combines two main topics applied to cities and societies: innovation and sustainability. The book begins by showing a brief overview of the book's main topics; then, the book addresses four main areas which allow our communities to be more attractive, engaging and fun; analytical, descriptive and predictive; healthy, secure and sustainable; and innovative, connected and monitored. This book represents a union of inputs from researchers and practitioners where each chapter has distinct, valuable and practical contributions that turn it unique. The content ranges from theoretical, like studies or analyses to practical, like industrial solutions or engaging systems. Both branches focus on turning our society more attractive, intelligent, inclusive, sustainable, and ready for the future.

Elgar Companion to Sustainable Cities

Elgar Companion to Sustainable Cities
Author: Daniel A. Mazmanian
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2014-06-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857939998

Against a backdrop of unprecedented levels of urbanization, 21st century cities across the globe share concerns for the challenges they face. This Companion provides a framework for understanding the city as a critical building block for a more sustain

Assembling Nusantara

Assembling Nusantara
Author: Henny Warsilah
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9819935334

Today, the new Indonesian capital city, Nusantara, planning is being anticipated as “representing national identity,” “a model city,” or “a gift to the world,” and many other extraordinary labels. This book examines the reality of an ongoing developmental transformation of the Nusantara beyond those labels. It approaches its assemblage of humans, their works (plans, documents, policies, and others), non-human objects (biodiversity, landscape, geography, physical infrastructure, buildings, and public spaces), processes, social relationships, social infrastructures, and others. It is organized into three themes—mimicry, friction, and resonance. The mimicry illustrates the similarities (and differences) between Nusantara and other capital cities in urban narratives, imageries, and forms. The friction studies how Nusantara moves actors who do not always agree, processes that do not always align or collaboration between diverse contradicting groups that intersect. The resonance observes how Nusantara resonates with, yet communicates its voice toward, the world. The three concepts (originated from geography, anthropology, and sociology) frame the analytics of the various contributions of local and foreign scientists from multiple disciplines. Overall, the book recommends “Otorita Ibu Kota Nusantara” (Nusantara capital city authority) on the current experimentation and implementation of the urban vision and provides a reference for social scientists to study Nusantara. And more broadly, the book offers the current socio-spatial practices of capital city-making in Asia that are valuable for the region.

The Elgar Companion to the Built Environment and the Sustainable Development Goals

The Elgar Companion to the Built Environment and the Sustainable Development Goals
Author: Alex Opoku
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2024-02-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1035300036

Exploring the link between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the built environment, this erudite Companion provides a comprehensive overview and critical examination of key topics and complex research issues. Structured around the 5Ps of the SDGs - people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnerships - the Companion suggests potential routes for the future direction of research within this multidisciplinary field of study.

The Elgar Companion to the Asian Development Bank

The Elgar Companion to the Asian Development Bank
Author: M. G. Quibria
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2024-02-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1800882963

Providing an authoritative yet accessible introduction to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), this comprehensive Companion offers a detailed examination of the ADB’s objectives, policies, development outcomes, strengths and weaknesses, areas for reform, and challenges going forward.

Child Rights and Displacement in East Africa

Child Rights and Displacement in East Africa
Author: Cherie C. Enns
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2022-09-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000646084

Focusing on the intersection of spatial justice, child rights, and planning policy, this book investigates the challenges of resettlement in East Africa, where half of those displaced are children. The challenges created by displacement and resettlement are often considered from an adult-centric perspective by planners and humanitarian and development experts. The spatial injustice of displacement and resettlement, the agency of children, and the application of tools such as Child Participatory Vulnerability Index (CPVI) is siloed, commonly overlooked, or discounted. This book uses a CPVI and rights-based assessment of land-use policies, to investigate resettlement due to conflict and settlement in northern Uganda, floods due to climate change in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and urban to rural migration of children due to the aids pandemic in Western Kenya. Case studies from over a decade of field research are integrated with examples from applied planning projects and policy development in the East Africa region. This book uses spatial justice theory to show how child-friendly planning approaches can positively promote child rights in the context of resettlement. Providing important insights on how to enact child-friendly planning in informal settlements, refugee camps, and displacement camps, this book will be of interest to planning and development professionals, and researchers across the fields of children's rights, Development Studies, Planning, and African Studies.

The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals

The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals
Author: Matthew Rimmer
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 703
Release: 2024-02-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 180392523X

Complex geopolitical debate surrounds the role of intellectual property (IP) in advancing and achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Summarising and advancing this discourse, this prescient Companion is a thorough examination of how IP law interacts, influences and impacts each of the seventeen SDGs.

Elgar Companion to Regulating AI and Big Data in Emerging Economies

Elgar Companion to Regulating AI and Big Data in Emerging Economies
Author: Mark Findlay
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785362402

Committed to highlighting the regulatory needs and priorities of emerging economies in the context of AI and big data, this expertly crafted Companion explores the nature and role of regulation in the Global South from a techno-dependent societal perspective. It not only amplifies the unspoken and underrepresented voices in AI and data regulation scholarly discourse, but also provides a novel approach to otherwise recipient economies in an age of digital transformation.