Prolegomena: Alternative Discourses in Social Science as "Culturally Independent" Scholarship -- The Yin-Yang Dialectic and Principles of Social Change: Culturally Independent Alternative Sociological Ideas -- Selective Modernization and Alternative Modernities: In Search of an Alternative Theory -- From The "Culture of Development" Toward "Cultured" Development: An Alternative Theoretical Appr…
Return Migration Decision Making: Theoretical Considerations -- Chinese Migration to Japan: Then and Now -- A Conceptualization of (Locational) Decision-Making Processes -- Impact of Career, Family and Lifestyle Factors on Migrants’ Locational Decisions. .Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both the process and the decisive factors in…
Introduction - Climate Change and Cities: Perspectives, Planning, and People -- Stakeholder Methods to Climate Change and Sustainable Development -- Case Study Reviews: People, Perspective, and Planning -- The Review of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): People, Perspective and Planning -- Sustainable Urban Development in the Age of Climate Change.This book considers the impact of climate ch…
1. Pathways to Low Carbon Living -- Part 1: Energy Transition2. Energy futures for Australia -- 3. Rooftop photovoltaics: distributed renewable energy and storage (or low cost PV changes everything) -- 4. Community owned renewable energy: enabling the transition towards renewable energy? -- 5. Unlocking the benefits of vehicle electrification -- 6. Decarbonising household energy use: the smart …
SECTION 1 – INTRODUCTION -- Introduction -- Framing Urban Movements, Contesting Global Capitalism and Liberal Democracy -- SECTION 2 - CHANGING FORMS OF URBAN ACTIVISM -- Housing Activism against the Production of Ignorance: Some Lessons from the UK -- Urban Food Activism in Athens: Recovering More Autonomous Forms of Social reproduction -- From Obedience to Resistance: Understanding Equal Ri…
1.Introduction: Resources Politics and Knowing the Salween River -- 2.Salween: What’s in a Name? -- 3.Hydropower Politics and Conflict on the Salween River -- 4.From Hydropower Construction to National Park Creation: Changing Pathways of the Nu River -- 5.Rites, Rights and Water Justice in Karen State: A Case Study of Community-based Water Governance and the Hatgyi Dam -- 6.Contested Water Go…
Why Focusing on Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asia Is Relevant and Urgent -- Part 1: Understanding Vulnerability: Neighbourhoods, Cities, and Nations Beyond -- Bridging Systems and People-centred Approaches in Urban Vulnerability Research: Insights for Resilience from Dawei, Myanmar.- Water Access and Resilience to Climate-induced Droughts in the Thai Secondary City of Khon Kae…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The course floods in the study areas and their consequences -- Chapter 3. Changeability of the spatial image of flood over time -- Chapter 4. Social vulnerability as a factor in flood preparedness -- Chapter 5. Online flood risk communication -- Chapter 6. Planning documents as a source of information about flood risk -- Chapter 7. Discussion and conclusion…
Prologue-A Place to Live, Work, and Play: Housing Demand and Urbanization in the Baltic Countries -- Turbulent Political History and the Legacy of State Socialism in the Baltic Countries -- Soviet-Era Housing Systems Explained: Constructing and Inhabiting Socialist Housing Estates in the Baltics -- Freedom and Constraints: Ideals Transferred but Eclipsed by Industrialised Housing Production -- …
Introduction -- Cluster and Smart specialization: different approaches to design innovation policy -- The intricate relationship between Smart Specialization and Clusters -- An untapped knowledge source towards implementing Smart Specialization: the life cycle of clusters.This book investigates cluster-life-cycle (CLC) analysis to inform the entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP), in order to …