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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Scholars have widely discussed integrating local administrations into climate governance networks, focusing on networks such as the Global Covenant of Mayors or C40, whose members are mostly in the European Union or countries of the global North and premium cities managed by engaged administrations. Relatively little is known about urban‐scale
Alejandra Irigoyen Rios, Rosa Lehmann
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Cruelty and Austerity. Philip Hallie’s Categories of Ethical Thought and Today’s Greek Tragedy
Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2013 In this paper, 20th-century ethicist Philip Hallie’s research on cruelty is outlined and explained in order to determine and discuss categories of thought that make cruelty attributable to social forms of agency.
Giorgio Baruchello
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article develops the concept of environmental statecraft to study changing urban environmental politics in China and beyond. Our review of existing conceptions reveals a growing need to account for temporal and geographical complexity. Neoliberal conceptions of eco‐state restructuring are increasingly strained by contemporary geopolitical
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
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American and British Studies Annual, 2019 Once a rare sight, food banks are fast becoming an established feature of Britain’s social security system, their number having increased from around a hundred in 2010 to over two thousand at present.
Alice Tihelková
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CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Amid growing interest in how states manage urban development through public finance, this article examines the institutional logics of leverage manipulation as a mode of contemporary urban governance. Focusing on China's evolving political economy, it investigates how local governments and real estate developers co‐produce a shadow financial ...
Ang Liu
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the rise of impact investment in social housing in an age of entrenched financialization and enduring public underinvestment through the case of philanthropic investors in Southern Ontario, Canada. Social finance scholarship has highlighted tensions between financial and social returns, while overlooking the role of place
Yinnon Geva, Matti Siemiatycki
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TERRITORIAL VALORIZATION: How Positive Stereotypes Advance Suburban Water Insecurity in Detroit
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Suburbs historically enabled and protected white middle‐class wealth in the United States; however, their more recent diversification has included a rise in suburban poverty. This article examines these dynamics through the issue of household water access—a feature of rising suburban impoverishment that deserves greater attention.
Dana Kornberg, Mackenzie Taradalsky
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Effect of Austerity Measures on Infant Mortality: Evidence From Greece. [PDF]
Health EconKolesar RJ, Spruk R.
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