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Urbana: Revista Eletrônica do Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos da Cidade, 2015 Santiago de León de Caracas siempre ha sido una ciudad de riesgos. Fundada, en 1567, en un valle fértil pero de topografía abrupta, sometido a la acción sismogénica del sistema de fallas de San Sebastián, Caracas ha padecido a lo largo de cinco siglos de
Alejandra Leal Guzmán, Florinda Amaya
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Reflections on Comparative Teaching in Public Administration
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article integrates our scholarly experience of teaching comparative public administration. In doing so, we offer a unique perspective as the co‐authors carry several diverse attributes, among them their countries of origin, current country in which they are teaching, and their academic experience.
Kim Moloney +6 more
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‘Risks’ as a justification for, and a challenge to, European territorial co-operation
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2007 Under the new ‘European territorial Co-operation’ objective of the EU’s cohesion policy the programmes for the funding period 2007-2013 refer to ‘natural’, ’environmental’ or ‘flood’ risks.
Ulrich Graute, Stephan Schöps
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Stabilising Routines in Complex Emergencies: How Basic Service Continuity Shapes Perceived Security
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how locally embedded actors describe the relationship between basic service continuity and perceived security in complex emergencies, with particular attention to the stabilisation of everyday routines. Using Proximity‐Predictability‐Attributability (PPA) as an analytic lens, we trace how interviewees relate access to water,
Abdullah Gökhan Yaşa, Orçun İmga
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Private Security and Public Space: New Approaches to the Theory and Practice of Gated Communities
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2006 This article reviews a range of arguments and some of the evidence on the emergence of gated communities or as they will be described in this article gated residential developments (GRDs).
Bill Smith Bowers, Tony Manzi
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How can children and young people have a voice in urban treescapes?
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Scientific understanding of climate change has, to date, failed to result in sufficient action. This paper proposes that a deficit model of top‐down learning and dissemination in relation to public engagement with science may be part of the problem, particularly when considering the attitudes, values and empowerment of children and young ...
Simon Carr +10 more
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The Limits of Polycentrism at the City-regional Scale: The case of Luxembourg
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2014 Over the last fifteen years, promoters of the European spatial planning policy have presented polycentrism as the most promising strategy for answering the challenge of a more even spatial development.
Antoine Decoville, Olivier Klein
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Proposing a Framework to Center Justice in Ambitious Science Teaching
Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Though educators and researchers have developed shared theory and language for priorities necessary to disrupt the status quo toward more equitable science education, we lack a tool that organizes sets of teaching practices across an instructional unit to support enactment and rehearsal.
April Luehmann +8 more
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Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning: Some considerations arising from the Greek case
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2012 The paper aims to elaborate on the notion of sustainable development in relation to spatial planning and to question its applicability based on the experience arising from the distinct socio-economic situation in Greece.
Pavlos Marinos Delladetsima
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Identity, Inequality, and Happiness: Evidence from Urban China [PDF]
This paper presents the impact of income inequality on the subjective wellbeing of three different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, gbornh urban residents, and gacquiredh urban
Shiqing Jiang, Hiroshi Sato, Ming Lu
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