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Resource Communities

Past Legacies and Future Pathways

By: Kristof Van Assche,Monica Gruezmacher,Lochner Marais,Xaquin Perez-Sindin

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Resource Communities

Past Legacies and Future Pathways

By: Kristof Van Assche,Monica Gruezmacher,Lochner Marais,Xaquin Perez-Sindin

This book provides an innovative approach to understanding the governance of resource communities, by showcasing how the past and present informs the future. Resource communities have complicated relationships with the past, and this makes their relationship with the future, and the future itself, also complicated. The book digs deeply into the myriad legacies left by a history of resource extraction in a community and makes use of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives to understand the complex issues being faced by a range of different communities that are reliant on different types of resources across the world. From coal and gold mining, to fishing towns and logging communities, the book explores the legacies of boom and bust economies, social memory, trauma and identity, the interactions between power and knowledge and the implications for adaptive governance. Balancing conceptual and theoretical understandings with empirical and practical knowledge of resource communities, natural resource use and social-ecological relationships, the book argues that solutions for individual communities need to be embraced in the community and not just in the perspectives of visiting experts. Linking the past, present and futures of resource communities in a new way, the book concludes by providing practical recommendations for breaking open dependencies on the past, including deepening awareness of the social, economic and environmental contexts, establishing strong governance and developing community strategies, plans and policies for the future. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource governance and management, extractive industries, environmental policy, community planning and development, environmental geography and sustainable development, as well as policymakers involved in supporting community development in natural resource-dependent communities across the world.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000987523

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9781000987522

Rural development

Knowledge and expertise in governance

By: Kristof Van Assche,Anna-Katharina Hornidge

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Rural development

Knowledge and expertise in governance

By: Kristof Van Assche,Anna-Katharina Hornidge

This book offers a unique perspective on rural development, by discussing the most influential perspectives and rendering their risks and benefits visible. The authors do not present a silver bullet. Rather, they give students, researchers, community leaders, politicians, concerned citizens and development organizations the conceptual tools to understand how things are organized now, which development path has already been taken, and how things could possibly move in a different direction. Van Assche and Hornidge pay special attention to the different roles of knowledge in rural development, both expert knowledge in various guises and local knowledge. Crafting development strategies requires understanding how new knowledge can fit in and work out in governance. Drawing on experiences in five continents, the authors develop a theoretical framework which elucidates how modes of governance and rural development are inextricably tied. A community is much better placed to choose direction, when it understands these ties.

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396

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BRILL

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9086868126

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Evolutionary Governance Theory

An Introduction

By: Kristof van Assche,Raoul Beunen,Martijn Duineveld

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Evolutionary Governance Theory

An Introduction

By: Kristof van Assche,Raoul Beunen,Martijn Duineveld

This short books offers the reader a remarkable new perspective on the way markets, laws and societies evolve together. It can be of use to anyone interested in development, market and public sector reform, public administration, politics & law. Based on a wide variety of case studies on three continents and a variety of conceptual sources, the authors develop a theory that clarifies the nature and functioning of dependencies that mark governance evolutions. This in turn delineates in an entirely new manner the spaces open for policy experiment. As such, it offers a new mapping of the middle ground between libertarianism and social engineering. Theoretically, the approach draws on a wide array of sources: institutional & development economics, systems theories, post-structuralism, actor- network theories, planning theory and legal studies.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3319009842

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9783319009841

Strategy for Sustainability Transitions

Governance, Community and Environment

By: Kristof Van Assche,Raoul Beunen,Monica Gruezmacher

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Strategy for Sustainability Transitions

Governance, Community and Environment

By: Kristof Van Assche,Raoul Beunen,Monica Gruezmacher

In this innovative work, Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Monica Gruezmacher analyse the challenges and possibilities of sustainability transitions, presenting the dilemmas facing the path to sustainable communities and societies, as well as proposing creative solutions. The authors deploy evolutionary governance theory as a conceptual framing for transition strategy, highlighting the importance of understanding governance and community strategy in any potential response to environmental crises.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1035324008

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9781035324002

The Bio-Politics of the Danube Delta

Nature, History, Policies

By: Constantin Iordachi,Kristof Van Assche

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The Bio-Politics of the Danube Delta

Nature, History, Policies

By: Constantin Iordachi,Kristof Van Assche

In this volume Constantin Iordachi and Kirstof Van Assche take an interdisciplinary look at the history, policy, and culture of the development and politics of the Danube Delta.

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Lexington Books

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0739195158

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9780739195154

Lakeshore Living

Designing Lake Places and Communities in the Footprints of Environmental Writers

By: Paul J. Radomski,Kristof Van Assche

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Lakeshore Living

Designing Lake Places and Communities in the Footprints of Environmental Writers

By: Paul J. Radomski,Kristof Van Assche

In this remarkable and remarkably accessible synthesis of ecology, landscape design, and social sciences, the authors present an approach to lakeshore living that addresses the need to create rich, sustainable places and communities on the water, where both the loon and the family find a place, and where the cabin can be handed down with integrity to the grandchildren. Fragile shorelands require care, and that caring comes from knowledge, experience, and an environmental ethic. Radomski and Van Assche argue that an environmentally sensitive lakeshore place and community design is the way forward. While many factors affect the quality of lakes and lakeshore living, property owners and local communities do not have to wait until policies are perfect: the design approach advocated here can be applied in any place people living lakeside can get together and collaborate. The approach presented here is proactive and context sensitive: new designs have to fit the existing ecological, cultural, and policy landscapes. Development is always re-development in this sense. The authors introduce the reader step-by-step to this approach and carefully discuss leverage points that can be helpful in implementation and system change.

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464

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MSU Press

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1628950145

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9781628950144

Local Cosmopolitanism

Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places

By: Kristof Van Assche,Petruța Teampău

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Local Cosmopolitanism

Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places

By: Kristof Van Assche,Petruța Teampău

This book offers a unique perspective on cosmopolitanism, examining the ways it is constructed and reconstructed on the small scale in an ongoing process of matching the local with the global, a process entailing mutual transformation. Based on a wide range of literatures and a series of case studies, it analyzes the different versions and functions of cosmopolitanism and points to the need to critically re-examine current conceptions of globalization. The book first illustrates the interplay between networks and narratives in the construction of cosmopolitan communities in three specific cities: Trieste, Odessa and Tbilisi. Each has a past more cosmopolitan than the present and each uses that cosmopolitan past to guide them towards the future. Next, the book focuses on narrative dynamics by isolating several discourses on the cosmopolitan place and figure in European cultural history. It then goes on to detail the internal representations and local functions of larger wholes in smaller communities, shedding a new light on issues of inter- disciplinary interest: self- governance, participation, local knowledge, social memory, scale, planning and development. Of interest to political scientists, anthropologists, economists, geographers and philosophers, this book offers an insightful contribution to theories of globalization and global/ local interaction, bringing the local discursive mechanics into sharper focus and also emphasizing the semi- autonomous character of narrative constructions of self and community in a larger world.

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Springer

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331919030X

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Rural development

Knowledge and expertise in governance

By: Kristof Van Assche,Anna-Katharina Hornidge

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Knowledge and expertise in governance

By: Kristof Van Assche,Anna-Katharina Hornidge

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Evolutionary Governance Theory

An Introduction

By: Kristof van Assche,Raoul Beunen,Martijn Duineveld

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An Introduction

By: Kristof van Assche,Raoul Beunen,Martijn Duineveld

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Strategy for Sustainability Transitions

Governance, Community and Environment

By: Kristof Van Assche,Raoul Beunen,Monica Gruezmacher

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Governance, Community and Environment

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1035324008

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Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design

By: Kristof Van Assche,Raoul Beunen,Martijn Duineveld

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Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design

By: Kristof Van Assche,Raoul Beunen,Martijn Duineveld

This ground-breaking Encyclopedia provides a nuanced overview of the key concepts of urban and regional planning and design. Embracing a broad understanding of planning and design within and beyond the professions, it examines what planners and designers can do in and for a community.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1800889003

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Local Cosmopolitanism

Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places

By: Kristof Van Assche,Petruța Teampău

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Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places

By: Kristof Van Assche,Petruța Teampău

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Resource Communities

Past Legacies and Future Pathways

By: Kristof Van Assche,Monica Gruezmacher,Lochner Marais,Xaquin Perez-Sindin

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Past Legacies and Future Pathways

By: Kristof Van Assche,Monica Gruezmacher,Lochner Marais,Xaquin Perez-Sindin

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Book's by Kristof van Assche

Resource Communities

Resource Communities

Rural development

Rural development

Evolutionary Governance Theory

Evolutionary Governance Theory

Strategy for Sustainability Transitions

Strategy for Sustainability Transitions

The Bio-Politics of the Danube Delta

The Bio-Politics of the Danube Delta

Lakeshore Living

Lakeshore Living

Local Cosmopolitanism

Local Cosmopolitanism

Rural development

Rural development

Evolutionary Governance Theory

Evolutionary Governance Theory

Strategy for Sustainability Transitions

Strategy for Sustainability Transitions

Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design

Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design

Local Cosmopolitanism

Local Cosmopolitanism

Resource Communities

Resource Communities

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