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Integrated River Basin Management through Decentralization

Drawing upon a worldwide survey of river basin organizations and in-depth studies of eight river basins in a variety of locations ...

International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet

Little notice was taken of the first web map but the development of Internet cartography since has been nothing but remarkable. ...

Introduction to Space Syntax in Urban Studies

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to space syntax method and theory for graduate students and researchers. It ...

Knowledge and Institutions

This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions ...

Legitimacy In European Nature Conservation Policy : Case Studies In Multilevel Governance

This volume focuses on the issue of legitimacy in the context of European nature conservation policy. It provides insights ...

Local Heroes in the Global Village

The book contributes to the debate what role public policies play in stimulating national and regional economic growth. ...

Managing Elevated Risk : Global Liquidity, Capital Flows, and Macroprudential Policy—An Asian Perspective

This book discusses the risks and opportunities that arise in Emerging Asia given the context of a new environment in global ...

Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change

This book addresses the need for sharing knowledge and experience in the field of biodiversity conservation and climate change. ...

Managing Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes for Sustainable Communities in Asia Mapping and Navigating Stakeholders, Policy and Action

This book presents up-to-date analyses of community-based approaches to sustainable resource management of SEPLS (socio-ecological ...

Mathematics Teacher Education in the Andean Region and Paraguay

This Open Access book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Bolivia, ...

Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation How to Make Sense of Change

This book provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores ...

Mobilities of the Highly Skilled towards Switzerland

This book analyses the strategies of migration intermediaries from the public and private sectors in Switzerland to select, ...

Modelling Environmental Dynamics : Advances in Geomatic Solutions

Modelling environmental dynamics is critical to understanding and predicting the evolution of the environment in response ...

Modelling Regional Scenarios for the Enlarged Europe

The aim of this book is to tackle the question of what the European territory will look like over the next fifteen years ...

Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Stabilization in Latin America

Latin America is a very important region of the globe, which has been buffeted by successive waves of economic instability ...

Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge

This book addresses the major challenges in assuring globally sustainable water use. Paradoxically, water resources have ...

Multilateralism, Regionalism and Bilateralism in Trade and Investment

The present first volume of the World Report on Regional Integration is a timely product of the research undertaken at UNU-CRIS. ...

Multilevel Urban Governance and the `European City

Urban scholars have come up with very different answers to the question of what the main defining characteristics of urban ...

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage Economic, Cultural and Social Identity

Our first contact with music is almost certainly in our childhood when our parents sing lullabies to us at bedtime. In a ...

Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land

This book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. ...

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