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The Heart of Catholic Social Teaching
Seasoned teachers introduce the Catholic social tradition with distinctive attention to the Bible, liturgy, and the thought of Augustine and Aquinas.
Governing Environmental Flows
Lays the foundations for a new conceptualization of global environmental governance that draws on the flow perspective found in recent work in sociology.
Cities, Networks, and Global Environmental Governance
As a result of global dynamics--the increasing interconnection of people and places--innovations in global environmental governance haved altered the role of cities in shaping the future of the planet. This book is a timely study of the importance of these social transformations in our increasingly global and increasingly urban world. Through analysis of transnational municipal networks, such as Metropolis and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Sofie Bouteligier's innovative study examines theories of the network society and global cities from a global ecology perspective. Through direct observation and interviews and using two types of city networks that have been treated separately in the literature, she discovers the structure and logic pertaining to office networks of environmental non-governmental organizations and environmental consultancy firms. In doing so she incisively demonstrates the ways in which cities fulfill the role of strategic sites of global environmental governance, concentrating knowledge, infrastructure, and institutions vital to the function of transnational actors.
Transnational Buildings in Local Environments
By focusing on the skyscraping transnational building, this book bridges two key debates on the transformation and emerging problems besetting major cities - globalization and ecological and sustainable building design. While such structures tend to be constructed and/or used by transnational companies and are generally viewed as emblems of a 'global city', they nevertheless impact seriously on their local environment, posing numerous environmental burdens on it. By examining office blocks held by multinational firms in Amsterdam, São Paolo and Beijing, the book analyses how transnational buildings might be made sustainable. It compares and contrasts the different social mechanisms that are, or may be, in place and how sustainable building practices that are being activated in certain locations could be adopted elsewhere.
Handbook of Global Environmental Politics
The second edition of this Handbook contains more than 30 new and original articles as well six essential updates by leading scholars of global environmental politics. This landmark book maps the latest theoretical and empirical research in this energetic and growing field. Captured here are the pioneering and lively debates over concerns for the health of the planet and how they might best be addressed. The introduction explores the intellectual trends and evolving parameters in the field of global environmental politics. It makes a case for an expansive definition of the field, one that embraces an interdisciplinary literature on the connections between global politics and environmental ch...
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Die vorgestellte Stadt
Seit Mitte der 1990er-Jahre wird in Wien eine wettbewerbsorientierte Stadtentwicklungspolitik verfolgt. Die Stadt versucht, ihren Ruf als Touristenmetropole zu korrigieren und sich als internationaler Wirtschaftsstandort und »Ost-West-Drehscheibe« zu präsentieren. Monika Grubbauer zeigt, wie neue Büroarchitekturen und ihre medial verbreiteten Bilder dazu dienen, diesen wirtschaftspolitischen Imagewandel zu legitimieren und neue Vorstellungen von Stadt und Stadtwirtschaft zu etablieren. In einem transdisziplinären Zugang verknüpft sie Bob Jessops Konzept der ökonomischen Vorstellungswelten mit der aktuellen raumtheoretischen Debatte sowie mit architekturtheoretischen Ansätzen und diskurs- und bildwissenschaftlichen Methoden.
