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This book offers a unique and timely contribution, informed by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, to unpack the intertwined challenges that planning needs to cope with in the future. It argues that the pandemic and post-pandemic periods, in their successive waves of restrictions and social distancing, have disrupted ‘normal’ practices but have also contributed to shaping a ‘new normal’. The new normal is emerging, re-configuring, and prioritizing the substantive objects of planning and its governance and participatory processes. This book discusses this shift and presents a collection of episodes and cases from diverse European urban contexts to develop a new vocabulary for describing and addressing challenges, models, perspectives, and imaginaries that contribute to defining the new normal. The book is aimed at scholars interested in urban planning, sociology, geography, anthropology, art, economy, technology studies, design studies, and political science.
This volume presents the four sub-themes of the 38th European Marine Biology Symposium. These are patterns and processes, assessment, threats and management and conservation. Understanding the functioning of marine ecosystems is the first step towards measuring and predicting the influence of Man, and to finding solutions for the enormous array of problems we face today. The papers in this book represent current research and concerns about Marine Biodiversity in Europe.
A obra “Contributos da Sociedade para a Redução do Risco em Populações Vulneráveis” apresenta 14 capítulos, onde se reflete sobre casos concretos de populações em risco. São quatro núcleos de conteúdo que atribuem um caráter único à obra. O primeiro diz respeito à relação bidirecional entre a questão da pobreza e do conflito, assim como a discussão estabelecida em torno do estabelecimento do que se entende ser o perfil das denominadas populações vulneráveis. O segundo núcleo de conteúdo entreliga a problemática do risco, da vulnerabilidade, da catástrofe e das medidas compensatórias, dando a conhecer visões diferenciadas a partir do direito, da sociologia, da ...
In 2022, the Landscape Architecture course in Portugal celebrated 80 years of existence. This edited collection, Portuguese Landscape Architecture Education, Heritage and Research, commemorates this important milestone by bringing together some of the most respected names in Portuguese Landscape Architecture. Although the book’s content is targeted at the assessment of the Portuguese history and influence, the themes under analysis are all-encompassing within the major fields, namely pedagogy; heritage; theory and methods; and design and landscape planning and management. The book seeks to address several research questions, including How has Landscape Architecture evolved in Portugal and ...
La ciudad es producto y centro de los flujos debidos a la globalización, un proceso que no solo ha generado nuevas formas de desarrollo urbano, sino que también ha cambiado los hábitos de vida de los ciudadanos y los modelos de negocio. Fruto de las investigaciones de especialistas del Mediterráneo europeo y América Latina, este libro analiza desde diversas perspectivas la ciudad y lo urbano en los tiempos de las crisis contemporáneas, centrando la atención en las actividades ligadas al comercio y el consumo como principales funciones de la economía y de la vida cotidiana. Geógrafos, economistas, sociólogos, urbanistas, estudiosos de las artes y de la comunicación exponen sus conocimientos y experiencias para explicar el mundo que nos rodea y, a la vez, aportar soluciones que mejoren las políticas de gestión.
The international tourism industry has seen increased growth in the past few years as millions of individuals continue to travel worldwide. As one of the world’s largest economic sectors, creating jobs, driving exports, and generating prosperity worldwide, hospitality and tourism management needs to continually be explored in order to update best business models and practice. Strategic Business Models to Support Demand, Supply, and Destination Management in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry is an essential reference source that emphasizes emergent and innovative aspects and new challenges and issues within the industry with a particular focus on demand, supply, and destination management. Featuring research on topics such as circular economy, consumer behavior, and social networking, this book is ideally designed for business professionals, executives, hotel managers, event coordinators, restaurateurs, travel agents, tour directors, policymakers, government officials, industry professionals, researchers, students, and academicians.
Déclin des systèmes et des partis classiques, mise en cause de la représentation politique, montée du populisme et des nationalismes, emprise des fake news, tentation de la violence... : force est de constater la fragilité, aujourd'hui, de la démocratie. Alors que soufflent les vents mauvais de l'extrémisme, de l'autoritarisme, du racisme, de l'antisémitisme, du terrorisme, comment défendre ce bien commun qui nous semblait acquis mais ne l'est pas ? Face à ces maux qui minent nos sociétés et qu'il décrypte en profondeur, Michel Wieviorka interroge la place et le rôle des sciences humaines et sociales. Il y invite le meilleur de sa discipline – la raison, la connaissance de l'histoire, l'imagination sociologique, l'esprit critique – à se mettre (se remettre ?) au service de l'idéal démocratique. Pour une démocratie de combat est un ouvrage pionnier qui conjugue une orientation authentiquement citoyenne, des propositions théoriques et méthodologiques exigeantes et des pistes concrètes pour une démocratie vivante et active. Indispensable en ces temps de perte de repères, de fureur et de démoralisation : à coup sûr un livre de référence.