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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1634
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Energy Research Abstracts
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1634
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1634
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The "Katrina Effect"
Author: William M. Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472595181
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina's storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke and the city was inundated. Perhaps no other disaster of the 21st century has so captured the global media's attention and featured in the 'imagination of disaster' like Katrina. The Katrina Effect charts the important ethical territory that underscores thinking about disaster and the built environment globally. Given the unfolding of recent events, disasters are acquiring original and complex meanings. This is partly because of the global expansion and technological interaction of urban societies in which the multiple and varied impacts of disasters are recognized. These meanings pose significant new problems for civil society: what becomes of public accountability, egalitarianism and other democratic ideals in the face of catastrophe? This collection of critical essays assesses the storm's global impact on overlapping urban, social and political imaginaries. Given the coincidence and 'perfect storm' of environmental, geo-political and economic challenges facing liberal democratic societies, communities will come under increasing strain to preserve and restore social fabric while affording all citizens equal opportunity in determining the forms that future cities and communities will take. Today, 21st century economic neo-liberalism, global warming or recent theories of 'urban vulnerability' and resilience provide key new contexts for understanding the meaning and legacy of Katrina.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472595181
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina's storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke and the city was inundated. Perhaps no other disaster of the 21st century has so captured the global media's attention and featured in the 'imagination of disaster' like Katrina. The Katrina Effect charts the important ethical territory that underscores thinking about disaster and the built environment globally. Given the unfolding of recent events, disasters are acquiring original and complex meanings. This is partly because of the global expansion and technological interaction of urban societies in which the multiple and varied impacts of disasters are recognized. These meanings pose significant new problems for civil society: what becomes of public accountability, egalitarianism and other democratic ideals in the face of catastrophe? This collection of critical essays assesses the storm's global impact on overlapping urban, social and political imaginaries. Given the coincidence and 'perfect storm' of environmental, geo-political and economic challenges facing liberal democratic societies, communities will come under increasing strain to preserve and restore social fabric while affording all citizens equal opportunity in determining the forms that future cities and communities will take. Today, 21st century economic neo-liberalism, global warming or recent theories of 'urban vulnerability' and resilience provide key new contexts for understanding the meaning and legacy of Katrina.
Military Construction Appropriations for 2001: Overview, quality of life, Army, Navy, Air Force, housing privatization
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Military Construction Appropriations for 2001
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Technical Abstract Bulletin
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Resources in Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Water, Democracy and Neoliberalism in India
Author: Vicky Walters
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135040915
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Since the early 1990s, the achievement of ‘good governance’ has been a dominant discourse in the pursuit of social and economic development. This book presents a critical challenge to the contemporary development paradigm of good governance. Based on original ethnographic fieldwork on urban water governance reforms in south India (Karnataka), the book examines the two propositions that underlie the current good governance debate. The first refers to a claim that good governance is both democratic and pro-market. The second to the claim that commercially-oriented water services, whether private or public, are good for poor and marginalised citizens. The book analyses these propositions as they intersect on three levels: policy, practice (process) and outcome. It argues that a number of tensions and contradictions exist within and between what the discourse promises, the everyday practises of how good governance policies are implemented and in the outcomes of such. It reveals the networks of power and the complexity of local reforms and their relation to global discourses as well as the motivations and every day practises of those who currently possess the power to reform. The book is of interest to academics in the fields of Development Studies, Asian Studies and Comparative Politics.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135040915
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Since the early 1990s, the achievement of ‘good governance’ has been a dominant discourse in the pursuit of social and economic development. This book presents a critical challenge to the contemporary development paradigm of good governance. Based on original ethnographic fieldwork on urban water governance reforms in south India (Karnataka), the book examines the two propositions that underlie the current good governance debate. The first refers to a claim that good governance is both democratic and pro-market. The second to the claim that commercially-oriented water services, whether private or public, are good for poor and marginalised citizens. The book analyses these propositions as they intersect on three levels: policy, practice (process) and outcome. It argues that a number of tensions and contradictions exist within and between what the discourse promises, the everyday practises of how good governance policies are implemented and in the outcomes of such. It reveals the networks of power and the complexity of local reforms and their relation to global discourses as well as the motivations and every day practises of those who currently possess the power to reform. The book is of interest to academics in the fields of Development Studies, Asian Studies and Comparative Politics.
Proposed Master Plan Update Development Actions, Seattle-Tacoma (Sea-Tac) International Airport, King County
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Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Military Construction Appropriations for 2000: Overview
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Research in Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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