Regionale myndigheder og andre lokale myndigheder

Introducing the institutional logics perspective to street-level analysis, this book examines how street-level workers deal with the institutional logics that guide their organization - whether they follow or challenge them. While doing so, the book develops a theoretical framework to study street-level workers' institutional agency within organizations from different institutional backgrounds. The book conceptualizes street-level workers as institutional entrepreneurs and presents an original process model to capture deinstitutionalization efforts in street-level discourse. This ordinal model accounts for embedded agency and institutional entrepreneurship as well as for more gradual moves towards deinstitutionalization through the hybridization of institutional logics. The author tests the model empirically using interview data and discusses how street-level workers diverge from the institutional logic of their organization in almost two thirds of their statements, indicating a tendency towards institutional entrepreneurship. The book finally combines two literature strands: institutionalism and implementation research, showing how street-level workers may be perceived as institutional entrepreneurs.This book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of political science, public policy, public administration, and organizational studies, as well as to practitioners and policy-makers interested in a better understanding of institutional entrepreneurs, street work, and the institutional logics perspective. 

The book addresses in detail local governance in Spain. In recent decades, local governments in Europe have increasingly found themselves under pressure from a multitude of new challenges, such as demographic change, climate change, fiscal austerity policies, digitization, the demand for more citizen participation in local affairs, and the migration crisis in some of them, to name just a few. Consequently, a wave of political and administrative reforms to address these challenges, pressures and problems, has changed local governance in many countries. In part, these changes were the result of reform policies introduced by national and state governments, often triggered by austerity policies, which has become an overwhelming reality for Spanish local governments that have been forced to introduce innovations in local governance. This book aims to give an account of these innovations in local governance in Spain.This book considers the local political-administrative structure in its dimensions, focusing on the analysis of its party system, electoral competition and political behavior in the local arena, as well as on local finances, all of which are determining elements in urban and rural governance processes. On the occasion of the recent crisis unleashed by Covid-19, the book will also deal with local governance in crisis situations. The book will also contextualize local governance processes in Spain in relation to the trends in local governance observed in other European countries.

This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning. It goes beyond focussing on the prison to address punishment more broadly with contributions on punishment in the community (including after periods of imprisonment) and in areas of the criminal justice system which have typically received less attention such as prison transportation between prisons. The collection also includes a focus on temporality in criminal justice policy, and its potential impacts on speeding up justice, as well as the experiential nature of punishment. The book includes contributions from scholars in UK and Europe, with largely original research, and draws on the international literature. It hopes to encourage punishment scholars to consider how ideas from the sociology of time can inform their own research.

Der Open-Access Band diskutiert das neue Bürgergeld in seiner sozialpolitischen Geschichte und Bedeutung. Das seit 2023 in Deutschland geltende ¿Bürgergeld¿ sollte die unbeliebte Sozialleistung ¿Hartz 4¿ ablösen, zugleich aber auch (noch) kein ¿Grundeinkommen¿ sein. Es war ein weiter Weg zum Bürgergeld, und für viele Menschen ist der Weg zum Bürgergeld noch weit. Der Band nimmt zugleich das Problem der Nichtinanspruchnahme in den Blick. Denn bei bedürftigkeitsgeprüften Sozialleistungen gilt mehr als für andere Leistungen: Es ist ein weiter Weg vom individuellen Anspruch bis zum Leistungsbezug. Die Beiträge gehen damit auch der Frage nach, warum so viele Menschen auf ihren sozialrechtlichen Anspruch verzichten und ob sich durch das Bürgergeld etwas an diesem Sachverhalt ändern kann. Die Beiträge verbinden Wissenschaft, Praxis und Politik mit dem Ziel, das Bürgerrecht auf das Bürgergeld auch zu einer Aufgabe der Sozialen Arbeit werden zu lassen.

This book provides an original cross-thematic and wide scope review of crime prevention processes in urban areas that are explicitly based on the cooperation between different scientific and professional fields. Focusing primarily on environmental and community-based crime prevention, this book compiles a peer-reviewed collection of papers and prospective essays that explore how, and to what extent, multi-disciplinarity can be used as a cornerstone for achieving safer cities.Relying on the input from specialists, researchers, decision-makers, and practitioners from around the world, it covers the various stages from theory to implementation, by discussing theoretical stances, interpreting policy and planning guidelines, uncovering unique educational experiences, and narrating insights and lessons learned from innovative research and practice. Hence, it provides vivid discussions and invaluable insights into processes of partnership building, planning, and management, oriented towards establishing successful mechanism for preventing crime and reducing feelings of insecurity in urban areas.

This book presents range of topics concerning integrated CAD (including Optimization) for use in Architecture (including Planning), Civil Engineering and Construction (AEC), and thus, helps introduce a full-length treatment of the subject, enabling practitioners to adopt an Integrated Computer-Aided Design Approach in their professional activity. The book gives to readers an understanding of the main elements of CAD, highlighting the importance of integrating these elements and the applicability of Integrated CAD in AEC. Many examples and problems (including Optimization) are included to help professionals and students to develop and apply such tools in solving problems in AEC field. Adopts a problem solving approach in planning, design, and management stressing IT and Computer Application in AEC sector as a whole;Emphasizes resource-efficiency and social equity in problem solution in the AEC sector in general, and in urban development and management in particular;Stresses optimization and an integrated approach covering all components, including costs, affordability and environmental factors, scarcity of resources, and resolution of conflicting interests;Includes an accessible overview and source codes of C++ and Auto Lisp programs needed to carry out design analysis, optimization and drafting-drawing in an integrated manner.

This volume offers a novel study of the Milan-Cortina's Winter Olympics 2026, with a focus on the mountainous region of Valtellina. It brings an up-to-date analysis of the complex interactions between mega-events and remote areas, both in terms of potentials for regeneration and risks for further segregation. Remote areas are traditionally characterized by socio-economic and spatial disparities. On the one hand, they benefit from attractive features, such as environmental and landscape resources, food and wine production, and energy production. On the other, they are by definition fragile environments, disrupted by the contradictions of international tourism, climate change, limited infrastructures and services, rural abandonment, and demographic decline.This book offers credible solutions for the sustainable development of mountainous regions as a legacy of Winter Olympics. It is an essential resource for scholars, professionals, and policy-makers in the fieldsof urban planning and design, architecture design, geography, sociology, and economics.

USA oplever netop nu det ene forfærdelige skyderi efter det andet på skoler, tankstationer, indkøbscentre og i det offentlige rum. Våbenlovgivningen splitter amerikanerne som aldrig før, og i øjeblikket er der flere våben i USA end der er indbyggere. Hver dag bliver mere end 100 mennesker dræbt og 200 såret i hændelser, hvor der er våben involveret. Disse tal er helt ude af proportioner i forhold til resten af verden, og man må spørge sig selv, hvorfor USA adskiller sig så markant og indtager en førsteplads som det mest voldelige land i den vestlige verden. ”Nationens blod” er en tankevækkende historisk gennemgang af våbenvold i USA af den amerikanske forfatter Paul Auster. I bogen tager han livtag med USA’s våbenkultur og undersøger de kræfter, der har rodfæstet skydevåben dybt i landets nationale identitet. Udgivelsen er en storskrift-udgave til svagsynede i serien MAGNUMBØGER Lindhardt og Ringhof.

This book investigates the dynamics and the role of green urban regeneration using nature-based solutions (NBS) in contributing to the cultural aspects of public spaces. In the first part of the book, insights on analytical methods, planning strategies and shared governance examples are given, as well as, an assessment tool, namely public space index (PSI), is given for successfully measuring sociability impact while using a placemaking approach to green urban regeneration processes. In the second part, the case study (Rose Kennedy Greenway of Boston, MA, USA) has been extensively researched during many years of observations and analysis which gives a realistic taste of the implementation of the proposed PSI. The book's last part reflects on PSI to measure its adaptability and replicability in other contexts, whereas NBS are playing a major role in physical and spatial green urban regeneration in current cities contexts'.

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Vietnam. The theme of the conference is ¿innovative and inclusive growth models for sustainable urban development¿. Articles in this book present major issues that cities and regions around the world are facing these days to adapt to new, unexpected, and profound challenges.Over past few years, the world has been observing meaningful reactions to crises. From the pandemic to war, energy, and food shortages, there are always opportunities for innovations. Some firms still thrived in the city lock-down; some groups stayed healthier with less income; and certain municipalities consumed less resources to attain higher outcomes. However, the rise of digital economy, the importance of proximity or near-shore supply chain, or the new contribution of different communities at different levels are generalized asnew growth models for changes.

This book advances the agenda of informality as a transnational phenomenon, recognizing that contemporary urban and regional challenges need to be addressed at both local and global levels. This project may be considered a call for action. Its urgency derives from the impact of the pandemic combined with the effects of climate change in informal settlements around the world. While the notion of "e;the informal"e; is usually associated with the analysis and interventions in informal settlements, this book expands the concept of informality to acknowledge its interdisciplinary parameters.The book is geographically organized into five sections. The first part provides a conceptual overview of the notion of "e;the informal,"e; serving as an introduction and reflection on the subject. The following sections are dedicated to the principal regions of the Global South-Latin America, US-Mexico Borderlands, Asia, and Africa-while considering the interconnections and correspondences between urbanism in the Global South and the Global North.This book offers a critical introduction to groundbreaking theories and design practices of informality in the built environment. It provides essential reading for scholars, professionals, and students in urban studies, architecture, city planning, urban geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, economics, and the arts. As a critical survey of informality, the book examines history, theory, and production across a range of informal practices and phenomena in urbanism, architecture, activism, and participatory design. Authored by a diverse and international cohort of leading educators, theorists, and practitioners, 45 chapters refine and expand the discourse surrounding informal cities.

Dieses Buch umfasst die wesentlichen Grundlagen einer praxisorientierten Mobilitätsplanung. Im Gegensatz zur Verkehrsplanung fokussiert sich die Mobilitätsplanung auf den Menschen als zentrale Figur der Verkehrsentwicklung und entwirft daraus neue Perspektiven für die Planung. Mobilitätsplanung löst damit die Abhängigkeit vom technischen Artefakt des Verkehrs und zielt stattdessen darauf ab, direkt die Möglichkeiten der Menschen zu verstehen und zu beeinflussen. Das Buch richtet sich somit an alle Akteure, welche die Mobilität der Menschen in unterschiedlicher Weise beeinflussen. Klassischerweise gehören hierzu alle Ebenen der Planungspraxis, von Ministerien bis hin zu kommunalen Verwaltungen und Planungsbüros. Aber auch politisch Entscheidungstragende, Unternehmen und zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure gehören zu den Adressaten dieses Buches, da sie maßgeblich an der zukünftigen Entwicklung von Mobilität und Verkehr mitwirken.

This volume sheds light on urban resilience strategies in times of climate emergency and social and economic crisis by reflecting on related social vulnerabilities and inequalities within cities and showing the potential of participatory governance approaches for socio-environmental transformation. The book compiles critical research documenting the articulation of urban resilience strategies dealing with climatic changes, as well as the understanding of the unexpected implications of top-down resilience plans to address the impacts of climate change in cities, especially on the most vulnerable urban populations, and the transformative capacities of bottom-up and socially innovative resilience strategies. The book especially focuses on co-produced and grassroots transformative processes that are concerned with social equity in urban planning for climate change.  Although several publications cover the topic of urban resilience, this book provides a more nuanced exploration of urban climate governance and citizen engagement in urban climate resilience policies through the lenses of political ecology, environmental justice and co-production. In this regard, the volume moves beyond the approach of multilevel urban climate governance by critically addressing the unexpected impacts of top-down strategies of urban resilience with the goal of expanding the reflection on citizen engagement. The book also explores the emerging possibilities behind the co-production of urban resilience as well as the critical role of grassroots and citizens in promoting such alternative strategies. While the primary target audience is scholars from different disciplines (e.g. geography, urban studies, planning, political ecology, architecture, urban sociology, environmental studies) focusing on urban resilience, the editors also aim to reach urban resilience practitioners from local, national and international organisations as well as environmental grassroots and climate activists.

This book presents concise summaries of cutting-edge research and practical applications across the fields of physical, environmental, and human geography. It publishes compact refereed monographs under the editorial supervision of an international advisory board with the aim to publish 8 to 12 weeks after acceptance. Volumes are compact, 50 to 125 pages, with a clear focus. The series covers a range of content from professional to academic such as timely reports of state-of-the art analytical techniques, bridges between new research results, snapshots of hot and/or emerging topics, elaborated thesis, literature reviews, and in-depth case studies.The scope of the series spans the entire field of geography, with a view to significantly advance research. The character of the series is international and multidisciplinary and includes research areas such as GIS/cartography, remote sensing, geographical education, geospatial analysis, techniques and modeling, landscape/regionaland urban planning, economic geography, housing and the built environment, and quantitative geography. Volumes in this series may analyze past, present, and/or future trends, as well as their determinants and consequences. Both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts are considered for publication in this series.This book is of interest to a wide range of individuals with interests in physical, environmental, and human geography as well as for researchers from allied disciplines.

This book draws on the author's ten years of participatory work to examine core themes of (mis)representation, re-presentation, and resistance within place-health research and practice. The book includes practice- and research-based projects with implications and applications for practitioners (e.g. local health department epidemiologists) and academics, introducing readers to an array of new and mixed-methods within place-health research. It also introduces new conceptual and analytical place-health frameworks that more explicitly account for power-both within place making, unmaking, and remaking processes, and within the (re)production of place-health knowledges. Across six chapters, the author reports and reflects on a selection of research projects, raising key considerations in regard to place-health (mis)representation, and highlighting the value of participatory methods and processes in re-presenting-and decolonizing-spatial narratives of health. This includes an emphasis on the integration of community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles with the technological and procedural affordances of information and communication technologies (ICTs). With each chapter drawing from CBPR, decolonizing, social epidemiology, health geography, Black feminist, and critical theory orientations, the book offers an integrated call and framing for a critical examination of how geographies of "e;place"e; and health-and narratives/stories therein-are constructed, and perhaps might be de/re-constructed through inclusive and equitable research practices that center community and offer a mode of resistance for the production of place-health counternarratives. The book is intended for academic researchers and practitioners in public health and health geography fields, particularly those whose work engages social epidemiology, urban planning, and aspects of community development, and will also appeal to researchers and practitioners who use participatory, community-inclusive methods and processes in their work, especially as related to community mapping.

I Guldborgsund Kommune er dannelse en bærende værdi og vision. Kommunen har en erklæret ambition om at være ”Danmarks dannelseskommune” og har prioriteret dannelse gennem initiativer som Dannelsesrygsækken, Filosofi i Folkeskolen, MasterClass om dannelse, Kulturtjenesten, forskningsprojekter og nationale konferencer om dannelse.”Det skal kendes på en voksen, at det har været barn i Guldborgsund,” er et slogan og pejlemærke for kommunens ambition. Sloganet udtrykker ambitionen om, at kommunens store satsning på dannelse vil præge børn og unge og sætte sig så bemærkelsesværdige spor, at det simpelthen kan kendes på en voksen, at det har været barn i Guldborgsund.Hele Guldborgsund Kommunes dannelsesarbejde munder nu ud i bogudgivelsen ”Det skal kendes. Dannelse som kommunal vej og vision”. Visionen med bogen er båret af en passion for at styrke dannelsens plads, nøglepersoner og praktik i alle landets kommuner. Bogen indfanger og formidler Guldborgsund Kommunes vej og vision som dannelseskommune, og har som formål at inspirere og kvalificere dannelsespraktikere i hele Danmark.Bogen rummer blandt andet ti teoretiske tekster om dannelsesfilosofi skrevet af ti professorer samt ti praktiske beskrivelser af dannelsessteder. Med bogen ”Det skal kendes” kan alle tage med på Guldborgsund Kommunes dannelsesrejse og få inspiration, viden og baggrund, teori og praksis samt redskaber til at tage rejsen selv.Bogen er redigeret af direktør og forfatter Jonas Norgaard Mortensen. Læs mere på www.dannelseskommune.dk

Der Band stellt die aktuelle Praxis der Demokratiepolitik in Bund, Ländern und Gemeinden anschaulich an zahlreichen Beispielen vor. Er will die vielfältige Demokratie der Bürger und Bürgerinnen stärken. Dabei geht es ebenso um die Praxis im Zusammenspiel von Politik, Verwaltung und Zivilgesellschaft wie um eine reflektierte Demokratiepolitik, die verschiedene Baustellen hat.

The book is the result of a collective research work between the members of the team of the project "Over the Atlantic" (co-founded by the Erasmus + programme). A critical introduction presents the work, the content and the scope of the research, carried out with an interdisciplinary approach.This book consists of three main parts. The first discusses the institutionalization and normalization of paradiplomacy in some specific and well-documented case studies regarding the Latin America region. The second one refers to the relationship between paradiplomacy and cooperation in the context of international and regional relations. The third part analyses Cities and Parliaments as international diplomatic actors.The theme of Paradiplomacy, as a means of unofficial relationships that reacts differently to the pressure of the international system, and the role of the local authorities, despite its relevance and importance, is scarcely analysed by academia.

This book provides an overview of the rapid development Beijing has seen in a wide range of areas in 2019, both within itself and as an integral part of a larger region, as Chinäs economic development continues to improve in overall quality and regional coordination. A review of Chinäs regional economic development in 2019-2020 is followed by 11 chapters that cover Beijing¿s achievements and challenges in economic development, public services, social governance, building a national cultural center, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regional development coordination, creative city construction and nighttime economic development.This book is a valuable reference for anyone trying to gain a better understanding of the what, how, and why with regard to one of the world¿s fastest growing mega-cities.

Hauptkommissar Fokko Wattfedder hofft auf ruhige letzte Monate vor seiner anstehenden Pensionierung im kleinen norddeutschen Bundesland Freie Havenstadt. Wattfedders Entspannungsprogramm würde voll aufgehen, wäre da nicht die nervenzehrende Corona-Krise. Der Mord an der impfbegeisterten Präsidentin der Havenstädter Ärztekammer reißt den Hauptkommissar gänzlich aus seinen ruhigen Tagen. Die prominente Ärztin wird tot aufgefunden und weist zudem drei Injektionsnadeln im Schulterbereich auf. Die Indizien sprechen für einen Täter aus dem Bereich der Havenstädter Impfgegner. Wattfedder muss sich bei seinen Ermittlungen immer wieder einer Landesregierung erwehren, die sich massiv in seine Arbeit einmischt. Unterstützung erfährt er von der an seiner Seite ermittelnden jungen Oberkommissarin Paula Dombusch-Maoate, die gedanklich schnell und körperlich absolut fit ist. Zwei Eigenschaften, die Wattfedder nach einem weiteren Mordfall das Leben retten. Bis die beiden ungleichen Kollegen die Fälle aber lösen, erleben sie hautnah moralische Abgründe des Karrierismus in der Medizin und die Polarisierung der Havenstädter Gesellschaft in der Corona-Pandemie, in der mit harten Bandagen und allen Tricks für eine vermeintliche wissenschaftliche Wahrheit gefochten wird.Eine Wahrheit, die tatsächlich mehrdeutig ist!

Is America as divided as it seems? An Oxford graduate student tours all 50 states talking to ordinary Americans and offers a hopeful vision for the future of America. This book is the companion to the 50 States of Mind podcast.