Globalism, Localism and Identity: New Perspectives on the Transition of SustainabilityTaylor & Francis, 2010 M09 23 - 272 páginas Global economic and social forces are affecting everyone, everywhere. However, their influence is shaped by local communities' interpretation of these forces and responses to them. Social identities provide a guide; they are the product of history, culture, economy, patterns of governance and degree of community cohesion. How the global and the local connect and reconfigure at various scales and through different cultures is explained in this forward-looking volume. The book's thesis, namely that localism is the crucial complement to globalism, is supported by a range of European case studies. Local responses to globalizing forces depend on the nature of the interlinkages in governance from international structures, through multilateral organizations to nation states, regions and localities, as these are mediated through social-local identity. The contributors draw on numerous themes in examining the interaction between the global and the local, such as decay and revitalization, local identity and empowerment, opportunism through sustainability and governance for the transition. This is a pioneering publication utilizing an innovative person-centred methodology. It makes an original and important contribution to the study of contemporary societies and is aimed at anyone interested in the social, economic, political, cultural and environmental implications of any move towards sustainability. |
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... focus-group meeting Defence Research Organization (Sweden) Training programme set up in 1986 by the Portuguese government to develop professional training courses and to increase the qualification of the human resources present in the ...
... focus-group meeting Defence Research Organization (Sweden) Training programme set up in 1986 by the Portuguese government to develop professional training courses and to increase the qualification of the human resources present in the ...
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... focus-group meetings held in Peniche Themes of the 1997 Norwich 21 Vision and Action Plan 8 4 170 172 173 173 175 200 202 203 218 224 225 13 94 159 216 PREFACE If there is one word that describes the departed List of Tables, Figures and ...
... focus-group meetings held in Peniche Themes of the 1997 Norwich 21 Vision and Action Plan 8 4 170 172 173 173 175 200 202 203 218 224 225 13 94 159 216 PREFACE If there is one word that describes the departed List of Tables, Figures and ...
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... focusing some of these schemes on local capacity-building and training. • Communities under pressure from potentially disruptive, externallyinduced change can display their resilience through existing social solidarities, which in turn ...
... focusing some of these schemes on local capacity-building and training. • Communities under pressure from potentially disruptive, externallyinduced change can display their resilience through existing social solidarities, which in turn ...
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... focus loosely on rights, responsibilities and interests in a more active and varied manner. Equality based on gender, sex, disability and ethnicity is a heady package to deliver through the cumbersome organs of the state. So too are ...
... focus loosely on rights, responsibilities and interests in a more active and varied manner. Equality based on gender, sex, disability and ethnicity is a heady package to deliver through the cumbersome organs of the state. So too are ...
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... focus; but its success as a policy arena depends enormously on its capture and metamorphosis of a huge array of other policy developments. These include constitutional reform; tax reform; the changing climate of governance; the ...
... focus; but its success as a policy arena depends enormously on its capture and metamorphosis of a huge array of other policy developments. These include constitutional reform; tax reform; the changing climate of governance; the ...
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Globalism, Localism, and Identity: Fresh Perspectives on the Transition to ... Timothy O'Riordan Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Globalism, Localism, and Identity: Fresh Perspectives on the Transition to ... Timothy O'Riordan Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Globalism, Localism, and Identity: Fresh Perspectives on the Transition to ... Timothy O'Riordan Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
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