Essays about: "spatial politics"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 38 essays containing the words spatial politics.

  1. 16. Addressing the risk of maladaptation in Social Protection: The case of World Food Programme

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Helene Lykke Strøbech; Andreia Bordon Rosa; [2020]
    Keywords : Maladaptation; Social Protection; Climate Change; Climate Change Adaptation; Pathways; Vulnerability; Adaptive Capacity; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The need to adapt to climate change has been widely acknowledged as a challenge expanding beyond the discrete realm of adaptation initiatives. Accordingly, social protection has received growing attention due to its potential to promote adaptive capacity, whilst partly addressing both direct and indirect drivers of vulnerability to climate change. READ MORE

  3. 17. Putting people back into the economy: Urban restructuring and emerging alternatives in time of crisis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Madeleine Wahlund; [2019]
    Keywords : Social and solidarity economy; social innovation; social entrepreneurship; Barcelona; urban governance; social justice; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In many cities around the world, the financial crisis 2007 served as an opportunity both for grassroots movements and governments to rethink existing models of urban development. Some authors have pointed out that the crisis served to elevate discourses for progressive post-neoliberal urban transformations. READ MORE

  4. 18. Talsinki

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Tatu-Matti Pekkarinen; [2019]
    Keywords : Regionalization; Cross-border cooperation; Megaproject; Finland; Estonia; Twin-city;

    Abstract : Finland and Estonia, the two peripheral states of the European Union’s north-eastern corner have steadily converged since the fall of the Soviet Union, both bilaterally and in a multilateral European context. The co-operation is significant and covers multiple sectors of society. READ MORE

  5. 19. Invisible Bricks: urban places for social wellbeing : a lived experience of place in the London borough of Tower Hamlets, UK

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of People and Society

    Author : Hannah Arnett; [2019]
    Keywords : social sustainability; environmental sustainability; social wellbeing; place attachment; social cognitive theory; green space; safety; urban Mind; London; urban planning; sustainable cities;

    Abstract : Social sustainability in urban places is undervalued in urban planning due to the intangible nature of the concept. By valuing lived experiences of place, this research connects social and environmental sustainability pillars to support planning for socioenvironmental justice from a citizen’s perspective. READ MORE

  6. 20. THE HAMBURG-ST.-PAULI-BRANDDIALECTIC - Examining Hamburg’s city branding approach and its effects on the local Red-Light-District

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Miriam Green; [2019]
    Keywords : City Branding; Tourism; Gentrification; Red-Light District; Prostitution; Sex Work; Neoliberalism; Revanchist City; Entrepreneurial City; Reeperbahn; St. Pauli; Marke Hamburg; NION;

    Abstract : “What is certain is that the question of […] re-making a landscape of prostitution in the city […] needs to be viewed as part of a changing, global discourse on the nature of contemporary cities” (Aalbers & Sabat 2012, p. 114). READ MORE