Tabla de Contenidos: “…Global perspectives on water and climate change -- Closing session of Amsterdam International Water Week -- Reflection -- Global challenges on water and climate change -- 3. …”

“…"Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural markers that define a city's uniqueness and make it instantly recognisable. …”
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“…Included in the coverage: Building sustainable networks: introducing the Pan Institution Network for Global Health Fostering dialogues in global health education: a graduate and undergraduate approach Provider workload and multiple morbidities in the Caribbean and South Africa Project Redemption: conducting research with informal workers in New York City Partnership and collaboration in global health: valuing reciprocity Global Health Collaboration will interest faculty working within the field of global health; scholars within public health, health policy, and cognate disciplines; as well as administrators looking to develop international university partnerships around global health and graduate students in the areas of global health, health administration, and public health and related social sciences (e.g., sociology, anthropology, demography)…”

“…Just two years after the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai Expo encapsulated a moment in history defined by China's rise as a global superpower, and by the multiple challenges associated with developing more sustainable cities. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Critical dialogues as part of the comparative gesture -- Universities as part of the community of city builders -- Dialogic lenses of the comparative urban condition in Toronto and London -- Governance in the global city -- Real estate and housing -- Community, activism and engagement Structure of the book -- References -- Part I Perspectives on governance: -- 1 Capital flows in the capital: Contemporary governmental imaginations in London's urban development: -- Introducing systematic ambiguities: Questioning the planning, politics and perceptions of London's real estate market -- Dominant representations of real estate developers and investors in planning -- Capital flows in London: Embedded knowledge, challenges and market trends -- Contemporary governmental imaginations and the realities of real estate in London: Narratives and the politics of crisis -- Conclusions Acknowledgements -- References -- 2 The elusive, inclusive city: Toronto at a crossroads: -- Introduction -- Toronto: Canada's largest city -- A diverse regional economy -- A global tech 'superstar' city? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ubuntu: Constructing Spaces of Dialogue in the Theory and Practice of Global Education Malgorzata Anielka Pieniazek (UCL Institute of Education, UK) 8.Integrating Asian Perspectives within the UNESCO-led Discourse and Practice of Global Citizenship Education: Taking Gandhi and Ikeda as Examples Namrata Sharma (State University of New York, USA) III. …”

“…Climate change has become a priority issue in global environmental governance and cities are important players. …”

“…The City and the Unconscious in the Global Age. German Studies in Multidisciplinary Dialogue hosts many more questions than it is possible to state here and seeks answers that introduce an ethic of citizenship for the third millennium, where the goals of Agenda 2030 are not reduced to slogans and empty talks and where the grassroots activists do not risk to be hushed up or even taken in by the most powerful corporations, which pretend to operate in the acknowledgment of the differences that Otherness entails. …”

“…This book, by a leading expert in urban agriculture, offers a genuine solution to today’s global food crisis. By contributing more to feeding themselves, cities can allow breathing space for the rural sector to convert to more organic sustainable approaches. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Matter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: A Global Dialogue on the Pandemic -- COVID-19 Governance, Politics and the Ambivalence of States -- COVID-19 Governance: State Expansion, Capitalist Resilience and Democracy -- Three Political Regimes, Three Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis -- Universal Social Protection Floors: A Joint Responsibility -- Labour Activism and State Repression in Indonesia -- Harmoniously Denied: China's Censorship on COVID-19 -- State Repression in the Philippines during COVID-19 and Beyond -- Normality Was the Problem -- Crisis, Inequalities and Solidarities -- Divided We Stand: What the Pandemic Tells Us about the Contemporary US -- The Data Gaps of the Pandemic: Data Poverty and Forms of Invisibility -- Necropolitics and Biopower in the Pandemic: Death, Social Control or Well-being -- COVID-19 in the Urban Peripheries: Perspectives from the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro -- Generational Inequalities in Argentina's Working-Class Neighbourhoods -- Pandemic Pedagogical Lessons and Educational Inequalities -- Social Work with Homeless People in Belgium -- Community Spaces in India: Constructing Solidarity during the Pandemic -- Social Movements, Mutual Aid and Self-Reliance during COVID-19 -- Social Movements in the Emergence of a Global Pandemic -- COVID-19 and the Reconfiguration of the Social Movements Landscape -- Social Movements as Essential Services in Toronto -- Creating a Hyperlocal Infrastructure of Care: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups in the UK -- 'Solidarity, Not Charity': Emotions as Cultural Challenge for Grassroots Activism -- Self-Reliance as an Answer to the Pandemic: Hopes from India's Margins -- Social Movements and Self-Reliance: Community Mobilization in South Africa -- Resilience, Reworking and Resistance in New York City -- 'The COVID Will Not Kill the Revolution': Protest Movements in the Pandemic -- 'Defund the Police': Strategy and Struggle for Racial Justice in the US -- A Matter of Survival: The Lebanese Uprising in Times of Pandemic -- Hong Kong: From Democratic Protests to Medical Workers' Strikes in a Pandemic -- Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: A Return to Authoritarianism after the Revolutions? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Relevant Fields of Research -- Goals and Premises -- Temporal and Spatial Organization -- Contributions -- Hotels, Immigrant Houses, and Special Neighborhoods -- Literatures in Conversation: Imperialism, "Lausanne Wisdom", and the Global Intellectual History of the Nation -- Late Ottoman Jaffa as a "Portal of Globalization": Mobility, Migration, and Urban Separatism -- Urban Disengagement and Partition under British Rule: The First Hebrew City as a Laboratory for National Independence -- Conclusion -- From Their Classes to the Masses -- Rural Service and Expertise in the Interwar American Mission -- Ordering Rural Leisure in the VWS Summer Camps -- Rural Modernity from the VWS to International Developmentalism -- Conclusion -- A Clash of Concepts -- The method: A configuration of variables for a single case study -- One framework touching multiple discussions -- A split based on theory: Labor internationalization and the ascendance of the Comintern -- Moscow or Amsterdam? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…RESPONSES: Two Canadian Community Models -- Introduction -- 13 | Ghost Story: A Community Organizing Model of Changemaking -- 14 | The New Thunderbirds: The Waters of Uranium City, Saskatchewan -- VI. IMPLEMENTATION:An Engineering Application for Global Climate Change -- Introduction…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: food challenges faced by an urbanising world -- Food and urban planning: the missing link -- Articulating public agencies, experts, corporations, civil society and the informal sector in planning food systems in Bangkok -- Edible providence: integrating local food into urban planning -- Connecting food systems and urban planning: the experience of Portland, Oregon -- Urban agriculture in Lima metropolitan area: one (short) step forward, two steps backward - the limits of urban food planning -- Growing food connections through planning: lessons from the United States -- Food flows and waste: planning for the dirty side of urban food security -- Planning a local and global foodscape: Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo -- Improving urban food security in African cities: critically assessing the role of informal retailers -- Integrating food distribution and food accessibility into municipal planning: achievements and challenges of a Brazilian metropolis, Belo Horizonte -- Making food markets work: towards participatory planning and adaptive governance -- Formalisation of fresh food markets in China: the story of Hangzhou -- Food asset mapping in Toronto and Greater Golden Horseshoe region -- Greater Milan's foodscape: a neo-rural metropolis -- Participatory planning for food production at city scale: experiences from a stakeholder dialogue process in Tamale, Northern Ghana -- Unintentional food zoning: a case study of East Harlem, New York…”