19 Ergebnisse.

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Critically assessing meanings of the term 'public', this book situates the emergence and expansion of 'public services' within market-based forms of production and consumption.

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From community-led water management schemes in Latin America to national health insurance programs in Africa, this volume assesses different alternative models to privatization and the typologies used for classifying them, providing groundbreaking insights into the scope and scale of alternative service delivery mechanisms and offering the first reliable source of comparative data that go beyond the indices used by international development ag...

This book provides an innovative theoretical framework for understanding electricity and capitalism in Africa, followed by a series of case studies that examine different aspects of electricity supply and consumption.

A theoretical and empirical review of the impact of cost recovery on basic municipal services, with particular reference to South Africa.

A critical exploration of the trend towards 'corporatizing' public services in the global South.

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Critics of privatisation are often told they present no alternatives.

David A. McDonald is Assistant Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington.

David A. McDonald is Assistant Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington.

A critical exploration of the trend towards 'corporatizing' public services in the global South.

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An overview of the first ten years of post-apartheid politics in South Africa. Written by activists and academics, it offers a critical perspective of environmental justice theory and practice and includes an assessment of where the environmental justice movement may be headed in the future.

The literature on world cities has had an enormous influence on urban theory and planning alike. From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town 's standing in this network of urban centres, and an investigation of the conceptual appropriateness of this world city hypothesis. Drawing on more than a dozen years of fieldwork in Ca...

Chemesthesis are the chemically initiated sensations that occur via the touch system. Examples in the mouth include the burn of capsaicinoids in chilies, the cooling of menthol in peppermint, and the tingle of carbonation. It is physiologically distinct from taste and smell, but is increasingly understood to be just as important as these senses for their contribution to flavor, especially with the sustained growth in interest in spicy foods fr...

An overview of the first ten years of post-apartheid politics in South Africa. Written by activists and academics, it offers a critical perspective of environmental justice theory and practice and includes an assessment of where the environmental justice movement may be headed in the future.

Keine Beschreibung.

The literature on 'world cities' has had an enormous influence on urban theory and planning alike. From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town's standing in this network of urban centres, and an investigation of the conceptual appropriateness of this world city hypothesis. Drawing on more than a dozen years of fieldwork in C...