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Memories of My Town
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Year: 2004 Publisher: Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society / SKS,

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Memories of My Town is an exploration into how town dwellers experience their environment in a complicated way. As people in urban milieus relate themselves to the environment, this takes place on many levels, where especially the time level becomes problematic. The urban buildings and settings can be looked upon as a kind of collective history, as carriers or witnesses of times past. But it is only the town dwellers that experience urban time itself, the time they live in, but through their memories also times past. In this past some elements take symbolically dense expressions. Through reliving and narrating their experiences the symbolically important factors in this urban relationship will be outlined for investigations concerning three towns, Helsinki, the capital, Vyborg, the ceded and lost Karelian town, and Jyväskylä, a town with dense commercial and cultural dimensions in the middle of Finland. The aim of the book is to use different theoretical concepts as guidelines in analysing the different narrative texts.

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Towards a thermodynamic theory for ecological systems
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ISBN: 008044167X 9780080471747 0080471749 1280967862 9781280967863 9786610967865 6610967865 0080441661 9780080441665 Year: 2004 Publisher: Amsterdam Boston Elsevier

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The book presents a consistent and complete ecosystem theory based on thermodynamic concepts. The first chapters are devoted to an interpretation of the first and second law of thermodynamics in ecosystem context. Then Prigogine's use of far from equilibrium thermodynamic is used on ecosystems to explain their reactions to perturbations. The introduction of the concept exergy makes it possible to give a more profound and comprehensive explanation of the ecosystem's reactions and growth-patterns. A tentative fourth law of thermodynamic is formulated and applied to facilitate these explanations

Assembly rules and restoration ecology : bridging the gap between theory and practice
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ISBN: 159726590X 1429495138 9781429495134 9781559633741 1559633743 9781559633758 1559633751 9781597265904 1559633743 1559633751 Year: 2004 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press,


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Gated neig[h]bourhoods and privatisation of urban security in Ibadan metropolis
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ISBN: 9788025099 2821819617 9791092312027 Year: 2004 Publisher: IFRA-Nigeria

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One of the consequences of the failure of the state to protect life and property of its entire citizens especially in developing countries like Nigeria is the emergences of private alternatives to crime prevention and control. This process of privatisation of security in Nigeria often involves recruitment of corporate and local security guards, vigilantes, night watchmen and the control of access into the neighbourhoods through gates and barriers. The book examines the nature, types, procedures, and administration of these private alternative to security in Ibadan metropolis. It identifies renaissance of primary affiliation among diverse urban residents and the interplay of forces of exclusion and inclusion among residents of gates neighbourhoods in Ibadan metropolis. It also evaluates the spatial pattern, trends and dynamics of gating and the general concern for security in Ibadan metropolis.


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Biogeosciences.
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ISSN: 17264170 17264189 Year: 2004 Publisher: [Katlenberg-Lindau, Germany] : Copernicus on behalf of the European Geosciences Union,

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"Biogeosciences (BG) is an international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and discussion of research articles, short communications and review papers on all aspects of the interactions between the biological, chemical and physical processes in terrestrial or extraterrestrial life with the geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere."--Home page

Politics and the European Commission : actors, interdependence, legitimacy
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ISBN: 0415324076 0203356888 9780203356883 9786610053841 6610053847 9780415324076 0203682491 9780203682494 1134347456 9781134347452 1280053844 9781280053849 9781134347407 9781134347445 9780415429726 1134347448 0415429722 Year: 2004 Volume: 36 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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The European Commission is an organization which has come to fascinate or repulse a range of national politicians, journalists and social scientists. In contrast to the prevailing image of the Commission as a 'bureaucrat's paradise', however, and by using the results of original research, this book deliberately sets out to investigate this organization's relationship to politics. It does so first by developing a variety of case-studies (health, development aid, preparations for Eastern enlargement, etc.) as a means of studying the relationships, networks and interdependencies which link commis


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The time of the communities : people, places and events
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ISBN: 128390442X 1846426413 1417501049 9781417501045 9781846426414 Year: 2004 Publisher: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers,

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From the 1950's onwards different movements, ideas and key figures have contributed to the emergence of the initiative which is now recognised as Therapeutic Communities. This book follows these post-war changes (such as 'libertarianism' and the 'open door movement') through to the present day and discusses the influence they had on the practice of psychiatry and the introduction of Therapeutic Communities. Including chapters on the lives, work and influence of Joshua Bierer and R.D. Laing, as well as providing an explanation of the Villa 21 project (the only attempt to apply Laingian concepts


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Conflits et territoires
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ISBN: 2869061811 2821821077 2869063237 Year: 2004 Publisher: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais

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Cet ouvrage propose de considérer l'étude de la dimension spatiale et territoriale des conflits comme une modalité privilégiée de l'analyse de la territorialisation de l'action publique. Les recherches présentées ici ont pour ambition non seulement d'analyser les causes et effets de conflits et controverses, mais surtout d'interroger les cadres d'interprétations et les notions utilisées pour rendre compte de situations de conflits d'usages, d'aménagement, d'environnement ou de luttes politiques. La généralisation de controverses et conflits liés à des oppositions entre usagers d'un espace ou à des projets publics donne lieu à des interprétations opposées : pour certains, crise de la capacité des pouvoirs publics à incarner l'intérêt général, pour d'autres, expression d'une demande de prévisibilité face à l'incertitude des évolutions urbaines, mise en place d'une démocratie participative ou simplement manifestation d'une volonté de repli sur les espaces de l'homogénéité sociale stigmatisée comme NIMBY. La généralisation de controverses et conflits liés à des oppositions entre usagers d'un espace ou à des projets publics donne lieu à des interprétations opposées : pour certains, crise de la capacité des pouvoirs publics à incarner l'intérêt général, pour d'autres, expression d'une demande de prévisibilité face à l'incertitude des évolutions urbaines, mise en place d'une démocratie participative ou simplement manifestation d'une volonté de repli sur les espaces de l'homogénéité sociale stigmatisée comme NIMBY.

Market economy and urban change
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ISBN: 9786610475575 6000002335 1417583150 9781849771955 1849771952 9781136561412 1136561412 9781136561405 1136561404 1280475579 9781280475573 9781417583157 9781136561368 1136561366 1853837830 9781853837838 1853837849 9781853837845 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Sterling, VA Earthscan

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Across the developing world the preceding decade or so has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of the political economy of urban policy. This new policy environment is driven by globalization, the neo-liberal macro-economic package of 'market enablement' and structural adjustment, which now form the dominant development paradigm. The consequences of this approach for urban development agendas and ultimately the lives and livelihoods of millions of people across the globe are profound. Market Economy and Urban Change explores and evaluates urban sector and development policies in the context


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La ville et l'esprit de société
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ISBN: 2869061889 2821821026 2869063253 Year: 2004 Publisher: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais

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Apparue dans le champ historique avec les travaux fondateurs de Maurice Agulhon, la notion de sociabilité s’est révélée une grille d’analyse pertinente pour une histoire socio-culturelle attachée à comprendre les transformations du siècle des Lumières, les mutations de la culture politique et la genèse de l’opinion publique, le passage d’une société aristocratique à une société bourgeoise et le lien entre l’émergence d’une sphère publique et l’expansion d’un capitalisme commercial. Ces problématiques sont au cœur des sujets abordés dans ce volume, qui s’intéresse à un type spécifique de sociabilités urbaines : celles, plutôt élitaires, qui ont été regardées comme les laboratoires d’idéaux nouveaux, étrangers, sinon antagoniques avec ceux de l’univers de la cour. Les contributions rassemblées soumettent à un nouvel examen et nuancent le schéma de la formation, entre le xviie et le xviiie siècle, d’un espace public urbain défini par sa différence avec la cour ou les académies, ou par opposition à la sphère privée, domestique, à l’espace du secret initiatique ou encore au domaine clos des cabinets et des galeries scientifiques et artistiques.

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