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1. Conservation and Sustainable Development

   Linking Practice and Policy in Eastern Africa

   Edited by Jonathan Davies

   Series: Earthscan Conservation and Development

   The links between policy and practice in natural resource management are often depicted as a cyclical and rational process. In reality, policymaking and implementation are often irrational, unpredictable and highly political. Many science and knowledge-based institutions undertake rigorous research...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Innovations in Urban Politics

   Edited by Jonathan Davies

   Previously published as a special issue of Policy Studies, this volume demonstrates the vitality of the field of urban politics and presents future challenges for urban political research in the years ahead. If it does not already, the population of cities will very soon make up more than half the...

   Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge
3. Children, Place and Identity

   Nation and Locality in Middle Childhood

   By Jonathan Scourfield, Bella Dicks, Mark Drakeford, Andrew Davies

   In this, the first sociology book to consider the important issue of how children identify with place and nation, the authors use original research and international case studies to explore this topic in depth. The book is rooted in original qualitative research the authors conducted with a diverse...

   Published July 19th 2006 by Routledge