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UNINA9910456613503321 |
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Floodplain management [[electronic resource] ] : a new approach for a new era / / Bob Freitag ... [et al.] |
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Washington, D.C., : Island Press, c2009 |
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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Floodplain management - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-232) and index. |
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Floods are not the problem. Case study: Louisa County, Iowa -- A new vocabulary. Case study: Snoqualmie, Washington -- Rivers and floodplains. Case study: Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin -- Natural processes must drive solutions. Case study: New York, New York -- Our relationship to rivers. Case study: Chicago, Illinois -- Approaches: structural and nonstructural. Case study: Buck Hollow River, Oregon -- Capabilities and tools. Case study: Davenport, Iowa -- Strategies: work with, not against, rivers. Case study: flooding of I-5 in Washington -- Choosing the best strategy. case study: Tulsa, Oklahoma -- What next? case study: Rivergrove. |
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UNINA9910370043703321 |
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Nast Julia |
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Unequal Neighbourhoods, Unequal Schools : Organisational Habitus in Deprived and Privileged Local Contexts / / by Julia Nast |
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Wiesbaden : , : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : , : Imprint : Springer VS, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (285 pages) |
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Sociology, Urban |
Educational sociology |
Social structure |
Equality |
Urban Studies/Sociology |
Sociology of Education |
Social Structure, Social Inequality |
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Neighbourhoods, Schools and Inequality: Shifting the Focus -- A Theoretical Perspective: Localised Fields, Organisational Habitus and Practices -- How Neighbourhoods Shape Schools-as-Fields: Social, Symbolic, and Administrative Differences -- How Educational Professionals Adapt: Localised Organisational Habitus and Organisational Practices. |
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Do schools work differently in deprived and privileged neighbourhoods? As segregation is on the rise in many cities, this book explores how different neighbourhood contexts shape public organisations, by using an innovative approach that combines a Bourdieusian perspective and new institutional theory. Based on interviews and ethnographic data from two primary schools in Berlin, Germany, it shows how local social compositions, symbolic meanings of urban areas, and neighbourhood-based policy interventions structure schools. Educational professionals adapt to these structural differences. The book analyses how teachers’ understandings and |
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practices vary by local context – and what that means for the reproduction of urban inequality. Contents Neighbourhoods, Schools and Inequality: Shifting the Focus A Theoretical Perspective: Localised Fields, Organisational Habitus and Practices How Neighbourhoods Shape Schools-as-Fields: Social, Symbolic, and Administrative Differences How Educational Professionals Adapt: Localised Organisational Habitus and Organisational Practices Target Groups Students and lectors of urban sociology, urban studies, sociology of education and geography of education Policy makers, professionals and administrators in the educational field The Author Julia Nast holds a Joint PhD in Sociology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and King’s College London. |
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