1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456613503321

Titolo

Floodplain management [[electronic resource] ] : a new approach for a new era / / Bob Freitag ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Island Press, c2009

ISBN

1-61091-132-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FreitagBob

Disciplina

627/.4

Soggetti

Floodplain management - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910370043703321

Autore

Nast Julia

Titolo

Unequal Neighbourhoods, Unequal Schools : Organisational Habitus in Deprived and Privileged Local Contexts / / by Julia Nast

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wiesbaden : , : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : , : Imprint : Springer VS, , 2020

ISBN

3-658-27591-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 pages)

Disciplina

379.260943

Soggetti

Sociology, Urban

Educational sociology

Social structure

Equality

Urban Studies/Sociology

Sociology of Education

Social Structure, Social Inequality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



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.