3 Save up to 20% at e-elgar.com I For our electronic content, visit: elgaronline.com TEXTBOOK Advanced Introduction to Critical Global Development Uma Kothari, University of Manchester, UK and Elise Klein, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia ‘Insisting on how much and little has changed, this book dwells simultaneously in the past, present, and future of development discourse and practice. The immediacy and longevity of the insights it provides are devastating and liberatory. Read it and respond.’ – Lisa Palmer, University of Melbourne, Australia 2023 162 pp Hardback 978 1 80037 607 6 £85.00 / $120.00 2023 Paperback 978 1 80037 609 0 £15.95 / $24.95 Elgar Advanced Introductions series eTextbook Course leaders – examination copies will be available on publication Nature-Based Solutions for Cities Edited by Timon McPhearson, The New School, New York, US, Nadja Kabisch, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany and Niki Frantzeskaki, Utrecht University, the Netherlands ‘In this urban century, the period of the fastest urban growth in human history, humans still need nature to survive and thrive. In this crucial book, some of the best urban scientists in the world give us a guide for how nature can be a solution to the pressing needs of our time, including climate resilience and equity. For anyone planning, implementing, or monitoring nature-based solutions in cities, this is an essential book.’ – Robert McDonald, Lead Scientist for Nature-based Solutions at The Nature Conservancy Aug 2023 408 pp Hardback 978 1 80037 675 5 £130.00 / $190.00 eBook • Elgaronline A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities Edited by Kes McCormick, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Lund University, Sweden, James Evans, The University of Manchester, UK, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Lund University, Sweden and Niki Frantzeskaki, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Global in its outlook, this Research Agenda systematically reviews and critiques existing research on sustainable cities, calling for greater engagement with a diversity of perspectives. It interrogates foundational assumptions in the field and offers reframed perspectives on sustainability. Chapters also explore diverse approaches, actors and domains, locating emerging dynamics and new directions for practitioners. Aug 2023 266 pp Hardback 978 1 80037 202 3 c £100.00 / c $145.00 eBook • Elgaronline Elgar Research Agendas Research Handbook on City and Municipal Finance Edited by Craig L. Johnson, Indiana University, Bloomington, Temirlan T. Moldogaziev, The Pennsylvania State University and Justin M. Ross, Indiana University, Bloomington, US ‘This book is a very engaging and informative compilation of research in municipal finance topics. It will serve as a good reference for young scholars just embarking on a research career, as well as more experienced researchers and practitioners looking for summaries of the more important research on a topic. I especially enjoyed the inclusion of relatively new areas of research such as the effects of COVID-19 on fiscal health, the role of cybersecurity in financial risk, and the role of public health spending. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book and will use it as a reference for years to come.’ – Kenneth A. Kriz, University of Illinois Springfield, US Sept 2023 522 pp Hardback 978 1 80037 295 5 c £240.00 / c $345.00 eBook • Elgaronline Elgar Handbooks in Public Administration and Management A Research Agenda for Construction Management Edited by Roine Leiringer, The University of Hong Kong and Andy Dainty, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ‘This is an important collection from some of the leading construction management thinkers working today. As a maturing but still contested field, it is now more important than ever to embrace heterogeneity of approach and plurality of theory and to question orthodoxy and replication. Every construction management researcher should not only read this, but also draw inspiration from it.’ – Chris Harty, London South Bank University, UK 2023 314 pp Hardback 978 1 80037 544 4 £100.00 / $150.00 eBook • Elgaronline Elgar Research Agendas GOGRAPHY, URBAN & REGIONAL NEW TITLES, JULY – SEPT 2023
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