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Map** Civic Uses in Abruzzo Region: Opportunities for Sustainable Resource Management
Civic Uses (UC) are perpetual rights vested in members of a community over property belonging to the state domain. They are therefore collective...
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Time Banks as Transient Civic Organizations? Exploring the Dynamics of Decline
Time banks have become a popular type of civic organization constructed to facilitate egalitarian economic exchange through a community-bounded...
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Schools of Democracy? Giving Circles and the Civic and Political Participation of Collaborative Philanthropists
Social transformations around the world have increased the need for philanthropy and motivated people to become more active at the local level....
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Epistemic Activism in the United States: Examining Meetings Across the Silos of Civil Society
The realm of civic action is far from unified; studies of civil society have often been likewise divided by discipline, organizational form, and...
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Social Entrepreneurship and the Challenge of Collaborative Governance of Civic Events: Brazil, Korea, and the United States
Civic events are held in cities around the world. These activities add substantial value to the host community, but also pose significant management...
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Rural Depopulation, Civil Society and Its Participation in the Political Arena in Spain: Rise and Fall of ‘Emptied Spain’ as a New Political Actor?
Over the last decades, Europe has been affected by major demographic changes. There are many remote rural areas where the general processes of rural...
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The Place of Civil Society in the Creation of Knowledge
This interdisciplinary volume addresses the relations between civil society and knowledge from a social, institutional, and spatial perspective. As...
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The importance of being taught: improving public engagement in resource management through learning by doing
While public engagement is a legal (and moral) requirement in many countries, good engagement is hard to do. Bad public engagement is too often the...
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Civil Society as Networks of Issues and Associations: The Case of Food
Scholars usually conceptualize civil society as both a discursive and an associational space. In the former, focus is on communicative practices; in...
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The Geography of Giving in the Philanthropic Field
Drawing on the neo-institutional notion of organizational fields, we propose the concept of the philanthropic field to conceptualize the geography of...
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Social Movements and Social Capital in Senri New Town
This chapter offers a case of not rural but urban one; Senri New Town (SNT). SNT is the first big new town in Japan. It locates in the northern part...
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Towards a socially vibrant city: exploring urban typologies and morphologies of the emerging “CityWalks” in Dubai
Vertical urbanization to maximize land use in many cities has led to a shortage of urban spaces that could adequately meet people's needs. In...
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International Cultural Relations at the Time of Pandemic: At the Intersection of Art and Technology
Based on the analysis of materials from various sources and statistical data, the paper aimed to study the experience in cultural cooperation in the...
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Geotourism and Geoparks—Promoting Geoheritage and Geodiversity to People
The promotion of geological heritage and geodiversity via geotourism has become popular in various regions of the world as a result of the growing...
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The impacts of public space flagship projects on local communities: evidence from Atigh Square of Isfahan, Iran
The examination of the comprehensive effects of flagship projects on adjacent neighborhoods remains inadequately explored, particularly within...
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Improving land-use-based urbanism through award-winning planning practice and scholarship: a North American case study
Metropolises in the Sunbelt region of the USA are in need of sensitive land-use-based urbanism comprised of more compact development, sustainable...
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Can Social Innovation Transform Local Governments? The Experience of Naples
By analyzing the case study of Naples, Italy, the chapter aims at investigating the complex relationship between community-led initiatives and the...
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The Metaverse as a virtual form of data-driven smart urbanism: platformization and its underlying processes, institutional dimensions, and disruptive impacts
The emerging phenomenon of platformization has given rise to what has been termed "platform society,“ a digitally connected world where platforms...
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Civic Engagement
Mainstream planning discourse recognizes the importance and value of consulting with the public. In this chapter, planners are invited to critically...
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A Free and Open Map of the Entire World: Opportunities for YouthMappers Within the Unusual Partnership Model of OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a very unusual kind of partnership, not only in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but...