The global challenge and marginalization
By: Marcio M. Valenca, Etienne Nel, and Walter Leimgruber (editors).
Contributors: Valença, Márcio Moraes, 1960-; Nel, E. L.; Leimgruber, Walter.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781600218385
Subjects: Marginality, Social -- Case studies; Globalization; Equality
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; challenges and opportunities in Amazonian cities / Ana Claudia Duarte Cardoso, José Júlio Ferreira Lima and Ana Paula Vidal Bastos; title: And the favela went global: the invention of a trademark and a tourist destination / Bianca Freire-Medeiros; title: The impact of tourism on Alaska: an essay / Donald F. Lynch; title: Adoption of ICT in marginal areas: Namibia in focus / Kenneth Mateng; title: European policies revisited: rural development programmes of Tuscany and Umbria Compared / Maria Andreoli and Heikki Jussila; title: Small and local initiatives in Southern Patagonia : Beginnings, crisis and perspectives / María Eugenia Cepparo de Grosso; title: From economic marginality to cultural marginality: the crisis afflicting the farmer's world as reflected in the writings of Josep Pla / Joan Tort and Valerià Paül; title: Building the future through education: the Umthati School Garden Project in the Eastern Cape, South Africa / Walter Leimgruber; title: The participation of marginalized communities in natural resource management: a case study from Mngazana mangrove forest, Eastern Cape, South Africa / Catherine Helen Traynor; title: Madrid historical district: a space between marginality and regeneration / Dolores Puga and Teresa Castro Martín; title: Two failed regional development plans for Alaska: 1794-1806 / Donald F. Lynch and Roger W. Pearson; title: Evolving economic marginality and local economic development responses in selected South African gold and coal mining areas / E. Nel; title: Liminal cities: global spaces, everday lives / Gareth A. Jones and Maria Moreno-Carranco; title: Urban problems in a global world-the economic and demographic decline of cities in (Eastern) Germany after 1989 / Julia Richter; title: Transformation of marginality: territorial practices of the Sami People and the Swedish state / Katarina Schough, Lennart Anderson, Lennart Stenman; title: Clientelism in theory: framing Brazilian political practice / Márcio M. Valença; title: The urban space: a privileged scenario of the complex relations between globalization and marginalization. Reflections on the Latin American case / Margarita Schmidt; title: Transgression in the urban landscape of Noir Los Angeles / Maria Helena Braga and Vaz da Costa; title: The global governance response to informal settlements: relieving or deepening marginalisation? / Marie Huchzermeyer; title: Globalisation and the work/leisure from standardisation of leisure to work flexibility / Norberto Pinto; title: Area-based policies for "social exclusion" - Band aid or cure? / Peter Ambrose; title: Globalisation of OLD: The first urban nuclei in the State of Rio Grande do Norte and the historical process of globalisation-16th and 17th centuries / Rubenilson Brazão Teixeira; title: Canudos: the multiple forms of marginality & marginalization / Sandra S. F. Erickson; title: Amateur cultural activites and local and national identity in the era of globalization / Stanko Pelc; title: Globalization hits home: a rural southern U.S. county faces harsh realities / William R. Stanley and Carol A. Williams; title: Index.