Landscape approaches have become en vogue in the past couple of decades. Originating
from nineteenth-century landscape geography, this renewed popularity since the 1980s is …

This is the first book in Polity's new'Urban Futures' series. At the beginning of the twenty-first
century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean …

Forest governance refers to new modes of governing that go beyond the confines of the
state. These modes are believed to be more (cost-) effective and legitimate than …

This entry is primarily concerned with the contributions of Marx and Engels to the critical
analysis of the state in capitalist societies, the richness and strengths of which are often …

Rethinking World Politics is a major intervention into a central debate in international
relations: how has globalization transformed world politics? Most work on world politics still …

" Compelling and accessible, this Very Short Introduction challenges common perceptions of
borders as merely lines on maps or physical barriers snaking across the landscape. Instead …

Governance became a catch-all concept for various forms of steering by state and non-state
actors. While it pays tribute to the complexities of steering in poly-centred, globalised …

Lively debates over the nation-state resurfaced in the 1980s as scholars and politicians
suggested that it had become too small to solve the world's big problems and too big to …

This paper aims to assess the emergence of the concept of forest governance in the field of
forest policy analysis. This assessment is mainly theoretical in nature. The various meanings …

The methodologies and operational instruments for the assessment of forest governance are
still under development. While there are some advanced initiatives focused on forest …