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Environmental planning disputes often combine questions of regulation and legislation with distinctive, place-based epistemic issues that lend themselves to citizen science approaches. Whilst these citizen science activities often concern the enforcement of regulations, here we describe the attempts of a local community group to prevent the start-up of a new biomass incineration plant by showing…

Mae’r Cipolwg Data hwn yn archwilio sut y defnyddir gwybodaeth i lywio penderfyniadau ynghylch darparu cyfweliadau arweiniad gyrfaoedd ymhlith disgyblion cyfnod allweddol 4 (CA4) yng Nghymru. Mae’n archwilio pwysigrwydd cymharol nodweddion cefndirol sydd wedi’u cynnwys mewn cofnodion addysg weinyddol o’u cymharu â gwybodaeth a ddarparwyd gan ddisgyblion drwy offeryn diagnostig Gyrfa Cymru.

Mae’r Cipolwg Data hwn yn archwilio’r dylanwad y gall arweiniad gyrfaoedd ei gael ar bontio i Addysg a Hyfforddiant Ôl-orfodol (PCET) yng Nghymru. Mae’r dadansoddiad yn archwilio cyfraddau pontio i AHO yng Nghymru, a yw derbyn arweiniad gyrfaoedd yn ystod cyfnod allweddol 4 yn cefnogi pontio i AHO ac, os felly, a yw o fudd…

The paper draws upon open-source technologies to present methods of incorporating multiple travel modes into GIS analyses of cumulative opportunity and proximity-based metrics of accessibility. Two case studies are undertaken. The first uses isochrone analysis to evaluate national access to sport facilities expected to appeal to a broad range of ages and abilities. Predictably, urban…

This article is concerned with equalities nonprofit organizations’ activities to achieve substantive representation in policy-making through a sub-state government. It draws on three strands of the interest representation literature from equalities theory, nonprofit sector studies, and social movements theory. The analytical framework synthesizes these to provide a new approach for examining equalities nonprofit organizations’ policy…

What can the municipal state do to radically transform urban economies? Local government in countries such as the UK has been historically tasked with delivering public services; rarely extending its remit to economic develop-ment, let alone community-led forms promoting economic democracy, at least not since 1980s municipal socialism. But times are changing, and the UK…

This study is the first pan-regional analysis of civil society organizations’ perspectives on the human rights situation of LGBT + people in Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries. Paradoxically, whilst UN treaties extend anti-discrimination rights to LGBT + people in most member countries, simultaneously, colonial-era legislation makes intimate same sex relations unlawful. Analysis of the corpus of civil society organizations’ (CSO)…

Ethnography has a long history in the humanities and social sciences and has provided the base line in the field of police studies for over 60 years. We have recently witnessed a resurgence in ethnographic practice among police scholars, and this Handbook is a response to that revival. Students and academics are returning to the…

Evolution of research on urban design has needed in some stages a deeper interdisciplinary relationship with other close fields, like Architecture, Ecology.  These eventual gaps led to some socio-economic and cultural problems in cities and regions worldwide. Milestones in this long journey arose. COVID-19 is one of them. These facts oblige the scientific community to…

Forthcoming Research Topic edited by Igor Calzada, Francesco Mureddu, and Smita Gupta Building on the Millennium Development Goals, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the cornerstone of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, billed by the UN as “an agenda of unprecedented scope and significance.” The seventeen ambitious goals, which are intended to be…