Rescaling Urban Governance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Sturzaker ◽  
Alexander Nurse
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
International Context ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Spatial Inequalities ◽  
The World ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
The Uk ◽  
First Time

In a time of political upheaval around the world, many jurisdictions are making changes to how they govern their cities in an attempt to redistribute (or appear to redistribute) power within those cities. Such changes can occur at a range of scales, with various aims, explicit or implicit. The UK is one such place, having experienced a particularly rapid series of changes over the last 10 years, at every scale from the national to the community levels. This book provides, for the first time, comprehensive analysis of this period, looking in detail at the UK but situated within the broader international context. The book looks in turn at each tier of government/governance, from the national to the community, analysing from top-to-bottom the outcomes of a decade’s worth of reform, explicitly considering whether they can be said to be progressive in nature. The book interrogates the results of changes to governance practices as a means to explore the extent to which power is genuinely being redistributed and spatial inequalities are being addressed. It draws on recent work of the authors and others to explore these issues primarily in the UK, but using international examples to highlight commonalities, suggest ways in which the UK can learn from elsewhere, and, where they can be identified, likewise identify lessons for other places.

scholarly journals Diverse vertebrate assemblage of the Kilmaluag Formation (Bathonian, Middle Jurassic) of Skye, Scotland

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa PANCIROLI ◽  
Roger B. J. BENSON ◽  
Stig WALSH ◽  
Richard J. BUTLER ◽  
Tiago Andrade CASTRO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
International Context ◽  
Nature Conservancy ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Uk ◽  
A Site ◽  
Vertebrate Assemblage ◽  
First Time ◽  
Species Occurrences ◽  
Isle Of Skye

ABSTRACT The Kilmaluag Formation on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, provides one of the richest Mesozoic vertebrate fossil assemblages in the UK, and is among the richest globally for Middle Jurassic tetrapods. Since its discovery in 1971, this assemblage has predominantly yielded small-bodied tetrapods, including salamanders, choristoderes, lepidosaurs, turtles, crocodylomorphs, pterosaurs, dinosaurs, non-mammalian cynodonts and mammals, alongside abundant fish and invertebrates. It is protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and by Nature Conservancy Order. Unlike contemporaneous localities from England, this assemblage yields associated partial skeletons, providing unprecedented new data. We present a comprehensive updated overview of the Kilmaluag Formation, including its geology and the fossil collections made to date, with evidence of several species occurrences presented here for the first time. We place the vertebrate faunal assemblage in an international context through comparisons with relevant contemporaneous localities from the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia and the US. This wealth of material reveals the Kilmaluag Formation as a vertebrate fossil assemblage of global significance, both in terms of understanding Middle Jurassic faunal composition and the completeness of specimens, with implications for the early evolutionary histories of mammals, squamates and amphibians.

Commentary

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Philo
Keyword(s):  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Forensic Analysis ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Spatial Inequalities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Complex Datasets

This chapter reflects upon Danny Dorling’s ‘forensic’ analysis of the spatial dynamics underlying Mrs Thatcher’s impact upon UK society. His innovative cartography, coupled to a remarkable facility with complex datasets, conclusively captures the deepening of socio-spatial inequalities that was integral (not incidental) to the Thatcherite project. The chapter also offers a thumbnail critical appraisal of Mrs Thatcher’s own understanding of ‘geography’. In one register, her approach might be cast as a ‘denying’ of the UK’s overall social geography, but in another it was envisioning a ‘tapestry’ of largely disconnected local social environments admonished constantly to compare and compete. Dorling claims that things could have been otherwise, since many regions of the world did not follow this path of ever-widening internal socio-spatial inequalities. Quite other, alternative visions of more equal and just geographies of the UK, antithetical to Mrs Thatcher’s geographical vision, should continue to feature on a progressive political agenda.

Introduction: Planning reform and state spatial rescaling

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
John Sturzaker ◽  
Alexander Nurse
Keyword(s):  
Urban Governance ◽  
The World ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Analytical Tools

This chapter considers the pressures and drivers for change facing cities all over the world, specifically in England, and identify the range of governance approaches adopted to confront them. It situates the discussion in the subsequent chapters within wider frameworks of urban governance, including the theoretical and analytical tools which can be used to explore governance practices.

scholarly journals Review: Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance: Impact and Practice edited by David Sweeting

2018 ◽  
pp. 206-208
Author(s):  
Andrew Walker
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Contractual Arrangements ◽  
City Regions ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Uk

The introduction of directly elected mayors is one of the most significant recent developments in the structure of governance of the UK. The first mayor of London was elected in 2000, and the model has spread slowly but surely to other cities across the country, with varying powers and parameters attached. In May 2017 there were elections in six English city-regions for directly elected metro mayors. These new positions as figureheads of combined authorities were a prerequisite of the transfer of powers from Whitehall arranged by George Osborne when he was at the treasury. Mayoral roles and responsibilities are fairly clearly defined and circumscribed in legislation and the contractual arrangements with government, but there are still plenty of unknowns within what is a novel form of governance and power in the UK. David Sweeting’s volume is a timely and useful guide to the issues and argument. It takes a number of the key debates around the salience of directly elected mayors in urban governance and fleshes them out with useful case studies that look in-depth at cities around the world.

Murail, Dufourt, Grisey: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Barbican Centre, London

Tempo ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (269) ◽  
pp. 66-67
Author(s):  
Liam Cagney
Keyword(s):  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Robust Performance ◽  
Personal Significance ◽  
The World ◽  
Symphonic Poems ◽  
Orchestral Work ◽  
The Uk ◽  
First Time ◽  
World Premiere

‘Why shouldn't we be allowed to write symphonic poems?’ Tristan Murail asked the audience gathered at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios for his interview with Jonathan Cross. Murail, now 67, was visiting the UK for the first time in many years, here for the world premiere of his new orchestral work Reflections, which took place on 2 November 2013 in a robust performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo. Reflections parts one and two evoke certain aspects of early modernist music, and, most of all, the music of Debussy, a composer Murail has come to cite more and more frequently. This diptych premiered by the BBC SO comprises the first two parts, said Murail, of a projected cycle for orchestra of several relatively brief pieces, each of which reflects on a certain image, memory or object of personal significance to the composer.

scholarly journals Scotland's Referendum and the Media

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
General Election ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
International Context ◽  
British Identity ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Scottish Independence ◽  
The Uk

On 18 September 2014, a referendum took place in Scotland to determine the question of Scottish independence. Soon after, the independence issue recurred strongly as a topic in the UK general election of May 2015. This volume examines the media coverage of the referendum, analyzing how it was reported and structured in the media in Scotland, the wider United Kingdom, and in other parts of the world which had a direct interest in the outcome. In twenty chapters encompassing a rich variety of perspectives, scholars, commentators and journalists from Scotland, the rest of Britain, Europe, Canada and Australia examine how the media across the world presented the debate. By exploring how the media in their particular nations constructed coverage of the Scottish political debate, contributors from outside the UK illuminate a range of attitudes to nationalism and separatism in various countries which saw significance for themselves in the Scottish case. The book’s investigation of the shifting nature of Scottish – and British - identity thus revealed is thereby placed in an emphatically international context, alongside specific contributions from England, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as Scotland itself. The consequences of the referendum are traced in the media until the aftermath of the May general election of 2015.

Comprehensive analysis of peptides and low molecular weight components of the giant ant Dinoponera quadriceps venom

2020 ◽  
Vol 401 (8) ◽  
pp. 945-954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gandhi Rádis-Baptista ◽  
Hilania V. Dodou ◽  
Álvaro R.B. Prieto-da-Silva ◽  
André J. Zaharenko ◽  
Kohei Kazuma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Weight ◽  
Free Amino ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Low Molecular Weight ◽  
Microbial Infection ◽  
Live Prey ◽  
Peptide Mass ◽  
The World ◽  
Ant Venom ◽  
First Time

AbstractAnts (Hymenoptera, Apocrita, Aculeata, Formicoidea) comprise a well-succeeded group of animals. Like bees and wasps, ants are mostly venomous, having a sting system to deliver a mixture of bioactive organic compounds and peptides. The predatory giant ant Dinoponera quadriceps belongs to the subfamily Ponerinae that includes one of the largest known ant species in the world. In the present study, low molecular weight compounds and peptides were identified by online peptide mass fingerprint. These include neuroactive biogenic amines (histamine, tyramine, and dopamine), monoamine alkaloid (phenethylamine), free amino acids (e.g. glutamic acid and proline), free thymidine, and cytosine. To the best of our knowledge, most of these components are described for the first time in an ant venom. Multifunctional dinoponeratoxin peptide variants (pilosulin- and ponericin-like peptides) were characterized that possess antimicrobial, hemolytic, and histamine-releasing properties. These venom components, particularly peptides, might synergistically contribute to the overall venom activity and toxicity, for immobilizing live prey, and for defending D. quadriceps against aggressors, predators, and potential microbial infection.

Comprehensive analysis of peptides and low molecular weight components of the giant ant Dinoponera quadriceps venom

2019 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gandhi Rádis-Baptista ◽  
Hilania V. Dodou ◽  
Álvaro R. B. Prieto-da-Silva ◽  
André J. Zaharenko ◽  
Kohei Kazuma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Weight ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Low Molecular Weight ◽  
Microbial Infection ◽  
Live Prey ◽  
Peptide Mass ◽  
The World ◽  
Ant Venom ◽  
On Line ◽  
First Time

Abstract Ants (Hymenoptera, Apocrita, Aculeata, Formicoidea) comprise a well-succeeded group of animals. Like bees and wasps, ants are mostly venomous, having a sting system to deliver a mixture of bioactive organic compounds and peptides. The predatory giant ant Dinoponera quadriceps belongs to the subfamily Ponerinae that include one of the largest known ant species in the world. In the present study, low molecular weight compounds and peptides were identified by on-line peptide mass fingerprint. These include neuroactive biogenic amines (histamine, tyramine, and dopamine), monoamine alkaloid (phenethylamine), free amino acids (e.g., glutamic acid and proline), free thymidine and cytosine. To the best of our knowledge most of these components are described for the first time in an ant venom. Multifunctional dinoponeratoxin peptides variants (pilosulin- and ponericin-like peptides) were characterized that possess antimicrobial, hemolytic, and histamine-releasing properties. These venom components, particularly peptides, might synergistically contribute to the overall venom activity and toxicity, for immobilizing live prey, and defending D. quadriceps against aggressors, predators and potential microbial infection.

scholarly journals Barriers to the Take-Up of Electronic Commerce among Small-Medium Sized Enterprises

10.28945/2662 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Stansfield ◽  
Kevin Grant
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Context ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Uk

Since small-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role within many major economies throughout the world, their ability to successfully adopt and utilize the Internet and electronic commerce is of prime importance in ensuring their stability and future survival. In this paper, initial findings will be reported of a study carried out by the authors into the use made of the Internet and electronic commerce and key issues influencing its use by SMEs. In order to broaden the scope of this paper, the results gained from the study will be compared with figures relating to businesses in the rest of Scotland and the UK, as well as the US, Canada and Japan, and European countries that include Sweden, Germany, France and Italy. The issues raised from this study will be compared with similar studies carried out in other countries such as Australia, New Zealand and British Columbia, as well as countries within the European Union in order to provide a wider meaningful international context for the results of the study.

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