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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

perceptions --- marine resource use --- qualitative research --- decision-making process --- Coastal communities --- community-based marine management --- Stakeholder interactions

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Exploring the politics of housing during 1890-1990, this fascinating study examines the interaction not only of national and local politics but also of local factors such as civic culture, key local players, local discourse and geographical and demographic problems. This book argues that increasingly, tenants acted as consumers of a public service, and it questions the way in which notions of consumerism shaped responses to the housing debate.An analysis of the impact of legislation on housing policy in different cities is provided, as well as a more detailed account of the politics of housing in Manchester, including the Victorian legacy, the emergence of local government intervention, post-war overspill estates, new system-built flats and their rapid deterioration, rising tenant anger and protests, and the beginning of a new approach based on consultation and partnerships.The book will be of value to anyone studying urban history, politics, governance, civic culture, social policy and society.

Low-income housing --- Housing policy --- Poor --- Housing --- Inclusionary housing programs --- Housing and state --- State and housing --- City planning --- Social policy --- History --- Government policy --- Manchester. --- civic culture. --- decision-making process. --- housing policy. --- local authorities. --- local government. --- municipal housing. --- national policy. --- slum clearance. --- social groups. --- tenant frustration. --- traditional politics. --- voluntary groups.

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The thesis deals with the question of why no international legally binding instrument for forest policy exists so far. The thesis shows that the problem definition presents a form of control for the decision making process and for the problem solution. Therefore, it is demonstrated how locations, reports and non-human objects are related to the development of international forest policy within United Nations. In the development of international forest policy, the policy problem was framed as "deforestation and degradation of tropical forests". In the second phase of policy formulation, the "deforestation and degradation of all forests" moves to the centre of interests. The thesis analyses furthermore the formation of meaning of the policy narratives that are intertwined with international forest policy. The identification of global environmental discourses that transfer a certain kind of meaning of policy and of problem solution, that operate with discursive practices and technologies of power, and that use retorical devices, allows to show which rules and practices influence how natural resource policy arises. In this way it can be shown how policy problems come into being and how they are understood. Furthermore, it allows identifying policy change in a non-decision-making process. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage warum kein international rechtlich verbindliches Instrument zur Frage der Waldpolitik verabschiedet wurde. Sie zeigt wie die Definition des Politikproblems eine Form der Kontrolle für den Entscheidungsfindungsprozess und die damit verbundene Problemlösung darstellt. Folglich wird demonstriert wie Orte, Berichte und nicht-menschliche Objekte mit der Entstehung der internationalen Waldpolitik im Rahmen der Vereinten Nationen verbunden sind. Während in der Entstehungsphase der internationalen Waldpolitik das eigentliche Politikproblem als "Entwaldung und Degradierung des Tropenwaldes" verstanden wird, rückt in der zweiten Phase der Politikformulierung die "Entwaldung und Degradierung aller Wälder" in den Blickpunkt des internationalen Interesses. Weiters legt die Arbeit die bedeutungsbildenden Elemente der Policy-Narrative, die mit der internationalen Waldpolitik verwoben sind, offen. Die Identifikation von globalen Umweltdiskursen, die ein bestimmtes Politik- bzw. Problemlösungsverständnis transportieren, die mittels diskursiver Praktiken und Machttechnologien operieren und die rhetorische Mittel - wie z.B. die apokalyptische Vorstellung der Übernutzung - zum Einsatz bringen, erlaubt zu erkennen, welche Regeln und Praktiken sich auf die Art und Weise, wie die Politik der natürlichen Ressourcen entsteht, auswirken. Sie zeigt, wie Policy-Probleme entstehen und wie sie verstanden werden und erlaubt Policy-Wandel, der sich in einer Nicht-Entscheidung vollzieht, zu identifizieren. Der Rolle der Sprache wird folglich besondere Aufmerksamkeit zuteil.

Forest conservation --- Forest management --- International cooperation. --- Political aspects. --- international forest policy --- deforestation and degradation of tropical forests --- global environmental discourses --- policy change in a non-decision-making process --- Politikwandel --- internationale Waldpolitik --- Nicht-Entscheidungsfindungsprozess --- Völkerrechtsinstrument --- Diskursanalyse --- Natürliche Ressource --- Vereinte Nationen --- Waldforum der Vereinten Nationen

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In October 1962, the fate of the world hung on the American response to the discovery of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba. That response was informed by hours of discussions between John F. Kennedy and his top advisers. What those advisers did not know was that President Kennedy was secretly taping their talks, providing future scholars with a rare inside look at high-level political deliberation in a moment of crisis. Talk at the Brink is the first book to examine these historic audio recordings from a sociological perspective. It reveals how conversational practices and dynamics shaped Kennedy's perception of the options available to him, thereby influencing his decisions and ultimately the outcome of the crisis. David Gibson looks not just at the positions taken by Kennedy and his advisers but how those positions were articulated, challenged, revised, and sometimes ignored. He argues that Kennedy's decisions arose from the intersection of distant events unfolding in Cuba, Moscow, and the high seas with the immediate conversational minutia of turn-taking, storytelling, argument, and justification. In particular, Gibson shows how Kennedy's group told and retold particular stories again and again, sometimes settling upon a course of action only after the most frightening consequences were omitted or actively suppressed. Talk at the Brink presents an image of Kennedy's response to the Cuban missile crisis that is sharply at odds with previous scholarship, and has important implications for our understanding of decision making, deliberation, social interaction, and historical contingency.

Decision making --- Social interaction --- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct. 1962 --- Bay of Pigs. --- Cuba. --- Cuban missile crisis. --- ExComm. --- Executive Committee of the National Security Council. --- John F. Kennedy. --- Khrushchev. --- Soviet missiles. --- White House meetings. --- blockade. --- choice. --- collaborative narration. --- crisis talks. --- decision making. --- decision-making process. --- deliberation. --- future. --- linguistic expression. --- narrative relevance. --- nuclear missiles. --- secret recordings. --- social interaction. --- suppression. --- telephone conversation.

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In a similar way to many other engineering fields, the road pavement industry strongly affects the critical issues of our generation, including climate change, pollutant emission, the exploitation of natural resources and economic crises. For this reason, technicians and researchers are searching ravenously for sustainable solutions to implement in current road construction systems with the following goals: To reduce the consumption of energy and virgin materials; To run environmentally and economically friendly maintenance; To recycle waste from different industrial processes; To decrease the noise, the pollution and the heat generated by traffic, particularly in urban contexts. This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality studies that combine the aforementioned solutions, including works pertaining to: The hot, warm, and cold recycling of reclaimed asphalt pavement; Marginal materials for asphalt pavements; Innovative sustainable materials; Durability and environmental aspects; Structure performance, modeling and design; Advanced trends in rehabilitation and preservation; Surface characteristics and road safety; Management system/life cycle analysis; Urban heat island mitigation; Energy harvesting.

porous concrete --- metakaolin --- geopolymers --- permeable pavements --- urban drainage systems --- maintenance --- reinforced asphalt pavement --- geogrid --- interlayer bonding --- static shear test --- cyclic shear test --- fatigue properties --- warm mix asphalt --- natural zeolite --- gas emissions --- energy consumption --- production costs --- bituminous mixtures --- nano-additives --- nanoclay --- carbon nanotubes --- graphene nanoplatelets --- nano-calcium oxide --- nano-titanium dioxide --- sonication --- fatigue performance --- self-healing --- hot-mix asphalt --- ageing --- cooling --- temperature segregation --- hauling --- insulated truck --- re-heating --- contact stresses --- rolling resistance --- braking --- free rolling --- load --- inflation pressure --- speed --- porosity --- permeability coefficients --- mixing ratio --- aggregate size --- compressive strength --- computed tomography (CT) image --- ex-post CBA --- road modernisation --- incidence of traffic accidents --- decision-making process --- life cycle assessment --- waste management --- circular economy --- alternative materials --- construction --- road stabilisation --- bearing capacity --- unbound base course --- cold central-plant recycled base course --- falling weight deflectometer (FWD), cold recycling in-plant --- bitumen --- aging --- rejuvenation --- reclaimed asphalt --- recycling --- coal bottom ash --- waste material --- recycle --- construction industry --- civil engineering --- bitumen selection --- performance-graded bitumen --- asphalt pavement temperatures --- temperature maps --- n/a