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Habitual statements in academic and journalistic fields on the growing inequality of our cities call for multiple reflections. There are numerous indicators of inequality, and territorial specificities give rise to important and subtle differences. What is less debatable is the spatial expansion of inequality (from more outlying, poorer countries to the most developed ones) and its generalization on all scales (from rural to urban areas, and from large metropolises to small cities). Mobility and housing lie at the root of many of these processes, which are represented by phenomena that are often interconnected, such as gentrification and the elite social classes; impoverishment and immigrants in search of work; and segregation and refugees; among many others. In this book, we try to offer a Spanish-based vision of what we call urban geographies in transition—that is, urban geographies in which the key stages, for the purpose of analysis, are the real estate bubble (1996–2007), the subsequent crisis (2008–2013), and the ensuing recovery (2014–2020), without overlooking the impact of the current COVID-19 crisis on the configuration of a new spatial order in cities.

Research & information: general --- Spanish cities --- economic crisis --- financialization --- gentrification --- housing crisis --- post-Fordist capitalism --- property bubble --- property repossession --- touristification --- pandemic --- real estate dispossession --- mortgage foreclosure --- evictions --- short-term rentals --- housing studies --- critical geography --- Canary Islands --- megaprojects --- neoliberalism --- urban development --- urban planning --- Santa Cruz de Tenerife --- Spain --- tourist gentrification --- real estate market --- international migrations --- tourist rejuvenation --- urban inequality --- master plans --- urban projects --- medium-sized cities --- neoliberal urbanism --- tourist housing --- Airbnb --- historic center --- population --- population growth --- spatial reconfiguration --- large urban areas --- post-crisis period --- urban project --- urban agents --- market urbanism --- speculation --- urban transformation --- central area --- Madrid --- residential segregation --- living conditions --- spatial inequalities --- urbanization process --- environmental justice --- urban parks --- ecosystem services --- Tarragona --- n/a

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It has been confirmed that the number of cases and the death toll of COVID-19 are continuing to rise in many countries around the globe. Governments around the world have been struggling with containing and reducing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19; however, their respective responses have not been consistent. Aggressive measures imposed by some governments have resulted in a complete lockdown that has disrupted all facets of life and poses massive health, social, and financial impacts. Other countries, however, are taking a more wait-and-see approach in an attempt to maintain business as usual. Collectively, these challenges reflect a super wicked problem that places immense pressure on economies and societies and requires the strategic management of health systems to avoid overwhelming them—this has been linked to the public mantra of ‘flattening the curve’, which acknowledges that while the pandemic cannot be stopped, its impact can be regulated so that the number of cases at any given time is not beyond the capacity of the health system. Dynamic simulation modelling is a framework that facilitates the understanding/exploring of complex problems, of searching for and finding the best option(s) from all practical solutions where time dynamics are essential. The papers in this book provide research insights into this super wicked problem and case studies exploring the interactions between social, economic, environmental, and health factors through the use of a systems approach.

COVID-19 --- pandemic --- wicked problem --- systems approach --- leverage points --- Bayesian Networks --- system thinking --- mathematical epidemiology --- SIR-type model --- model parameter estimation --- non-pharmaceutical intervention --- dynamical systems --- COVID-19/SARS-CoV2 --- computational cognitive science --- semantic networks --- text mining --- social media mining --- emotions --- tour and traveling --- digitalization shift --- change readiness --- expanded TOPSIS --- UK --- vaccination --- immunity --- policy --- system dynamics --- modelling --- uncertainty --- branded content --- marketing --- total interpretive structural modelling --- decision-making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory --- causal loop diagram --- systems thinking --- network theory --- complexity economics --- economic crisis --- agent-based model --- information theory --- global value chains --- megaprojects --- housing markets --- economic networks --- n/a

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It has been confirmed that the number of cases and the death toll of COVID-19 are continuing to rise in many countries around the globe. Governments around the world have been struggling with containing and reducing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19; however, their respective responses have not been consistent. Aggressive measures imposed by some governments have resulted in a complete lockdown that has disrupted all facets of life and poses massive health, social, and financial impacts. Other countries, however, are taking a more wait-and-see approach in an attempt to maintain business as usual. Collectively, these challenges reflect a super wicked problem that places immense pressure on economies and societies and requires the strategic management of health systems to avoid overwhelming them—this has been linked to the public mantra of ‘flattening the curve’, which acknowledges that while the pandemic cannot be stopped, its impact can be regulated so that the number of cases at any given time is not beyond the capacity of the health system. Dynamic simulation modelling is a framework that facilitates the understanding/exploring of complex problems, of searching for and finding the best option(s) from all practical solutions where time dynamics are essential. The papers in this book provide research insights into this super wicked problem and case studies exploring the interactions between social, economic, environmental, and health factors through the use of a systems approach.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- Environmental science, engineering & technology --- COVID-19 --- pandemic --- wicked problem --- systems approach --- leverage points --- Bayesian Networks --- system thinking --- mathematical epidemiology --- SIR-type model --- model parameter estimation --- non-pharmaceutical intervention --- dynamical systems --- COVID-19/SARS-CoV2 --- computational cognitive science --- semantic networks --- text mining --- social media mining --- emotions --- tour and traveling --- digitalization shift --- change readiness --- expanded TOPSIS --- UK --- vaccination --- immunity --- policy --- system dynamics --- modelling --- uncertainty --- branded content --- marketing --- total interpretive structural modelling --- decision-making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory --- causal loop diagram --- systems thinking --- network theory --- complexity economics --- economic crisis --- agent-based model --- information theory --- global value chains --- megaprojects --- housing markets --- economic networks --- COVID-19 --- pandemic --- wicked problem --- systems approach --- leverage points --- Bayesian Networks --- system thinking --- mathematical epidemiology --- SIR-type model --- model parameter estimation --- non-pharmaceutical intervention --- dynamical systems --- COVID-19/SARS-CoV2 --- computational cognitive science --- semantic networks --- text mining --- social media mining --- emotions --- tour and traveling --- digitalization shift --- change readiness --- expanded TOPSIS --- UK --- vaccination --- immunity --- policy --- system dynamics --- modelling --- uncertainty --- branded content --- marketing --- total interpretive structural modelling --- decision-making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory --- causal loop diagram --- systems thinking --- network theory --- complexity economics --- economic crisis --- agent-based model --- information theory --- global value chains --- megaprojects --- housing markets --- economic networks

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Water acquisition, storage, allocation and distribution are intensely contested in our society, whether, for instance, such issues pertain to a conflict between upstream and downstream farmers located on a small stream or to a large dam located on the border of two nations. Water conflicts are mostly studied as disputes around access to water resources or the formulation of water laws and governance rules. However, explicitly or not, water conflicts nearly always also involve disputes among different philosophical views. The contributions to this edited volume have looked at the politics of contested knowledge as manifested in the conceptualisation, design, development, implementation and governance of large dams and mega-hydraulic infrastructure projects in various parts of the world. The special issue has explored the following core questions: Which philosophies and claims on mega-hydraulic projects are encountered, and how are they shaped, validated, negotiated and contested in concrete contexts? Whose knowledge counts and whose knowledge is downplayed in water development conflict situations, and how have different epistemic communities and cultural-political identities shaped practices of design, planning and construction of dams and mega-hydraulic projects? The contributions have also scrutinised how these epistemic communities interactively shape norms, rules, beliefs and values about water problems and solutions, including notions of justice, citizenship and progress that are subsequently to become embedded in material artefacts.

n/a --- politicized collective identity --- first nations --- socio-technical imaginaries --- dam --- political ecology --- STS --- irrigation --- contested knowledge --- negotiation --- Guatemala --- social construction of technology --- indigenous peoples --- multi-actor multi-scalar alliances --- vernacular statecraft --- compensation measures --- modernist traditions --- hydropower development --- agonistic unity --- Ecuador --- anti-dam resistance movements --- fantasy --- environmental governance --- collective action --- modernity --- depoliticization --- British Columbia --- hydraulic utopia --- A.O. Hirschman --- megadams --- India --- Canada --- hiding hand --- large dams --- Jacques Lacan --- commensuration --- DR Congo --- Málaga --- technological design --- Peru --- knowledge systems --- manufactured ignorance --- knowledge politics --- Himalayas --- San Lorenzo irrigation project --- politics of the governed --- North Sikkim --- uncertainty --- Bolivia --- hydrosocial territory --- psychoanalysis --- marginalization --- territorial control --- mega-dam --- hazard risk --- UnGovernance --- hydropolitics --- expectations --- power --- socioenvironmental impacts --- socio-economic impacts --- public knowledge controversies --- mega-hydraulic projects --- hydropower --- environmental impacts --- Site C --- knowledge encounters --- dam safety --- Dzumsa --- energy policy --- anti-dam movement --- hydroelectric megaprojects --- Spain --- hydraulic projects --- Chixoy irrigation project --- co-creation --- Mekong River Basin --- dehumanizing rationality --- hydroelectric development --- Inga --- territory --- knowledge arenas --- Málaga