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The Human Path across Australia -- A Bus Ride through Perth -- Through the Outback on Horseback -- Walk around Uluru -- Bushwalking in Kakadu National Park -- Road Train across the Barkly Tableland -- Fly over the Great Barrier Reef -- Export Coal by Ship -- Across Sydney Harbour Bridge -- Around the Blue Mountains -- Drive along the Great Ocean Road -- Bike Ride through the Adelaide Hills -- Ferry across the Bass Strait.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 The political options for possessive individualists -- 2 Possessive individualists in libertarian anarchy -- 3 Invisible hand pressures on possessive individualists -- 4 Intermission -- 5 Authority, individuals & stateless political community -- 6 Responsibility & public order in acephalous community -- 7 The (re)distribution of wealth in anarchies -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography

1. Introduction / Gijs Dekkers, Cathal O'Donoghue and Marcia Keegan -- 2. Estimating the small area effects of austerity measures in the UK / Ben Anderson, Paola De Agostini and Tony Lawson -- 3. Microsimulation estimates of the inequality impact of the economic crisis in Ireland / Cathal O'Donoghue, Jason Loughrey and Karyn Morrissey -- 4. Simulating the need for health- and elderly care in Sweden : a model description of SESIM-LEV / Lisa Brouwers. [et al.] -- 5. An Australian disease and long-term care microsimulation model / Richard Cumpston -- 6. Projection of the supply of nurses in France : a microsimulation model / Muriel Barlet and Marie Cavillon -- 7. Gender aspects of the Norwegian pension system / Dennis Fredriksen and Nils Martin Stolen -- 8. The redistributive features of the Italian pension system : the importance of being neutral / Roberto Leombruni and Michele Mosca -- 9. Simulating policy alternatives for public pensions in Japan / Seiichi Inagaki -- 10. On the construction of early warning indicators of old-age poverty : the index-building versus the microsimulation approach / Georg P. Mueller -- 11. How sensitive is old-age poverty to financial crisis? : a microsimulation experiment for Sweden / Elisa Baroni, Thomas Lindh and Gustav Oberg -- 12. Going regional : the effectiveness of different tax-benefit policies in combating child poverty in Spain / Olga Canto. [et al.] -- 13. Combining EUROMOD and LIAM tools for the development of dynamic cross-sectional microsimulation models : a sneak preview / Philippe Liegeois and Gijs Dekkers -- 14. An overview of binary alignment methods in microsimulation / Jinjing Li and Cathal O'Donoghue -- 15. Simulating the expenditures of Scottish households : a two-step microsimulation approach to the Cairngorms National Park / Eveline van Leeuwen -- 16. Using Excel as a front end to a microsimulation model on energy and water concession pricing / Robert Tanton, Marcia Keegan and Quoc Ngu Vu -- 17. Modelling sequences of events with chain graph models / Marcus Wurzer and Reinhold Hatzinger -- 18. Education in the Norwegian microsimulation model MOSART / Hege Marie Gjefsen -- 19. What are the driving forces behind trends in inequality among pensioners? : validating MIDAS Belgium using a stylized model / Gijs Dekkers -- 20. An investigation of the sensitivity of a dynamic microsimulation model of urban neighbourhood dynamics / Mark Birkin and Nicolas Malleson.

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Planners are centrally concerned with the legitimacy of planning institutions and practices. In a democratic society, governments depend on the voluntary compliance of external actors for the implementation of their policies. Planning theorists have largely focused on the inclusiveness and quality of deliberation in goal-setting. This article expands this focus using Scharpf's and Schmidt's distinction between three domains of legitimation—input, throughput, and output—each of which affords a distinct pathway to legitimacy. These legitimation processes are examined through a comparison of the postwar development of American regional planning institutions in Minneapolis–St Paul, Minnesota, and Portland, Oregon. The input-throughput-output distinction can be used to interpret the operation and impacts of historical planning activities, or prospectively to evaluate the potential impacts of institutional reforms.

The fight against climate change leads territorial authorities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to minimise the consequences of some of its effects.This also concerns spatial planning, which organises the transformation of urbanised areas. Some innovations in spatial planning are emerging and spreading in a more or less visible way. Rather than global policies, it is knowledge, working methods, decision-making tools, and postures that are brought to and transformed by innovations spread from one city to another?This report is the result of research funded by ADEME as part of the Observatoire de la recherche urbaine. It was conducted in three federal countries by the PACTE Social Sciences Institute of the University of Grenoble-Alpes with support from Université de Lausanne (Pr Da Cunha), Université de Montréal (Pr Scherrer) and Stanford University (Pr Lewitt). The report is organised in five parts. Issue and general methodology describes the scientific concepts of the socio-economy of innovation, formulates the research hypotheses and presents the method of constitution and analysis of the of the three fields.Three chapters are then devoted to innovations in their field: Green roof deployment policies in North America, Taking into account the urban heat island in Quebec and Territorial energy planning in Switzerland.The Synthesis for Decision Makers at the beginning of the report also serves as a conclusion. ; La lutte contre le changement climatique conduit les autorités territoriales à réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre et à minimiser les conséquences de certains de ses effets. Cela concerne aussi la planification spatiale qui organise le transformation des espaces urbanisés. Des innovations en matière de planification spatiale émergent ici où là et se diffusent de façon plus ou moins visibles. Plutôt que des politiques globales, ce sont des connaissances, des méthodes de travail, des outils de décision, des postures qui sont apportées aux et transformées par les urbanistes. Comment ces ...

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The Human Path across Antarctica -- Sail to the Edge of the Ice -- Discovering a New Continent -- Ski to the South Pole -- Battle against Antarctic storms -- A flight over Antarctica -- Fly to the South Pole today -- Boat across the Southern Ocean -- A Trip to Bird Island -- Journey across the Ice Shelves -- Cruise to the Antarctic Peninsula -- Shipping south from Shanghai -- Researching Climate Change.