Local Governance and Development in Africa and the Middle East
暫譯: 非洲與中東的地方治理與發展
Darmame, Khadija, Ross, Eric
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2024-07-26
- 售價: $4,290
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $4,076
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 269
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3031606566
- ISBN-13: 9783031606564
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商品描述
This edited volume surveys how current local governance policies and development strategies across Africa and the Middle east are advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Morocco's recent experience with local development strategies serves as starting point for the discussion. Over the past decade, Morocco has undertaken a variety of initiatives aimed at reducing poverty and social inequalities and providing essential services to marginalized communities. These initiatives provide great opportunities to reshape the spatial organization of regions, and to address chronic local issues of infrastructure and investment. Local governance is the most direct way of providing basic services to populations, helping to alleviate socio-spatial inequalities. Also, it is and will continue to be the best way to engage people and local governments in economic, social and human development agendas. However, placing local governance at the heart of development strategies requires going well beyond participatory approaches to policy making. Local communities and their governments need to be empowered. As responses to the Covid19 epidemic have laid bare, new and more efficient modes of territorial governance are needed at local and regional levels if current global-scale challenges are to be met.
While development and governance strategies like Morocco's are framed by global agreements and standards, there is a need to understand them at the regional scale. Are there discernible patterns in how African and Middle Eastern countries design and implement them? This volume assembles case studies from across the region, allowing for understandings that transcend the usual spatial dichotomies between "North" and "Sub-Saharan" Africa, between Africa and the Middle East, and between the "Anglophone" and "Francophone" spheres.
The volume builds upon an international conference on the topic held at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco Morocco in February of 2022.
The volume is aimed at a readership of researchers and development practitioners, and will be of most direct benefit to advanced undergraduate and graduate-level students.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本編輯的書籍調查了非洲和中東目前的地方治理政策和發展策略如何推進可持續發展目標（SDGs）。摩洛哥最近在地方發展策略方面的經驗作為討論的起點。在過去十年中，摩洛哥採取了多種旨在減少貧困和社會不平等、並為邊緣化社區提供基本服務的倡議。這些倡議為重塑地區的空間組織和解決基礎設施及投資的慢性地方問題提供了良好的機會。地方治理是向人口提供基本服務的最直接方式，有助於減輕社會空間不平等。此外，這也是並將繼續是讓人們和地方政府參與經濟、社會和人類發展議程的最佳方式。然而，將地方治理置於發展策略的核心需要超越參與式政策制定的方法。地方社區及其政府需要被賦權。正如對Covid19疫情的反應所揭示的，如果要應對當前全球規模的挑戰，地方和區域層面需要新的、更有效的領土治理模式。
雖然像摩洛哥這樣的發展和治理策略是由全球協議和標準框架所構成，但有必要在區域層面理解它們。非洲和中東國家在設計和實施這些策略時是否存在可辨識的模式？這本書匯集了來自該地區的案例研究，讓人們能夠超越「北方」與「撒哈拉以南」非洲之間、非洲與中東之間，以及「英語圈」與「法語圈」之間的通常空間二分法。
本書建立在2022年2月於摩洛哥伊夫蘭的阿爾阿卡哈溫大學舉辦的國際會議的基礎上。
本書的讀者對象為研究人員和發展實踐者，對於高年級本科生和研究生將最具直接的益處。
作者簡介
Khadija Darmame is an assistant professor of Geography at the School of Humanities and Social Science, Al Akhawayn University of Ifrane. She has more than 20 years of professional and academic experience working on MENA region development challenges, with a focus on local development, public policy, reform of urban services, and civil society involvement. She developed a solid multi-disciplinary background in the field as well as a deep familiarity with Arab/European contexts. Dr. Darmame is also involved in establishing academic and consulting networks in the MENA region, Europe and Gulf. She works to connect various development cooperation organizations and academic institutions in the area of socio-empirical research linked to human development. Darmame has published articles in academic journals such as Habitat International, and has authored chapters in four edited volumes with such publishers as Cambridge University Press.
Eric Ross is an urban and cultural geographer whose research focuses on Muslim Africa. He holds a B.Sc and an M.Sc in Geography from Université du Québec à Montréal, and a Ph.D in Islamic Studies from McGill University. Ross has conducted research on Sufism and urbanization in Senegal as well as on cultural heritage and development in Morocco. Ross has published articles in academic journals such as Urban Studies and Planning Perspectives, has authored chapters in 15 edited volumes with such publishers as E.J. Brill, Routledge, de Gruyter, and Karthala. Among these are Land issues for Urban Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa (edited by Robert Home) published by Springer. Ross also co-authored Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal, also published by Springer, and has written entries for specialized encyclopedias. Ross has been teaching a variety of geography and methodology courses at Al Akhawayn University since 1998.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Khadija Darmame 是阿爾阿卡瓦因大學人文與社會科學學院的地理學助理教授。她在中東和北非（MENA）地區的發展挑戰方面擁有超過 20 年的專業和學術經驗，專注於地方發展、公共政策、城市服務改革以及公民社會參與。她在該領域建立了堅實的多學科背景，並對阿拉伯/歐洲的背景有深入的了解。Darmame 博士還參與在 MENA 地區、歐洲和海灣地區建立學術和諮詢網絡。她致力於連接各種發展合作組織和學術機構，進行與人類發展相關的社會實證研究。Darmame 在《Habitat International》等學術期刊上發表過文章，並在劍橋大學出版社等出版商的四本編輯書籍中撰寫過章節。
Eric Ross 是一位城市與文化地理學家，其研究重點是穆斯林非洲。他擁有魁北克大學蒙特利爾分校的地理學學士和碩士學位，以及麥吉爾大學的伊斯蘭研究博士學位。Ross 曾在塞內加爾進行有關蘇非主義和城市化的研究，以及在摩洛哥進行有關文化遺產和發展的研究。Ross 在《Urban Studies》和《Planning Perspectives》等學術期刊上發表過文章，並在 E.J. Brill、Routledge、de Gruyter 和 Karthala 等出版商的 15 本編輯書籍中撰寫過章節。其中包括由 Robert Home 編輯的《Land issues for Urban Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa》，由 Springer 出版。Ross 也共同撰寫了《Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal》，同樣由 Springer 出版，並為專業百科全書撰寫過條目。自 1998 年以來，Ross 一直在阿爾阿卡瓦因大學教授各種地理學和方法論課程。
