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Resetting our foreign policy
Posted byTed Campbell	 2020-02-23 2020-02-22 2 Comments on Resetting our foreign policy
It is no secret, I think, to anyone who follows this blog that I regard Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's white paper on foreign policy, 'A Foreign Policy for Canadians,' as having been an act of policy vandalism. I continue to believe that Pierre Trudeau was driven by an intense need to find a way to atone for having put himself on the wrong side of history in the 1940s, and he made anti-nationalism his cause célèbre and that led him to a sort of knee-jerk anti-Americanism, something that seems to be never too far from any socialist's heart, and to being isolationist, something that suited many French Canadians, and anti-military, too
But now, David Mulroney, a distinguished diplomat, public servant and commentator, whose views I respect and whose opinions you must take more seriously than mine, gives us a somewhat different perspective in an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail. "This year," he writes, "marks a half-century since the publication of Foreign Policy for Canadians – the first and, really, only serious effort by a Canadian government to conduct a public and comprehensive rethinking of Canada's role in the world." I would quibble with that. I believe that Prime Minister Louis St Laurent consulted widely, and publicly, and explained, carefully and persuasively, his views on the need for a Canadian grand strategy. But, that aside, Mr Mulroney says that "By the late 1960s, as the new Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau was getting down to business, the need for a review was obvious. The outsize influence we enjoyed in the years after the Second World War had largely diminished as allies and enemies recovered, and as a host of newly independent nations claimed their own stakes in world affairs … [and] … In addition to understanding and adapting to our diminished status in a far more competitive international community … [I wholeheartedly agree that was the case, but I suggest that in the 1950s and '60s all of Louis St Laurent, John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson were already adapting to it] … we also needed to reclaim our independence in the face of what appeared to be almost overwhelming U.S. economic influence … [but] … Looking back on it now, Foreign Policy for Canadians had mixed results. It anticipated a new role for Canada – a more realistic, if also more modest, vision of a well-intentioned middle power, navigating by the pole star of the United Nations. It is a role we continue to play."
"But," David Mulroney writes, and I agree fully, "the review, and the policy initiatives that followed it, significantly underestimated the breadth and depth of our relationship with the United States … [in fact, it barely mentioned the USA at all, which is one of the reasons I regard it as a massively silly policy failure] … Efforts at diversifying trade – what was known as the Third Option, favouring Europe and Japan – went nowhere. What is perhaps worse is that we never really acknowledged that failure. Instead, we became comfortable with a two-track foreign policy, one that allowed us to play the gratifying role of helper-fixer in the world, secure in the knowledge that our actual security and prosperity would be worked out through our relationship with Washington." In other words, we, Canadians, of all political stripes, were, by and large, happy hypocrites.
Mr Mulroney sees two major problems that confront Canada fifty years after A Foreign Policy for Canadians was published:
First, he says, "Canada is again dealing with a threat to our autonomy from a major power, but this time, it comes not from the United States, but from the new world that was coming into being 50 years ago. The threat is now China, which is using its economic power to influence and silence us, is undermining our national security, and is challenging the rules-based international system that the review itself championed;" and
Second, "we again need to face up to the consequences of our diminished status, but this time much closer to home. Fifty years on, the problem isn't that the United States wants to dominate us, but that it has largely forgotten us. While it is tempting to blame this on the chaos of the Trump era, the painful reality is that the relationship has been in decline for some time, something that was manifestly evident in the cool detachment that marked Barack Obama's management of relations with Canada."
I think that second is, actually, more serious than the first. I believe we can wrap our collective mind around the fact that China doesn't like us, that it regards us as an irritant and that it is using us as a whipping boy to send a message to its other, more important, trading partners. What has been harder to grasp is that Ameria no longer cares. It isn't just Donald Trump, it was even just Barack Obama. George W Bush didn't care either. Despite the great debates in Canada, it seems clear that President Bush never even asked for our help in either Afghanistan or Iraq, the "pressure" to do something to stand with the USA was entirely self-generated within Canada's own foreign affairs and defence establishments. Bush, Chaney, Rumsfeld and Myers (the latter was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2001 to 2005) were, possibly, grateful for the help on the ground, when they noticed it at all, but quite uninterested in Canada's views on any of the issues concerned. Nor did Bill Clinton care about our views on or our actions in e.g. the Balkans. We, as a country, and our leaders, Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin, Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau, did not and do not count f or anything in Washington. Neither Chrystia Freeland nor Erin O'Toole nor any other Canadian prime minister, Conservative or Liberal, will fare any better. The last time Canada mattered was when Brian Mulroney and George H W Bush renegotiated the Canad-US Free Trade deal, making it into NAFTA, over a quarter-century ago. And the end of the halcyon days of Canada-US relations came a full decade before that, in the Mulroney-Reagan years. That can only change if Canada makes itself matter.
David Mulroney says that "Fifty years is a long time to wait between reviews, but actually conducting one would require our current government to face [some] hard truths:
The first, acknowledged in the 1970 review but largely ignored in its implementation, is that good foreign policy flows from sound domestic policy. International influence is enabled by a strong economy, robust national infrastructure and institutions, and the willingness to invest in national defence and security; and
The second challenge, also acknowledged in 1970 but never adequately addressed, is that successful foreign policy requires the confident elaboration of national identity. Half a century ago, we were still enjoying – perhaps naively – a sense of national accomplishment and purpose, and a belief in our future that was linked to a quiet pride in our past. It would have been inconceivable to the authors of the 1970 review that a future prime minister could muse, as Justin Trudeau did in 2015, that Canada has "no core identity" – an assertion that is as confusing to other countries as it is to Canadians."
I agree with both those points.
President Trump makes it very easy for Canadians to want to ignore America and to be happy to be "off America's radar," so to speak. That's exactly the wrong approach. A sensible, successful Canadian foreign policy MUST see America as Canada's primary partner in the world. For Canada, America equals the rest of the world, squared. We can wish that was no so but the "third option" failed when the estimable Mitchell Sharp proposed it almost 50 years ago. It didn't fail because it was a bad idea; it failed because trade with the USA, free or not, is easier, simpler and in almost every way better than free(er) trade with anyone else. Canada should, always, be working hard to expand our trade with (almost) anyone and everyone, even China, but nothing is likely, not in my lifetime nor in my (preschool) grandsons' lifetimes, to change the fact that America is our biggest and best trading partner, the guarantor of our sovereignty and security, a good neighbour, and, again, like it or not, our best friend in the world.
We, Canadians, must accept ~ and millions will not want to accept this ~ that, as Mr Mulroney says, "International influence … [and that includes influence where it counts most, with the USA] … is enabled by a strong economy, robust national infrastructure and institutions, and the willingness to invest in national defence and security." One of the impacts of Pierre Trudeau's policies was to divert spending from National Defence to social spending. That was immensely popular with many, actually with most Canadians … something for (a perceived) nothing always is. None of Brian Mulroney, Paul Martin or Stephen Harper, all of whom, it seemed to me, wanted to reverse course and act responsibly were able to change what Pierre Trudeau had put in place. The political price was suicide. But it has been fifty years and Canada is at risk of being totally irrelevant in an increasingly complex and dangerous world.
David Mulroney's second challenge ~ recovering "the confident elaboration of national identity," is, I suspect, much more difficult, especially given the 'post-national state' quasi-intellectual rubbish that Justin Trudeau says was part of "his father's vision." It's lunacy, of course, but it's the sort of lunacy that appealed to many in the 1960s and appeals, again, a half-century later.
Anecdote (and a bit of a sidetrack): I remember, in the early 1960s, sitting at an officers' mess dinner table listening to one of the Army's 'best and brightest,' then a young major, just selected for one of the top jobs for officers of his rank, who would go one to command the Army in later years. He was talking about the just-announced plans to both integrate and unify (the two words have different meanings) the Canadian Armed Forces. He was cautiously optimistic about some of the plans; we were, he told us, in need of reform, it had been almost 20 years since the last big change. He commented on the single, common uniform ~ the "jolly green jumper" as it was already being called. He said something like, 'It's a pity that a bit more thought wasn't given to all this, because we,' he added, pointing to his own Queens Own Rifles regimental tie, 'have a long, proud history with green unforms that is shared by English and French Canadians and with our Indian (he would have said First Nations or indigenous fifty years later) confreres.' He talked about the histories of Butler's and Rogers' Rangers, founded, right here in North America, during the Seven Years War, and how they had shaped the British and Canadian armies. 'It's a pity,' he said, 'that whoever is leading this u form thing is intent on simply making us 'not British' rather than making us distinctively Canadian.' That story sticks with me because it seemed to sum up what was happening in Canada. In an effort to counter a very serious, sometimes violent threat to our always fragile unity someone decided that our British ties were expendable, and so they were, but they didn't bother to try to anchor their changes in our own, Canadian, history.
The notion that we could become more Canadian by being less British had some merit. Changing the Royal Mail to Canada Post/Postes Canada and renaming Trans Canada Airlines to Air Canada made sense on too many levels. So did a new flag. But some, arguably too much change was seen, by too many, as being merely replacing something traditional and even, in some cases, cherished, with something new that was tossed out by a Liberal advertising agency with the sole aim of being new and 'not British.' Very often, it seeled to me, the goal in the 1970s, especially, was simply to paint everything Liberal red and throw money at almost anyone, especially at anyone in Québec. It always seemed, to me, that Pierre Trudeau could not make a good argument for Canada to Québec; he appeared to not really believe in Canada, only in what Canada could do for Québec. He ended up, it seemed to many of us, trying to pay Québec, to bribe Québec to stay in Canada … and some of my French Canadian colleagues saw the same thing and were insulted. But, in the 1970s and '80s national unity was at the top of the political agenda and foreign policy was near the bottom.
Brian Mulroney, unintentionally, gave us some sense of ourselves during the bruising free trade debates. He and his allies reminded us that we are a tough, brave, talented and high-achieving people who can compete with the best, anywhere and at any time. But that got submerged in the even more painful debates over the failed Meech Lake and Charlottetown accords when, yet again, one version of national unity took centre stage. Perhaps, today, when national unity is under threat from someplace other than the Québec, a sense of pan-Canadianism might help, not detract from discussions of foreign and defence policy.
I believe that David Mulroney is right about the need for a thorough review and revision to our foreign policy. Paul Martin wanted one, and he began it with his 2005 policy paper on 'A Role of Pride and Influence in the World,' but he didn't go far enough, and Stephen Harper, who hated big, bold ideas, was not inclined to make anything but barely perceptible incremental changes.
Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne's rambling speech in Montreal on Friday night, which almost totally ignored China's bullying of Canada and its trampling on human rights, gives ample proof of the need for a serious review of our foreign policy. Canada needs a realistic and coherent policy.
Mr Mulroney is also right that we need to be prepared to invest ~ all the way up and even past to 2% of GDP ~ in our own defence and security. We know that the Americans measure power by counting ships, tanks, guns and aircraft … so do the Russians and the Chinese and almost everyone else that we might want to impress and influence including the Australians, Dutch and Norwegians. Despite what the media might say, no one gives a damn if we meet our greenhouse gas emission targets or if we are gender-balanced, but our ability to use force does matter. That may be sad, but it is a sad reality.
I suspect we will need to wait for a new government, one led by a grownup, which, in the 2020s, likely means a Conservative government, to get anything done. But it's time to start talking.
Posted byTed Campbell 2020-02-23 2020-02-22 Posted inAustralia, Barack Obama, Brexit, Brian Mulroney, Canada-US Relations, Canadian Forces, China, Climate change, Conservative Politics, Containment, Culture, Defence Budget, Defence Policy, Diplomacy, Donald Trump, Economics, Trade and Taxes, Environment, Erin O'Toole, Europe, First Nations, Five eyes, Foreign Policy, François-Philippe Champagne, Free trade, Globalization, Grand Strategy, India, Innovation, Institutions, Intelligence, Jean Chretien, Justin Trudeau, Laurentian Consensus and Laurentian Elites, Leadership, Louis St Laurent, Pierre Trudeau, Power Projection, Quebec, Russia, Social Programmes, Stephen Harper, United Nations, US Leadership, USA
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Q: SQL - Group by numbers according to their difference I have a table and I want to group rows that have at most x difference at col2.
For example,
col1   col2
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abw    4
abc    5
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After query I want to get  groups such that
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How can write such a query?

A: For Oracle (or anything that supports window functions) this will work:
select col1, col2, sum(group_gen) over (order by col2) as grp
from (
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Check it on SQLFiddle.

A: This should get what you need, and changing the gap to that of 5, or any other number is a single change at the @lastVal +1 (vs whatever other difference).  The prequery "PreSorted" is required to make sure the data is being processed sequentially so you don't get out-of-order entries.
As each current row is processed, it's column 2 value is stored in the @lastVal for test comparison of the next row, but remains as a valid column "Col2".  There is no "group by" as you are just wanting a column to identify where each group is associated vs any aggregation.
select
      @grp := if( PreSorted.col2 > @lastVal +1, @grp +1, @grp ) as GapGroup,
      PreSorted.col1,
      @lastVal := PreSorted.col2 as Col2
   from
      ( select
              YT.col1,
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      ( select @grp := 1,
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A: try this query, you can use 1 and 2 as input and get you groups:
var grp number(5)
exec :grp :=1
select * from YourTABLE
where (:grp = 1 and col2 < 20) or (:grp = 2 and col2 > 6);

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Interlocality Competition as a State Project: Urban Locational Policy and the Rescaling of State Space
Neil Brenner
in New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood
This chapter investigates the rescaled, growth-oriented, and competitiveness-driven forms of state spatial policy and urban governance that began to crystallize as of the late 1970s, in conjunction ... More
This chapter investigates the rescaled, growth-oriented, and competitiveness-driven forms of state spatial policy and urban governance that began to crystallize as of the late 1970s, in conjunction with widespread concerns about urban industrial decline, intensified interspatial competition, welfare state retrenchment, European integration, and economic globalization. It argues that during the 1980s and 1990s, these new urban locational policies served as key catalysts and expressions of broader processes of state rescaling; they also contributed to an enhanced geographical differentiation of state regulatory arrangements and to an intensification of uneven spatial development across western Europe.Less
This chapter investigates the rescaled, growth-oriented, and competitiveness-driven forms of state spatial policy and urban governance that began to crystallize as of the late 1970s, in conjunction with widespread concerns about urban industrial decline, intensified interspatial competition, welfare state retrenchment, European integration, and economic globalization. It argues that during the 1980s and 1990s, these new urban locational policies served as key catalysts and expressions of broader processes of state rescaling; they also contributed to an enhanced geographical differentiation of state regulatory arrangements and to an intensification of uneven spatial development across western Europe.
Keywords: state rescaling, statehood, state spatial policy, urban governance, urban restructuring
Bar Wars: Contesting the Night in Contemporary British Cities
Phil Hadfield
Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. 'Binge drinking' culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to ... More
In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. 'Binge drinking' culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to pose a key threat to public order. Unsurprisingly, a struggle is occurring. Pub and club companies, local authorities, central government, the police, the judiciary, local residents, drug and alcohol campaign groups, and revellers all hold competing notions of social order in the night-time city and the appropriate uses and meanings of its public and private spaces. Bar Wars explores how official discourses of 'partnership' and 'self-regulation' belie the extent of fierce adversarial contestation between and within these groups. Located within a long tradition of urban ethnography, the book offers unique and hard-hitting analyses of social control in bars and clubs, courtroom battles between local communities and the drinks industry, and street-level policing. These issues go to the heart of contemporary debates concerning urban civility, alcohol and drugs policies, and the impacts of and justifications for new police powers introduced as part of the Licensing Act 2003 and Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006. The author's experiences as a disc jockey and as an expert witness to the licensing courts provide a unique perspective, setting his work apart from other academic commentators. Bar Wars takes the study of the 'night-time economy' to a new level of sophistication, making it essential reading for all those wishing to understand the policing and regulation of contemporary British cities.Less
Bar Wars : Contesting the Night in Contemporary British Cities
In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. 'Binge drinking' culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to pose a key threat to public order. Unsurprisingly, a struggle is occurring. Pub and club companies, local authorities, central government, the police, the judiciary, local residents, drug and alcohol campaign groups, and revellers all hold competing notions of social order in the night-time city and the appropriate uses and meanings of its public and private spaces. Bar Wars explores how official discourses of 'partnership' and 'self-regulation' belie the extent of fierce adversarial contestation between and within these groups. Located within a long tradition of urban ethnography, the book offers unique and hard-hitting analyses of social control in bars and clubs, courtroom battles between local communities and the drinks industry, and street-level policing. These issues go to the heart of contemporary debates concerning urban civility, alcohol and drugs policies, and the impacts of and justifications for new police powers introduced as part of the Licensing Act 2003 and Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006. The author's experiences as a disc jockey and as an expert witness to the licensing courts provide a unique perspective, setting his work apart from other academic commentators. Bar Wars takes the study of the 'night-time economy' to a new level of sophistication, making it essential reading for all those wishing to understand the policing and regulation of contemporary British cities.
Keywords: night-time economy, violence, anti-social behaviour, binge drinking, policing, licensing, alcohol, urban governance, courts, ethnography
New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood
This book develops a new interpretation of the transformation of statehood under contemporary globalizing capitalism. Whereas most analysts of the emergent, post-Westphalian world order have focused ... More
This book develops a new interpretation of the transformation of statehood under contemporary globalizing capitalism. Whereas most analysts of the emergent, post-Westphalian world order have focused on supranational and national institutional realignments, this book shows that strategic subnational spaces, such as cities and city-regions, represent essential arenas in which states are being transformed. The book traces the transformation of urban governance in western Europe during the last four decades and, on this basis, argues that inherited geographies of state power are being fundamentally rescaled. Through a combination of theory construction, historical analysis and cross-national case studies of urban policy change, this book provides an analysis of the new formations of state power that are currently emerging.Less
New State Spaces : Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood
This book develops a new interpretation of the transformation of statehood under contemporary globalizing capitalism. Whereas most analysts of the emergent, post-Westphalian world order have focused on supranational and national institutional realignments, this book shows that strategic subnational spaces, such as cities and city-regions, represent essential arenas in which states are being transformed. The book traces the transformation of urban governance in western Europe during the last four decades and, on this basis, argues that inherited geographies of state power are being fundamentally rescaled. Through a combination of theory construction, historical analysis and cross-national case studies of urban policy change, this book provides an analysis of the new formations of state power that are currently emerging.
Keywords: statehood, globalizing capitalism, subnational spaces, cities, city-regions, urban governance, state power
Building Sustainable Historic Centres: A Comparative Approach for Innovative Urban Projects
Adriana Rabinovich and Andrea Catenazzi
in Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental, Public and Welfare
Since the 1980s, the promotion of heritage values has gradually become a relevant issue for urban planning. The need to turn the historic centres into areas of development for the market, through ... More
Since the 1980s, the promotion of heritage values has gradually become a relevant issue for urban planning. The need to turn the historic centres into areas of development for the market, through legislative measures and investments in infrastructure and services, and the re-evaluation of the heritage value of existing buildings, oscillated between policies which, linked to the mechanisms of economic and cultural globalization, promoted tourism as a source of revenue while striving to find alternatives to gentrification.The goal of this chapter is to gain a better understanding of the major challenges of the rehabilitation of inner areas with heritage values within the framework of 'innovative' approaches to urban planning, aiming at promoting sustainable living conditions. The reflexion is based on the comparative and transdisciplinary analysis of the decision-making processes of concrete interventions in different cities of the world: Buenos Aires, La Havana, and Bangkok.Less
Adriana RabinovichAndrea Catenazzi
Since the 1980s, the promotion of heritage values has gradually become a relevant issue for urban planning. The need to turn the historic centres into areas of development for the market, through legislative measures and investments in infrastructure and services, and the re-evaluation of the heritage value of existing buildings, oscillated between policies which, linked to the mechanisms of economic and cultural globalization, promoted tourism as a source of revenue while striving to find alternatives to gentrification.The goal of this chapter is to gain a better understanding of the major challenges of the rehabilitation of inner areas with heritage values within the framework of 'innovative' approaches to urban planning, aiming at promoting sustainable living conditions. The reflexion is based on the comparative and transdisciplinary analysis of the decision-making processes of concrete interventions in different cities of the world: Buenos Aires, La Havana, and Bangkok.
Keywords: access to the city, decision-making, heritage values, historic centres, innovative planning, sustainable development, urban governance, urban planning, JEL classification, N90
Urban Geopolitics, Neoliberalism, and the Governance of Security
Tony Roshan Samara
in Cape Town after Apartheid: Crime and Governance in the Divided City
University of Minnesota Press
10.5749/minnesota/9780816670000.003.0001
Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
This introductory chapter provides a background to the social forces and sets of relationships that outlines the contemporary urban governance in Cape Town. It talks about brutal gang wars linked to ... More
This introductory chapter provides a background to the social forces and sets of relationships that outlines the contemporary urban governance in Cape Town. It talks about brutal gang wars linked to drug trade and homeless people harassed by police or private security guards, which describe an approach to crime and urban renewal in Cape Town as a global phenomenon wherein cities become key sites of economic growth, conflict, and political governance. The chapter also illustrates how Cape Town is governed through a complex network in which local and global forces clash and combine to reproduce the fractured urban spaces inherited from apartheid.Less
This introductory chapter provides a background to the social forces and sets of relationships that outlines the contemporary urban governance in Cape Town. It talks about brutal gang wars linked to drug trade and homeless people harassed by police or private security guards, which describe an approach to crime and urban renewal in Cape Town as a global phenomenon wherein cities become key sites of economic growth, conflict, and political governance. The chapter also illustrates how Cape Town is governed through a complex network in which local and global forces clash and combine to reproduce the fractured urban spaces inherited from apartheid.
Keywords: urban governance, Cape Town, gang wars, homeless people, urban renewal, economic growth, political governance, urban spaces, apartheid
Building partnerships in Spanish and Italian regeneration processes
Iván Tosics, Stephen Hall, Silvia Mugnano, Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway, and Teresa Tapada-Berteli
in Restructuring large housing estates in Europe: Restructuring and resistance inside the welfare industry
Policy Press
10.1332/policypress/9781861347756.003.0011
Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter evaluates the role of partnership in housing-regeneration initiatives, focusing on four housing estates in Spain and Italy. It examines the theoretical issues related to governance, ... More
This chapter evaluates the role of partnership in housing-regeneration initiatives, focusing on four housing estates in Spain and Italy. It examines the theoretical issues related to governance, paying special attention to the implementation of the governance concept in the urban arena, and describes the specific practices of urban governance in the partnership process related to the four case-study estates. The chapter highlights the importance of the local dimension in relation to the mechanisms and strategies of building and maintaining partnerships.Less
Iván TosicsStephen HallSilvia MugnanoMontserrat Pareja-EastawayTeresa Tapada-Berteli
This chapter evaluates the role of partnership in housing-regeneration initiatives, focusing on four housing estates in Spain and Italy. It examines the theoretical issues related to governance, paying special attention to the implementation of the governance concept in the urban arena, and describes the specific practices of urban governance in the partnership process related to the four case-study estates. The chapter highlights the importance of the local dimension in relation to the mechanisms and strategies of building and maintaining partnerships.
Keywords: partnership, housing regeneration, housing estates, Spain, Italy, urban governance
Bogota: Building and Branding a Global City
Eduardo Moncada
in Cities, Business, and the Politics of Urban Violence In Latin America
10.11126/stanford/9780804794176.003.0005
Political Science, Comparative Politics
Chapter abstract: This chapter shows that Bogota's first participatory project in response to urban violence emerged out of the surprise electoral victory of Antanas Mockus to the mayor's office. ... More
Chapter abstract: This chapter shows that Bogota's first participatory project in response to urban violence emerged out of the surprise electoral victory of Antanas Mockus to the mayor's office. Strong support from the city's business community coupled with the atomized nature of armed territorial control with low lethal violence and limited coordination in criminal leadership sustained Bogota's participatory project. A decade later the election to the mayor's office of a political leftist, Luis Eduardo Garzón, generated tensions between local government and business regarding proposed amendments to the participatory project's stance on public space and informal vendors. The chapter reveals how mutual dependence between the public and private sectors and overall alignment in preferences facilitated compromise on this issue while the continued atomized territorial control shielded the mayor against criticism. Today Bogota is considered a model of urban governance in the developing world.Less
Bogota : Building and Branding a Global City
Chapter abstract: This chapter shows that Bogota's first participatory project in response to urban violence emerged out of the surprise electoral victory of Antanas Mockus to the mayor's office. Strong support from the city's business community coupled with the atomized nature of armed territorial control with low lethal violence and limited coordination in criminal leadership sustained Bogota's participatory project. A decade later the election to the mayor's office of a political leftist, Luis Eduardo Garzón, generated tensions between local government and business regarding proposed amendments to the participatory project's stance on public space and informal vendors. The chapter reveals how mutual dependence between the public and private sectors and overall alignment in preferences facilitated compromise on this issue while the continued atomized territorial control shielded the mayor against criticism. Today Bogota is considered a model of urban governance in the developing world.
Keywords: Bogota, Antanas Mockus, Luis Eduardo Garzón, public space, informal vendors, global city, urban governance, territorial control
Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance
Martin Boddy and Michael Parkinson
in City matters: Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the programme for cities research in Great Britain. The findings indicate that the performance of different cities across the country ... More
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the programme for cities research in Great Britain. The findings indicate that the performance of different cities across the country as a whole, measured in terms of growth or decline in population and employment, has changed little relative to one another over recent decades. The chapter also describes the relation among economic competitiveness, social cohesion, urban governance, and social capital.Less
Martin BoddyMichael Parkinson
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the programme for cities research in Great Britain. The findings indicate that the performance of different cities across the country as a whole, measured in terms of growth or decline in population and employment, has changed little relative to one another over recent decades. The chapter also describes the relation among economic competitiveness, social cohesion, urban governance, and social capital.
Keywords: cities research, Great Britain, population, employment, economic competitiveness, social cohesion, urban governance, social capital
Marianne E. Krasny, Erika S. Svendsen, Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch, Johan Enqvist, and Alex Russ
Alex Russ and Marianne E. Krasny (eds)
in Urban Environmental Education Review
Cornell University Press
10.7591/cornell/9781501705823.003.0012
Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
This chapter explores the relationship between environmental governance and urban environmental education. It first provides an overview of environmental governance and governance networks before ... More
This chapter explores the relationship between environmental governance and urban environmental education. It first provides an overview of environmental governance and governance networks before discussing research on the prevalence of organizations conducting environmental education in governance networks in Asian, European, and U.S. cities. It then offers suggestions on how environmental education organizations can be effective contributors in urban environmental governance and explains how the role of environmental education in governance can be made transparent to educators and participants. It argues that environmental education organizations are actors in urban governance networks and can play an important role in environmental governance. It also asserts that an explicit focus on governance will enable organizational leaders to target their partnerships and efforts to have a greater impact on urban sustainability and will enable youths and other participants to gain an understanding of critical concepts in environmental management and policy.Less
Marianne E. KrasnyErika S. SvendsenCecil Konijnendijk van den BoschJohan EnqvistAlex Russ
This chapter explores the relationship between environmental governance and urban environmental education. It first provides an overview of environmental governance and governance networks before discussing research on the prevalence of organizations conducting environmental education in governance networks in Asian, European, and U.S. cities. It then offers suggestions on how environmental education organizations can be effective contributors in urban environmental governance and explains how the role of environmental education in governance can be made transparent to educators and participants. It argues that environmental education organizations are actors in urban governance networks and can play an important role in environmental governance. It also asserts that an explicit focus on governance will enable organizational leaders to target their partnerships and efforts to have a greater impact on urban sustainability and will enable youths and other participants to gain an understanding of critical concepts in environmental management and policy.
Keywords: environmental governance, urban environmental education, governance networks, cities, urban environmental governance, environmental education organizations, urban sustainability, environmental management
The State Spatial Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis
This chapter elaborates the theoretical foundations for the analysis of state rescaling and urban governance restructuring that will be developed in subsequent chapters. It introduces some initial ... More
This chapter elaborates the theoretical foundations for the analysis of state rescaling and urban governance restructuring that will be developed in subsequent chapters. It introduces some initial methodological premises and categories through which the geographies of state space under modern capitalism may be analyzed. On this basis, it demonstrates how the issues of spatiality, territoriality, and geographical scale may be integrated, at a foundational level, into the conceptualization of modern statehood. Building upon the strategic-relational approach to state theory developed by Jessop (1990a), it argues that state space is best conceptualized as an arena, medium, and outcome of spatially selective political strategies. The chapter then extends this conceptualization by outlining some of the broad institutional and geographical parameters within which state space has evolved during the course of capitalist development. This line of analysis generates a multidimensional conceptual framework through which to investigate contextually specific pathways of state spatial restructuring. It also enables the introduction of a stylized model of state spatial restructuring in western Europe since the early 1960s, that serves to demarcate the theoretical and empirical terrain on which the remainder of this book is situated.Less
This chapter elaborates the theoretical foundations for the analysis of state rescaling and urban governance restructuring that will be developed in subsequent chapters. It introduces some initial methodological premises and categories through which the geographies of state space under modern capitalism may be analyzed. On this basis, it demonstrates how the issues of spatiality, territoriality, and geographical scale may be integrated, at a foundational level, into the conceptualization of modern statehood. Building upon the strategic-relational approach to state theory developed by Jessop (1990a), it argues that state space is best conceptualized as an arena, medium, and outcome of spatially selective political strategies. The chapter then extends this conceptualization by outlining some of the broad institutional and geographical parameters within which state space has evolved during the course of capitalist development. This line of analysis generates a multidimensional conceptual framework through which to investigate contextually specific pathways of state spatial restructuring. It also enables the introduction of a stylized model of state spatial restructuring in western Europe since the early 1960s, that serves to demarcate the theoretical and empirical terrain on which the remainder of this book is situated.
Keywords: statehood, state rescaling, urban governance, state space, capitalism
Governing health and consumption: Sensible citizens, behaviour and the city
Clare Herrick
Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This book critically explores the urban governance of healthy lifestyles and the contemporary problematisations of the obesity, sedentarism and alcohol 'epidemics'. To do so, it uses US and UK case ... More
This book critically explores the urban governance of healthy lifestyles and the contemporary problematisations of the obesity, sedentarism and alcohol 'epidemics'. To do so, it uses US and UK case studies to shed light on the complex socio-spatial dynamics of responsibilities for health and argues for an engagement with the construct of 'sensible' behaviour at a time of its rising political salience.Less
Governing health and consumption : Sensible citizens, behaviour and the city
This book critically explores the urban governance of healthy lifestyles and the contemporary problematisations of the obesity, sedentarism and alcohol 'epidemics'. To do so, it uses US and UK case studies to shed light on the complex socio-spatial dynamics of responsibilities for health and argues for an engagement with the construct of 'sensible' behaviour at a time of its rising political salience.
Keywords: governance, urban governance, obesity, sedentarism, alcohol consumption, US, UK, socio-spatial dynamics, health
Faith and the voluntary sector in urban governance: distinctive yet similar?
Rachael Chapman
in Faith in the public realm: Controversies, policies and practices
Sociology, Sociology of Religion
This chapter examines the role of faith-based organisations in British urban governance from the 1990s onwards. It determines whether faith-based organisations have characteristics that set them ... More
This chapter examines the role of faith-based organisations in British urban governance from the 1990s onwards. It determines whether faith-based organisations have characteristics that set them apart from voluntary and community sector (VCS). The chapter begins with a short review of the policy and research context as it applies to faith and VCS engagement in urban governance and civil society. After discussing the definitional and conceptual issues, the chapter weighs the contributions and experiences of faith-based organisations against the contributions and experiences of secular VCS organisations in urban governance. Urban governance refers to the engagement of statutory and non-governmental partners in the creation and delivery of public policies and services in the creation and delivery of public policies and services. The chapter ends by arguing that there are several similarities in the general contribution and experiences of secular VCS organisations and faith-based organisations in this context. However, there are also differences to the extent and nature of links to a faith tradition.Less
This chapter examines the role of faith-based organisations in British urban governance from the 1990s onwards. It determines whether faith-based organisations have characteristics that set them apart from voluntary and community sector (VCS). The chapter begins with a short review of the policy and research context as it applies to faith and VCS engagement in urban governance and civil society. After discussing the definitional and conceptual issues, the chapter weighs the contributions and experiences of faith-based organisations against the contributions and experiences of secular VCS organisations in urban governance. Urban governance refers to the engagement of statutory and non-governmental partners in the creation and delivery of public policies and services in the creation and delivery of public policies and services. The chapter ends by arguing that there are several similarities in the general contribution and experiences of secular VCS organisations and faith-based organisations in this context. However, there are also differences to the extent and nature of links to a faith tradition.
Keywords: faith-based organisations, British urban governance, voluntary sector, community sector, urban governance, civil society
Sharing Politics: The City as Public Realm
Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman
in Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities
The MIT Press
10.7551/mitpress/9780262029728.003.0011
Chapter 3 explores political and cultural dimensions of the sharing city. It discusses the centrality of urban spaces to political and protest movements such as the Arab Spring and Occupy; and how ... More
Chapter 3 explores political and cultural dimensions of the sharing city. It discusses the centrality of urban spaces to political and protest movements such as the Arab Spring and Occupy; and how such movements now equally depend on public cyberspace. It explores ways in which sharing can underpin democracy in practice, building social capital, supporting a healthy public realm, and challenging the hold of consumerism on identity. It focuses on communal forms of sharing, for example considering the role of collaborative leisure, and taking a close look at streetlife and other opportunities for the development of interculturalism. Finally it examines ways in which sharing is emerging in the practices of urban governance, highlighting key challenges to urban democracy in land ownership and taxation.Less
Duncan McLarenJulian Agyeman
Chapter 3 explores political and cultural dimensions of the sharing city. It discusses the centrality of urban spaces to political and protest movements such as the Arab Spring and Occupy; and how such movements now equally depend on public cyberspace. It explores ways in which sharing can underpin democracy in practice, building social capital, supporting a healthy public realm, and challenging the hold of consumerism on identity. It focuses on communal forms of sharing, for example considering the role of collaborative leisure, and taking a close look at streetlife and other opportunities for the development of interculturalism. Finally it examines ways in which sharing is emerging in the practices of urban governance, highlighting key challenges to urban democracy in land ownership and taxation.
Keywords: Occupy, interculturalism, urban governance, communal sharing, consumerism, Medellín, social urbanism, metro-cable, library parks, participatory budgeting
Framing the governance of urban space
Kevin Stenson
in Securing an urban renaissance: Crime, community, and British urban policy
This chapter explores some of the current tensions in the competing frames of interpretation and strategies of action concerning governance of urban space. It explains that these frames of ... More
This chapter explores some of the current tensions in the competing frames of interpretation and strategies of action concerning governance of urban space. It explains that these frames of interpretation underpin attempts to govern city life from above in the public interest. The chapter considers the way in which urban public space has assumed a contested terrain over which political debates have produced a sense of sovereignty.Less
This chapter explores some of the current tensions in the competing frames of interpretation and strategies of action concerning governance of urban space. It explains that these frames of interpretation underpin attempts to govern city life from above in the public interest. The chapter considers the way in which urban public space has assumed a contested terrain over which political debates have produced a sense of sovereignty.
Keywords: urban space, urban governance, city life, public interest, political debates, sovereignty
Introduction: directly elected mayors in urban governance
David Sweeting
in Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance: Impact and Practice
Political Science, Democratization
This chapter opens the work by introducing directly elected mayors as political leaders in systems of urban government, and the expectations that are placed upon them. It identifies the core features ... More
This chapter opens the work by introducing directly elected mayors as political leaders in systems of urban government, and the expectations that are placed upon them. It identifies the core features of the directly elected mayor model, of direct election, of the creation of a single identifiable leader with a secure term of office, before discussing its advantages and disadvantages. Directly elected mayors are then placed in the context of urban governance, urbanization, and globalization. The chapter ends with a description of the other chapters that comprise the book.Less
This chapter opens the work by introducing directly elected mayors as political leaders in systems of urban government, and the expectations that are placed upon them. It identifies the core features of the directly elected mayor model, of direct election, of the creation of a single identifiable leader with a secure term of office, before discussing its advantages and disadvantages. Directly elected mayors are then placed in the context of urban governance, urbanization, and globalization. The chapter ends with a description of the other chapters that comprise the book.
Keywords: directly elected mayors, urban governance, leadership, cities, local government, urbanisation, globalisation
Trust and Collaborative Governance
Marc J. Stern and Alexander Hellquist
This chapter explores the relationship between urban environmental education programs and urban environmental governance in light of the "deliberative turn"—a shift away from "government" toward ... More
This chapter explores the relationship between urban environmental education programs and urban environmental governance in light of the "deliberative turn"—a shift away from "government" toward "governance," including in urban planning and policy making, and the acceptance of stakeholder participation and dialogue as crucial elements in governance related to complex urban issues. The deliberative turn emphasizes the importance of public participation, attention to both purposive and inadvertent forms of exclusion, the value of dialogue among stakeholders, and the creation of an environment in which the distorting effects of power are diminished. The chapter examines "wicked" urban sustainability issues that call for collaborative governance based on deliberation and argues that urban environmental literacy should include an understanding of governance and skills related to productive deliberation. It also explains how an understanding of mechanisms for the development of trust can enhance the potential for constructive deliberation and collaborative governance.Less
Marc J. SternAlexander Hellquist
This chapter explores the relationship between urban environmental education programs and urban environmental governance in light of the "deliberative turn"—a shift away from "government" toward "governance," including in urban planning and policy making, and the acceptance of stakeholder participation and dialogue as crucial elements in governance related to complex urban issues. The deliberative turn emphasizes the importance of public participation, attention to both purposive and inadvertent forms of exclusion, the value of dialogue among stakeholders, and the creation of an environment in which the distorting effects of power are diminished. The chapter examines "wicked" urban sustainability issues that call for collaborative governance based on deliberation and argues that urban environmental literacy should include an understanding of governance and skills related to productive deliberation. It also explains how an understanding of mechanisms for the development of trust can enhance the potential for constructive deliberation and collaborative governance.
Keywords: urban environmental education, urban environmental governance, deliberative turn, urban planning, public participation, urban sustainability, collaborative governance, deliberation, trust
Apartheid, Democracy, and the Urban Future
This chapter summarizes the study of urban governance in Cape Town, which emphasizes new mechanisms of social control under conditions of neoliberal democracy and unequal development. It provides a ... More
This chapter summarizes the study of urban governance in Cape Town, which emphasizes new mechanisms of social control under conditions of neoliberal democracy and unequal development. It provides a brief overview of the mechanisms in which policing and urban renewal in Cape Town is considered a part of a lineage of governance strategies immersed in unresolved social tensions that evolved over decades. The chapter also explains neoliberalism as a central and defining role in the organization of urban governance, pointing out the conflicts that neoliberalism reflected and regenerated.Less
This chapter summarizes the study of urban governance in Cape Town, which emphasizes new mechanisms of social control under conditions of neoliberal democracy and unequal development. It provides a brief overview of the mechanisms in which policing and urban renewal in Cape Town is considered a part of a lineage of governance strategies immersed in unresolved social tensions that evolved over decades. The chapter also explains neoliberalism as a central and defining role in the organization of urban governance, pointing out the conflicts that neoliberalism reflected and regenerated.
Keywords: urban governance, Cape Town, social control, neoliberal democracy, unequal development, urban renewal, neoliberalism
Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance: Impact and Practice
David Sweeting (ed.)
This book is about directly elected mayors; political leaders who are elected directly by citizens to head multi-functional local government authorities. The book examines the contexts, features and ... More
This book is about directly elected mayors; political leaders who are elected directly by citizens to head multi-functional local government authorities. The book examines the contexts, features and debates around the model, and how in practice political leadership is exercised through it. The book draws on examples from the Europe, the US, and Australasia to examine the impacts, practices, and debates of mayoral leadership in different cities and countries. Themes that recur throughout include the formal and informal powers that mayors exercise, their relationships with other actors in governance, both inside municipalities and in broader governance networks, and the advantages and disadvantages of the model. The work draws on a variety of sources, including both qualitative and quantitative approaches, to build a picture of views of and on mayors in different contexts from across the globe.Less
Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance : Impact and Practice
This book is about directly elected mayors; political leaders who are elected directly by citizens to head multi-functional local government authorities. The book examines the contexts, features and debates around the model, and how in practice political leadership is exercised through it. The book draws on examples from the Europe, the US, and Australasia to examine the impacts, practices, and debates of mayoral leadership in different cities and countries. Themes that recur throughout include the formal and informal powers that mayors exercise, their relationships with other actors in governance, both inside municipalities and in broader governance networks, and the advantages and disadvantages of the model. The work draws on a variety of sources, including both qualitative and quantitative approaches, to build a picture of views of and on mayors in different contexts from across the globe.
Keywords: directly elected mayors, urban governance, leadership, cities, local government, mayors
Leadership and partnership in urban governance: evidence from London, Bristol and Glasgow
David Sweeting, Robin Hambleton, Chris Huxham, Murray Stewart, and Siv Vangen
This chapter examines the importance of leadership and partnership in urban governance based on evidence in London, Bristol, and Glasgow in Great Britain. It explores the nature and operation of ... More
This chapter examines the importance of leadership and partnership in urban governance based on evidence in London, Bristol, and Glasgow in Great Britain. It explores the nature and operation of leadership, particularly in relation to partnership, an issue that is increasingly to the fore given the proliferation of partnership working in a wide range of urban initiatives. The chapter suggests that the mayoral model has the potential to provide autonomous local leadership, while the fragmented, multi-organisational model can result in weak leadership which is subservient to external policy influence and dominated by bureaucratic arrangements.Less
David SweetingRobin HambletonChris HuxhamMurray StewartSiv Vangen
This chapter examines the importance of leadership and partnership in urban governance based on evidence in London, Bristol, and Glasgow in Great Britain. It explores the nature and operation of leadership, particularly in relation to partnership, an issue that is increasingly to the fore given the proliferation of partnership working in a wide range of urban initiatives. The chapter suggests that the mayoral model has the potential to provide autonomous local leadership, while the fragmented, multi-organisational model can result in weak leadership which is subservient to external policy influence and dominated by bureaucratic arrangements.
Keywords: leadership, partnership, urban governance, London, Bristol, Glasgow, Great Britain, mayoral model, multi-organisational model
Thirsty Cities: How Indian Cities Can Meet their Water Needs
M. Dinesh Kumar
Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This book is about sustainable urban water management for developing countries. It deals with holistically managing different aspects of urban water viz., water resources, water supplies, waste water ... More
This book is about sustainable urban water management for developing countries. It deals with holistically managing different aspects of urban water viz., water resources, water supplies, waste water generated from urban area and urban storm water, as integral components of the urban water cycle. It covers the entire gamut of issues in urban water management starting water supply, wastewater treatment, storm water management, water allocation and water resources management. It covers the hydrological, engineering, economic, social and institutional aspects of urban water management. Instead of offering 'quick fix' and easily implementable solutions for urban water problems, it systematically analyses the complex factors influencing the performance of urban water systems—water supply, wastewater treatment and drainage systems—and the institutions which manage them. It discusses some advanced concepts and practices that promote sustainable urban water management, which have been tried successfully in the developed countries. It also identifies the opportunities, constraint and challenges in implementing them in different physical, socio-economic, administrative and institutional settings that prevail in Indian cities and towns. In sum, it covers technical, economic, social, institutional, legal, and policy interventions of improving the governance and management of urban water systems for sustainability, efficiency, equity, and cost effectiveness in India. It also defines the criteria for choosing these interventions in a wide range of urban situations so as to improve the performance of urban water systems.Less
Thirsty Cities : How Indian Cities Can Meet their Water Needs
This book is about sustainable urban water management for developing countries. It deals with holistically managing different aspects of urban water viz., water resources, water supplies, waste water generated from urban area and urban storm water, as integral components of the urban water cycle. It covers the entire gamut of issues in urban water management starting water supply, wastewater treatment, storm water management, water allocation and water resources management. It covers the hydrological, engineering, economic, social and institutional aspects of urban water management. Instead of offering 'quick fix' and easily implementable solutions for urban water problems, it systematically analyses the complex factors influencing the performance of urban water systems—water supply, wastewater treatment and drainage systems—and the institutions which manage them. It discusses some advanced concepts and practices that promote sustainable urban water management, which have been tried successfully in the developed countries. It also identifies the opportunities, constraint and challenges in implementing them in different physical, socio-economic, administrative and institutional settings that prevail in Indian cities and towns. In sum, it covers technical, economic, social, institutional, legal, and policy interventions of improving the governance and management of urban water systems for sustainability, efficiency, equity, and cost effectiveness in India. It also defines the criteria for choosing these interventions in a wide range of urban situations so as to improve the performance of urban water systems.
Keywords: Integrated Urban Water Management, Water Supply Technologies, Wastewater Treatment Technologies, Urban Storm Water Management, Economic Instruments for Demand Management, Urban Water Pricing, Capacity Building in Urban Water Sector, Urban Water Management Institutions, Urban Water Governance, Urban Water Policies


With rich domain expertise, extensive infrastructure and facilities and technology capability, Applied Research International is in a unique position to provide consultative assistance and support to marine and allied industries. Leveraging the advantage of years of expertise, ARI has carried out numerous projects working together with organizations and companies to set up, expand or diversify their business.
From consultative projects with the IMO for training to hand-holding through the establishment of a training facility; from management of institutes to creation of learning material, ARI is able to share its knowledge and experience and foster relationships which promote growth and excellence.
ARI has been successfully managing the National Inland Navigation Institute at Patna on behalf of the IWAI (Inland Waterways Authority of India) for over 5 years.
The management of the institute has included revamping the curriculum, overhauling the infrastructure at Patna, inducting new faculty and implementing a selection and induction process for candidates. NINI has become the showcase for IWAI and has helped promote the development and awareness about the potential of the Indian inland waterways system. The development has included the installation of a dredging simulator and introduction of practical skills utilizing IWAI equipment.
ARI has close association with the Ethiopian Maritime Training Institute in Bahir Dhir, Ethiopia since inception of this growing institute. ARI has provided consultancy to the institute for development of the curriculum for their engineering and electrical engineering students; supply of quality faculty to train the students and technical advice as and when needed.
ARI's engine room simulator is also installed at the institute providing a powerful learning tool for the young engineers. The institute, which is a part of the Bahir Dhir University is becoming a centre of maritime excellence in the newly developing maritime region in Africa.
The SAFEPORT: Simulation Analysis and Feasibility Evaluation for Ports, Offshore Berths, Rivers and Terminals program has been designed to conduct ship simulation modeling studies to evaluate the feasibility of ship operation with respect to navigation, before large resources are committed to creating or expanding the infrastructure inside a port, harbour or terminal.
In the past 2 years, ARI has carried out feasibility studies for the following clients: BG India (BGEPIL); Bumi Armada, Malaysia; Cairn India, Bhogat; Mundra Port and SEZ Ltd., Mudra; LNG Petronet Port Pvt. Ltd., Dahej; LNG Petronet Port Pvt. Ltd., Kochi; Adani Port Pvt. Ltd., Hazira; Essar Bulk Terminals Ltd., Salaya.
ARI conducts specialized pilot training for various ports within India. These customized familiarization and professional development programs allow pilots to practice operations in the near real world environment with the ability to practice standard manouvers; establishing navigational procedures, handling contingencies and working in severe environmental conditions.
ARI has worked with the following ports/clients over the past 2 years: Essar Bulk Terminals Ltd., Hazira; Shell Hazira; Jaypee Cement Company Ltd., Kharo Creek; Dhamra Port Company Ltd., Dhamra; Chowgule Ports, Jaigarh; BORL, Jamnagar; APM Terminal, Pipavav; Ultratech Cement Ltd., Pipavav.


We first about Patrick Ryan's film Darkness on the Edge of Town at this year's Slamdance festival. We didn't know much about the film other than its title, but it just blew us away. This is the very essence of an independent film, but thanks to the work of Ryan and cinematographer Tommy FItzgerald, as well as some explosive acting, especially from Emma Eliza Regan as Cleo Callaghan and Brian Gleeson as Virgil O'Reilly, it feels like a big-budget feature.
We spoke to Patrick and Emma by phone from Slamdance, and to Brian in the green room of the TIFF Bell Lightbox during the Toronto Irish Film Festival, where Brian attended, and brothers Rory and Domnhall were in the audience as guests. Emma and Brian spoke extremely highly of Patrick and the film is a must-see, especially for fans of gritty family dramas.
Scene Creek: Did you allow for improvisation on set?
Patrick Ryan: I generally don't like to rehearse so we didn't do a lot of rehearsals. In terms of improvisation there was hardly any. We made sure that everyone was on the same page. You have to be, when you're doing it at this rate. We shot three weeks, with a lot of moving around so…also, when you're doing an independent film, you don't want the days running sixteen hours, you kind of want to start when you're going to, end when you're going to, and keep everyone happy. Civil. That's what we aim for, we try to run as professionally as possible, and as quickly as possible.
Scene Creek: Did you take the character with you?
Emma Eliza Regan: No, like for me, in terms of playing Cleo, I was kind of able to separate it from myself and shake it off like it so I was able to remain focused for the few weeks. I'm always very focused on set. I want to give a good performance. That's my personal experience. You gotta have fun, and that wasn't me. The guys around here can attest that all the roles are considerably dark. You need to be very truthful for the character and to stay very focused and to carry that performance through. Often the scripts that are compelling and interesting, and have got a dash of soul to them often inspire me in new directions, you know, deal with darker issues, it's human in many ways. That's where it gets interesting, and that's where you challenge yourself as an actor, challenge yourself as a person. I don't like to be fake.
Scene Creek: What did you learn from Patrick's filmmaking approach?
Emma Eliza Regan: Patrick was extremely focused so I learnt a huge amount during the process from the initial casting to the shoot—he is a both a fantastic writer and director, and he was very clear in his vision for both the character, the way in which he wanted her portrayed and the style of the film from the start, in everything from the visuals to performance, so it was very easy to go in one clear direction on the shoot in that way, the whole team and crew were very collaborative together as we were working on a low budget we all had to pull together. He was on of the first directors I worked with who was interested in pushing the boundaries of what an Irish film could achieve with tackling a genre, and giving it a very international feel, and he wasn't restrictive in his vision for the film on an international stage, which was very refreshing and we all were in safe hands.
Scene Creek: What did you get out of the experience of working on this film?
Brian Gleeson: Patrick's best friend is also the cinematographer. They went to film school together. A lot of the guys that worked on the film, they're in the same class. Once they left I think Patrick had a few offers from people for the script, and he said "no, I want to make it myself". And they're also familiar with the Irish countryside and Kerry. They grew up there, and it was a real passion project for them, and it just goes to show, you don't need that much money when you have that kind of passion. So I'm delighted, and especially for him. Like it's going to do wonders for him.
Scene Creek: What did it for you?
Brian Gleeson: I originally just responded to the script and you never know how films turn out. We can do stuff and think it's great, it could turn out to be muck, you know. But with this, Patrick wrote this and was directing as well, thought I was in good hands. We're hoping to work together again, he's got a new film, in Dublin. He sent me the script and it's really great. It's a great calling card to do the first film yourself. You hear of guys in film development who get stuck for years and years and years, the only way you learn and get better is by doing it yourself.
Darkness on the Edge of Town is available for downloading in the U.S. and Canada from bit.ly/DarkiTunes. The Canadian premiere is at the inaugural St. Lawrence Film Festival in Brockville, Ontario.


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The Yellow Canary is a 1963 American thriller film directed by Buzz Kulik and starring Pat Boone and Barbara Eden. It was adapted by Rod Serling from a novel by Whit Masterson, who also wrote the novel that was the basis for Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. The film was photographed by veteran Floyd Crosby and scored by jazz composer Kenyon Hopkins.

Plot
Andy Paxton (Boone) is an arrogant, obnoxious pop idol who is about to be divorced by his wife Lissa (Eden) and constantly abuses his staff, including his bodyguard – ex-cop Hub, his manager Vecchio, and his valet, Bake.

Andy begins an engagement at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles. Hub and he arrive home to find a maid hysterical – his infant son Bobby has been kidnapped and the son's nurse murdered. The ransom note has the code word "canary" and they summon the police, led by Lt Bonner (Klugman).
Andy does not tell the police about the code word out of fear that his son may be killed. A second message arrives demanding $200,000 ransom, which Andy manages to raise, and the money is delivered to an isolated beach, but nobody comes to meet him. Hub takes Andy to a lonely inn and tortures a woman into giving them the address of a man who might have been in touch with the kidnappers. They find the man, but he is dead.

After Bake is found murdered, Andy receives further instructions by telephone from the kidnapper, and realizes that Hub is one of the few people who know their unlisted number. Andy and Lissa return to the inn and rescue their baby, and Andy shoots the mentally deranged Hub as police cars surround the inn.

Cast
Pat Boone as Andy Paxton
Barbara Eden as Lissa Paxton
Steve Forrest as Hub Wiley
Jack Klugman as Lt. Bonner
Jesse White as Ed Thornburg
Steve Harris as Bake
Milton Selzer as Vecchio
Jeff Corey as Joe Pyle
Harold Gould as Ponelli
John Banner as Skolman

Production

Development
In 1961, Pete Levathes, head of 20th Century Fox, authorised the studio to pay $200,000 for the rights to Whit Masterton's novel Evil Come Evil Go. The film was always envisioned as a vehicle for Pat Boone, who had made a number of movies for Fox; he had a three-picture deal with the studio at fee of $200,000 per movie, which would be credited to his production company, Cooga Mooga Productions.

Rod Serling, then at the height of his Twilight Zone fame, was paid $125,000 to write the script. With a star and writer of that caliber, the film was originally estimated to have a budget  between $1.5 and 2.0 million and be shot over 10 weeks. Ann-Margret was mentioned as a possibility for the female lead.

Film becomes low-budget
Peter Levathes was fired in the wake of cost over-runs on Cleopatra, and Darryl F. Zanuck took over the studio. Zanuck called a halt to all productions at the studio, literally shutting down the backlot on 26 July 1962.

Zanuck was obliged to pay a fee to Boone and Serling. By this stage, the studio also had commitments to Barbara Eden and Steve Forrest (the latter at a fee of $25,000). Zanuck assigned the film to Robert L. Lippert's company, Associated Producers Inc, who specialized in making lower-budget films for Fox. Zanuck gave Lippert $100,000 to finish the film and a shortened schedule. (Maury Dexter, who produced the film for Lipper, puts this figure at $250,000 in his memoirs.)

The New York Times reported that Boone "fears that the 10-day shooting schedule will deny it the artistic and production values it might have had with the 10-week shooting schedule he expected" – he decided to proceed with the film anyway.

Filming
Filming began on 10 December 1962. Some shooting was done for the film on the Fox lot, which was otherwise closed. During production, the title was changed to The Yellow Canary.

The cast included Jeff Corey, who had been blacklisted and not made a movie for a number of years. Boone had been taught by Corey and he pressured the studio into casting him.

In a September 2012 interview at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, Boone stated that the film was slated for a ridiculously short 12-day schedule. When they were wrapping the last day with several key scenes left to be filmed, Boone paid $20,000 out of his own pocket to buy one more day of shooting. He felt strongly about the film because it gave him the chance to play "a bad guy for a change."

Maury Dexter later recalled:
The film was a nice production, but didn't really come off. It did nothing at the box office and the critics panned it. Serling, Boone, Forrest, and Eden were all play-or-pay contracts, so... [Fox] preferred to play instead of paying off the commitments. (Probably should not have thrown good money after bad.) I produced the show, and with due respect to all concerned, the production overshadowed the drama.

Reception
According to Diabolique magazine:
Boone whined about Fox's cheapness, but Zanuck was right. Serling's script isn't very good with too much flowery dialogue. Because it's a thriller, the low budget didn't necessarily have to hurt in the hands of an imaginative director. But Dexter was a second-rater. It is interesting to see Boone play someone unpleasant who proves his manhood by shooting someone dead. This was a rare film where the actor used a gun. The movie flopped at the box office.

References

External links

Review of film in The New York Times
Review of film at Variety

1963 films
1960s thriller films
American thriller films
Films directed by Buzz Kulik
20th Century Fox films
Films based on American novels
Films about child abduction in the United States
Films scored by Kenyon Hopkins
Films with screenplays by Rod Serling
1960s English-language films
1960s American films

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Former British Prime Minister David Cameron, who resigned from the top job in September in the wake of the Brexit referendum, has announced he will also step down as a member of parliament.
"It isn't really possible to be a proper backbench MP as a former prime minister," he told ITV.
"Everything you do will become a big distraction and a big diversion from what the government needs to do for our country.
The decision was made with a "heavy heart", Mr Cameron said.
Before the referendum he had said he would stay on as prime minister whatever the result, and after he said he would remain as an MP. But on Monday Mr Cameron, 49, said he was "going to have to start to build a life outside Westminster".
He claimed not to have made any "firm" decision on his next move, but he wanted to continue to contribute to public service and "to continue campaigning on local, national and international issues that were part of my prime ministership where I think we made progress but there's a lot more to be done".
He said it was just a coincidence that the decision came on the day parliament was due to start debating a government policy to re-introduce selective grammar schools, a policy rejected under Cameron's leadership.
"It has nothing to do with any one particular issue," he said.
Mrs May had been "very understanding" about his decision, he said.
"I support her, I support what she's doing, I think she's gotten off to a cracking start," he said.
It would be "difficult, perhaps impossible" for him to play a full role in parliamentary life as a former prime minister because of the risk he would be "an enormous distraction from what the government's doing".
"Obviously I'm going to have my own views about different issues, people know that, and that's really the point," he said.
He said it was for historians to work out his legacy, but he would be remembered for keeping a pledge to hold a Brexit referendum, when many thought he wouldn't.
People would also remember his leadership and his government for creating a stronger economy and for important social reforms such as gay marriage, he said.
A by-election will be held in his former seat of Witney.


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"News Feed stories about your groups.
News Feed will start showing stories that keep you aware of the activity going on in your groups."
I have to admit enjoying being part of different groups but in reality the group functionality on Facebook is pretty poor, for a social networking site this is one area where it really lets itself down. The addition of News feed stories for groups which I hope will include information like new items posted, new messages, new photos, new members (for group administrators at least) will add hugely to what could be a really useful area of the site. On the downside you could be inundated by News Feeds from groups you belong to if the group has 1000's of members. Hopefully Facebook will include an option or a preference to not receive News Feeds from specific groups.
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Fab: it's one reason I've not really bothered joining many groups on there, cos I never remember to go back to them.
It's like having to blog hop every day to find out if anyone's posted - pointless and frustrating.
Now at least I'll get regular prods about group activity: cool!
Oh, that will be helpful! Particularly when it comes to keeping tabs on things like the BIALL group.
Although, also a reason to leave a bunch of groups that I half-heartedly joined and then forgot about.


The conversation about climate change largely revolves around greenhouse gases. Agriculture is both a source and sink for greenhouse gases (GHG). A source is a net contribution to the atmosphere, while a sink is a net withdrawal of greenhouse gases. In the United States, agriculture is a relatively small contributor, with approximately 8% of the total greenhouse gas emissions, as seen in Figure 1.
Most agricultural emissions originate from soil management, enteric fermentation (microbial action in the digestive system), energy use, and manure management (Figure 2). The primary greenhouse gases related to agriculture are (in descending order of magnitude) methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide.
Within animal production, the largest emissions are from beef followed by dairy, and largely dominated by the methane produced in during cattle digestion (Figure 3).
Excess nitrogen in agriculture systems can be converted to nitrous oxide through the nitrification-denitrification process. Nitrous oxide is a very potent greenhouse gas, with 310 times greater global warming potential than carbon dioxide. Nitrous oxide can be produced in soils following fertilizer application. This includes both commercial, inorganic fertilizer as well as organic fertilizers like manure or compost.
The next largest portion of livestock greenhouse gas emissions is from methane produced during enteric fermentation in ruminants – a natural part of ruminant digestion where microbes in the first chamber of the stomach, the rumen, breaks down feed and produces methane as a by-product. The methane is released primarily through belching.
There are many smaller sources of greenhouse gases on farms. Combustion engines exhaust carbon dioxide from fossil fuel (previously stored carbon) powered vehicles and equipment. Manufacturing of farm inputs, including fuel, electricity, machinery, fertilizer, pesticides, seeds, plastics, and building materials, also results in emissions.
Definition: carbon footprint is the total greenhouse gas emissions for a given person, place, event or product.
Carbon footprints are created using a process called life cycle assessment. Life cycle assessment or LCA is a method of resource accounting where quantitative measures of inputs, outputs and impacts of a product are determined.
boundaries of the system: each higher tier provides a more complete picture of the product's impacts, however requires more time and resources to complete.
Cradle to Gate (Tier II) – inputs are taken back to the initial extraction as natural resources up to a certain point in the product's life such as its sale from the farm, i.e. farm gate. This will include both direct and indirect emissions from the product.
Cradle To Grave (Tier III) – the product is followed through the consumer to its eventual recycling or disposal.
Recommended Reading – How Many Greenhouse Gases Does Agriculture Emit?
EPA greenhouse gas inventory updated annually. Use the data explorer to highlight agricultural emissions.
Are models useful in determining the footprint of pork production?