Chapter 1: Introduction: Rural marginality and its development -- Chapter 2: Food festivals and the Italian foodscape -- Chapter 3: Food festivals as identity devices -- Chapter 4: Food festivals as political devices -- Chapter 5: Food festivals as economic devices -- Chapter 6: Conclusions:...

Part A: Perspectives on Human Development -- Chapter 1: Is the Notion of Human Development Capitalo-centric? -- Chapter 2: Human(e) Development: Philosophy, Politics, Praxis in World of the Third Contexts -- Chapter 3: Hunger, Climate Change and Human Development – a Global Perspective --...

Chapter 1. Public Service Reform in the Republic of Armenia: Challenges and Lessons Learnt -- Chapter 2. Indispensability and main directions of reforms in the civil service system of the Republic of Azerbaijan -- Chapter 3. Reform of the civil service in the Republic of Belarus: Challenges and...

1. Employment Relations in Outsourced Public Services: Working Between Market and State -- Part I. The Case of Italy -- 2. Public Services under Austerity: Structure of the Public Sector and Drivers of Outsourcing -- 3. State-controlled Dualisation between Public and Private Employment:...

Chapter 1. Internet of Things and the Public Sector -- Chapter 2. The Internet of Things in a smart society: how government policy can help seize opportunities and mitigate threats -- Chapter 3. Methodologies for a participatory design of IoT to deliver sustainable public services in 'smart...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Ageing societies and technological innovation -- Chapter 3: Co-creating digital public services -- Chapter 4: Mobile Age: Co-creating digital public services with and for older citizens -- Chapter 5: Co-creation in practice I: Co-creating a digital...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A comprehensive framework on coproduction activation, management and evaluation -- Chapter 3: Co-production activation -- Chapter 4: Coproduction Management -- Chapter 5: Coproduction evaluation -- Chapter 6: Conclusions.

Chapter 1: Innovation and Government -- Chapter 2: Innovation Practices -- Chapter 3: Smart Cities -- Chapter 4: Artificial Intelligence -- Chapter 5: From Smart State to Smart Citizen -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- References -- Appendix.

Part I: Public Service Reform Historical Background -- Chapter 1. Historical Background of the Maltese Public Service Administration and Management (The Beginning) -- Chapter 2. Historical Background of the Maltese Public Service Administration and Management (The Turning Point) -- Part II:...

Part I: Concept and Strategy of Digital Government -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Information Society and Digital Government -- 3. The Concept and Strategy of Digital Government -- 4. Digital Transformation and Digital Organization -- Part II: Technology, Smart City and Digital Government Models...