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This chapter addresses the entanglement of mobility and labour in the global era, and suggests potential ways to study these issues in contemporary African diasporic fiction.

African diasporic fiction --- literature --- globalisation --- mobility

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The sharing economy and collaborative consumption are attracting a great deal of interest due to their business, legal and civic implications. The consequences of the spreading of practices of sharing in urban environments and under daily dynamics are underexplored. This Special Issue aims to address if and how sharing shapes cities, the way that spaces are designed and lived in if social interactions are escalated, and the ways that habits and routines take place in post-individualistic society. In particular, the following key questions are of primary interest: Urban fabric: How is ‘sharing’ shaping cities? Does it represent a paradigm shift with tangible and physical reverberations on urban form? How are shared mobility, work, inhabiting reconfiguring the urban and social fabric? Social practices: Are new lifestyles and practices related to sharing changing the use and design of spaces? To what extent is sharing triggering a production and consumption paradigm shift to be reflected in urban arrangements and infrastructures? Sustainability: Does sharing increase the intensity of use of space and assets, or, rather, does it increase them to meet the expectations of convenience for urban lifestyles? To what extent are these phenomena fostering more economically-, socially-, and environmentally-sustainable practices and cities? Policy: How can policy makers and municipalities interact with these bottom-up and phenomena and grassroots innovation to create more sustainable cities? Scholars responded to the above questions from the fields of urban studies, urban planning and design, sociology, geography, theoretically-grounded and informed by the results of fieldwork activities.

sharing --- coproduction --- matchmaking --- urban mobility --- mobility policy --- accessibility --- informality --- collaborative economy --- platform cooperativism --- democratic quality --- ageing --- cohousing --- architecture --- co-design --- spatial agency --- sharing --- design-research --- critical autoethnography --- Bourdieu --- bike sharing --- sustainable mobility --- sharing economic --- urban studies --- sharing economy --- sharing platform --- coworking --- coworking space --- coworking business --- collaborative workplaces --- urban regeneration --- entrepreneurial action --- Melbourne sharing economy --- Melbourne Airbnb --- architectural and urban effects of Airbnb --- socio-spatial effects of Airbnb --- Airbnb and housing typologies --- Airbnb and domestic design --- Airbnb and planning --- Airbnb and policy innovation --- Airbnb and governance --- emotions --- participation --- digital participation --- physiological sensors --- galvanic skin response --- GSR --- stress levels --- emotional layer --- urban --- coworking spaces --- social street --- social relations --- local communities --- n/a

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The last two decades have been marked by intense and accelerated economic, political, and cultural processes that have affected urban spaces. These changes have occurred in different parts of cities (traditional centers, edges, peripheries) and at different levels of the urban system (large and medium-sized cities and in their respective areas of influence). Possibly the clearest expression of the spatial effects on cities can be perceived in their morphological transformations, their territorial dimensions, or in their social problems. Until 2008, urban–territorial processes were a reflection of the logic and inconsistencies of an expansive economic context and of a structural context that favored the development of cities through concurrent processes and actors. As a result, the built land and amount of urbanized and built surfaces increased, together with processes of the expansion and modernization of cities. Since 2008, the expansive economic cycle has ended, and there have been diverse negative consequences. Notably, the construction sector has come to an abrupt halt. Access to credit has also been reduced, and unemployment has increased. The economic recession has caused sociodemographic and socioeconomic issues exemplified by housing vulnerability, with dispossession, evictions, a shortage of social housing, and energy poverty.

counter-urbanization --- Extremadura --- urban expansion --- periurbanization --- rurbanization --- suburbanization --- illegal urbanization --- sharing economies --- urban conflicts --- Valencia --- Airbnb --- Uber --- foreclosure --- eviction --- economic crisis --- post-crisis --- housing vulnerability --- Spanish city --- housing bubble --- financialization --- holiday home --- housing market --- eco-neighborhood --- sustainable urban neighborhoods --- Madrid --- periphery --- urban regeneration --- social housing --- urban sustainability --- social-vulnerability --- urban segregation --- school choice --- educational level --- social inequalities --- neighbourhood effect --- dispersed urbanism --- residential strategies --- residential mobility --- economic crisis --- Barcelona Metropolitan Region --- social crisis --- land squandering --- urbanization --- night lights --- remote sensing --- land uses --- seasonality --- Suomi NPP VIIRS --- socio-environmental vulnerability --- Barcelona --- spatial analysis --- qualitative methodology --- vulnerable neighborhoods --- neoliberal urban policy --- residential mobility --- foreign immigration --- Cabanyal --- Valencia --- economic crisis --- urban sprawl --- consumption --- water --- Alicante --- urban sprawl --- medium-size cities --- expansive city planning --- urban geography --- urbanism --- urban growth --- medium-sized city --- suburbanization --- Spain --- urbanization process --- real estate bubble --- urban sprawl --- urban vulnerability --- residential segregation --- urban inequality --- Spain

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This book is based on a Special Issue of the journal LAND that draws together a collection of 11 diverse articles at the nexus of climate change, landscapes, and livelihoods in rural Africa; all explore the links between livelihood and landscape change, including shifts in farming practices and natural resource use and management. The articles, which are all place-based case studies across nine African countries, cover three not necessarily mutually exclusive thematic areas, namely: smallholder farming livelihoods under new climate risk (five articles); long-term dynamics of livelihoods and landscape change and future trajectories (two articles); and natural resource management and governance under a changing climate, spanning forests, woodlands, and rangelands (four articles). The commonalities, key messages, and research gaps across the 11 articles are presented in a synthesis article. All the case studies pointed to the need for an integrated and in-depth understanding of the multiple drivers of landscape and livelihood change and how these interact with local histories, knowledge systems, cultures, complexities, and lived realities. Moreover, where there are interventions (such as new governance systems, REDD+ or climate smart agriculture), it is critical to interrogate what is required to ensure a fair and equitable distribution of emerging benefits.

climate smart agriculture --- resilience --- carbon balance --- cocoa --- mitigation --- Ghana --- Ex-ACT --- agroforestry --- institution --- natural resources --- firewood --- South Africa --- traditional authorities --- governance systems --- agrarian dynamics --- climate change --- farm dwellers --- livelihoods --- precariat --- vulnerability --- South Africa --- communal grazing regulations --- pastoral mobility --- boundaries --- Samburu pastoralists --- Kenya --- Longitudinal studies --- assets --- livelihoods --- rural entrepreneurs --- Tanzania --- agent-based-model --- climate change --- conservation --- grazing --- pastoralists --- precipitation --- savannahs --- social-ecological systems --- climate-smart agriculture --- adoption --- small-scale irrigation farming --- household income --- Chinyanja Triangle --- Southern Africa --- livelihoods --- landscape change --- drivers --- trends --- vulnerability --- poverty alleviation --- sustainable livelihoods --- climate change --- commercial agriculture --- vulnerability --- culture --- religion --- agency --- adaptation --- perceptions --- climate change --- dependency --- neoliberal conservation --- Africa --- REDD+, market-based conservation --- Tanzania --- n/a

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This book covers applied research on smart energy systems, smart grids, smart energy homes, smart energy products and services, and the advanced applications thereof, in the context of demand response and grid interactions. In particular, this book is focused on interdisciplinary research results that combine technical, social, environmental, and economic aspects of smart energy systems and smart energy products. Moreover, several chapters are based on the evaluation of real life cases, energy pilots, prototypes of smart energy products, and end user surveys and interviews.

smart grids --- electricity market --- flexibility --- stakeholders --- end-users --- renewable energy --- energy products and services --- power quality --- grid-connected inverter --- photovoltaic --- solar mobility --- solar charging --- resonance instability --- smart metering --- spatial and temporal aggregation --- privacy protection --- internal attack --- pseudo-random function --- smart grids --- renewable energy --- flexibility --- demand shifting --- photovoltaic systems --- smart appliances --- demand response --- aggregator --- heat pumps --- FCR --- frequency containment reserve --- ancillary services --- smart grids --- smart grids --- users --- demand management --- renewable energy transition --- dynamic pricing --- electricity pricing --- prosumer --- reliability --- renewable energy --- uncertainty --- smart product design --- smart home technology --- power systems simulation --- energy management --- smart grids --- flexibility --- photovoltaic --- heat pumps --- consumption patterns --- self-consumption --- self-sufficiency --- energy system analysis --- load duration curve --- n/a