Social Structure Adaptation to COVID-19 offers global, interdisciplinary perspectives that examine how the COVID-19 pand......more
Social Structure Adaptation to COVID-19 offers global, interdisciplinary perspectives that examine how the COVID-19 pand......more
No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its ......more
This book brings concepts, practices of Ayurveda and its interface with modern health care set-up in Delhi, India. It pr......more
In The Greatest Ponzi Scheme on Earth, economist Dan Mitchell and entrepreneur Les Rubin give an in-depth look at how th......more
Introduction; Lloyd Levine Part 1. The Past - How and Why Government’s Struggle with Purchasing and Integrating Technolo......more
Government consumes wealth, creates no wealth, and inhibits the creation of wealth. It thus makes money less and less av......more
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at......more
This book analyses the effects of public governance reforms on gender equality policy in Finland. Recent economic crises......more
This book analyzes the adoption of stakeholders’ engagement in various fields and scales while providing the readers wit......more
This book looks at the current crises of life and livelihood following the global epidemiological crisis and various str......more
This book explores the need for innovative approaches to administrative digitization, leveraging technologies such as AI......more
This book examines the roles of communities in the general framework of territorial innovation, particularly in the cont......more
Municipal elections in Canada don’t look much like those held at the federal and provincial levels. A key difference is ......more
Municipal elections in Canada don’t look much like those held at the federal and provincial levels. A key difference is ......more
"Standard theories of the causes of climate breakdown will not survive this book. Readers will be all the wiser." --Andr......more
Discover a groundbreaking vision for how to unlock America’s full potential for greatness from one of the country’s fore......more
Algorithmic Institutionalism is the first book to conceive algorithms as institutions in contemporary societies, focusin......more
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This book examines the timely issue of police stops as a public and political issue, focussing on the European states. C......more
This book presents a new organizing framework for studying democratic recession and autocratization in Southeast Asia. B......more
This book examines the economic policies that will underpin the evolution of growth in industrialised economies in comin......more
This book examines the roles played by transnational actors to influence poverty reduction policies in Ghana. Whereas pr......more
This book offers a defense acquisition perspective that provides action orientations and decision making to increase the......more
Professor Drew’s latest work makes the case that even great public policy needs to be deliberately and strategically sol......more
This book explores the challenges China has faced during its economic restructuring, including trade wars, rising costs ......more
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A practical handbook for teaching about the built environment. Engaged Urban Pedagogy presents a participatory approach ......more
A practical handbook for teaching about the built environment. Engaged Urban Pedagogy presents a participatory approach ......more
In a world of globalization and technological change, terrorism continues to pose grave threats not only to more traditi......more
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An urgent and illuminating examination of the unrelenting housing crisis Canadians find ourselves facing, by Balsillie P......more
This book examines deliberative democracy and its practical forms and applications in local government public policy....more
"This work identifies our two-party, comparatively non-representative form of democracy as the main culprit of why Ameri......more
This books provides a critical perspective on entrepreneurialism in the creative industries. Split into three sections, ......more
This book examines law and governance implications in relation to maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS). Adopting a m......more
Cities are at the heart of the biggest challenges facing humanity - from the cost-of-living crisis to the COVID-19 pande......more
Post-war Latin American economies have failed to close the development gap with advanced industrial countries despite mo......more
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The concept of "energy" includes methods for obtaining and using various types of energy for the needs of human society.......more
The book deals with the concept of urban infrastructure and the strong evolution of globalization, in particular the dri......more
First book to fully incorporate MCDM techniques with location analysis Tailors specific techniques to particular locatio......more
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This book focuses on Indigenous self-determined and community-owned responses to complex socioeconomic and political cha......more
This edited volume reviews 20 years’ worth of research under the European Landscape Convention. The authors from the res......more
This book provides a comprehensive comparison of municipally owned corporations in Europe. Municipal corporatisation is ......more
This book offers a critical analysis of hate crime law using Italy as a case study. Employing a multidisciplinary approa......more
This book contributes to efforts in furthering the democratization and development processes in the Philippines by exami......more
Chapter 4 and chapter 7 are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Two decades have passed since the devolutio......more
This retrospective examines global progress in gender equality and lessons learned over the past 10 years since the laun......more
Guns 360 takes a comprehensive and common-sense approach to some of the most difficult issues facing not only the crimin......more
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This book looks into the processes sustaining the administrative reform in Chinese local government and the roles of dif......more
Human history is full of examples of continuously maintained shared infrastructure. Our ability to survive and prosper d......more
This book offers eight validated instruments on workplace bullying to support robust mixed methods approaches for social......more
This book examines and problematises the concept of ’educational inclusion’ within schools. Despite varying definitions ......more
As one of The Chinese Path Series, this book analyzes the reasons for the formation of the development strategy of China......more
Politics of the Periphery discusses empirical studies of post-metropolitan regions around the world....more
Investment in infrastructure is critical to economic growth, quality of life, poverty reduction, access to education, go......more
Investment in infrastructure is critical to economic growth, quality of life, poverty reduction, access to education, go......more
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice explores the impact of right-wing political ideology on crime, the crimina......more
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice explores the impact of right-wing political ideology on crime, the crimina......more
This open access book provides an overview of urban digital platforms such as Airbnb and Deliveroo, which, along with Am......more
This book enables analysts in government and the private sector as well as policy advisors and decision makers to assess......more
Food in a Just World examines the violence, social breakdown, and environmental consequences of our global system of foo......more
Food in a Just World examines the violence, social breakdown, and environmental consequences of our global system of foo......more
This open access book provides multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing dynamics of new working spaces, with insig......more
This contributed volume reports on a multidisciplinary collective work on the topic of Smart City, merging scientific re......more
This book examines the Covid-19 pandemic from a social, cultural and philosophical perspective. In a unique and innovati......more
Neighbourhood policing has been called the ’cornerstone of British policing’ but changing demand, pressures on funding a......more
Neighbourhood policing has been called the ’cornerstone of British policing’ but changing demand, pressures on funding a......more
Culture is not an industry argues that art and culture in the UK need to renew their social contract and re-align with t......more
Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era th......more
The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable a......more
With this volume, Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present and Future of a Constitutional Right of Abortion, we confront the rema......more
With this volume, Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present and Future of a Constitutional Right of Abortion, we confront the rema......more
How is UK drugs policy made, and why does it so often seem irrational when considering what works in reducing drug-relat......more
Culture is not an industry argues that art and culture in the UK need to renew their social contract and re-align with t......more
This book combines assemblage theory and policy mobilities to inform the study of comparative and international educatio......more
This open access book sets out simple solutions to managing complex catastrophes. It focusses on four kinds of crises - ......more
This book provides a picture of recent developments in social policy and social work in Central and Southeast Europe, es......more
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This book presents a fascinating exploration of eating experiences within US national parks, explaining how, on what, an......more
This book presents a fascinating exploration of eating experiences within US national parks, explaining how, on what, an......more
Exposing the explicit and implicit relationships between politics, political decisions and public policy within a planet......more
Exposing the explicit and implicit relationships between politics, political decisions and public policy within a planet......more
On the basis of systematically summarizing and sorting out the significant achievements made since China’s rural reform,......more
This book provide an in-depth analysis of current development concerning ICTs with reference to vocational education an......more
With individual chapters by Alyson Wright and Paul Memmott. How does Indigenous policy signed off in Canberra work-or no......more
This edited collection considers the task of teaching Shakespeare in general education college courses, a task which is ......more