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This book explores three major changes in the circumstances of the migrant working class in south China over the past three decades, from historical and comparative perspectives.

The aim of the book is to provide interested readers with access to a number of articles that have been written over the years on the subject of the linkages between domestic farm policies (particularly in developed countries) and world markets for agricultural goods.

This Element examines the transition from analogue to digital IR and explores the impact of digital technologies on peace processes.

The book poses key questions on the contemporary practices of experience-oriented urbanism from the perspective of the affective turn.

This book offers an up-to-date and comprehensive picture of the Vietnamese economy which is the fast-growing economy in Southeast Asia.

Public Finance: A Normative Theory, Fourth Edition provides a classic text on the normative theory of government policy.

Explore the prospects for a deliberative approach to global governance that puts inclusive and transformative communication at the heart.

This 2006 book analyses tensions between those paying for cancer care, those providing care and those marketing drugs and devices.

The prevalence of natural disasters in recent years has highlighted the importance of preparing adequately for disasters and dealing efficiently with their consequences.

Elements of Ecological Economics provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of ecological economics, an interdisciplinary project trying to give answers to the problems related to the overexploitation of the earth's resources today.

This standard textbook analyses environmental problems and environmental policy from an economic point of view, providing not only a comprehensible presentation of environmental economics & from its microeconomic foundations to the latest research approaches & but also guidance for current environmental policy discussions.

This book discusses Bangladesh's economic and social development that may be called a "e;miracle"e; since the country has achieved remarkable development progress under several unfavorable situations: weak governance and political instabilities, inequality, risks entailed in rapid urbanization, and exposure to severe disaster risks.

The transfer of environmental values in time and space has increased rapidly with the widespread use of cost benefit analysis in project evaluation and regulatory assessments over the last three decades.

Environmental finance and green banking are central drivers of the transition to a sustainable economy and essential components in solutions to climate change.

Using a philosophical and interdisciplinary approach, this book looks at how accountability can provide solutions to our current environmental and global political problems.

The 20th century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption and food production.

Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies examines the relationships between real estate and construction sectors and explores how each sector, and the relationships between them, affect economic development in emerging market economies (EMEs).

This book intends to inform the key participants in extractive projects - namely, the communities, the host governments and the investors - about good practice for effective community engagement, based on analysis of international standards and expectations, lessons from selected case-studies and innovations in public participation.

In view of the rising importance and prevalence of network-based collaboration, this book aims to meet the need for more theory in this area.

Provides concise, thorough overview of science, technology, economics, policy, politics of climate change in a single volume.

This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and organizational accidents and disasters in the modern era and clarifies the mechanisms involved and the significance of emerging problems, from the aging of vital infrastructure for the supply of water, gas, oil, and electricity to the breakdown of pensions, healthcare, and other social systems.

What are the social functions of art in the age of neoliberal urbanism?

Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices offers a comprehensive analysis of the ethical problems associated with basing environmental policy on economic analysis, and ways to overcome these problems.

This book explores sustainability within manufacturing enterprises and examines the concepts and principles of this field.

This book discusses human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

In a world increasingly organised as networks of cities, this book offers the first full-length treatment of the subject of managing the city economy.

Advances in public management sciences have long indicated the empirical finding that the normal state of public management systems is complex and that its dynamics are non-linear.

The way that humans organize both resource access and resource use is vital to the management of natural resources.

This book examines leadership and management in natural resources, drawing on literature, principles, and the author's own experiences as a leader and activist.

In focus of this volume are five emerging megacities and mega-urban regions across the globe.

The privatization of water supply and wastewater systems, together with institutional restructuring of governance - through decentralization and the penetration of global firms in local and regional markets - have been promoted as solutions to increase economic efficiency and achieve universal water supply and sanitation coverage.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the role of fossil-based economies in the global energy transition toward sustainability.

This book presents a new way of thinking about, teaching, learning, and practicing real estate development.

This book illustrates and discusses the main characteristics of port-city development dynamics with a focus on the fast-growing city-states of the Middle East, which are emerging as key players in logistics and the global supply chain.

This textbook provides a solid introduction to the theoretical and empirical aspects of environmental economics and their links to environmental policy.

It is widely acknowledged that, in addition to global and regional efforts to cope with climate change by means of mitigation measures, adaptation initiatives can and perhaps should play a key role in enabling communities from across Africa to better handle the problems related to it.

A dynamic collaboration of nine experienced scholars, this timely work shares their rich blend of experiences and insights on emerging paradigms.

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This book includes high-quality research papers presented at 21st International Conference on Informatics in Economy (IE 2022), which is held in Bucharest, Romania, during May 2022.

This book explores the role of cities and the urban-rural linkages in spurring innovation embedded in spatial planning, strategic and economic planning, and decision support systems.

Hierarchical Modeling of Energy Systems presents a detailed methodology for hierarchical modeling of large-scale complex systems with a focus on energy systems and their expansion planning and control.

This book explores the discourse on urban and regional inequality within the framework of neoliberalism.

The aim of this study is twofold: to provide a theoreti- cal and an applied analysis of multispecies fisheries.

This book offers an analysis of the causes, development, and likely consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic for global neoliberalism.

Despite notable variation in health care policy from province to province, most scholarship published on the health care system in Canada uses a broad national perspective.