Development studies

Cities in the Metaverse offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between urban environments and digital realms.

ICETSIMD 2025 was conceived as a vital platform for academicians, researchers, and industry leaders.

This volume provides a transdisciplinary analysis of the political, social and environmental aspects of governance and its implementation in the mining sector.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the influence that the papyrus plant has had on African wetlands (with a particular focus on the Nile) in the past, and how this may change with the oncoming threats of climate change.

The greatest challenge humanity faces in the 21st century is the climate crisis.

This book examines the ways in which Nigeria's borders are used as instruments of soft and hard power in the country's relations with other African states.

This groundbreaking collection explores the complex intersections of communication and climate change in Africa.

Providing a foundational look at corporate advocacy from the perspective of strategic communications, this book develops strategies for authentic and meaningful ways companies can engage in advocating for social issues in order to have the strongest and most positive impact on society and their business.

This book delves into the interrelationship among gender, power, and economic disparity in the Global South through an intersectional lens.

This book explores human biomonitoring (HBM) as a method to evaluate chemical exposure and its related health effects, with a specific focus on short half-life chemicals and mycotoxins.

This book comprehensively analyzes Industry 6.

This book examines how moralities of distribution and redistribution operate and intertwine in everyday African economic life, enhancing current understandings of capitalism on the continent.

The authors in this book analyze resilience and sustainability in seven different complex adaptive systems (human beings, megaprojects, higher education, food systems, climate change, healthcare settings and cities) by highlighting transitions from complexity to transdisciplinarity as a strategy for knowledge integration.

The authors in this book analyze resilience and sustainability in seven different complex adaptive systems (human beings, megaprojects, higher education, food systems, climate change, healthcare settings and cities) by highlighting transitions from complexity to transdisciplinarity as a strategy for knowledge integration.

In a fast-moving era of increased international competition, frontier markets must devise innovative ways to meet demanding sales targets and maintain profitability.

One of a series of titles on the Futures of Asia, "e;Future of Healthcare in Asia"e; comprehensively examines the dramatic and accelerating impact of technological innovation on healthcare systems across the region.

One of a series of titles on the Futures of Asia, "e;Future of Healthcare in Asia"e; comprehensively examines the dramatic and accelerating impact of technological innovation on healthcare systems across the region.

The authors in this book analyze resilience and sustainability in seven different complex adaptive systems (human beings, megaprojects, higher education, food systems, climate change, healthcare settings and cities) by highlighting transitions from complexity to transdisciplinarity as a strategy for knowledge integration.

This volume is part of an ongoing partnership between the Research in Management Consulting book series and the Socio-Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations (ISEOR), located in Ecully, France, on the outskirts of Lyon.

Democratizing educational access and building capacity in developing countries and amongst indigenous peoples in developed countries may be elusive but are hopeful goals.

This volume is part of an ongoing partnership between the Research in Management Consulting book series and the Socio-Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations (ISEOR), located in Ecully, France, on the outskirts of Lyon.

Hardly a month goes by without news of a high profile corporate failure that raises the question of the role of the board.

This textbook describes how international development functions, its shortcomings, its theoretical and practical foundations, along with prescriptions for the future.

This textbook describes how international development functions, its shortcomings, its theoretical and practical foundations, along with prescriptions for the future.

This book delves into the interrelationship among gender, power, and economic disparity in the Global South through an intersectional lens.

Hardly a month goes by without news of a high profile corporate failure that raises the question of the role of the board.

This volume is part of an ongoing partnership between the Research in Management Consulting book series and the Socio-Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations (ISEOR), located in Ecully, France, on the outskirts of Lyon.

Democratizing educational access and building capacity in developing countries and amongst indigenous peoples in developed countries may be elusive but are hopeful goals.

Democratizing educational access and building capacity in developing countries and amongst indigenous peoples in developed countries may be elusive but are hopeful goals.

In a fast-moving era of increased international competition, frontier markets must devise innovative ways to meet demanding sales targets and maintain profitability.

In a fast-moving era of increased international competition, frontier markets must devise innovative ways to meet demanding sales targets and maintain profitability.

This book explores human biomonitoring (HBM) as a method to evaluate chemical exposure and its related health effects, with a specific focus on short half-life chemicals and mycotoxins.

This book explores the architecture of the Baltic States, a region still relatively unexplored in architectural literature.

Examining the relationship between anthropogenic climate change and atrocity crimes, this book analyses how gender, race, and species hierarchies shape experiences of and responses to the climate emergency.

This book presents a thorough overview and assessment of the economics of the wildlife trade for scholars and conservationists, requiring only a basic understanding of economic principles.

Development cooperation has long been a subject of controversy.

Development cooperation has long been a subject of controversy.

This book explores how South-South Cooperation (SSC) is influencing Latin America’s foreign policy and development choices in a changing world shaped by China’s growing global role.

This book explores the shifts in global power from a single dominant superpower to a world with many influential players.

This book provides an exploration of China’s evolving role in global governance and sustainable development, offering unique insights from over thirty leading scholars from most leading universities in China and beyond.

This is the first handbook to cover environmental sanitation and protection machinery in China.

This project draws on African feminisms to propose major questions about the agency of girls.

This is the first handbook to cover environmental sanitation and protection machinery in China.

This edited book brings together researchers, partners, Ministry staff, disability activists, teachers, and influential commentators to present a constructive dialogue around the opportunities associated with inclusive and equitable education.

This edited book brings together researchers, partners, Ministry staff, disability activists, teachers, and influential commentators to present a constructive dialogue around the opportunities associated with inclusive and equitable education.

This book examines urbanization in Haiti as a laboratory of crisis and resilience, where the absence of state capacity collides with the creativity of grassroots actors.

This book examines traditional approaches to conflict resolution in Northern Nigeria, tracing their development from the pre-colonial period through to the present day.

South Asia is the most densely populated region in Asia, while Asia is the most populous region globally.

This book examines traditional approaches to conflict resolution in Northern Nigeria, tracing their development from the pre-colonial period through to the present day.