Central / national / federal government policies

This volume is an updated survey and assessment of the recent policy initiatives of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, which have come to be known as the Hu-Wen's New Deal.

This book explores how climate change and disaster risks threaten human security in Asia.

This book is a great opportunity to make the research community discuss the dangerous environmental challenges such as climate change and its huge effects in addition to the world's reliance on fossil fuel and non-renewable resources.

This book focuses mainly on strategic decision making at a global level, which is rarely considered in approaches to sustainability.

This book shows the growing phenomenon and the broad impact of socio-environmental conflicts in the grassroots communities-farmers, fishermen and urban poor-in Indonesia, as the effects of government's development strategies based on neoliberal and New Public Management (NPM) views without a clear accountability system or socio-environmental accountability practices and reports are becoming apparent.

The book relates three years of history of social movements from Asia and Europe who work on social justice, as a rough overview.

This book explores sustainable development from the perspective of resources and energy, based on China's practical experience and cross-disciplinary research.

This book is a collection of policy briefs produced from research presented at the 16th Conference on Urban Health in Xiamen, China, November 4-8, 2019, under the theme "e;People Oriented Urbanisation: Transforming Cities for Health and Well-Being"e;, co-organized by the Urban Health and Wellbeing (UHWB) programme of the International Science Council (ISC).

This volume is a collection of essays that provide a comprehensive coverage of multiple aspects of the discourse on environment, development and sustainability.

This book discusses the development strategies of Chinese media convergence in the current, fast-changing communication environment.

The book looks into the domestic water issues and disputes in the Himalayan South Asian countries, and based on it analyzes trans-boundary water disputes.

This book covers several dimensions of disaster studies as an emerging discipline.

Since 2012, industrial overcapacity has become an increasingly serious problem in China, against the backdrop of domestic economic slowdown and continued downturn in international markets.

'The editor has grouped the 15 substantive chapters into one of four themes: order, leadership, institutions, and prospects and perspectives.

In the past 30 years or so, reform and opening-up are the two major themes for China's economic and social development.

During the past three decades, health care systems in the East Asian regions of China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have undergone major changes.

The scope of this book is to map China's city clusters and their individual directions for the national-level strategies in line with the 2060 carbon neutrality plan.

This book establishes theories and methods of climate change economics based on the perspective of human development.

Climate change is one of the most serious global challenges facing humankind.

This book offers a much-needed critical overview of the concept of social justice and its application in professional social work practice.

This book offers a new perspective about the Gulf Arab states entering a post-oil era by looking at the political factors behind the green transformation.

This book presents the background and context of an urban health issue, research findings, and recommendations for policy/decision-makers and action-takers.

This book approaches environmental, climate, and social justice comprehensively and interlinked.

This book defines Russophobia as the irrational fear of Russia, a key theme in the study of propaganda in the West as Russia has throughout history been assigned a diametrically opposite identity as the "e;Other.

Climate change is one of the most serious global challenges facing humankind.

This book explores the nature of marine conservation based on the case study of Hinase, a fishing village in Okayama, Japan.

This book establishes theories and methods of climate change economics based on the perspective of human development.

This book provides a focused and comprehensive overview of the status of children across society, with special reference to emerging features and measures of child safety, welfare, and overall well-being.

This book explores the Arctic as a rapidly evolving phenomenon in international affairs of a rising number of stakeholders.

This book offers fresh critical insights to the field of media convergence with a particular focus on the mainstream media of China.

This book records the press release of  Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China in 2020.

This book Food in a Planetary Emergency is a timely overview of the current food systems and the required transformations to respond to the challenges of climate change, population pressures, biodiversity loss and use of natural resources, such as soils, water and phosphorus.

This book provides a systematic collection of EU actors, EU policy and EU actions in global health.

This book brings together a collection of chapters that investigate sustainable tourism development in different Asian contexts; from stakeholders' perspectives, existing issues in the market, as well as the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism.

This edited volume presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Business, Economics, Management, and Sustainability (BEMAS), organized by the Centre for International Trade and Business in Asia (CITBA) at James Cook University.

The book is a study of the cooperation of Brazil and India on renewable energy.

This book is an essential guide on surrogacy, discussing various legal issues that arise in surrogacy cases.

Climate change is a huge challenge to humanity in the 21th century.

This book investigates institutional dimensions of urban water supply in India, with a specific focus on institutional capabilities to provide drinking water to urban households in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner.

This book translates the latest theoretical perspectives on the emerging field of Planetary Health Studies into the practical reality of global political decision makers.

This book examines an important socio-political challenge to the ruling party regime in Vietnam.

This volume analyses the process and structure of ecotaxes in India to bring forth its rationale, application and incidence on emerging environmental problems on the backdrop of the environmental issues confronted by the Indian economy.

Japan was ahead of the rest of the world when it introduced intermediate processing of municipal waste by such means as incineration in the 1960s.

This book contributes to the theoretical and practitioner literature in environmental governance and sustainability of natural resources by linking case studies of the roles of narratives to the three key practices in local environmental governance: socio-political legitimacy in participation; collaboratively creating stakeholder-ness, and cultivating social and ecological capabilities.

This book examines the use of violence by children and young people in family settings and proposes specialised and age-appropriate responses to these children and young people It interrogates the adequacy and effectiveness of current service and justice system responses, including analysis of police, court and specialist service responses.

This book speaks to the meanings and values that inhere in close relations, focusing on 'family' and 'kinship' but also looking beyond these categories.

This book explores how climate change and disaster risks threaten human security in Asia.

The primary aim of this reference volume is to provide an accessible and comprehensive review of current methods used to address resource evaluation and environmental as well as climate issues, and in a manner easily understood by decision-makers and the non-economists interested in environmental policy matters.

This book provides perspectives on depopulated areas and regional social capital from positivistic field surveys.