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This book presents an in-depth analysis of the environmental issues raised in the South China Sea Arbitration Awards, which have not attracted as much attention in the Philippines as the "e;nine-dash line"e;.

This pivot introduces the Arctic Council and its role as a platform for dealing with local, national, regional and global challenges of relevance to the "e;new"e; Arctic.

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.

This book examines resolution of the disputes between both sides of Belt and Road economic cooperation.

This book includes original and ground breaking research into parliamentary law making and legislative responses to counter-terrorism in Australia.

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

This book provides an in-depth analysis of groundwater uses and environmental issues in the Mekong Delta.

This book is committed to provide a holistic view of corruption in the public construction sector, a sector that has been perceived as the most corrupt in the world.

This book explores a range of plausible futures for environmental law in the new era of the Earth's history: the Anthropocene.

This volume explores the governing mechanism employed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the light of state capacity building.

The book discusses the concepts of E-Governance from the understanding of a naive user.

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 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 Key Code and Handbook examines the corporate governance and accountability of Major Banks, their directors and executives which were the central focus of bank, Supervisor, Regulator and governmental activity and public scrutiny in 2018 and 2019.

This book explains in depth the issues and challenges faced by rice farmers in India in relation to production and productivity, and the possible adaptation strategies to climate change.

This book examines the effectiveness of trade and non-trade policies to combat the menace of child labour.

This book presents the spatial and temporal dynamics of land use and land cover in the central Tibetan Plateau during the last two decades, based on various types of satellite data, long-term field investigation and GIS techniques.

In terms of China's current situation, the prevention and control of land degradation and the development of innovative sustainable land management activities lie within the purview of public works.

This book introduces readers to the press release work carried out by China's Ministry of Environmental Protection in 2017.

The theme of this book is the cultural construction in Zhejiang Province under the guidance of "e;China Dream"e; policy.

This book explores the mediated aftermath and remembrance of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster through three crucibles: time, space and emotion.

This book explores significant aspects of the New Urban Agenda in the Asia-Pacific region, and presents, from different contexts and perspectives, innovative interventions afoot for transforming the governance of 21st-century cities in two key areas: (i) urban planning and policy; and (ii) service delivery and social inclusion.

This pivot considers how China deals with the globalization of its energy companies in the face of global efforts to combat climate change.

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

This book combines academic wisdom and practitioners' insights to critically examine the challenges faced by civil service systems in the 21st Century.

This book investigates how rapid socio-political-economic change in China since 1949 has affected intergenerational relationships and practices in rural areas, specifically the care provided to elderly parents by their adult children.

This book discusses how Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is practiced in developed and developing economies.

This book covers critical debates on policies, markets and emerging issues that shape renewable energy transition in the Asian region, which is fast becoming an epicenter of the global energy consumption.

This book presents a navigating framework of legal culture and legality to facilitate a comprehensive understanding of the English and Australian determination of the grounds of judicial review.

This book applies interactive perspectives, which have historically mainly been discussed in the context of Western European countries, to case studies on water governance in Asia.

This book applies interactive perspectives, which have historically mainly been discussed in the context of Western European countries, to case studies on water governance in Asia.

This monograph presents potential remedies for some of the current environmental issues in developed countries in a theoretical or empirical manner with the interdisciplinary approaches of economics, statistics, and engineering.

This book presents comprehensive information on a range of issues in connection with the Fair and Equitable Treatment (FET) standard, with a particular focus on arbitral awards against host developing countries, thereby contributing to the available literature in this area of international investment law.

This book analyzes how today's system of international trade law and international economic relations has evolved over the last six decades.

This book systematically introduces readers to the framework of China's ETS pilots, exploring their design and operating process, the current state of the carbon market, and various barriers encountered.

This book provides one of the most comprehensive and compelling analysis of Non-Market Economies (NMEs) and their treatment under the current world trading system.

This book analyses the origins of security dilemmas in the South China Sea (SCS) and the significance of China's actions in asserting its claim from the perspective of defensive realist theory.

This book uses case studies to discuss consumer awareness of and education on sustainable fashion.

This book highlights a number of social sustainability issues at different stages of the supply chain, and demonstrates how these issues can be addressed by adopting social sustainability practices in the manufacturing supply chain.

This volume is an attempt to contextualise the coup attempt of 15 July 2016 in Turkey, within the framework of militarism and masculinities.

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This book explores how rural children negotiate economic insecurity and difference.

This book figures out that network security and informatization have entered a development stage of greater permeation and deeper integration into all aspects of the economy and society.

This book addresses a broad range of problems commonly encountered in the fields of financial analysis, logistics and supply chain management, such as the use of big data analytics in the banking sector.

This book examines various ideational, attitudinal and intellectual impasses that are becoming glaringly apparent on several fronts, and which have held back India's balanced, steady and uniform development and transformation post-independence.

This book capitalizes on two hot topics: the Low Carbon Emission Development Strategies and climate change in Asian cities.

This edited collection examines seminal changes and major policy challenges in metropolitan governance in Asia and the Pacific Rim that are being faced by governments (national and sub-national) and their polities.

This edited volume examines key questions about evidence-informed policymaking in Indonesia.

This book explores the role of intellectuals and governance processes in post-authoritarian Indonesia.

Contemporary Issues in Mediation (CIIM) Volume 6 builds on the success of the past five volumes as testament to a growing interest of authors and readers in the wide variety of issues that arise with mediation.