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As a legacy of the socialist state with central planning, Five-Year Planning (FYP) is very important in regulating socio-economic and spatial development even in post-reform China.

This book explores the leading role that cities can play in shaping progressive policies in collaboration with various stakeholders.

This book is the eighth volume in a series entitled "e;Contemporary Logistics in China,"e; authored by researchers from the Logistics Research Center at Nankai University.

This book delivers timely research on the various interfaces of family and work, and their impacts on individual wellbeing in East and Southeast Asia.

This book examines the nuances of the relationship between development and environmental conservation policy in India over the last three decades.

This book examines the nuances of the relationship between development and environmental conservation policy in India over the last three decades.

Sustainable and Emerging Energy Technology: Challenges, Opportunities, and Perspectives presents advanced technologies and research results in theoretical, experimental, and practical sustainable and emerging energy engineering.

Contentious geopolitical conflicts over digital technologies have arisen around a complex set of technical specifications at the Internet’s core.

This book analyses the failure factors of democratic experiences in Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the Republic of Sudan.

This book presents a series of interconnected studies designed to understand systemic corruption in local governments.

This book describes the transition from basic automation to pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, and the Internet of Things, and its effects on democratic decision-making and governance in Europe.

This book updates the policy and practice developments affecting youth services since the publication in 2019 of Austerity, Youth Policy and the Deconstruction of the Youth Service in England.

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This book explores how China's media narrate climate policy and climate change.

This book presents a series of interconnected studies designed to understand systemic corruption in local governments.

This book focuses on the frontier issues in climate finance and aims to develop a general framework to understand the financial pathways towards a successful energy transition.

Deep-sea mining is currently in a critical phase wherein, detailed resource estimation has led to identification of potentially rich areas on the seafloor that can be mined, as well as testing of pre-prototype seabed mining machines and establishment of pilot plants for processing of deep-sea minerals is underway.

This book states that the new environmental challenge will also have to be faced ethically, science can provide the tools, but people will have to be sensitized so that they make their own environmental ethics.

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This book constructs the theoretical framework based on a range of prominent social theories to address how juvenile delinquency is socioeconomically constructed.

"e;Because the development of the carbon economy has always been closely bound up with the deepening of human inequalities, movements seeking climate justice need to unravel a tangle of social injustices at all scales.

In today's rapidly evolving political landscape, the intersection of democracy, leadership, and governance with artificial intelligence (AI) has become a focal point for academic inquiry and practical explorations.

As Trump rises from adversity, his supporters rally with newfound fervor, ready to ignite the flames of victory once more.

This book examines the critical role of communication in advancing knowledge and participation in the governance of global public goods (GPG).

In today's rapidly evolving political landscape, the intersection of democracy, leadership, and governance with artificial intelligence (AI) has become a focal point for academic inquiry and practical explorations.

This volume explores the family formation and life course of Polish people in Ireland, who make up the largest immigrant group in Ireland.

This book explores the independence of official statistics and describes the various legal and professional norms, institutional arrangements, instruments and practices that statisticians have developed over recent decades to protect their work from political interference.

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The book offers an in-depth analysis of how ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) is portrayed in the Chinese media, focusing on the multifaceted dynamics of economic cooperation, regional connectivity, cultural exchange, and non-traditional security governance.

This book describes how modern industry affected people in Japan and their communities by polluting their living environment with toxic emissions.

This book delves into the intricate interplay between climate change and the dynamic shifts in global power structures, focusing on the expanded BRICS.

The book provides various EdgeAI concepts related to its architecture, key performance indicators, and enabling technologies after introducing algorithmic government, large-scale decision-making, and computing issues in the cloud and fog.

In an era where economic progress and environmental sustainability must go hand in hand, this book offers an essential exploration of how renewable energy can drive both growth and sustainability.

The book provides various EdgeAI concepts related to its architecture, key performance indicators, and enabling technologies after introducing algorithmic government, large-scale decision-making, and computing issues in the cloud and fog.

This book is a pioneering multi-disciplinary analytical study of Caribbean political corruption grounded in Caribbean epistemology, challenging universalist perceptions generated outside the region which take no account of historical and cultural elativity.

This compact book celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child, a critical document that has shaped the relationship of adults with children worldwide.

This book examines the critical role of communication in advancing knowledge and participation in the governance of global public goods (GPG).

'We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism.

Martin Bell has stood in war zones as both a soldier and a journalist.

This academic book critically examines the concept of sustainable futures and its interdependence with the policy framework of Green New Deals.

This book examines the extent to which the regulatory design of the emissions permit system in China, taking into account the EU's regulatory experience with integration and from the perspective of the specific Chinese situation, provides opportunities for or hinders the implementation of integrated pollution prevention and control.

Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further.

This proposed book aims to present an analysis of several crisis issues induced by global climate changes and implications at the micro-level, particularly from the perspective of ground-based study.

From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults Back in 2008, Mark Bauerlein was a voice crying in the wilderness.

Can a man be content with a piece of bread and some change tossed his way from a passerby?

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This book examines the role and nature of the judiciary in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the first comprehensive study since the country's independence in 1975.

The book focuses on environmental monitoring, pollution discharge control and management, environmental pollution governance, ecological remediation technology, and environmental sustainability.