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This book examines the design of two care pathways to establish how key principles associated with systems thinking, quality improvement, and supply chain management can improve the design of these services.

This book presents a creative synthesis of two ostensibly disparate fields of law - arbitration and human rights.

This book provides a critical examination of contemporary approaches to environmental regulation in the UK and the European Union.

This book provides a critical analysis of mainstreaming as one of the major contemporary trends in immigrant integration governance in Europe.

The book provides a comprehensive review of renewable energy from an economic perspective throughout the last two hundred years, starting from traditional renewable energy based on bio and hydro energy.

This book assesses how governance has evolved in six nations - England, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands - between 1970 and 2018.

The book explores the organization, conduct and supervision of elections in emerging democracies.

This book, uncovers the lived experiences of street-frequenting young people in Fiji.

This book is part of a broader attempt to decolonize colonial histories and understandings about Indigenous peoples and their relationships with their territories, and argues that the land ethos of "e;being part of the land,"e; specifically among the Mayan community of Xuilub (Yucatan), Mexico, is guided by the cultural precept of 'responsibility-based' thinking.

This book provides an analysis of the urban government system in Bangladesh, focusing on its upper tier, the City Corporation (CC), and the institutional and legal frameworks within which it operates.

This book sheds new light on the complex EU-Russia relationship, by providing the first comprehensive account of the EU-Russia Energy Dialogue.

This book presents high-quality original contributions on the fashion supply chain.

This book provides an in-depth narrative of the difficulties facing Territorial Self-Government institutions across Northern Ireland, Bosnia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, and Iraq.

This book systematically examines various factors that shape graduates' entry into media work, which include the state and its policies, industrial and organizational practices and cultures, and media education.

This book contributes to the discourse on post-colonial and globalization theories, focusing on Nigeria's transition to a federal system of government.

The common roots of success and failure in economic growth and development lie in the systemic governance and fragmentation of institutional complementarities, respectively, but not in the unilateral adaptation of market-led or state-led models.

If you ever wondered who becomes an American ambassador and why, this is the book for you.

This book will serve as a ready reckoner of contemporary information regarding municipal solid waste landfill biomining, treatment of landfill leachate and heavy metals in a single platform.

This book considers the environmental policies that the EU employs outside its borders.

This book re-conceptualizes energy justice as a unifying agenda for scholars and practitioners working on the issues faced in the trilemna of energy security, poverty and climate change.

The book focuses on the changes that the media system in Turkey went through since early 2000s.

This book seeks to understand why almost all commentators on the Irish economy were unprepared for the scale of the recent economic crisis.

This book examines the contemporary relevance of the concept of the core executive across a range of constitutional contexts, covering examples from Westminster system, continental Europe, and Scandinavia.

This book argues that a set of persuasive narratives about the links between natural resource, armed conflict and peacebuilding have strongly influenced the natural resource interventions pursued by international peacebuilders.

This volume explores how the process of European integration has influenced collective memory in the countries of the Western Balkans.

Honorable Mention: 2022 Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies (ASEEES)This book examines Ukrainian state gender politics and investigates how gendered subject positions and policy discourses are constructed within and through social policies.

This book introduces Cyber Justice as a viable approach for promoting good governance based on human rights norms in the internet.

This book assesses Afghanistan's transit trade with Pakistan in the context of WTO transit regime for landlocked countries and its impacts on Members' regional transit agreements.

This handbook provides an empirically rich analysis of referendums in Europe from the end of the Second World War to the present.

In this book, climate change and digital transformation are explored as key strategic drivers for the contemporary practices of water utility companies.

By merging public and private tangible and intangible capitals, Public Private Partnerships contracts (PPP) are fundamental to generate public value and to support economic and social development; in the aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic, they prove critical to pave the way for the recovery.

This book maintains that the theory of imperialism should incorporate the concept of an "e;operational code"e; of political elites to account for agencies' actions.

This book explains the increasing demand for evaluation as a result of the increasing frequency of reforms to local services, influenced by the New Public Management doctrine, the severe austerity policy in many European countries, and the wish to increase quality and reduce costs of public services, especially at the local (sub-national) level.

This interdisciplinary book challenges current approaches to "e;environmental problems"e; that perpetuate flawed but deeply embedded cultural beliefs about the role of science and technology in society.

This volume offers new, convincing empirical evidence on topical risk- and risk management-related issues in diverse settings, using an interdisciplinary approach.

The transformation of the dominant model of centralized energy production from fossil fuels to renewable energies is at the center of the public and scientific debate, as well as the subject of national and European policies, as it is connected to highly topical issues such as climate change, emissions reduction and natural disasters, security of supply and sustainability of the current economic development model.

This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs-innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coalesce to shift policies and markets toward green planning and building practices.

This book analyses Nicaragua's role in the development of international law, through its participation in cases that have come before the International Court of Justice.

This book challenges the common perception or assumption that greater state intervention and re-centralization will result in convergence towards a more equitable and inclusive growth model in China.

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This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the public policy and management issues that are encountered in the regulation of infrastructure and utilities.

This edited volume examines policies aimed at increasing the representation of women in governing institutions in six South Asian countries.

This book provides key insights into the nature of officer-recipient relationships and shows how they have non-negligible impacts on the way recipients feel and think about themselves and their lives using mixed methods and subjective and psychosocial well-being approaches.

This book is a study of religious principles of good governance in our contemporary societies.

This handbook offers a critical assessment of the African agenda for conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challenges and opportunities facing Africa's regional organisations in their efforts towards building sustainable peace on the continent; and the role of external actors, including the United Nations, Britain, France, and South Asian troop-contributing countries.

Critically synthesising a range of disparate literatures and debates, this book asks what is at stake in mounting a decisive response to the 'socio-ecological crisis' - a crisis of humanity's relationship with the rest of nature that places social life as we know it in jeopardy.

This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa.

Forecasts of the death of democracy are often heard and the United Kingdom is on the death watch list.

This book traces the evolution of the constitutional order, explaining Donald Trump's election as a symptom of a degraded democratic-capitalist system.

This book, based on field research in the West African country of The Gambia, explores how domestic gun control is shaped by international efforts and how local actors interact with international organizations or opt not to do so.