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This multidisciplinary book examines the diverse ways in which environmental disasters with compounding impacts are being governed as they traverse sovereign territories across rapidly urbanising societies in Asia and the Pacific.

The book explores eleven debates held at the Bahraini Council of Representatives (or the Parliament) over 2007-2010 to comprehend how parliamentary discourse contributes towards identity formation within Bahraini society.

Asia and the Pacific has a significant rise in migration: about one in three migrants comes from Asia according to the United Nations.

This book discusses the connotation and function of social governance and elaborates on social governance thought in classical Marxism, Mao Zedong's social governance thought, and social governance thought in socialism with Chinese characteristics, especially in Xi Jinping's New Era.

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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 focuses on global economic governance covering the following five areas: the theoretical and historical evolution of global economic governance, international financial governance, international trade and investment governance, global climate change and sustainable development governance, and international macroeconomic policy coordination.

This book is about how coast guards are becoming states' foremost tool to manage changes occurring in ocean politics generally, and in the Arctic specifically.

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

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This book examines three vital issues in urbanization and democratization: the institutional structures and processes of urban local governance to improve access to urban services; their outcomes in relation to low-income groups' access to services, citizen participation in local governance, accountability of local leaders and officials, and transparency in local governance; and the factors that influence access to urban services, especially for the poor and marginalized groups.

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

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

The book analyzes recent changes to the identities and cultures of the GCC countries.

This book evaluates the record of the Left in Brazil and Venezuela, two key cases of the "e;pink tide"e; wave.

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

This book presents a study of how urban residency in China is regulated by state policy in the second decade of the 21st Century.

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.

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

The book discusses the issue of autonomy in India's federal system and its precision and focused nature.

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 book explains how recognition theory contributes to non-colonial and enduring political relationships between Indigenous nations and the state.

This book is a compilation of the policy briefs produced by the International Science Council's program on Urban Health and Wellbeing: A Systems Approach over the past five years.

This book adopts the methods of field investigation and case study, systematically summarizes the development course of Nanjiang County in Sichuan Province since China's reform and opening-up, and comprehensively sorts out its main experiences of promoting green development and rural governance.

Canaries in the Data Mine offers an account of the lived experiences and cultural expectations of young people growing up in digital environments increasingly owned by others and designed for profit.

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

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

Is it possible for mediation to strengthen the effectiveness of international commercial arbitration?

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

This book tries to understand the lessons we ought to learn from the Covid-19 crisis as well as the profound transformations this pandemic will bring to the world order.

This handbook discusses different countries' bureaucratic, institutional, constitutional, reforms and governance system.

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

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

This book offers an introduction to various models and methods for green supplier evaluation and selection (GSES) within different information settings.

This book examines interactions and discusses intersectionality between public international law and private international law.

This book is the first book to comprehensively and deeply explain and construct the legal system of Chinese art auctions.

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

This book discusses the diversity and resilience in a hybrid regime where civil society organisations are either provided with complex sets of opportunities or face severe constraints.

This book explains the causes, process, and results of group disputes in urban communities (the empirical experiences from Shanghai) in China.

This book studies the three most important Chinese foreign policy concepts under Xi Jinping's leadership - "e;New Type of Great Power Relations"e;, "e;Belt and Road Initiative"e; and "e;Community of Shared Future for Mankind"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 volume discusses a range of key domestic forces driving the current Chinese growth ranging from economic reforms to governance practices to analyze their impact and influence at home as well as on China's foreign and security policies in its near and extended neighbourhood.

 The book considers the challenge of poverty and deterioration of the ecological environment in China, particularly in rural areas.

This book explores how China's political system responds to crisis.

This book focuses squarely on the problem of saving local government in the context of extraordinary financial challenges being faced across the globe.

This book aims to provide insight into how Southeast Asian countries have responded to disasters, recovered, and rebuilt.

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

This book provides an all-round analysis and exploration of the course, status quo and future of the Chinese Government's governance reform under the framework of government governance modernization.