Regional, state and other local government

This book focuses on the global issue of ethnic problems and examines the theory and practice of how China addresses its ethnic problems from a macro perspective, following the guidelines formulated by the working conference on ethnic affairs of the Central Committee of Chinese Communist Party in 2014.

The ten countries in the ASEAN region account for approximately 5% of world gross domestic product and 8% of world population and represent the most diverse group of nations in terms of the level of prosperity, political system, culture, language, and history.

This book looks at open data practices historically and from the perspective of those currently involved in advocating for making government data freely available.

This book explores the decline and growth of the private rental sector in Australia delving into the changing dynamics of landlord investment and tenant profile over the course of the twentieth century and into the present period.

This book provides readers with fresh new theoretical tools to better understand how sociopolitical actors (from governmental institutions to ecological NGOs; from local residents to multinational companies) clash about transport initiatives.

This book explores why, after forty years of funded policies of social inclusion, persons living with an intellectual disability are still separated from the social fabric of neoliberal societies.

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 discusses contemporary China's land use policy - the Link Policy - which calls for land consolidation and rural resettlement to achieve the goal of preserving farmland while also providing more space for urban development.

This book first presents an overview of the history of a national character survey by the Institute of Statistical Mathematics that has been conducted for more than 65 years.

This book examines the changing nature of opposition to bidding for and hosting the Olympic Games in contemporary American cities.

This book looks at the historical and contemporary impact of minority immigrant and ethnic communities on the built and social environment in Australian cities, rural and regional areas.

The book discusses the socio-cultural-historical, occupational, educational, employment and discriminatory status of one of the most neglected and marginalised communities: the de-notified tribes or ex-criminal tribes of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

This book of the conference proceedings focuses on innovative design, technology and methods in the fields of building, civil engineering and smart city.

The discourse on migration outcomes in the West has largely been dominated by issues of integration, but it is more relevant to view immigration in non-Western societies in relation to practices of exclusion and inclusion.

This book provides rare insight into how real children/adolescents' lives unfold as a result of health inequity.

This book provides an overview of the ongoing transition in China's health system, especially focusing on the new healthcare reform initiated in 2009.

This book captures the evolution of consumerism in the human services.

This book focuses on spatial planning of megacities that are growing in Asia, Africa, and America.

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

This book introduces the "e;Belt and Road"e; in its entirety, including what it is, what it aims to do, what it can do and how.

This book introduces a ten-year-long design research project in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), China, based on international cooperation studios, design workshops, a Ph.

This book comprehensively analyzes COVID-19 and its impact as well as the response from the perspectives of humanities and social sciences.

This book discusses imaginary future generations and how current decision-making will influence those future generations.

This book addresses sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women from an international law point of view.

This book takes an in-depth look at China's national economic development strategy promulgated by the CPC at its Nineteenth National Congress, held in October 2019, from a historical and scientific perspective.

The globally distributed health impacts of environmental degradation and widening inequalities require a fundamental shift in understandings of healthy urbanism.

This book chiefly focuses on urban traffic, an area supported by massive amounts of data.

This book explores the public acceptability of congestion pricing in the Chinese context.

This collection of essays covers a diverse set of topics related to household behavior and welfare.

This book explores dominance in Australia's medical culture through the positioning of international medical graduates (IMGs).

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This book examines how institutional and environmental features in neighbourhoods can contribute to social resilience, highlighting the related socio-demographic issues, as well as the infrastructure, planning, design and policies issues.

This book compares the Chinese and Russian dreams, focusing on eight aspects: prosperity, affluence, family harmony, fairness and justice, diversity, green beauty, honesty and uprightness, and happiness.

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 discusses how to measure the level of development of an economy, particularly, the task of ranking economies in terms of their development.

This book focuses on the relationship between urban land redevelopment and traffic systems and discusses the related research.

This book discusses social innovations by cooperatives from the Asia and Pacific region.

The book deals with technological governance of cyberspace and threat landscape, with a special focus on the Indian context.

This book critically surveys a decade of disasters in Otautahi Christchurch.

This book clarifies the misconceptions and misinterpretations of the Chinese Path through historical and market logic.

This book traces the history of urbanization in China and discusses major problems and challenges the country is facing as it undergoes a profound social transformation.

The 2030 agenda for development, or what is known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is the most ambitious agenda collectively agreed upon by 193 countries in human history.

This book is a compilation of diverse, yet homogenic, research papers that discuss current advances in Earth Observation and Geospatial Information Technologies to tackle new horizons concerning the digitization and information management in smart cities' infrastructures.

The 2030 agenda for development, or what is known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is perhaps the most ambitious agenda collectively agreed upon by 193 countries in human history.

Singapore is the world's second-fastest ageing society and will become a super- aged society by 2030.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolving field of international planning studies.

This book uses the reflection of academics specialized in the urban area of ?

South Africa is widely recognised as a middle-income, industrialised nation, but it also ranks amongst the most unequal countries in the world in terms of its income distribution and human development.

The collective biography of the only generation of economists who lived their entire professional life in GDR''s socialism.