Regional, state and other local government

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 considers that contextual factors are important for the achievement of social justice and it recognizes that vulnerability to which children are exposed is a phenomenon throughout the planet, particularly in the South.

This collection provides a comparative analysis of care arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia.

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 volume is a collection of essays that provide a comprehensive coverage of multiple aspects of the discourse on environment, development and sustainability.

There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere.

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.

This book analyses and discusses the multiple dimensions of social exclusion/inclusion seen in South Asia.

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.

This book explores three major changes in the circumstances of the migrant working class in south China over the past three decades, from historical and comparative perspectives.

This book is intended for researchers and postgraduates who are interested in the consensus reaching process in group decision-making problems.

Using fresh evidence and a novel methodological framework, this book sheds light on how institutions have driven economic reform in China's urban housing sector.

This book presents a sociological account on marital dissolution that engages and extends theorisations on individualisation and the contemporary organisation of personal relationships to discuss how the experience of divorce might not be all debilitating but on the contrary, could provide opportunities for productivity, self-responsibility and relationship formation.

This book details the primary concepts of Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA), integration of social aspects in product life cycles, quantification of social impacts in S-LCA, impact categorization in S-LCA, methodological aspects of S-LCA, and detailed case studies.

This book is the first systematic account of mega urban projects in China, covering their construction, operation and planning.

This book offers a new interpretation of the evolution and modernization of social order in China's grass-roots communities.

This book focuses on building regional resilience by comprehensively improving regional assets.

This book provides an insightful sociological study of the declining Japanese population, using statistical analysis to establish the significance of municipal power using demographic data on national, regional, prefectural and municipal levels.

This is the first book to describe the entire developmental history of the human aspects of economics.

This book highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities.

This edited volume serves as the second instalment of a two-part title that aims to provide an academic exploration of the contemporary issues and perspectives on tourism in the Philippines.

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

This book considers that contextual factors are important for the achievement of social justice and it recognizes that vulnerability to which children are exposed is a phenomenon throughout the planet, particularly in the South.

This book analyzes housing policy in terms of the quality of housing, theoretically and empirically.

This edited book empirically discusses stratification in contemporary Japanese society.

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

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 the issues of inequality and marginalization in India.

This book is the first attempt to explore the use and application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related smart technologies in cities and for the sole purpose of reaching positive peace.

This book presents new research on gender-based violence in Southeast Asia, bringing together varied scholarly work in law, policy, and practice.

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

This book analyses how public toilets were provided by the government and local business in Hong Kong between the 1860s and 1930s through a process that was embedded in class and racial politics.

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

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

This book presents perspectives by eminent economists, social scientists and policy makers, exploring in depth the post-reform developments in India, including issues pertaining to growth and equity, issues which have been at the core of life-time work of Prof.

This book presents the welfare regime of societies of Chinese heritage as a liminal space where religious and state authorities compete with each other for legitimacy.

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.

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

This book examines critically how the Chinese government has proactively engaged the nine cities and two special administrative regions in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) in Southern China for deeper collaborations in order to transform the country from the "e;World Factory"e; to become a leading world economy in innovation and entrepreneurialism.

This book confronts issues relating to climate change and sustainable development innovations in Asia, with attention to key issues and applications in terms of advocacy, governance, citizen science, tradition, faith, leadership, and education.

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

This book presents the welfare regime of China as a liminal space where religious and state authorities struggle for legitimacy as new social forces emerge.

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

This book presents the future development of Malaysia.

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

This volume introduces readers to the achievements made in the context of China's reform and opening up.

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This book analyzes housing policy in terms of the quality of housing, theoretically and empirically.

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