Sociology and anthropology

This book assesses the capacity of the rural populace in terms of their ability to perceive a change in climatic variables and, if so, how they react to these changes in order to minimize the adverse effect of climate change.

This book presents and theorises research findings into why and how school principals play a critical role in engaging parents and their school communities to enhance student learning and wellbeing.

This edited volume approaches the life experiences and well-being of Japanese people from an empirical perspective.

This book offers a critical review of contemporary literature on the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations.

This book is the first on the history of Chinese public relations, and has been selected as one of the "e;40 representative books for 40 years of public relations in China"e; by the Public Relations Society of China.

This book provides a key to understanding why there was an increase in extra-marital fertility in Japan from the 1990s to the 2010s, particularly between 1995 and 2015, and the factors which contribute to the multistratification of unmarried mothers, the number of which has increased ensuingly.

This book provides a framework of protest handling which redirects our attention away from the strength of protesters and towards the constraints of state power, drawing on detailed case studies randomly collected in 7 provinces in China over the last decade.

This book explores how concepts and values of contemporary democracy are variously understood and applied in diverse cultural contexts, with a focus on children and childhood and diversity.

The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

This book explores gendered perceptions of the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh, and the extent to which these perceptions are affected by extreme weather events (specifically, cyclones Aila and Sidr).

This book underscores the role of belief and knowledge that are outside the canons of science, as they are not often considered within the core functions of a university.

This book describes and clarifies how certain problems can be resolved in Japan and Asia.

This book discusses the findings of research on the human dimensions of wildlife management conducted in Japan, demonstrating how such research and approaches have contributed to mitigating human-wildlife conflicts.

This book focuses on the future of the global population and proposes revising Malthus' Law.

This book introduces readers to advanced statistical methods for analyzing survival data involving correlated endpoints.

This book interprets and explains contemporary population issues from historical and cultural perspectives.

The book addresses issues related to the education of ethnic minority individuals in the multilingual Asian region.

This book represents a synthesis of research findings on energy in remote rural areas in East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia, demarcating a localised understanding of electricity issues that are relevant to similar community profiles in other developing countries, which are facing similar challenges.

This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

This book provides a systematic framework for interpreting the fertility decline in Japan.

Through this book, readers will gain a comprehensive overview of transdisciplinary knowledge co-production in local contexts as an issue-driven and solution-oriented process, and will come to understand its relationship to societal transformation processes toward sustainability.

This book examines the characteristics of sustainable remote health workforces and how management practices influence workforce sustainability in remote regions.

This book highlights recent education research on Japan based on sociological and other related approaches to historical developments and accomplishments.

This book investigates the professional needs and training requirements of an ever-changing public service workforce in Australia and the United Kingdom.

The book examines the extent to which the sustained population growth of Australia's heartland regional centres has come at the expense of demographic decline in their own hinterlands, and, ultimately, of their entire regions.

This book examines the forced displacement of public housing residents in Sydney's Millers Point and The Rocks communities.

This book provides a framework to understand the disregarded aspect of emerging market growth which is informal employment.

This book is an exploration of the people analytics possibility, bringing out both theoretical frameworks and detailed practical case studies from the author's experience in industry and business across both sides of the table, with an understanding of data science models and SMAC (Social, Mobile & Cloud) technologies underpinning it.

This volume examines how urban stakeholders in China - particularly city governments and social actors - tackle China's urban environmental crisis.

This book analyses a collection of key strategic human resource management (HRM) and employment relations (ER) topics.

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 uses an Australian case study to shine a much-needed spotlight on discretionary police powers to punish, and their implications for justice and human rights.

This book explores and interprets discourses and practices in school admissions to public lower secondary education in urban China by utilizing a discourse analysis approach and a case study method.

This book highlights the relationship between the water sector and various other sectors in order to establish an improved understanding of the importance of water resources as an essential cross-cutting vector of socio-economic development.

The book embarks on the tasks to systematically analyze the macro background of the spatial patterns of China's urban development, the theoretical foundations and framework, and its changing trajectory.

This book argues that the ancient allodial principle enables a paradigmatic shift in the way specialist educators in environmental, Indigenous, and legal studies; teacher educators; and teachers think about land and water education.

The intention behind this book is to illustrate the deep relation among human behavior, data-centric science, and social design.

This book introduces readers to copula-based statistical methods for analyzing survival data involving dependent censoring.

This book highlights what are likely to be the future megatrends in the water sector and why and how they should be incorporated to improve water governance in the coming decades.

This book introduces academic researchers and professionals to the basic concepts and methods for characterizing interdependencies of multiple time series in the frequency domain.

This book studies young people's use of psychoactive drugs and its social and psychological correlates in Hong Kong.

This book is the first to cover the research of whole aspects of international mobility to and from Taiwan of both skilled and unskilled workers.

This book explores the concept of school belonging in adolescents from a socio-ecological perspective, acknowledging that young people are uniquely connected to a broad network of groups and systems within a school system.

This book focuses on the health impacts of air pollution in China, especially the epidemiology-based exposure-response functions for the mortality, morbidity, and hospital admissions for respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer, and mental health related to pollution.

This is the first book to provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction to a newly developed smoothing technique using asymmetric kernel functions.

This book describes the current environmental changes due to global warming in northern Eurasia, especially focusing on eastern Siberia.

This book provides insights into the enormous impact of fetal and newborn loss in the aftermath of the natural disasters that Japanese society constantly has to face.

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