Sociology and anthropology

This book aims to present implications for China's urban development through international comparison of urbanization process from the perspective of spatio-temporal pattern, driving factors, rural-urban interactions, development trends and economic-ecological-social synergic development.

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

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 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.

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

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 vividly shows the fostering environment, activity characteristics, distribution pattern, economic losses, casualties, disaster risks and management of earthquakes, mass movement, drought, floods, and marine disasters in the Silk Road region.

This book presents an alternative approach to studying smartphone-app user notifications.

The core of this book is the concept of huodegan (?

This book explores the notion of interculturality in education and supports scholars in their discovery of the notion.

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

This book proposes some insights and ideas into how education might be humanized.

This book examines today's central and yet often misunderstood and misconstrued notion of interculturality.

This book draws on theories of aesthetics, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism to explore salient aspects of perpetuating traditional dance customs in diaspora.

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 is the first book to clarify the relationships between multi-functions of urban agriculture, creative classes, and social business in China and Japan.

This book presents a comprehensive discussion of sociocultural perspectives on graduate employability and workplace-based learning development.

This book addresses the life quality of the average adult in the world, based on international data weighted according to national population size.

This book represents the latest research on urban forestry in a Malaysian context.

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 explores various practices and policies related to ageing issues in India.

This book focuses on the relationship between cultural capital and student achievement.

This multi-disciplinary book presents the most recent advances in exergy, energy, and environmental issues.

This book extends a previously published model of social evolution by using macroeconomic measures to indicate both the current state of the society, and its evolutionary trajectory.

This book focuses on crisis management in software development which includes forecasting, responding and adaptive engineering models, methods, patterns and practices.

This book presents a series of studies focusing on the role of social capital in the labor market and beyond.

This book focuses on the links between family, education, and employment systems in the Asian developed economies, proposing that these three systems and their interrelations are powerful factors causing the low fertility in Asia.

This book explores how and why civility contributes to a vibrant democratic society, and how it can be fostered and cultivated as a key part of democratic education.

This book explores Bangladesh's shift from a 'bottomless pit' into a 'middle-income' category.

This book is about becoming touched and moved by Karen Barad's agential realism.

This book successfully represents the indispensable interdisciplinarity of viewpoints by its authors combining legal perspectives with architectural and anthropological approaches.

This book conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India, at national and sub-national levels.

This edited book brings together teachers and education academics who are committed to education about, for and through democracy.

This book presents an extensive analysis of the multifaceted benefits that higher education in the humanities offers individuals and society, as explored in the context of Hong Kong.

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.

This book presents a sociocultural account of logic, or a pedagogy, that governs Cambodian education, from policy-making to classroom practices.

This book examines the contribution of Vocational Education and Training to advancing human development and reducing inequality.

This book offers a comprehensive report on a three-year, cross-cultural, critical participatory action research study, conducted in children's homes and communities in Fiji.

This book focuses on a single artefact, the Barochan Cross, a ninth century stone sculpture in Renfrewshire, Scotland.

This book is a stepping stone toward solving public sector human capital challenges in Zimbabwe as it equips human capital managers with solutions to key issues in the public sector.

This book analyses and compares the development paths of five major cities in East and Southeast Asia since the early 1960s, including Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Manila, Seoul, and Shanghai.

This book seeks to unravel the changes in rural governance sparked by state-led programs, evaluate the programs' implementation, and refine the interpretation of governance theory with new empirical material from rural China.

This book is about generating types of societies by the degree of individuals' satisfaction with life domains, aspects, and styles via factor analysis.

This book applies the Total Human Ecosystem as a guiding concept in coastal urban communities to achieve a mutually beneficial relationship between industrial parks and their surrounding wetlands.

This book focuses on the disruption of the tertiary higher education system as a result of societal changes occasioned by the Fourth Industrial Revolution and hastened by COVID-19.

This book introduces Catholic social teaching (CST) and its teaching on the common good to the reader and applies them in the realm of public health to critically analyze the major global issues of COVID-19 that undermine public interest.

This book draws attention to the nonlegal, sociocultural aspects of justice for minorities in China.

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