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This handbook addresses a growing list of challenges faced by regions and cities in the Pacific Rim, drawing connections around the what, why, and how questions that are fundamental to sustainable development policies and planning practices.

The Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies offers a comprehensive survey of the new field of waste studies, critically interrogating the cultural, social, economic and political systems within which waste is created, managed and circulated.

Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events.

This book disseminates various long-term data and research results from university forests in Asia towards realizing adaptive forest management and conservation based on a comprehensive understanding of environmental changes and ecological responses.

This book analyses Pakistan's foreign policy and external relations with a focus on contemporary developments, including the impact of the new government of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the powerful military and the 'middle power' status.

This book examines the oceanic presence in life on Earth, and the ways that we engage with the oceanic worlds for play, pleasure, adventure and the pursuit of leisure and escape through tourism and travel.

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the Vietnamese way of education development, figuring out the pitfalls, challenges and opportunities of neoliberal reform. It will appeal to academics, educators, and educational policy-makers interested in Vietnamese studies, education governance, and the politics of education reforms.

This book examines the recycling infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, considering the circular flows of waste and practices through 'infracycles', maintenance practices that tinker with the social and capitalist order. It will be of interest to environmental anthropology, science & tech, urban studies, & SEA studies.

This book focuses on the presence and contemporaneity of Shirdi Sai Baba (d.1918), who has a vast following in postcolonial South Asia and an ever-growing global diaspora, contributing to South Asia / Anthropology / Religion / Global / Urban / Indian Ocean / Inter-Asian Studies / Visual/Media Studies and Cultural Geography.

This book analyses Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings' plans for radical democratisation in Ghana, involving ordinary people directly in the country's political and economic decision-making processes.

This book analyses the resolution of the psychic problem of diasporic existence from a postcolonial feminist perspective and will be of interest to researchers in diaspora studies, postcolonial feminist theory, postcolonial literature, feminist philosophy, interdisciplinary studies and Asian/South Asian Studies.

This book brings together scholars and practitioners for a unique inter-disciplinary exploration of justice and memory within Rwanda.

Gathering an interdisciplinary range of cutting-edge scholars, this book addresses legal constitutions of value.

Using the socio-political discourse of Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Ghana's independence leader, Nartey investigates the notion of political myth-making in a context underexplored in the literature.

This book illuminates entrepreneurship in the African setting, focusing on the prospects, challenges, and the post-Covid-19 pandemic future.

This timely book argues that the Global North's research methods and traditional assumptions are not valid to the media landscapes and audiences of the Global South. With South Africa as the focus, the authors offer a new understanding of media diversity along an audience-centred approach.

In this handbook, sixty authors, senior and junior educators and researchers from six continents, provide an overview of two hundred years of landscape architectural education. They tell the stories of schools and people, of visions, and of experiments that constitute landscape architecture education heritage.

Presidentialism and Democracy in East and Southeast Asia examines the impact of presidential systems on democracies and its contributions to presidentialism debates will be of interests to students and scholars of comparative politics while it also offers detailed analysis of the presidency in these East and Southeast Asian cases.

This book investigates transformations in Nigeria's booming communication industry. Robust in its theoretical and methodological underpinnings, this book will be an important reference for researchers of Media and Communication Studies, and those working on Africa specifically.

This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India and the socio-political and physio-climatological events and processes that impact its transformation. It examines key issues in urban geography through the study of the city, and outlines its physical, economic, social, political, and environmental aspects.

This handbook presents a timely, broad-ranging and provocative overview of the essential nature of ecotourism. The chapters will both advance the existing central themes of ecotourism and provide challenging and divergent observations that will thrust ecotourism into new areas of research, policy and practice.

This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food perspective, specifically in in two countries, Cambodia and Ghana. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of food security, agricultural development and economics, gender, human rights and sustainable development.

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of rural society in a post-Brexit UK by examining the emergence of new environmental and rural policies and the implications of this transition for rural communities.

This book reviews four decades of debate about restoring an industrial heritage site of inestimable value - the Venice Arsenal. It reveals how failing to address these aspects has undermined potential solutions from both technicians and heritage professionals.

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