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This book examines environmental issues through the lens of security studies and presents a comprehensive analysis of Indian policy in dealing with threats posed by climate change.

This book is designed to be of interest to many different audiences due to its cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary content. It will appeal to those within architectural higher education as well as to spatial practitioners, students, civic and governmental organizations engaged in socio-spatial projects.

This is the first in-depth and analytical biography of an Asian woman scientist - Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal (1897-1984). Using a wide range of archival sources, it presents a dazzling portrait of the twentieth century through the eyes of a pioneering Indian woman scientist.

This book provides an analysis of the impact of the climate crisis on corporate law and theory in the coming decades as the world seeks to meet the target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. It will be of interest to students and researchers in the field of climate and environmental law, as well as corporate law and theory.

This book argues that urban outcomes are better understood as the result of the interactions between policies from distinct policy domains rather than from any single policy silo. In doing so, the Policy Interactions Framework is developed and applied to the study of the mobility experience of workers in Greater Mexico City.

This book explores and examines human trafficking in Eastern Mindanao in the Philippines, and the social conditions which facilitate and maintain this exploitation. This book will appeal to students and scholars researching and studying in the fields of social and cultural anthropology and Southeast Asian studies.

Featuring up-to-date and insightful analyses and comparative case studies from a plethora of countries, this timely book explores 'ideal' socialist cities and their transformation under new socio-economic and political conditions after the fall of communism.

Dance, Ageing and Collaborative Arts-based Research contributes a critical and comprehensive perspective on the role of the arts-specifically dance-in enhancing the lives of older people.

This volume examines the state of democracy in South Asia after the first two decades of the millennium. It shows how the inroads made by democracy that surged through South Asia at the turn of the century stands at the crossroads after two decades.

We present you with an updated reference book aimed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students interested in Marine Biology.

This book draws on social science analysis to understand the ongoing dynamics within and surrounding local energy communities in reliably electrified countries: Belgium, Canada, Columbia, France, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview and discussion of the issues surrounding the Malaysian Indian community's educational development. It will appeal to students and academics in the faculties of social science and comparative education, development economics, and sociology, with a focus on access and equity in education.

This book interrogates the extent to which regional civil society organisations have evolved as actors in West Africa.

Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape explores the transition from early modern to modern water management in late nineteenth-century Rome.

Through a variety of empirical studies, this volume offers fresh insights into the means by which communicative action brings about the social construction and re-construction of urban spaces, presenting new theoretical foundations for conceptualising these transformations.

Taliban's return to power in August of 2021 caused everyone to ask why the two decades of institution building in Afghanistan failed. This book investigates the root causes of failed reforms in an important area of reform: trade and credit institutions.

Featuring 60 contributions from leading academics and practitioners, this Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the world's most pressing global development challenges - including how they may be better understood and addressed through innovative practices and approaches to learning and teaching.

The chapters in this book provide in-depth insight into the gender norms and contexts in which women work in the expanding informal mining sector in sub-Saharan Africa.

This book examines Malaysia's ambitious reform agenda and educational landscape, drawing upon the eleven key shifts in the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025. Its critical assessemnt of reform efforts will be of particular interest to educators, scholars, and policymakers on the latest trends and challenges in Malaysian education policy.

This book points at both the causes and the consequences of the shortage of affordable housing and provides an integrated economic and legal view of how housing production is dependent on housing finance, which in turn means that legal conditions and the sovereign state play an active role.

The fifth Factor X publication from the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), The Impossibilities of the Circular Economy provides an overview of the limits to the circular economy, emphasising the relationship between integrated resource use and more systemic leadership-management approaches.

This book is about how cities and territories, within a Continental European context, responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and examines their respective level of preparedness or unpreparedness. It proposes preparedness as a key concept in urban geography, planning, and policy, inviting international scholars to discuss its pros and cons.

This book highlights how the consensual orchestration of sustainability in China's biggest city, Shanghai, affects non-state actors' ways of perceiving, acting, and organizing around environmental issues.