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This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of the study of gender in South Asia.

This book investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples and assesses the policy responses taken by governments and Indigenous communities across the world. It is essential reading for researchers across indigenous studies, public health, and social policy.

This book focuses on the extent to which Soviet scholars and cultural theoreticians were able to act autonomously during the Stalin era.

This book, focuses on South and Southeast Asia, upgrades our understanding of the influence of multiple sociopolitical and governance factors on climate change and risks. It argues that the real solutions to climate change problems lie in societies, governance systems, non-state actors, and the power and politics underpinning these systems.

Clusters and Sustainable Regional Development conceptualises the role of organised clusters in the transition towards sustainability. It introduces a novel perspective on these clusters, viewing them as deliberate collective actors within their environments that can become the driving force for transformation in their regions or nations.

This is an orientation book which contains various approaches proposed by researchers to integrate different power cycles based on different energy sources. It is useful for beginners and advanced researchers to understand and formulate the effective integration of different energy sources through high and low temperature-based power cycles.

This book shines light on learner-centred pedagogy, which has gained popularity within global and national governments, albeit resulting in puzzling and inconsequential appropriation.Nozomi Sakata draws on award-winning research on LCP conducted in Tanzania that shifts the focus from teachers and teaching to students and learning.

This book argues that climate justice is an urgent and defining global challenge with long-term implications for poverty reduction, livelihoods, community well-being, and sustainable development.

Service-Learning for Disaster Resilience is the first to discuss, in practical and theoretical terms, the pedagogical approach of service-learning to establish partnerships for social good that build disaster resilience.

This book discusses creative economies in Africa, focusing on changing dynamics related to working, co-working and clustering. It will be of interest to students, scholars and professionals researching the creative economies in Africa across the humanities and social sciences.

The book reviews the relationship between culture and workplace innovation as a multi-dimensional, subjective and context specific phenomenon operating dynamically as organisational innovation, organisational climate for innovation, team and individual innovation.

This comprehensive textbook covers current state-of-the-art shotcrete technology. It provides an overview of the many and various uses of shotcrete. It includes chapters with case histories on shotcrete materials and mixture proportioning, performance, shotcrete research, equipment and shotcrete application.

Tourism and Heritage in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) uses an ethnographic lens to explore the dissonances associated with the commodification of Chernobyl's heritage.

This book examines the nexus between conservation, land conflicts and sustainable tourism approaches in Southern Africa, with a focus on equity, access, restitution and redistribution.

Many economically developing countries and nations without robust Occupational Hygiene (OH) educational programs endure a shortage of qualified occupational hygienists, resulting in higher rates of workplace injury, illness, and fatality. Damage to valuable infrastructure, environment, and public health also occur without adequate support.

Understanding pandemic resilience requires input from different disciplines. This book, with worldwide contributions examining the COVID-19 pandemic, provides interdisciplinary analysis and multi-sector expertise on the use of geospatial information and location intelligence to support community resilience and the management of pandemics.

This book brings together real-world case studies accurately surveyed and assessed through spatial modeling and focuses on the effectiveness of combining remote sensing, GIS, and R. The use of open source software, remote sensing, and GIS, help researchers and practitioners to better understand the phenomena and the prediction of future analyses.

This book presents a compendium of emerging and innovative studies on the proliferation of new working spaces, both formal and informal, such as co-working spaces, maker spaces, Fab labs, public libraries and coffeeshops, and their role during and post-Covid-19.

This volume focuses on the modernist and avant-garde engagement with workers' sport events that were organised or were planned to be organised in the cities of Central Europe and the USSR in the period of 1920-1932: Frankfurt am Main - Vienna - Moscow - Prague - Budapest - Berlin.

This book explores a series of connected themes focused on the role economics and other influential forms of theory and thinking have played in creating the current predicament and the scope for alternatives and how they might be framed.