Natur

This volume brings together a collection of original investigations of the current thinking on three broad themes: the assetization of land and buildings, the relationship of land rent to valuation and speculation in the markets for private and public properties, and the different ways in which land functions as a social relation.

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the role that atmosphere plays in work processes undertaken within an urban design studio. It offers understandings of how architectural practices are fueled with atmosphere in various configurations throughout different design phases of selected projects for construction.

Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule shaped the trajectory of Eurasian history from Central Europe to the Korean Peninsula, from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century.

This book focuses on emerging new multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific and offers a useful analysis of various existing and evolving formulations and alignments in the region and will interest scholars of PolSci., Foreign Policy, Security Studies, IR, Int'l Political Economy & Area Studies, Asian, East Asian or Indo-Pacific Studies.

This book advances the study of the right to nationality, the prevention of statelessness and the protection of stateless persons, using Nigeria as a case study. It assesses international legal regimes on statelessness, their efficacy in practice, what can be improved under international law and the relevance of the regimes in the Nigerian context.

This book examines our understanding of technology and suggests that machines are counterfeit organisms that seem to replace human bodies but are ultimately means of displacing workloads and environmental loads beyond our horizon.

This book engages with the concept of age-friendly environments, adopting multi-perspectivity to demonstrate how age-friendly environments can contribute to shifting how we think, feel and act toward issues of age and ageing and operate as a vehicle to improve understandings of ageism.

With comprehensive examples from researchers across East Africa, West Africa, and Southern Africa, the book examines how primary, secondary, and tertiary education was affected by the pandemic and how its effects are shaping the future of education in Africa.

Examining Chinese-North African relations through the lens of President Xi Jinping's Silk Road grand strategy, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of emerging strategic and economic partnerships in the Maghreb region.

This book reviews the challenges and opportunities in the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) at the regional and national levels in Africa. It contains an analysis of the relevant norms and monitoring mechanisms at the regional level, and case studies from selected African and other developing countries.

This book engages with Christian church traditions and disability issues in Africa, focusing on Zimbabwe in particular.

Museums, Collections, and Social Repair in Vietnam analyses the relationship between museums, collections, and social repair in contemporary Vietnam.

This book set provides a global, up-to-date, thorough, clear and practical new risk-based approach to tunnelling design and construction methods and discusses detailed examples of solutions applied to relevant case histories.

This book critically examines the active role played by youth-led social movements in pushing for change and promoting peacebuilding in Africa, and their impacts on society. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of social movement studies, youth studies, peace and conflict studies, history, and African studies.

Focusing on systemic risks caused by climate change, this book examines how these risks can be effectively regulated to ensure resilience and avoid catastrophe.

This book introduces readers to the concept of territory, as it applies to law, while demonstrating the particular work that territory does in organizing property relations.

Focusing on the changes taking place in Central Europe since 1989, this book presents a multidimensional and cross-disciplinary case study of Kraków and offers deep insight into the specific nature of the transformation taking place in the region.

Sandy beaches are the most abundant coastal environments worldwide, which have an undeniable and unique ecological value. Presently, they are amongst the most endangered ecosystems in the biosphere, mainly due to the influence of several human activities.

This unique book offers a comprehensive overview of the history of psychotherapy. Volume 2 traces the evolution of psychotherapy from the 1950s and the later 20th century through to modern times, considering what the future of psychotherapy will look like.

Sustainability Accounting, Management Control and Reporting: A European Perspective traces a picture of innovative performance measurement tools and approaches to drive organizations to implement their shared value and sustainability strategy, considering different perspectives around accounting, managerial control and reporting.

This book is set in Karachi, Pakistan and investigates the possibility of achieving localness through identifying urban process and their impact on built form, addressing how locals associate with the urban spaces and how they value it.

Viewing the Arctic as a key region for global development in the 21st century, this book offers a cross-disciplinary conceptual framework for understanding what international cooperation is, why it is difficult and what kind of alternative views can apply in the Arctic.

This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of the processes and actors contributing to autocratization in South Asia, providing an understanding of the interconnectedness of the states in the region. It is an important reference work for students and researchers of South Asian Studies, Asian Studies, Area Studies, and Political Science.

This book discusses management and governance initiatives undertaken by agencies and stakeholders towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the Southeast Asian region, specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore.

This book presents theoretical and empirical perspectives on platform-mediated tourism, with a special focus on Airbnb. The case studies included in this volume show that the impacts of short-term renting on neighbourhoods, residents and tourism operators are uneven, but increasingly significant.