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This book exposes the potential to advance a cultural approach to sustainable urban development. It explores urban "spaces of possibilities" and links them to the seized or missed opportunities for innovative forms of transversal partnerships throughout the city and of culturally sensitive urban policies.

This book builds trust, consensus, and capacity through enhanced understanding through a water conflict management framework designed to bolster collaborative skills. Built on case studies analysis and hands-on applications, the authors assess the complexities of climate challenges and explain how to provide sustainable water solutions

This book explores the convergence and interrelation of the text of N¿la-yi ¿Andal¿b with its context. It considers the development of the notion of the ¿ar¿qa-yi Müammadiyya as an intellectual achievement in the history of ideas in Islam generally and also as an important part of Sufism in South Asia.

The book aims to assess the impacts and future of sustainable infrastructure investments and examines the role of governments in mobilizing financial resources and new models for unlocking private investment in sustainable infrastructure.

This book interrogates the relationship of theatre and the dialectics of centre and the margins. It looks into the exciting world of performance to examine how theatre as an art form is perfectly placed to both perform and critique complex relations of power, politics and culture.

This book focuses on the ECOWAS Commission, both as an autonomous actor, as well as a policy-making nexus for its member states in Africa, and external actors.

This book employs a global history approach to explore John Wesley's writings, contributing to eighteenth-century religious history and to Wesley Studies with primary sources and recent secondary literature, placing Wesley's writings in their global political context.

This Handbook provides readers with a strong foundation for understanding the practice of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), by outlining the different types of assessment while also providing a guide to best practice. This book will be essential for students, scholars, and practitioners of Environmental Impact Assessment.

This book interrogates the white savior industrial complex by exploring how America continues to present an imagined Africa as a space for salvation in the 21st century.

This book clarifies the smart city concept that is gaining application in Sub - Saharan Africa. It shows how the smart concept can be used to address problems that would be difficult and more expensive to solve using traditional techniques such as employment creation. This is done through elaboration of the African interpretation of smartness.

Provides an overview of the entire nitrate cycle and the processes influencing nitrate transformation, and clearly identifies its role as an essential nutrient in plant growth, food preservation, and human health. It explains the discrepancies between public perceptions on nitrate harm versus the beneficial effects on human health.

This book, aimed at students in urban studies, critical geography and planning, uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice to explore and question common assumptions around what urban sustainability means and how it can be implemented.

This volume examines historical views of stewardship that have sometimes allowed humans to ravage the earth as well as contemporary and futuristic visions of stewardship that will be necessary to achieve pragmatic progress to save life on earth as we know it.

This book focuses on the scope, potential and future of the India-Japan-ASEAN trilateral. This book will be of interest to Asian politics, international relations, strategic studies, regional organizations in Asia and think tanks specializing in foreign policy, security studies, international trade and economics.

This book considers the promotion of the SDGs through the lens of norm diffusion theory, with a focus on three SDG policy areas; health, education and decent work. It allows readers to deepen their understanding of SDG policy diffusion mechanisms, and grasp the patterns of success and failure in the implementation of these policies.

Long-sighted, radical and provocative, this book offers a foundational framework of concepts, principles, methods (exemplified with selected tools) to enable metadesigners to manage and re-invent their practices.

This book will appeal to researchers and students alike studying Jewish communities in Poland and Jewish-Polish society and urbanisation, as well as all those interested in Jewish-Polish Culture.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of climate change-related investigations carried out by Indian researchers through initiatives in southern high latitude regions.

This book proposes a reconstruction of contemporary social theory, focusing on thematic issues rather than on authors or schools of thought. In so doing, it endeavours to bridge epistemological approaches and locate critical claims shared by the main trajectories and notions of sociological theoretical debate.

Managing Digital Records in Africa draws on the research work of the InterPARES Trust (ITrust) project that investigated interrelated archival issues focusing on legal analysis, infrastructure, trust, authentication, and education within the African context.

This book examines the factors driving youth unemployment in South Africa, exploring potential future outcomes of its mass unemployment, and offering a variety of strategies to avoid an impending crisis in the country. This book will be of interest to scholars of South African politics and economics, labor economics and youth studies.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of technologies that are currently adopted in the treatment of pollutants present in saline water systems. It presents information on the treatment technologies for saline water systems, which includes seawater, brackish water, oil produced water, and other industrial saline wastewaters.