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![Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation]()
Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation
Edited by Katja Freistein, Bettina Mahlert, Sigrid Quack, Christine Unrau
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-SA 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This book examines the role of imagination in initiating, contesting, and changing the pathways... -
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A Modern Guide to Tourism Economics
Edited by Robertico Croes, Yang Yang
This Modern Guide captures the evolution of foundational tenets, theories, frameworks and models that buttressed tourism economics into an evolving discipline, shining light on both new and old approaches. It systematically examines curr... -
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Business and Human Rights Law and Practice in Africa
Edited by Damilola S. Olawuyi, Oyeniyi O. Abe
This important book provides a comprehensive analysis of good-fit and home-grown approaches for advancing business and human rights norms across Africa. It explores the latest developments in law, regulations, policies, and governance st... -
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Mountaineering Adventure Tourism and Local Communities
Michal Apollo, Viacheslav Andreychouk
This timely book explores how hiking, trekking and climbing mountains, increasingly popular leisure activities, can stimulate change and create opportunities for sustainable development. Using empirical evidence from interviews held in t... -
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Property Rights and Urban Transformation in China
Zhu Qian
Addressing fundamental questions surrounding the critical changes affecting China’s urban landscape, social organization and community governance, Property Rights and Urban Transformation in China thoroughly reviews the reform of propert...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Teaching Tourism
Edited by Johan Edelheim, Marion Joppe, Joan Flaherty
Tourism as an activity is increasingly being criticised for its exploitative and extractive industrial approaches to business. Yet, it has the power to transform and to regenerate societies, cultures and the environment. The desire to ex...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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![A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society]()
A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society
Edited by Steve Matthewman
With contributions from leading experts in the fields of anthropology, communications, disaster studies, economics, epidemiology, Indigenous studies, philosophy and sociology, this expansive book offers a diverse range of social science ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Political Change through Social Innovation
Frank Moulaert, Bob Jessop, Erik Swyngedouw, Liana Simmons, Pieter Van den Broeck
This book addresses the key question of why socially innovative initiatives, including attempts to rejuvenate democracy by introducing new modes of participation, are not leading to a democratization of the State or overcoming the gap be...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![Rethinking Agricultural and Food Policy]()
Rethinking Agricultural and Food Policy
Wyn P. Grant
This visionary book takes stock of the urgent challenges facing food chains globally and provides a critical evaluation of radical new thinking and perspectives on agricultural and food policy. Wyn Grant investigates the principal driver...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Entrepreneurial Solution to Poverty and the Science of What is Possible
James O. Fiet
Engaging and accessible, The Entrepreneurial Solution to Poverty and the Science of What is Possible examines the systematic practice of poverty alleviation. Using the science of informational economics (IE), based on leveraging specific...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Social Policy in Changing European Societies
Edited by Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Mara A. Yerkes
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach this book provides a cutting-edge, in-depth account of social policy research today, how we got here, and where...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![Local Maladies, Global Remedies]()
Local Maladies, Global Remedies
Everaldo Lamprea-Montealegre
This forward-looking book provides an in-depth analysis of the major transformations of the right to health in Latin America over the past decades, marked by the turn towards the pharmaceuticalisation of health care. Everaldo Lamprea-Mon...eBook:Find out more£25.00
