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![City Preparedness for the Climate Crisis]()
City Preparedness for the Climate Crisis
Edited by Francisco J. Carrillo, Cathy Garner
Exploring the ways that contemporary urban life takes the Holocene for granted, this multidisciplinary book warns that anthropogenic environmental impacts are on course to challenge the viability of most human settlements. It highlights ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Knowledge For The Anthropocene
Edited by Francisco J. Carrillo, Günter Koch
With human-induced environmental impacts disrupting human life in deeper ways and at a wider scale than anything previously experienced, this multidisciplinary book looks at the ways that current knowledge bases seem inadequate to help u...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Critical Issues in Human Rights and Development
Edited by Stephen P. Marks, Balakrishnan Rajagopal
This collection addresses human rights and development for researchers, policymakers and activists at a time of major challenges. ‘Critical issues’ in the title signifies both the urgency of the issues and the need for critical rethinkin...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![A Research Agenda for Global Rural Development]()
A Research Agenda for Global Rural Development
Terry Marsden, Claire Lamine, Sergio Schneider
Setting out a new, path-breaking research agenda for global rural development, this timely book offers an innovative and embedded rural social science capable of both understanding and enacting progress towards diverse and sustainable pa...eBook:Find out more£27.16
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Global Production Networks and Rural Development
Edited by Bill Pritchard
Bill Pritchard provides an important update on how current trade methodologies are implemented as China becomes one of the world’s largest fresh fruit importers from countries such as Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies]()
Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies
Edited by Jan Fransen, Meine P. van Dijk, Jurian Edelenbos
Exploring how urban professionals plan, manage and govern cities in emerging economies, this insightful book studies the actions and instruments they employ. It highlights how the paradigms of interventions and approaches to urban manage...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Field Guide for Research in Community Settings
Edited by M. R. Islam, Niaz A. Khan, Siti H.A.B. Ah, Haris A. Wahab, Mashitah B. Hamidi
This insightful book offers practical advice to fieldworkers in social research, enabling robust and judicious applications of research methods and techniques in data collection. It also outlines data collection challenges that are commo...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Upgrading the Global Garment Industry
Edited by Mohammad B. Rana, Matthew M.C. Allen
This timely book focuses on the upgrading of firms within the global garment industry, examining how garment manufacturers and retailers in different countries internationalize, develop their capabilities and enhance their sustainability...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Pandemic Economics
Peter A.G. van Bergeijk
Discussing the Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDs, SARS and Ebola against the background of Covid-19, Pandemic Economics demonstrates how scientists consistently warned the world about pandemics, and how, despite this, the possibility of global lockd...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Human Rights in Eastern Civilisations
Surya P. Subedi
Based on the author''s first-hand experience as a UN Special Rapporteur, this thought-provoking and original book examines the values of Eastern civilisations and their contribution to the development of the UN Human Rights agenda. Rejec...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![Catch-up and Radical Innovation in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises]()
Catch-up and Radical Innovation in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Xielin Liu, Xiao Wang, Yimei Hu
This original book is a unique and original study on how, in the past decade, Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have achieved technological innovation in the large infrastructure sector. It reveals a ‘new world’ of Chinese innovatio...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![The Diffusion of Public and Private Sustainability Regulations]()
The Diffusion of Public and Private Sustainability Regulations
Edited by Etsuyo Michida, John Humphrey, David Vogel
This book focuses on the spread of public and private environmental and food safety regulations from Europe and North America to Asia and Africa. It explores the growth of policy diffusion and standard alignment on sustainability observe...eBook:Find out more£25.00
