‘Innovation is the key to transforming sustainable tourism from an ideal into a reality. This insightful collection of essays outlines how dominant growth and competitiveness paradigms need to, and can, be challenged by imaginative and c...
‘Zhu Qian provides an incredibly thorough treatment of property rights in China. Most importantly, this remarkable book investigates China’s urban transformation corresponding to changing property regimes. His explanations of the pivotal...
The Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing is, quite simply, the definitive reference work in the field. Carefully curated by leading tourism scholar Dimitrios Buhalis, this is the largest tourism management and marketing ontol...
‘Global financial innovations are reshaping markets and bringing hundreds of millions of people into the formal financial sector. With these changes, understandings of economies, technologies, and
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‘It is abundantly clear that sustainability transformations will not happen of their own accord; they must be actively guided by coalitions of actors working together. This wonderful new Handbook brings the challenges of governing for su...
Edited by Dora Agapito, Manuel A. Ribeiro, Kyle Woosnam M. Woosnam
‘Finally a complete reference book on the tourist experience! The editors and authors with diverse backgrounds offer multidimensional perspectives and leave no stone unturned about tourism experience; they cover a wide range of issues an...
‘Poverty remains a global challenge that the Coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated. This accessible and engaging book offers some financially forgiving entrepreneurial ideas out of poverty using the lens of informational economics.’
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Edited by Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Mara A. Yerkes
‘The volume is a worthy celebration of ESPAnet’s 20th anniversary. The chapters examine two decades of research on the core elements of social policy — from healthcare to housing, from poverty to privatization, from social investment to ...
Frank Moulaert, Bob Jessop, Erik Swyngedouw, Liana Simmons, Pieter Van den Broeck
‘This thought-provoking volume sits at the nexus of social innovation and democratic political theory and practice. Leading international scholars compare and confront different approaches to nurturing emancipatory social change in a wor...
‘Food – what we eat and how it is produced – has become a hot button issue. In this book, Wyn Grant draws on his deep knowledge and experience of agricultural and food policies to provide an up-to-date and accessible introduction to the ...
‘Hilary Bradbury has made many important contributions to the field of action research over some decades. Yet, I found this book to be her most interesting piece of writing. It is experimental in form and successfully mixes stories of re...
Edited by Laura Alfers, Martha Chen, Sophie Plagerson
‘An original and insightful contribution to rethinking the social contract. Instead of prescribing from above, the authors redirect attention to the perspective of informal workers, to their needs, demands and agency, and to the new real...
