Edited by Jean Helms Mills, Albert J. Mills, Kristin S. Williams, Regine Bendl
Bringing together an expert team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia showcases key aspects of gender in management, including women’s leadership, mentoring women, managerial style and sexual harassment.
This topical book outlines one of the most ubiquitous challenges facing humanity and the planet today: the damaging impact of anthropogenic climate change. Humanizing the climate debate, it discusses solutions to the crisis and devises a...
Edited by Laura Oso, Natalia Ribas-Mateos, Melissa Moralli
In recent decades, emerging challenges such as increased digitalization of social lives and the ongoing processes of border externalization and internalization, have prompted scholars and civil societies to question the ways in which peo...
Edited by Anthony Perl, Rosalie Singerman Ray, Louise Reardon
This cutting-edge Handbook explores the many ways in which politics influences transportation policy, planning and implementation, as well as the effects of transportation on political processes. It rigorously analyses the complex interr...
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline, thanks to generous funding support of the University Research Priority Program (URPP) Equality of...
Edited by Sébastien Bourdin, Eveline van Leeuwen, André Torre
This timely book presents a theoretical and practical reflection on the circular economy and its potential to reduce, reuse and recycle for the world of tomorrow. Investigating how to avoid resource depletion, it provides an in-depth stu...
Fragmenting Cities offers a conceptionally innovative and empirically detailed analysis of the surprising acceptance and normalization of state-based stigmatization and discrimination based on place. It does this by drawing on the exampl...
This insightful book explores the Perestroika era (1985-1991), considered to be one of the most eventful periods in modern history, and in particular the ways in which it affected the Soviet approach to international law.
Edited by Duane A. Gill, Liesel Ritchie, Nnenia M. Campbell
The Encyclopedia of Technological Hazards and Disasters in the Social Sciences brings together an array of global experts to investigate, explore and analyse human-caused disaster events. Providing insights into both the origins and afte...
This informative book deconstructs two key myths in economic theory and policy, that inflation is always a monetary problem, and that inflation can be contained by raising interest rates. Imad A. Moosa identifies many of the causes of th...
Examining the role of elections and top-down democracy promotion in Africa, this book focuses on how and why electoral contests are associated with division and violence. It considers whether the Western political model has failed develo...
