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Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China
Le-Yin Zhang
Utilizing a governmentality lens, this timely book offers an explanation for China’s decarbonization performance in the early 21st century. Le-Yin Zhang investigates one of the most ambitious governing projects in history, analyzing the ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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A Research Agenda for Social Innovation
Edited by Jürgen Howaldt, Christoph Kaletka, Antonius Schröder
This insightful Research Agenda offers unique perspectives into the different strands of social innovation research, covering the history and theory of this ever-growing research field. Chapters show the range and depth of the social adv...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
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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Inclusive Financial Development
Edited by Ahmad H. Ahmad, David T. Llewellyn, Victor Murinde
Inclusive Financial Development provides theoretical and empirical analyses of the nature of financial inclusion. The contributing authors explore the impediments to inclusion that exist around the world, the macro and stability implicat...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Navigating the Free Trade – Fair Trade Fault-Lines
Michael J. Trebilcock
Is Free Trade desirable? Does it primarily benefit the wealthy? And what are its impacts on individual autonomy and human dignity? These are some of the fundamental questions that acclaimed trade law expert, Michael Trebilcock, sets out ...eBook:Find out more£12.99
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Defining Public Goods
David J. O’Brien
Through the lens of an economist’s notion of public goods, David J. O’Brien analyzes the dual problems of declining communities and polarizing conflicts between metropolitan and rural communities. The author describes in detail how seemi...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Alternative Development Finance and Parallel Development Strategies in the Asia-Pacific
Jin Sheng
This insightful book examines the impact of two competing visions of Asian-Pacific economic growth paths and development governance. It discusses law, development and finance in the context of the Indo-Pacific Strategy versus the Belt an...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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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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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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Capital Movements and Corporate Dominance in Latin America
Edited by Noemi Levy-Orlik, Jorge A. Bustamante-Torres, Louis-Philippe Rochon
This book addresses the problems of Latin America, through two of the most important features of the post-Bretton Woods economic order, large corporations and weak financial markets. In turn, it shows that their impact on economic growth...eBook:Find out more£25.00