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Tapping the Oceans
Edited by Joe Williams, Erik Swyngedouw
Increasingly, water-stressed cities are looking to the oceans to fix unreliable, contested and over-burdened water supply systems. Desalination technologies are, however, also becoming the focus of intense political disagreements about t...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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A History of the Global Economy
Colin White
Providing an exceptional overview and analysis of the global economy, from the origins of Homo sapiens to the present day, Colin White explores our past to help understand our economic future. He veers away from traditional Eurocentric a...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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International Agricultural Law and Policy
Hope Johnson
Globalised agriculture and food systems are at the crux of significant issues facing humanity from the rise in diet-related diseases to water pollution and biodiversity loss. Yet, legal scholarship on the regulation of agriculture and fo...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Research Methods in Human Rights
Edited by Bård A. Andreassen, Hans-Otto Sano, Siobhán McInerney-Lankford
Methodological discussion has largely been neglected in human rights research, with legal scholars in particular tending to address research methods and methodological reflection implicitly rather than explicitly. This book advances thin...eBook:Find out more£39.16
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Handbook on the Geographies of Corruption
Edited by Barney Warf
The Handbook on the Geographies of Corruption offers a comprehensive overview of how corruption varies across the globe. It explores the immense range of corruption among countries, and how this reflects levels of wealth, the centralizat...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Economic Growth and Poverty
Edited by Nanak Kakwani, Hyun H. Son
This single-volume compilation offers an insight to some of the most important questions economists and policymakers have been grappling over. A substantial amount of research has been carried out using cross-country regression models, r... -
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Making Hong Kong
Pui-yin Ho
Pui-yin Ho surveys how the social, economic and political environments of different eras have influenced the evolution of urban planning in Hong Kong. Evaluating the relationship between town planning and social change over time, this bo...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Varieties of Capital Cities
David Kaufmann
The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being the seat of national political power...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Tourism
Edited by Pierre Benckendorff, Anita Zehrer
This comprehensive Handbook provides an international perspective on contemporary issues and future directions in teaching and learning in tourism. Key topics include assurance of learning, development of skills, learning in the field, w...eBook:Find out more£43.96
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Handbook of Finance and Development
Edited by Thorsten Beck, Ross Levine
This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between financial and real sector development. The different chapters, written by leading contributors in the field, survey research on the importance of financial devel...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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World Statistics on Mining and Utilities 2018
UNIDO
World Statistics on Mining and Utilities 2018 provides a unique biennial overview of the role of mining and utility activities in the world economy. This extensive resource from UNIDO provides detailed time series data on the level, stru...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Research Handbook on Climate Disaster Law
Edited by Rosemary Lyster, Robert R.M. Verchick
Through assessing climate disaster law in relation to international, public, private and environmental law this Research Handbook considers the unique challenges, barriers and opportunities that climate disasters pose for law and policy....eBook:Find out more£48.00