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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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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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Handbook on Global Value Chains
Edited by Stefano Ponte, Gary Gereffi, Gale Raj-Reichert
Global value chains (GVCs) are a key feature of the global economy in the 21st century. They show how international investment and trade create cross-border production networks that link countries, firms and workers around the globe. Thi...eBook:Find out more£39.96
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Research Handbook on Democracy and Development
Edited by Gordon Crawford, Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai
Exploring and updating the controversial debates about the relationship between democracy and development, this Research Handbook provides clarification on the complex and nuanced interlinkages between political regime type and socio-eco...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Handbook of Policy Transfer, Diffusion and Circulation
Edited by Osmany Porto de Oliveira
This important Handbook brings together preeminent international scholars, sharing their comparative and international perspectives on the topic. Their original contributions cover the key issues and questions around policy transfer, dif...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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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
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
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
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Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South
Edited by Jonathan Crush, Bruce Frayne, Gareth Haysom
The ways in which the rapid urbanization of the Global South is transforming food systems and food supply chains, and the food security of urban populations is an often neglected topic. This international group of authors addresses this ...eBook:Find out more£48.00