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Resilience and Urban Disasters
Edited by Kamila Borsekova, Peter Nijkamp
This book addresses unexpected disasters and shocks in cities and urban systems by providing quantitative and qualitative tools for impact analysis and disaster management. Including environmental catastrophes, political turbulence and e...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Food Loss and Food Waste
Michael Blakeney
Global food insecurity is a growing issue. At a time when the world’s population is increasing and agricultural production is challenged by climate change, it is estimated that around a third of the food produced globally is lost or wast...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Building a Normative Order in the South China Sea
Edited by Truong T. Tran, John B. Welfield, Thuy T. Le
The South China Sea, where a number of great powers and regional players contend for influence, has emerged as one of the most potentially explosive regions in the world today. What can be done to reduce the possibility of conflict, solv...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Agents, Assumptions and Motivations Behind REDD+
Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek
It was hoped that by paying forest dependent peoples and countries for their “service” of conserving their forests, REDD+ would lead to a reduction in deforestation greenhouse gases. The complexities have, however, left some ambiguities...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Religion and Finance
Mervyn K. Lewis, Ahmad Kaleem
Judaism, Christianity and Islam all impose obligations and constraints upon the rightful use of wealth and earthly resources. All three of these religions have well-researched views on the acceptability of practices such as usury but the...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on Urban Development in China
Edited by Ray Yep, June Wang, Thomas Johnson
The trajectory and logic of urban development in post-Mao China have been shaped and defined by the contention between domestic and global capital, central and local state and social actors of different class status and endowment. This u...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Developing Bus Rapid Transit
Edited by Fiona Ferbrache
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is a popular mode of sustainable public urban transit given dedicated focus in this timely collection. The effects of BRT are examined in-depth through a range of case studies from cities across six continents, in...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Globalization, Sports Law and Labour Mobility
Matt Nichol
This book examines labour regulation and labour mobility in two professional baseball leagues: Major League Baseball in the United States and Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. Through vivid comparative study, Matt Nichol explores ho...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Politics of Renewable Energy in China
Chen Gang
In this book, Chen Gang examines the real-world effectiveness of China''s approach to the promotion of green technologies and practices, and discusses the political landscape in which it is situated.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Online Distribution of Content in the EU
Edited by Taina Pihlajarinne, Juha Vesala, Olli Honkkila
The legal issues surrounding the online distribution of content have recently gained prominence due to the European Commission’s commitment to the Digital Single Market (DSM). This book is one of the first to provide highly topical analy...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on Place Branding and Marketing
Edited by Adriana Campelo
Place branding as an academic field is both challenging and under explored. In the face of an ever-expanding urban population, this Handbook addresses this knowledge deficit in order to illustrate how place branding can contribute to tra...eBook:Find out more$50.36
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A Research Agenda for Shrinking Cities
Justin B. Hollander
This prescient book presents the intellectual terrain of shrinking cities while exploring the key research questions in each of the field’s sub-domains and reviewing the range of methodologies within these topics.eBook:Find out more$32.76