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Sustainable Land Management
Edited by Floor Brouwer, Teunis van Rheenen, Shivcharn S. Dhillion, Anne M. Elgersma
In large parts of the world, the reduction in viability of agriculture and rural areas is an escalating problem. Driven by a range of factors, including insufficient economic returns from land used agriculturally, ageing populations in r...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Families, Ageing and Social Policy
Edited by Chiara Saraceno
This important book offers valuable insights into the way in which social policies and welfare state arrangements interact with family and gender models. It presents the most up-to-date research in the field, based on a variety of nation...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Political Economy of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries
Edited by Benjamin Coriat
The book is based on original data and field studies from Brazil, Thailand, India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the issue of universal and free access to treatment (a goal now taken to heart by the international community), it asse...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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International Handbook on the Economics of Tourism
Edited by Larry Dwyer, Peter Forsyth
This highly accessible and comprehensive Handbook presents a cutting edge discussion of the state of tourism economics and its likely directions in future research. Leading researchers in the field explore a wide range of topics includin...eBook:Find out more$91.16
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International Handbook of Development Economics, Volumes 1 & 2
Edited by Amitava Krishna Dutt, Jaime Ros
This two-volume original reference work provides a comprehensive overview of development economics and comprises contributions by some of the leading scholars working in the field. Authors are drawn from around the world and write on a w...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Sustainable Development in Western China
Colin G. Brown, Scott A. Waldron, John W. Longworth
This much-needed study provides a unique examination of the intricate web of policies and institutions that now impact on grassland degradation and sustainable development in China’s pastoral region. Understanding this complex matrix and...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Working Poor in Europe
Edited by Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Henning Lohmann
For a long time in-work poverty was not associated with European welfare states. Recently, the topic has gained relevance as welfare state retrenchment and international competition in globalized economies has put increasing pressures on...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Integration in East Asia
Edited by Masahisa Fujita, Satoru Kumagai, Koji Nishikimi
Increasing numbers of free trade and economic partnership agreements have been concluded among many countries in East Asia, and economic integration has progressed rapidly on both a de facto and de jure basis. However, as the authors of ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Creating Experiences in the Experience Economy
Edited by Jon Sundbo, Per Darmer
Creating Experiences in the Experience Economy focuses on the creation of experience from a business perspective. In doing so, the book establishes a more solid foundation for making better and more complex analyses of experience creatio...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of Small Island Tourism
Riaz Shareef, Suheija Hoti, Michael McAleer
This study forms an entirely new area of research on Small Island Tourism Economies (SITEs). It addresses the importance of uncertainty in monthly international tourist arrivals and country risk indicators to the macroeconomy.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Infrastructure and Trade in Asia
Edited by Douglas H. Brooks, Jayant Menon
Analysis of infrastructure’s role in facilitating international trade and consequently regional economic integration is still rudimentary. This original book fills that knowledge gap by exploring relevant concepts, measurement issues, as...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific
Edited by Phillip Lawn, Matthew Clarke
Frequent references are made to the ‘Asian economic miracle’ as a means of describing the wave of GDP growth experienced across the Asia-Pacific region over the past twenty years. Implicit in this description is the assumption that the A...eBook:Find out more$40.00