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Local Climate Change Law
Edited by Benjamin J. Richardson
This timely study offers a multi-jurisdictional perspective, featuring international contributors who examine both theoretical and practical dimensions of how localities are addressing climate mitigation and adaptation in Australia, Cana...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Migration and Economic Growth
Edited by Mathias Czaika, Carlos Vargas-Silva
This book comprehensively examines the role of economic growth (or lack of) as a driver of migration, as well as the impact of migration on economic growth in receiving and sending countries. Seminal papers have been selected which cover... -
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Asian Responses to the Global Financial Crisis
Edited by Jehoon Park, T. J. Pempel, Geng Xiao
The expert contributors – both Asian and Western – illustrate that as G20 members, many Asian countries are now able to showcase their increasing powers and influence on global issues. Within this context, and via multidisciplinary econo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Transport, the Environment and Security
Rae Zimmerman
From a primarily urban perspective, the author illustrates that the fields of transportation, environment (with an emphasis on climate change) and security (for both natural hazards and terrorism) and their interconnections remain robust...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Dictionary of Transport Analysis
Edited by Kenneth Button, Henry Vega, Peter Nijkamp
This concise and clearly focused Dictionary, with contributions by the leading authorities in their fields, brings order and clarity to a topic that can suffer from confusion over terminology and concepts. It provides a bridge between t...eBook:Find out more$71.16
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The Asia-Pacific, Regionalism and the Global System
Edited by Christopher M. Dent, Jörn Dosch
The expert contributors shed critical light on how significant developments are impacting on the global system. In particular, they consider emerging forms of global governance, and how the Asia-Pacific as a region, individual countries ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Community Co-Production
Edited by Jane Farmer, Carol Hill, Sarah-Anne Muñoz
This book addresses a clutch of contemporary societal challenges including: aging demography and the consequent need for extended care in communities; public service provision in an era of retrenching welfare and global financial crises;...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Classics in Port Policy and Management
Edited by Mary R. Brooks, Athanasios A. Pallis
This path-breaking volume, edited by two leading scholars in the field, brings together 41 seminal contributions from 50 years of scholarly research in port policy and management. In revisiting the key foundations established by previous... -
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The Regional Impact of National Policies
Edited by Werner Baer
Brazil is a country of continental proportions whose gross domestic product is unevenly distributed among its various regions. The impact of general domestic economic policies has often been perceived as not being regionally neutral, but...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Migration in Britain
Tony Fielding
Migration in Britain takes a fresh look at the patterns of migration at both the regional and local levels and develops new theoretical frameworks and novel methods to explain these patterns. It anticipates British society and its intern...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Regional Integration and Economic Development in South Asia
Edited by Sultan Hafeez Rahman, Sridhar Khatri, Hans-Peter Brunner
This book considers the leadership of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and the interaction with civil society in the process of South Asian regional cooperation and integration, and discusses how the emerging ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Creative Knowledge Cities
Edited by Marina van Geenhuizen, Peter Nijkamp
This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge ...eBook:Find out more$40.00