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Cover Greening China’s New Silk Roads
Greening China’s New Silk Roads
The Sustainable Governance of Belt and Road
R. J. Ferguson
This timely book offers a critical account of key governance challenges of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Illustrating China’s efforts to expand its idea of a sustainable eco-civilization, thereby ‘greening’ the BRI, it explores the disputes that have emerged from this process and subsequent complications resulting from geopolitical competition.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
07 Dec 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977470
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Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover A Research Agenda for Space Policy
A Research Agenda for Space Policy
Editors: Kai-Uwe Schrogl, Christina Giannopapa, and Ntorina Antoni
Space policy is now a top priority in international relations. This timely Research Agenda takes the definition of space policy itself as an object of analysis rather than as an unquestioned premise. It presents the multi-faceted spectrum of elements combined within space policy which are crucially relevant to security, welfare and modern society. Expert international contributors set out a forward-looking research agenda for the 2020s, identifying key problems and conflicts related to the topic and exploring policy, regulatory approaches and diplomatic mechanisms to reach possible solutions.
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Monograph Book
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02 Dec 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800374744
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Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover Awaking Europe in the Triple Global Crisis
Awaking Europe in the Triple Global Crisis
The Birth Pangs of the Emerging Europe
Attila Ágh
This timely book examines the imminent dangers to European stability: the socio-economic crisis of global production that has reinforced structural inequalities; the climate crisis and its associated environmental degradation; and the onset and fallout of Covid-19. Placing the triple crisis in the context of EU, European and global geographies, it introduces a new conceptual framework to describe continuing systemic crisis and change in the EU.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
12 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800887800
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Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover Research Handbook on the Belt and Road Initiative
Research Handbook on the Belt and Road Initiative
Editors: Joseph Chinyong Liow, Hong Liu, and Gong Xue
This timely Research Handbook investigates the radically transformative impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), addressing key questions regarding its economic, political and strategic consequences: what does the Chinese government hope to achieve with the BRI? How have recipient states responded? And what are its potential opportunities and risks?
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Handbook
Publication Date:
22 Oct 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789908718
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Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover Handbook of Security and the Environment
Handbook of Security and the Environment
Editors: Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal, and Anders Jägerskog
This comprehensive Handbook tackles the increasingly urgent problem of the impact of climate change on conflict and human security. It analyses the ways in which scarcity of resources leads to food, water and health insecurities, resulting in population migration. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars, chapters cover how these contribute globally to societal insecurity and violent conflict in a growing number of regions.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
21 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900668
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Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover Productivity and the Pandemic
Productivity and the Pandemic
Challenges and Insights from Covid-19
Editors: Philip McCann and Tim Vorley
This forward-thinking book examines the potential impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on productivity. Productivity and the Pandemic features 21 chapters authored by 46 experts, examining different aspects of how the pandemic is likely to impact on the economy, society and governance in the medium- and long-term. Drawing on a range of empirical evidence, analytical arguments and new conceptual insights, the book challenges our thinking on many dimensions. With a keen focus on place, firms, production factors and institutions, the chapters highlight how the pre-existing challenges to productivity have been variously exacerbated and mitigated by the pandemic and points out ways forward for appropriate policy thinking in response to the crisis.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
19 Jan 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800374607
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Economics 2021
Cover A Research Agenda for Border Studies
A Research Agenda for Border Studies
Editor: James W. Scott
This innovative Research Agenda uncovers links between different levels of border-making processes, or bordering, from the political to the cognitive, and connects everyday processes and experiences of border-making to the wider social world. It addresses the question of how everyday bordering practices and discourses can be productively linked to different aspects of social relations.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
01 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972741
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Energy Cultures
Energy Cultures
Technology, Justice, and Geopolitics in Eastern Europe
Michael C. LaBelle
This thought-provoking book explores the concept of energy cultures as a means of understanding social and political relations and how energy injustices are created. Using Eastern Europe as an example, it examines the radical transition occurring as the region leaves behind the legacy of the Soviet Union, and the effects of the resulting power struggle between the energy cultures of Russia and the European Union.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
20 Nov 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975766
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State
Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State
New Spaces of Geopolitics
Editors: Sami Moisio, Natalie Koch, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Christopher Lizotte, and Juho Luukkonen
This authoritative Handbook presents a comprehensive analysis of the spatial transformation of the state; a pivotal process of globalization. It explores the state as an ongoing project that is always changing, illuminating the new spaces of geopolitics that arise from these political, social, cultural, and environmental negotiations.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
09 Oct 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978057
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Energy Transitions in Mediterranean Countries
Energy Transitions in Mediterranean Countries
Consumption, Emissions and Security of Supplies
Silvana Bartoletto
This illuminating book analyses energy transitions, carbon dioxide emissions and the security of energy supply in Mediterranean countries. Unpacking the history of energy transitions, from coal to oil and natural gas, and from non-renewable to renewable energy sources, Silvana Bartoletto offers a comparative approach to the major trends in energy consumption, production, trade and security in Mediterranean countries in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
06 Oct 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977555
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Social and Political Science 2020