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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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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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Publication Date:
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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Publication Date:
12 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800887800
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Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover Trophy Cities
Trophy Cities
A feminist perspective on new capitals
Dorina Pojani
Offering a fresh perspective, this timely book analyzes the socio-cultural and physical production of planned capital cities through the theoretical lens of feminism. Dorina Pojani evaluates the historical, spatial and symbolic manifestations of new capital cities, as well as the everyday experiences of those living there, to shed light on planning processes, outcomes and contemporary planning issues.
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Publication Date:
07 Sep 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100444
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover A Research Agenda for Political Demography
A Research Agenda for Political Demography
Editor: Jennifer D. Sciubba
Exploring how demographic dynamism continues to shape the character of societies, this forward-looking Research Agenda offers insights into how the human population has undergone fundamental demographic shifts, and the impact these have had on how we organize ourselves politically, the design of our economic systems, and even our societal relationships.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
12 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975742
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Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover EU Cohesion Policy and Spatial Governance
EU Cohesion Policy and Spatial Governance
Territorial, Social and Economic Challenges
Editors: Daniel Rauhut, Franziska Sielker, and Alois Humer
Discussing the ongoing and future challenges of EU Cohesion Policy, this book critically addresses the economic, social and territorial challenges at the heart of the EU’s policy. It identifies the multifaceted and dynamic nature of the policy as well as the cohesions goal interlinkage with other policies and considers unresolved questions of strategic importance in territorial governance, urban and regional inequalities, and social aspects and wellbeing.
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Publication Date:
13 Jul 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839103582
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Geographies of Cosmopolitanism
Geographies of Cosmopolitanism
Barney Warf
Invigorating and timely, this book provides a thorough overview of the geographies of cosmopolitanism, an ethical and political philosophy that views humanity as one community. Barney Warf charts the origins and developments of this line of thought, exploring how it has changed over time, acquiring many variations along the way.
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Publication Date:
09 Jul 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789902471
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover A Research Agenda for Geographies of Slow Violence
A Research Agenda for Geographies of Slow Violence
Making Social and Environmental Injustice Visible
Editor: Shannon O’Lear
This timely Research Agenda highlights how slow violence, unlike other forms of conflict and direct, physical violence, is difficult to see and measure. It explores ways in which geographers study, analyze and draw attention to forms of harm and violence that have often not been at the forefront of public awareness, including slow violence affecting children, women, Indigenous peoples, and the environment.
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Publication Date:
04 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978033
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 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