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Cover Handbook on Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Development
Handbook on Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Development
Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Amanda Lange Salvia, and Fernanda Frankenberger
Exploring the important role of education in both pursuing and implementing sustainable development, this timely Handbook highlights how teaching methods at schools and universities can impact the future. It looks at ways not only to inform students about matters related to sustainable development, but also to empower them to adopt behaviours and actions that lead to more sustainable lifestyles.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
22 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839104657
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Handbook on the Human Impact of Agriculture
Handbook on the Human Impact of Agriculture
Editor: Harvey S. James, Jr.
This timely Handbook synthesizes and analyzes key issues and concerns relating to the impact of agriculture on both farmers and non-farmers. With a unique focus on humans rather than animals or the environment, the book is interdisciplinary and international in scope, with contributions from sociologists, economists, anthropologists and geographers providing case studies and examples from all six populated continents.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
17 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839101748
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Economics 2021
Cover Global Production Networks and Rural Development
Global Production Networks and Rural Development
Southeast Asia as a Fruit Supplier to China
Editor: Bill Pritchard
Bill Pritchard provides an important update on how current trade methodologies are implemented as China becomes one of the world’s largest fresh fruit importers from countries such as Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
11 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800883888
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies
Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies
Paradigm Shifts
Editors: Jan Fransen, Meine P. van Dijk, and Jurian Edelenbos
Exploring how urban professionals plan, manage and govern cities in emerging economies, this insightful book studies the actions and instruments they employ. It highlights how the paradigms of interventions and approaches to urban management are shifting, indicating that urban governance is becoming increasingly important in dealing with wicked issues, like climate change and social and economic inequalities in cities.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
11 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800883840
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Capital Movements and Corporate Dominance in Latin America
Capital Movements and Corporate Dominance in Latin America
Reduced Growth and Increased Instability
Editors: Noemi Levy-Orlik, Jorge A. Bustamante-Torres, and Louis-Philippe Rochon
This book addresses the problems of Latin America, through two of the most important features of the post-Bretton Woods economic order, large corporations and weak financial markets. In turn, it shows that their impact on economic growth and development is feeble and short-lived. This resulted in income concentration and an extremely unequal distribution of wealth in the region. 
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
08 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800372146
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Economics 2021
Cover Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities
Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities
Editors: Annelies Zoomers, Maggi Leung, Kei Otsuki, and Guus Van Westen
This timely Handbook demonstrates that global linkages, flows and circulations merit a more central place in theorization about development. Calling for a mobilities turn, it challenges the sedentarist assumptions which still underlie much policy making and planning for the future.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
08 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117425
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Field Guide for Research in Community Settings
Field Guide for Research in Community Settings
Tools, Methods, Challenges and Strategies
Editors: M. R. Islam, Niaz A. Khan, Siti H.A.B. Ah, Haris A. Wahab, and Mashitah B. Hamidi
This insightful book offers practical advice to fieldworkers in social research, enabling robust and judicious applications of research methods and techniques in data collection. It also outlines data collection challenges that are commonly faced when working in the field.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
07 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376328
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Business 2021
Cover Upgrading the Global Garment Industry
Upgrading the Global Garment Industry
Internationalization, Capabilities and Sustainability
Editors: Mohammad B. Rana and Matthew M.C. Allen
This timely book focuses on the upgrading of firms within the global garment industry, examining how garment manufacturers and retailers in different countries internationalize, develop their capabilities and enhance their sustainability. It highlights the important role the global garments industry plays in the socio-economic development and environmental outcomes of emerging economies.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
04 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789907650
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Economics 2021
Cover Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries
Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries
Editors: Duncan French and Louis J. Kotzé
This comprehensive Research Handbook is the first study to link law and Earth system science through the epistemic lens of the planetary boundaries framework. It critically examines the legal and governance aspects of the framework, considering not only each planetary boundary, but also a range of systemic issues, including the ability of law to keep us within the planetary boundaries’ safe operating space.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
23 Apr 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789902747
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Law 2021
Cover Digital Identity, Virtual Borders and Social Media
Digital Identity, Virtual Borders and Social Media
A Panacea for Migration Governance?
Editor: Emre E. Korkmaz
This insightful book discusses how states deploy frontier and digital technologies to manage and control migratory movements. Assessing the development of blockchain technologies for digital identities and cash transfer; artificial intelligence for smart borders, resettlement of refugees and assessing asylum applications; social media and mobile phone applications to track and surveil migrants, it critically examines the consequences of new technological developments and evaluates their impact on the rights of migrants and refugees.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
22 Apr 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909159
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Political Science and Public Policy 2021