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Governance, Policy and Juxtaposition: A Maritime Perspective

Springer, 2019

This book considers governance and policy-making within the maritime sector, and focuses significantly on the dimensional context within which governance works. Recognising the importance of understanding governance and policy at times when the world is faced with social, political, and economic problems, it highlights the fact that...

Housing Policy in Australia: A Case for System Reform

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book, the first comprehensive overview of housing policy in Australia in 25 years, investigates the many dimensions of housing affordability and government actions that affect affordability outcomes. It analyses the causes and implications of declining home ownership, rising rates of rental stress and the neglect of...

Sustainable Development Goals and Institutions of Higher Education (Sustainable Development Goals Series)

Springer, 2019

This volume brings together both theoretical and case study based contributions to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Institutions of Higher Education (IHE), presenting an impactful combination of authors from both developing and developed...

Disadvantaged Children in India: Empirical Evidence, Policies and Actions

Springer, 2019

This book addresses issues concerning five major categories of disadvantaged children, namely street children, children involved in trafficking, child labor, slum children, and children in institutional care, which apply to a large number of children around the world, including India. Compiling primary and secondary research-based evidences in...

War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars (Publications of the German Historical Institute)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

The histories of modern war and childhood were the result of competing urgencies. According to ideals of childhood widely accepted throughout the world by 1900, children should have been protected, even hidden, from conflict and danger. Yet at a time when modern ways of childhood became increasingly possible for economic, social, and political...

Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

Foreword by Janet Yellen

Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America.

Shan, a former hard laborer...

Collateral Management: A Guide to Mitigating Counterparty Risk (Wiley Finance)

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

Insight into collateral management and its increasing relevance in modern banking

In the wake of recent financial crises, firms of all sizes have adjusted their policies to incorporate more frequent instances of collateral management. Collateral Management: A Guide to Mitigating Counterparty Risk explains the...

Energy Resources in Bangladesh: Trends and Contemporary Issues

Springer, 2018

This book discusses the energy issues facing Bangladesh, specifically the lack of access to electricity that impedes overall development. In-depth chapters examine critical energy problems and provide possible solutions including energy conversion and energy efficiency and the utilization of energy reform strategies for further development of...

The Wiley Handbook of Global Educational Reform (Wiley Handbooks in Education)

John Wiley & Sons, 2018

The Wiley Handbook of Global Educational Reform examines educational reform from a global perspective. Comprised of approximately 25 original and specially commissioned essays, which together interrogate educational reform from a critical global and transnational perspective, this volume explores a range of topics and themes...

Air Pollution: Sources, Impacts and Controls

CABI Publishing, 2019

The problem of air pollution has become a global issue, driven by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization. Pollutants directly emitted into the atmosphere include nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, sulphur oxides, particulate matter (PM), volatile organic compounds, carbonaceous particles, dust, and sea-salt. Secondary...

Smart Economy in Smart African Cities: Sustainable, Inclusive, Resilient and Prosperous (Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements)

Springer, 2019

This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa. It discusses a robust set of concepts, including smart planning, smart infrastructure development, smart economic development, smart environmental sustainability, smart social...

Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book integrates planning, policy, economics, and urban design into an approach to crafting innovative places. Exploring new paradigms of innovative places under the framework of globalisation, urbanisation, and new technology, it argues against state-centric policies to innovation and focuses on how a globalized approach can shape...

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