Reinterpreting Sub-Saharan Cities Through the Concept of Adaptive Capacity

Liana Ricci

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 26
• This book explores whether and how a reinterpretation of Sub-Saharan cities, through the concept of adaptive capacity, could bridge this distance and ... Lees meer

Legal Education and Legal Traditions: Selected Essays

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 34
• This book deals with aspects of legal education and legal traditions. Part I includes chapters on teaching Law of the Sea, legal ethics and educating ... Lees meer

Demography and the Anthropocene

Larry D Barnett

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 35
• Environmentalists devote little attention at the moment to the size and growth of the human population. To counter this neglect, the monograph (i) inc... Lees meer

Frederic W. Harmer: A Scientific Biography

John A Kington

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 19
• Comprising the first definitive account of the geological and palaeometeorological studies made by the British geologist, Frederic W. Harmer (1835-192... Lees meer

Anthropological Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 6
• A decade after the approval of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), the concept has gained wide acce... Lees meer

China's Energy Efficiency and Conservation

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 31
• This Brief identifies various aspects of energy challenges faced by the Chinese central/local governments, and also provides an opportunity to study h... Lees meer

Balancing Nature and Civilization - Alternative Sustainability Perspectives from Philosophy to Practice

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 32
• This book is an outcome of an international symposium: Sustainability -Can We Design the Future of Human Life and the Environment? which was held as a... Lees meer

Post-Conflict Security, Peace and Development

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 13
• This book examines links between post-conflict security, peace and development in Africa, Latin America, Europe and New Zealand. Young peace researche... Lees meer

China's Energy Efficiency and Conservation

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 30
• This Brief identifies various aspects of energy challenges faced by the Chinese central/local governments, and also provides an opportunity to study h... Lees meer

Building Civil Society in Authoritarian China

John W Tai

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 20
• How is modern civil society created? There are few contemporary studies on this important question and when it is addressed, scholars tend to emphasiz... Lees meer

Housing and Technology

Abraham R Matamanda, Innocent Chirisa, Siphokazi Rammile, Mario Marais

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 37
• The housing and human settlement sector is fast changing, and technology is making it more complex than ever before. With reference to Zimbabwe, a dev... Lees meer

Gender and Land Tenure in the Context of Disaster in Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 21
• This book explores an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of gender and development studies, disaster and land tenure policy. It is well known... Lees meer

Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 22
• This unique book focuses on the hybridization of grassroots participation in planning, implementing, and developing gender-responsive budgeting. It ex... Lees meer

Job Security and Temporary Employment Contracts

Mehdi Shabannia Mansour, Kamal Halili Hassan

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 9
• This book discusses the need of a legal protection at national and global levels to address the use of temporary employment contracts by employers. Ch... Lees meer

Public Perceptions of Radiation Effects on Health Risks and Well-Being

Yusniza Kamarulzaman, Farrah Dina Yusop, Noorhidawati Abdullah, Azian Madun, Kwan-Hoong Ng

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 33
• This book reports on the investigation of the public's perception of Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Field (RF-EMF) radiation effects on health and we... Lees meer

Water, Food and Welfare

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 23
• This book addresses the following topics: the contemporary model for water management and alternative approaches; the socioeconomic framework, water p... Lees meer

Healing Is What Makes Peace Work

Angi Yoder-Maina

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 39
• The book goes beyond mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) to a holistic approach centered on healing. The book lays at the intersection of p... Lees meer

Rights, Rivers and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh

Imtiaz Ahmed

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 36
• Right to water may sound novel and somewhat dramatic, yet it has been central to the quest of human civilization for thousands of years. One of the ea... Lees meer

International Migration and Crisis

Ana Elizabeth Jardón Hernández

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 27
• This book presents an analysis of the various transformation processes at work in the international migratory dynamic of Mexicans as a consequence of ... Lees meer

The British Role in Iranian Domestic Politics (1951-1953)

Mansoureh Ebrahimi

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Pea | nr. 5
• Based on British and Iranian sources, this book investigates the background and goals of the coup in Iran, examining how British foreign and domestic ... Lees meer