Economy & Finance

This book focuses on a variety of themes concerning the relationship between financial systems in a broader sense and firms' growth in historical perspective in some European countries. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Business History.

Parliament as an Export (1966) deals with the adoption of overseas countries and particularly the Commonwealth countries of the British Parliamentary system. These countries examined are the original British colonies, the Dominions, the Indian sub-continent and the newer colonial territories.

This book examines how current energy and water management processes affect Indigenous communities in North America, with a specific focus on Canada.

This book considers Chinese, US, Russian, EU and other powers competition and collaboration in Eurasia, demonstrating that we are in a new Multipolar World Order 2.0 stage.

The Rise of Green Extractivism tackles the understudied interconnections between extractivism and climate-smart policies and their implications for rural livelihoods, both theoretically and empirically.

This book dispels myths surrounding the newspaper industry's financial viability in an online world, arguing that widespread predictions of pending newspaper extinction are based mostly on misunderstandings of the industry's operations.

Technology, Human Performance, and Nuclear Facilities: A Systems Engineering Approach to Reduce Human Error provides a basic understanding of Human Error/Performance and its relation to industrial operations and advancing technologies incorporated into facilities.

Unlike other books on the Arab uprisings which focus on why they occurred, this book looks instead towards the future of three countries - Syria, Libya and Yemen - where the violence and instability initiated by the uprisings persist. It additionally examines the case of Iraq which continues to suffer from a precarious political situation.

This book explores the potential for public banks to help finance the expansion, democratization and sustainability of public water services in Europe, with implications for public water financing elsewhere in the world. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Water International.

This book analyzes the international relations of Mexico and the two most important substate governments of the United States, California and Texas.

This book analyses the complexity of South and SE Asia in international health, taking into account the impact of the geopolitics of the Cold War on the development of public health and development in the regions. It will be a valuable contribution to the History of Medicine and Health and Political Economy of South and SE Asia.

This volume examines the role of higher education and employment in economic development in emerging economies like India. It looks at the contours of higher education policies and the labour market dynamics to explore ways to address joblessness and income disparity.

This book discusses creativity in teaching and how to enhance creativity in learners. It highlights the new reality of teaching and learning in the digital era, specifically the impact of Artificial Intelligence, Data Economy, and Artificial Minds on modern teaching practices, curriculum design, and the role of teachers in classrooms.

This book provides a systematic and multifaceted overview of urban wellbeing. It explores the characteristics and complexities of urban wellbeing of lower and middle classes in Asian megacities.

This book focuses on both the design and implementation of AI-based approaches for systems that aid in monitoring and combating pandemics such as occurred with COVID-19. These systems are based on the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), using sensor networks and other advanced technologies. The book examines different aspects of AI and IoMT.

ASEAN's real gross domestic product (GDP) had declined sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic. This book offers insights into regional and country-level perspectives and ways to keep the greenness of the economic recovery plans.

This book contributes to the debate about the suitability and challenges of the Smart Water Management approach. It includes examples of SWM systems in practice in diverse locations from Korea, Mexico, Paris, the Canary Islands and southern Africa, aimed at addressing a diverse set of problems, including monitoring water supply to refugees.

Published in French in this Variorum volume, these chapters represent over twenty years of scholarship and publication.

This book examines the creative impact of licensing on the entertainment industry, how licensing practitioners' occupational disposition is formed, and the role licensing professionals play in managing the circulation of intellectual property.