Economy & Finance

Deliberative Governance for Sustainable Development argues that governance has become the core problem of sustainable development and identifies deliberative democracy and governance as a path forward for Western societies.

The book covers a large body of knowledge to help practitioners and researchers understand the problems, concepts, methods and tools involved in modern social data analytics. The book includes a wealth of material to choose from for courses in data science and analytics.

Blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) have been identified as emerging technologies that can enhance global supply chain management processes. Given the embryonic nature of the technology, use cases pertaining to how it can be adopted and deployed in supply chain contexts is scarce.

The feature that distinguishes this book from all other books on entrepreneurship is the comprehensive discussion of the challenges and opportunities that entrepreneurs encounter in the Industry 4.0 era. It enables readers to start dreaming big, visualizing, and encourages them to think clearly and creatively

The book addresses the issues faced by teachers in the adoption of digital tools into their teaching. It presents theoretical perspectives of teaching students with technology and proposes a pragmatic and sustainable framework for teachers' professional learning to embed digital technologies into their repertoire of teaching strategies.

This edited collection brings together journalism scholars from mainland China, Hong Kong, the UK and Australia to address a variety of pressing issues and challenges facing digital journalism in China today.

This book covers the global digital revolution in the field of healthcare sector. The book encompasses chapters belong to the blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and Big health data technologies.

Given the increasing presence of non-Western nations in global affairs, Hiroki Kusano and Hiro Katsumata explore responses to the backlash taking place in the West against the global spread of liberalism - to the global spread of free trade, multilateral institutions, and liberal-democratic politics.

The book explores the rise of neo-liberalization in academic system in a highly unlikely place: Sweden, a country with a strong social democratic tradition and a long history of state regulation of higher education.

This practical guide covers the steps necessary to sustain quality in a project from start to finish. The book shows how to identify risks at different process, phases, stages and offers directions on how to mitigate and reduce risks using analysis, evaluation, and monitoring.

The Bioeconomy and Non-Timber Forest Products provides the first investigation into the role of these products in supporting a transition from business-as-usual to a forest-based bioeconomy.

Security systems have become an integral part of the building and large complex setups and intervention of Computational Intelligence (CI) paradigm plays an important role in security system architecture. The book covers both theoretical contributions and practical applications in security system design by applying Internet of Things and CI.

Responding to urgent calls to de-westernise Media and Journalism Studies and shed light on local agency, this book examines digital journalistic practices in the Arab region, exploring how Arab journalists understand their roles and how digital technologies in Arab newsrooms are used to influence public opinion.

This book concerns the professional standards of executive remuneration consultants and their 'in-house' counterparts in providing remuneration committee advisory services. It provides novel insights into this previously under-researched area of corporate governance/financial regulation.

Social media plays an important role for businesses and consumers. The importance of social media does not only stem from connecting businesses and consumers. It is also a very important resource. The main reason for this is that social media contains very important data.

This book focusses on applications of different digital platforms in the field of healthcare including different devices used, their benefits, diagnosis, use in treatment, and use cases related to mobile healthcare. It covers machine learning, blockchain technology, big data analytics digital healthcare, telehealth technology and so forth.

This book presents the Quality of Life using a contemporary and interdisciplinary approach. Quality of LIfe is not only about the technological interface, but also understanding where we go next. Various socio-cultural, spiritual, technological, and human factors aspects which have an immense bearing on our lives, are covered in this book.