Nature

Given the political, social and economic salience of locale, this book explores the potential contribution of place-based initiative to more balanced and equitable socio-economic development, as well as growth in a more general sense.

This book explores the evolving relationship between fashion and transnational capitalism.

A growing number of animal ethicists defend new omnivorism-the view that it's permissible, if not obligatory, to consume certain kinds of animal flesh and products. This book puts defenders of new omnivorism and advocates of strict veganism into conversation with one another to further debates in food ethics in novel and meaningful ways.

This book integrates the science of spatial cognition and the science of team cognition to explore the social, psychological, and behavioral phenomenon of spatial cognition as it occurs in human collectives.

This book offers a fresh perspective on ecological dynamics in the Mediterranean basin, positing their correlation with social and economic regimes, demographic transformations, local governance structures, and deficiencies in spatial planning.

A Naturalist's Guide to the Fungi of Aotearoa New Zealand is an easy-to-use introductory identification guide to 267 species of New Zealand's fungi

This book proposes a conceptualisation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements as a form of international organisations, exploring the ways in which they have expanded over time by discussing the nuances of authority in global governance. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations and international law.

This book, the first of its kind, introduces various aspects of urban planning in India and contributes towards debates on changes required in the current practice.

Rural Settlement in Britain (1977) examines the impact of varied environmental, social and economic forces upon settlement and analyses the key questions and models applicable to each particular village.

A timely enquiry into the disjuncture between schooling and society, this book aims to examine the specific spatialities and temporalities of modern schooling through which non-normative childhoods are constructed as the 'provincial other'.

Critical Planning Futures brings together an international range of voices from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore new directions in planning theory, interrogate planning's orthodoxy, and push the boundaries of contemporary theory using ideas both from within planning and beyond.

Critical Planning Futures brings together an international range of voices from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore new directions in planning theory, interrogate planning's orthodoxy, and push the boundaries of contemporary theory using ideas both from within planning and beyond.

The contribution of this book is the development of the assessment tool for measuring social responsibility of every enterprise - Enterprise Social Responsibility Index (EnSRI) and Consumer Social responsibility Index (CnSRI).

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three resource-based 'company town' projects built during World War II. It will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, history, international relations and Middle Eastern studies.

Exploring the concept of homotopy from topology, different homotopy-based methods have been proposed for analytically solving nonlinear differential equations, given by approximate series solutions. Homotopy-Based Methods in Water Engineering attempts to present the applicability of these methods to water engineering problems.

The book looks at recent initiatives for river restoration and riverfront intended to contribute to making Asian cities clean, resilient and investment worthy.

This book presents a transdisciplinary and transnational challenge to the enduring coloniality of political concepts, discussing the need to decolonise both their theoretical constructions.