Books in the Routledge International Handbooks series

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of behavioral economics which considers both key developments and future possibilities. Part One looks at the origins and development of the field, exploring the work of the scholars who were influential in making this area so prominent. Part Two considers applications of behavioural economics.

This handbook examines current trends and reforms in public policy and administration. The two themes of the book are that public policy and administration have acquired an important global aspect, and that a critical role for government is the regulation of capital.

The handbook presents a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the rapidly growing field of political ecology. With contributions from over 50 leading authors, the Handbook presents a systematic overview of political ecology's origins, practices and core concerns, and aims to advance both ongoing and emerging debates.

The Routledge Handbook on Victims¿ Issues in Criminal Justice is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook on current victims¿ issues, with a distinctive emphasis on the delivery of suitable and effective services. The editor provides an introduction and conclusion to the handbook, synthesizing original contributions from current leaders in the field, surveying victims¿ rights in the United States, victim participation in the criminal justice system, victims¿ welfare and needs, and most notably the services that have been developed in response. A section on special populations in the United States brings focus to current and emerging issues faced within the United States, while a section covering international and transnational victimization explores globalization and the implications of other legal traditions and systems.

This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on African media, culture and communication, building a critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first.

Written by expert scholars, service providers, policy analysts, and health-care professionals, this Handbook is an invaluable resource for those already working in the field, as well as for students in any discipline who want to learn (or learn more) about HT and modern-day slavery.

The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers a remarkably clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the twenty-first century.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Ethics and Values is a comprehensive exploration and assessment of current and future issues facing social work practice and education.

Featuring forty-six essays written by leading international and multidisciplinary scholars, this fully revised second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies offers a conceptual and truyely global approach to the study of international migration.

The handbook engages with comprehensive, contemporary and critical theoretical debates on Latin American development. It draws on contributions from across the humanities and social sciences and highlights the disruptions to the field being brought by a range of anti-capitalist, decolonial, feminist, and ontological intellectual contributions.

The Routledge Handbook of Postsecularity offers an internationally significant and comprehensive interdisciplinary collection which provides a series of critical reviews of the current state of the art and future trends in philosophical, theoretical, and conceptual terms.

This thoroughly updated edition provides an unparalleled overview of cutting-edge scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 70 essays written by scholars from around the world, the handbook charts diverse new pathways for understanding culture in our global era.

The volume brings various global perspectives into close dialogue to offer a broad, interdisciplinary, and critical overview of the current state of research on urban imaginaries.

This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies contains an updated and expanded selection of original chapters which explore research directions in an array of disciplines sharing a concern for 'landscape', a term which has many uses and meanings.

Agricultural economics encompasses a large sector of any economy and this Routledge Handbook compiles the latest scholarship on agricultural economics. The entries in this volume explore contemporary issues such as climate change, genetically modified foods, and rural poverty.

Over 60 of the world's leading scholar address key core themes and topics in an extensive critical new overview of African development - including sections on history, health and food, politics, economics, rural and urban development and development policy and practice.

The Handbook's coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the most important, innovative and recent critical developments to the inter-disciplinary field of urban politics, drawing upon a range of examples from within and across the Global North and Global South.

The Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History documents and interprets the development of economic history as a global discipline from the later nineteenth century to the present day. Exploring the normative and relativistic nature of different schools and traditions of thought, this handbook not only examines current paradigmatic wes