Books published by Emerald Publishing Limited

Framing a new theoretical analysis in a field with limited data, Mixed Race Life Stories: The Multiracializing Gaze in Canada builds an understanding of the affective lived experiences of mixed race people, the different ways they are racialized and how that may impact a politics of mixed race moving forward.

Co-edited by the president of Georgia Tech, one of America's leading research universities, this book demonstrates how higher education institutions are uniquely positioned to act as catalysts, conveners, and supporters of key partnerships to help advance the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

Fully updated, this new edition of Sustainable Infrastructure: Principles into practice is an essential practical handbook to help engineers deliver sustainable outcomes.

Highway Bridge Management provides the bridge maintenance engineer and bridge manager with key information necessary to effectively manage highway bridges and other structures.

Building Regulations and Standards is a concise practical guide to requirements of the building regulations explaining how to achieve compliance to secure safe, sustainable and healthy developments.

Motivating the SEL Field Forward Through Equity looks for a deeper critical understanding of the role of social and emotional learning (SEL) as a lever for equitable access to the competencies and skills individuals will ultimately need to be successful in school, work, and life.

This volume covers a wide range of existing and emerging topics in applied health economics, including behavioural economics, medical care risk, social insurance, discrete choice models, cost-effectiveness analysis, health and immigration, and more.

Smart Cities and Digital Transformation offers a three-tiered approach to tomorrow's cities in terms of limitless innovation, sustainable development and empowering communities.

Volumes 45a and 45b of Advances in Econometrics honor Professor Joon Y. Park, who has made numerous and substantive contributions to the field of econometrics over a career spanning four decades since the 1980s and counting.

Volumes 45a and 45b of Advances in Econometrics honor Professor Joon Y. Park, who has made numerous and substantive contributions to the field of econometrics over a career spanning four decades since the 1980s and counting.

What is the social licence to operate, and what are its ethical risks and promises? This collection explores these questions from a range of perspectives.

The collection of renowned entrepreneurship education researchers explores topics such as the theory of ideation, how to develop an expertise approach, how to reimagine entrepreneurship education to promote gender equality, how to activate an entrepreneurial mindset for neuro-diverse students, and more.

The chapters look at socially responsible plastic in countries ranging from China, Malaysia, Pakistan, Spain, Australia and India to Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Bangladesh, with research covering tourism, waste management, the food and drink industry, and the possible advantages of responsible plastic use.

This 25th edition of Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting explores many aspects across professional responsibility and ethics in accounting, including balancing values vs profits, whistleblowing, earnings management, ethical financial reporting, and moral identity.

This volume of the International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics explores the latest economic and financial developments in Africa and Asia.

Highlighting the workers who provide the essential services, maintenance and manufactured goods that power the global economy, Management and Organizational Studies on Blue and Grey Collar Workers supplies essential knowledge on an often overlooked workforce for a variety of disciplines.

Building upon the recent global escalation of the remote work phenomenon, Flexible Work and the Family provides timely insights into flexible work's implications for the increasingly blurred work-life divide.

Multidisciplinary in scope and using predominantly qualitative approaches, Conjugal Trajectories: Relationship Beginnings, Change, and Dissolutions focuses upon relevant trajectories to better comprehend the evolving nature of conjugal relationships and its implications for family life moving forward.

Critical, scholarly, and reflective perspectives on the theory, practice and progress made towards achieving antiracism in the various domains of Library and Information Science and towards creating racial justice in communities through the work of information professionals.

Pandemic Pedagogy: Preparedness in Uncertain Times collates various case studies and other empirical research that examine learning practices and demonstrate approaches to address future catastrophes and continue the pandemic recovery process.

For its breadth and depth of research, this volume of Current Perspectives in Social Theory is essential reading for both undergraduate and graduate students wanting to understand what a social-research mindset entails, as well as professionalization, methodology, and theoretical orientation, and related applications.

Public Participation in Transport in Times of Change discusses various forms of public participation in connection to sustainable mobility, transport planning, policy, health, infrastructure, and active travel, creating a comprehensive analysis relevant for both practitioners and researchers who operate within the transport field.

Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance (APBBEF) is an annual series designed to focus on interdisciplinary research in finance, economics, and management among Pacific Rim countries.

The labour economy is being transformed by technology, as employers embrace new practices that utilise flexible work contracts and a whole new generation of tech-savvy employees. Leaders and decision-makers, managers and aspiring professionals, and a generation soon joining the workforce, will find Reshaping the Future invaluable.

Information Technology in Organisations and Societies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from AI to Technostress consolidates studies on key issues and phenomena concerning the positive and negative aspects of IT use as well as prescribing future research avenues in related research.

Furthering dialogues around the applied relevance of key principles in childhood studies, this diverse edited collection is an important contribution to the fields of education, sociology, childcare and youth policy and practice.

Digital Feudalism explores this new moment in capitalism, and how reliant global economies have become on these processes of consumption, work, and debt.

Covering disaster scenarios, and the causes and consequences of disaster displacement, Disaster, Displacement and Resilient Livelihoods: Perspectives from South Asia focuses on the South Asian context, generating new insights and considering the policy implications of strategies for building resilient livelihoods.

Anna Irimiás provides an informed overview on the characteristics of youth tourists with a focus on tourism consumption. Youth tourists' pre-trip, on-stay and post-trip tourism behaviours are studied in light of the current trends. Challenges and implications are critically analysed.