Interdisciplinary Studies

Most of Indonesian population live in rural areas, and the majority of poor people also live in rural areas, namely 13.47% in rural and 7.26 in urb...

The Hebrew Bible is the main legislative and literary influence on European Poor Law and on literature on poverty and the poor. No extant literatur...

Contemporary security governance often relies on markets and networks to link public agencies to non-governmental actors. This book explores the ri...

A fundamental question about contemporary Africa is why does Africa remain so poor, long after the departure of the European Colonial domination an...

First published in 1999, this study aims to develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of livestock farming systems and their conditions of c...

We know that positive, fulfilling and satisfying relationships are strong predictors of life satisfaction, psychological health, and physical well-...

The architects of the Camp David process expected their efforts to become a broad and inclusive framework for peace in the Middle East. Dr. Friedla...

This book details on the important segment of Jewish society, focusing on the role of intellectuals in the formation and growth of the state of Isr...

This vivid portrayal of political and social behavior in the Arab states offers new perspectives to the student and scholar of the Middle East. It ...

Transnational learning has become a buzz phrase in European policy-making and in multi-national business. Learning from the experiences of others i...

Life Cycle Approaches to Sustainable Regional Development explains the ways life cycle methodologies and tools can be used to strengthen regional s...

Thailand is exceptional among modern states in Asia in that it has built and retained a national culture around a traditional monarchical instituti...

Command and Control (C2) is the set of organizational and technical attributes and processes by which an enterprise marshals and employs human, phy...

The book is a collection of essays written by scholars of global repute in honour of Professor Sunanda Sen. Each paper is well-researched and offer...

On 11 January 1992 senior military officers forced President Chadli Benjedid to resign; canceled the second round of legislative elections and annu...

The book is the first attempt to offer a holistic and integrated exploration of the political-economic framework underpinning economic regionalism....

Are countries truly reconciled after successful conflict resolution? Are only resource-rich regions capable of reconciliation, while supposedly res...

In the past businesses have viewed water as a minimal operational cost and not a strategic issue. However, water has now emerged as a critical issu...

Offering the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between populism and political meritocracy, this book asks why states with meritocratic sy...

Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the fi...

Women, Reconciliation and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict explores the most prominent instances of womens political activism in the occupied Pales...

In the last few decades, many global cities and towns have experienced unprecedented economic, social, and spatial structural change. Today, we fin...

This edited volume looks at whether it is possible to be more transparent about uncertainty in scientific evidence without undermining public under...

Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and polic...

Risk communication is crucial to building community resilience and reducing risk from extreme events.True community resilience involves accurate an...

This book examines the state of the Open and Distance Learning (ODL)-based secondary education in India. ODL-based education has been a key resourc...

This is an unusual book. Combining social science fiction, utopianism, pragmatism, sober analysis and innovative social theory, the authors address...

Does the European Union need closer fiscal integration, and in particular a stronger fiscal centre, to become more resilient to economic shocks? Th...

How was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history o...

Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation. It is wid...

Contract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and i...

Welfare states are the product of economic, political and social interactions, and undergo changes as these interactions transform. Existing welfar...

As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into foc...

During the past 25 years the burden of managing economic policy for competitiveness has devolved to cities and to urban regions. National governmen...

If the political and social benchmarks of sustainability and sustainable development are to be met, ignoring the role of the humanities and social,...

This book investigates the globalization process of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in West Africa, primarily in Benin and Ghana, based on e...