Publications
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Managing Labour in Small Firms
(2005)
The majority of employees currently working in the private sector are now employed in small firms, yet little is known about their working conditions. This collection of essays addresses this gap. Based on theoretical ...
Chapter 2 Algorithms, Conventions and New Regulation Processes
(2022)
Democratic Frontiers: Algorithms and Society focuses on digital platforms’ effects in societies with respect to key areas such as subjectivity and self-reflection, data and measurement for the common good, public health ...
Chapter 4 Enhancing Gender-Responsive Financing in Africa
(2023)
African women experience numerous barriers in society due to a lack of access to education, health, property rights, and economic tools for generating income and achieving prosperity. Moreover, within the current global ...
Reconstructing Minds and Landscapes
(2021)
Mental and material reconstruction was an ongoing process after World War II, and it still is. This volume combines a detailed treatment of post-war cultural reconstruction in Finnish Lapland – a region on the geographical ...
The Aral Sea Basin
(2019)
This book offers the first multidisciplinary overview of water resources issues and management in the Aral Sea Basin, covering both the Amu Darya and Syr Darya River Basins.
The two main rivers of Amu Darya and Syr Darya ...
Digital Transformation and the Economics of Banking
(2024)
Banking; digital transformation; digitalization; financial institutions; FinTech; innovation and technology management; Insurance; CBDC, sustainability, privacy, central bank, digital currency, FinTech
Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707–1840
(2018)
Cultures; Improvement; Scottish Romanticism
Positive Psychology and Biodiversity Conservation
(2025)
This book reveals how pro‑environmental actions can boost individuals’ and communities’ psychological, social, and emotional wellbeing, resulting in positive environmental changes. Pro‑environmental actions are often viewed ...
Designing Sustainable and Resilient Cities
(2023)
This book explores the link between the Food-Water-Energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities. Using data from Urban ...
Democracy and Climate Change
(2018)
Democracy and Climate Change explores the various ways in which democratic principles can lead governments to respond differently to climate change. The election cycle can lead to short-termism, which often appears to be ...
Assessment of Plurilingual Competence and Plurilingual Learners in Educational Settings
(2024)
This book addresses contemporary issues in the assessment of plurilingual competence and plurilingual learners. Offering theoretical and practical lenses, it contributes towards an integrated and holistic assessment of ...
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Health
(2021)
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Health provides a bridge between translation studies and the burgeoning field of health humanities, which seeks novel ways of understanding health and illness. As discourses around ...
The Transformation of Welfare States?
(2006)
This accessible work provides a ‘political sociology’ of welfare states in industrial societies, with both historical and contemporary perspectives. Ellison focuses on the social and political underpinnings of a number of ...
Chapter 2 School food approaches in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador
(2022)
The purpose of this chapter is to compare approaches to school food in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia from an educational perspective, taking into consideration national policy documents, plans and programs. The focus is on ...
Higher Education Institutions and Digital Transformation
(2023)
The growing complexity, fluidity and instability of the environment as well as changing needs are challenges that both enterprises and higher education institutions must face. Higher education institutions understand that ...
The Biology of the First 1,000 Days
(2018)
The first 1,000 days, from conception to two years of age, is a critical period of growth and development. Exposures to dietary, environmental, hormonal, and other stressors during this window have been associated with an ...
China and great power responsibility for climate change
(2018)
As American leadership over climate change declines, China has begun to identify itself as a great power by formulating ambitious climate policies. Based on the premise that great powers have unique responsibilities, this ...
Chapter 1 The puzzling resilience of authoritarian party dominance
(2023)
Numerous studies have explored why some autocracies endure but others do not. Although they argue that party-based, parliamentary autocracies are relatively resilient, even during multiparty elections, because of the ...
Heritage and Festivals in Europe
(2019)
Heritage and Festivals in Europe critically investigates the purpose, reach and effects of heritage festivals. Providing a comprehensive and detailed analysis of comparatively selected aspects of intangible cultural heritage, ...
Philosophies of Catholic Education
(2024)
This seminal volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to presenting an authoritative account of contemporary philosophies of Catholic education, intersecting the substantive boundaries of education, religious studies, ...