Publications
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Digital Business Models in Sport
(2022)
Digital technologies are having a profound impact on sport business, opening up new opportunities to generate income and value. This book explores the phenomenon of digitization in sport management, with a particular focus ...
Historical Agriculture and Soil Erosion in the Upper Mississippi Valley Hill Country
(2013)
"This thought-provoking book demonstrates how processes of landscape transformation, usually illustrated only in simplified or idealized form, play out over time in real, complex landscapes. Trimble illustrates how a simple ...
Political Ecology of REDD+ in Indonesia
(2019)
Indonesia’s commitment to reducing land-based greenhouse gas emissions
significantly includes the expansion of conservation areas, but these developments
are not free of conflicts. This book provides a comprehensive ...
After the Victorians
(1994)
Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as `civilisation', `domesticity', `conscience' and ...
Chapter 3 The competition over norms
(2024)
The shift in international relations towards multipolarity has had profound implications across the world, but particularly in highly penetrated regions such as the Middle East. This book explores the rivalry between the ...
The Philosophy and Psychology of Commitment
(2022)
The phenomenon of commitment is a cornerstone of human social life. Commitments make individuals’ behavior predictable, thereby facilitating the planning and coordination of joint actions involving multiple agents. Moreover, ...
Creative Economies of Culture in South Asia
(2025)
This book explores the crafts and performing arts of South Asia through a focus on labour and livelihood. It brings to light little-researched angles of social and political economies of culture and the ways in which they ...
Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London
(2020)
This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Collection, London. The content of these manuscripts ranges from medicine, ...
Africa's Soft Power
(2021)
This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to help drive global influence. Selecting four of the countries most associated with soft power across the continent, this book delves into ...
EU Social Inclusion Policies in Post-Socialist Countries
(2020)
This book explores experiences with inclusion policy implementation in seven different post-socialist EU countries. It focuses particularly on two groups of people in constant danger of social exclusion: People with Roma ...
The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model
(2021)
The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sweden and Finland – two ...
Arctic Geopolitics, Media and Power
(2019)
Arctic Geopolitics, Media and Power provides a fresh way of looking at the potential and limitations of regional international governance in the Arctic region.
Far-reaching impacts of climate change, its wealth of ...
Chapter 1 Patterns of Death, 1800-2020
(2021)
This chapter provides a brief introduction to mortality patterns over the last two centuries, from a global perspective. The period witnessed enormous and ubiquitous rises in life expectancy at birth, from a global average ...
Chapter 5 The Systems Approach to Innovation Management
(2019)
The environment in which a company or organization operates today can be characterized
by accelerating change, the globalization of markets, the emergence of new technologies and
competitors, new regulatory requirements ...
Sport Stadiums and Environmental Justice
(2023)
This book explores the local environmental impact of sports stadiums, and how that impact can disproportionately affect communities of color. Offering a series of review articles and global case studies, it illustrates ...
The Happiest Days?
(1990)
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Chapter 13 Haptic Creatures
(2022)
Collaborations between entertainment industries and artificial intelligence researchers in Japan have since the mid-1990s produced a growing interest in modeling affect and emotion for use in mass-produced social robots. ...
Diagnostic Devices with Microfluidics
(2017)
This book provides a current view of the research and commercial landscape of diagnostics devices, particularly those that utilize microscale technologies, intended for both patient and laboratory use. Common diagnostic ...
Capitalist Cold
(2025)
The capitalist system has often been described by its critics as a heartless economic structure corroding social bonds and symbolic values. Its defenders and analysts likewise use narratives that position emotions as central ...
Tunnelling for a Better Life
(2024)
Tunnelling for a Better Life contain the contributions presented at the ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress 2024, which was held from 19-25 April 2024 in Shenzhen, China. As urbanization accelerates, the pivotal role of tunnels ...