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  • Singapore’s Policy Designs for Higher Education and Economic Development

    Educating the Developmental State

    by J.J. Woo ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides an overview of Singapore’s higher education system, focusing in particular on its role in supporting and facilitating the city-state’s economic development policies. It discusses the various components of Singapore’s post-secondary higher education system, such as its public and private universities, polytechnics, institutes of technical education, private educational ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Building Urban Resilience

    Singapore’s Policy Response to Covid-19

    by J.J. Woo, Debbie R. Loo ...
    Series Book 19 - Routledge Research in Sustainable Planning and Development in Asia
    This is one of the first few books to discuss the Covid-19 crisis as an urban phenomenon and illustrates this through the case of Singapore and its pandemic response efforts.The book describes the implications and impacts of the pandemic on Singapore’s urban landscape, economy, and society. It also assesses the urban interventions that have emerged in response to the pandemic. It examines the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew

    by S. C. Y. Luk, P. W. Preston ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book addresses key questions about how Singapore is likely to develop going forward, what are the key challenges facing the state, and how is the government going to deal with these matters. The book shows how important Lee Kuan Yew and subsequent individual leaders have been in shaping Singapore, and goes on to consider specific new challenges, including rapid population growth, migration ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Crisis Response in Higher Education

    How the Pandemic Challenged University Operations and Organisation

    by Mats Benner, Jonathan Grant, Mary O’Kane ...
    This open access book explores the impact of Covid-19 on universities, and how students, staff, faculty and academic leaders have adapted to and dealt with the impact of the pandemic. Drawing on experiences from Britain, Australia and Sweden, it showcases how Covid has challenged routines and procedures in universities, and thrown them into a disarray of ever-changing events and short-term ... Read more

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  • Medical Tourism

    The Ethics, Regulation, and Marketing of Health Mobility

    Edited by C. Michael Hall ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Medical and health tourism is a significant area of growth in the export of medical, health and tourism services. Although spas and improved well-being have long been part of the tourist experience, health tourism now includes travel for medical purposes ranging from cosmetic and dental surgery through to transplants and infertility treatment. Many countries including China, Cuba, Hungary, India, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Singapore's First Year of COVID-19

    Public Health, Immigration, the Neoliberal State, and Authoritarian Populism

    Edited by Kenneth Paul Tan ...
    This book addresses the question of what Singapore's COVID-19 pandemic response in the first year can tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of the Singapore model and what its prospects might be in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous post-pandemic world. As a concise, holistic, and critical documentation of the first year of COVID-19 in Singapore, the multi ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Participatory Research and Planning in Practice

    Edited by Janez Nared, David Bole ...
    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This open access book provides in-depth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. In particular, it describes theoretical and methodological aspects of participatory research and planning, as well as the implementation of participatory processes in fields such as transport planning, cultural heritage management, environmental planning and post ... Read more

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  • Tourism Enterprises and Sustainable Development

    International Perspectives on Responses to the Sustainability Agenda

    Edited by David Leslie ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Tourism
    The tourism industry has increasingly recognized and responded to growing environmental concerns. In recent years, there has been an emergence of a variety of categories of tourism considered more environmentally friendly: green, eco-tourism, and sustainable tourism. Much of the literature that has addressed these developments has been orientated to the destination locale or specific to a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Volunteer Economies

    The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa

    by Ruth Prince, Noelle Sullivan, Prosper Chaki, Ståle Wig, Susan L. Erikson, Thomas G. Kirsch, Hannah Brown, Ann H. Kelly, Birgitte Bruun0, Bjørn Hallstein Holte1, Christopher James Colvin2, Claire L. Wendland3, Michael Jennings4 ...
    Across Africa today, as development activities animate novel forms of governance, new social actors are emerging, among them the volunteer. Yet, where work and resources are limited, volunteer practices have repercussions that raise contentious ethical issues. What has been the real impact of volunteers economically, politically and in society? The interdisciplinary experts in this collection ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Capacity-building and Pandemics

    Singapore’s Response to Covid-19

    by Jun Jie Woo ...
    Series Book 19 - Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on the policy capacities, built up since the 2003 SARS crisis, that have contributed to Singapore’s Covid-19 response efforts. In doing so, the book discusses the fiscal, operational, analytical and political capacities that have driven Singapore's policy response to the pandemic, and proposes a broad policy capacity framework that will be applicable to the analysis of other ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Creative Ageing Cities

    Place Design with Older People in Asian Cities

    Edited by Keng Hua Chong, Mihye Cho ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    Ageing population and rapid urbanisation are the two major demographic shifts in today’s world. Architectural designs and urban policies have to deal with issues of an ever larger elderly population living in the cities, especially in old urban neighbourhoods, while also taking into consideration the evolving lifestyles and wellbeing of the diverse elderly demographic. Being able to continue ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Social Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic

    International Insights

    by Sarah Banks, Nicos Trimikliniotis, Lindsey German, Lee Humber, Teloni Dimitra-Dora, Sug Pyo Kim, Linda Harms Smith, Yasmin Jessie Turton, Raed Amira, Roberta Uchoa, Gianinna Muñoz Arce, Dawn Belkin Martinez, Rory Truell, Silvana Martinez ...
    As the world grapples with the complex impacts of COVID-19, this book provides an urgent critical exploration of how Social Work can and should respond to this global crisis.The book considers the ecological, epidemiological, ideological and political conditions which gave rise to the pandemic, before examining the ways that social work has responded in different nations across the Global North ... Read more

    $9.99 USD