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  • Innovative Social Practice and Community-Based Approach to the Ocean

    Implications for Blue Impact Finance

    Edited by Michael C. Huang, Jih-Gau Juang, Hongshi Jin ...
    Series series Social Sciences
    This book stands as a pioneering work, illustrating a community-based and people-centered approach to the ocean. It meticulously outlines methodologies, procedures, and evaluations of social practices initiated by universities and think tanks, rooted in the actualization of social responsibility. Its outcomes extend towards implications for blue impact finance, highlighting a dedicated commitment ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Tourism

    Principles, Contexts and Practices

    by David A. Fennell, Prof. Chris Cooper ...
    Series Book 6 - Aspects of Tourism Texts
    This new textbook provides a comprehensive overview of sustainable tourism framed around the UN’s sustainable development goals. It examines the origins and dimensions of sustainable tourism and offers a detailed account of sustainable initiatives and management across destinations, the tourism industry, public sector and leading agencies. The book explores the principal values and priorities in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Development, Social Change and Environmental Sustainability

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Sociology and Educational Transformation (ICCSET 2020), Malang, Indonesia, 23 September 2020

    Edited by Sumarmi, Abdul Kodir, Ken Miichi, Nanda Meiji, Joan Purwasih, Edo Andriesse, Dorina Ilies ...
    Nowadays, the concept of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) is starting to replace the concept of MDGs (Millennium Developmental Goals). It is a global goal adopted by all United Nations member states. It emphasizes the idea that the development of every country can only be achieved by balancing other factors such as social, economic, and environmental sustainability. It is already clear how ... Read more

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  • Technologies for Development

    From Innovation to Social Impact

    Edited by Silvia Hostettler, Samira Najih Besson, Jean-Claude Bolay ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action, medical and ... Read more

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  • 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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  • The City Rebooted

    Networks, Connectivity and Place Identities in Singapore

    by Heng Chee Chan, Harvey Neo ...
    Many cities across the world continue to grapple with long-standing urban challenges even as new ones emerge. With each crisis, cities address these perennial (e.g. decentralization of urban cores and revitalising the city centre), nascent, and emergent (work-life balance, digitization of social-economy) urban challenges with a greater sense of urgency. The book adopts a multidisciplinary approach ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Sustainable Tourism

    Edited by Rob Harris, Peter Williams, Tony Griffin ...
    Sustainable Tourism is vital reading for anyone seeking to understand the complexities associated with sustainable tourism development, and how government and industry have responded to the challenges the concept poses.The major areas addressed in this edited volume are:* perspectives and issues associated with the concept of sustainable tourism development* accreditation, education and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Cities in Asia by and for the People

    Edited by Yves Cabannes, Mike Douglass, Rita Padawangi ...
    Series series Asian Cities
    This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods, lanes, commons, public land and other spaces of community life and livelihoods. The collection of narratives presented here brings together research from ten different Asian cities and re ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Development in Creative Industries: Embracing Digital Culture for Humanities

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE 9TH BANDUNG CREATIVE MOVEMENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CREATIVE INDUSTRIES (BCM 2022), BANDUNG, INDONESIA, 1 SEPTEMBER 2022

    Edited by Dyah Ayu Wiwid Sintowoko, Idhar Resmadi, Hanif Azhar, Ganjar Gumilar, Taufiq Wahab ...
    This book provides the thoughtful writings of a selection of authors illustrating a central concept: Sustainable Development in Creative Industries, which utilizes a monetary equilibrium addressing issues, particularly those associated with the use of an integrated area in cyberspace and physical space, and their effect on the creative industries. 15 universities from Asia and Europe have ... Read more

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  • Tourism Marketing

    A Strategic Approach

    Edited by Nilanjan Ray, Dilip Kumar Das, Raj Kumar ...
    Tourism Marketing: A Strategic Approach presents a variety of practical application tools, skills, practices, models, approaches, and strategies that are proving themselves effective in tourism marketing. The volume considers overall infrastructure, socioeconomic conditions, and modern tourism business infrastructure in discussing the efficiency of good strategies and practices and their impact on ... Read more

    $155.99 USD

  • Adaptive Urban Transformation

    Urban Landscape Dynamics, Regional Design and Territorial Governance in the Pearl River Delta, China

    Edited by Steffen Nijhuis, Yimin Sun, Eckart Lange ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, integrative and multi-scale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation of fast urbanising deltas, taking the Pearl River Delta (China) as a case study. Deltaic areas are among the most promising regions in the world. Their strategic location and superior quality of their soils are core factors supporting both human development ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of the International Academic Conference on Tourism (INTACT) "Post Pandemic Tourism: Trends and Future Directions" (INTACT 2022)

    Edited by Janianton Damanik, Badaruddin Mohammed, Dyah Widyastuti, Nuryuda Irdana, Hera Oktadiana ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This is an open access book. This international conference aims to discuss and provide critical views based on empirical experience and the relevant concepts to the changing trends and future directions of tourism development after the Covid-19 pandemic. Some of the topics that can be raised as discussion material include (but are not limited to):Adaptation strategies of tourism transportation ... Read more

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