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The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy in China focuses on the environmental challenges of China's rapidly growing economy and provides a comprehensive overview of the policies developed to address the environmental crisis. Leading international scholars and practitioners examine China's environmental governance efforts from an interdisciplinary perspective. Divided into five parts, the handbook covers the following key issues: Part I: Development of Environmental Policy in China Part II: Key issues and Strategies for Solution Part III: Policy Instruments and Enforcement Part IV: Related Policy Fields - Conflicts and Synergies Part V: China's Environmental Policy in the International Context

The Routledge International Handbook of Forensic Psychology in Secure Settings is the first volume to identify, discuss and analyse the most important psychological issues within prisons and high security hospitals. Including contributions from leading researchers and practitioners from UK, US, Australia and Canada, the book covers not only the key groups that forensic psychologists work with, but also the treatment options available to them, workplace issues unique to secure settings, and some of the wider topics that impact upon offender populations. This is a unique resource that will be essential reading for any student, researcher or practitioner of forensic psychology or criminology.

This book takes a future-oriented perspective that aims to move beyond well-worn critiques to envision constructive and sustainable futures for social work and social development in Africa. Using case-studies from Lesotho, Botswana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Namibia, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, Zambia and Tanzania, established areas of practice are covered, such as child protection; working with older people; people with disabilities; mental health; mainstream services targeting women as well as emerging areas of social work practice, such as humanitarian assistance in post-conflict situations; work with immigrants and refugees; and the training of community-based workers.

The Handbook aims to provide an overview and critique of the current state of knowledge, policy, and practice, encouraging engagement and reflection on bringing the two sectors together. Over 40 contributions explore DRR including CCA and highlight the connections amongst the processes of dealing with disasters and dealing with climate change, emphasising the strengths of placing climate change within wider contexts in order to draw on all our strengths while overcoming limitations with specialties. It will prove to be a valuable guide for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, academics, policy makers and practitioners with an interest in disaster risk reduction and climate change.

Since becoming fully established in the late 1980s, ecological economics has combined a questioning of the basis of mainstream economics with a concern for environmental degradation and limits to growth. With contributions from an array of leading international figures, this handbook showcases the diversity of the field and points the way for future directions. Chapters provide succinct overviews of the literature on a range of topics including: heterodox thought on the environment; society, power and politics, markets and consumption; value and ethics; science and society; methods for evaluation and policy analysis; policy challenges; and future post-growth society.

This book covers crime, criminal justice and victimization in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, focusing on the issues, their effect on the country and the government's efforts to mitigate them. Authors are from the U.S., India, UK, Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Singapore.

The Routledge Handbook of Queer Development Studies is the first full length study of queer development studies, collecting the very best in research from around the world. It is an essential guide for scholars, upper level students, practitioners and anyone with an interest in global sexualities, gender identities, and expressions.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development. It integrates the key dimensions of sustainable development, (institutional, environmental, social and economic), with calls for greater participation, social cohesion, justice and democracy. Each chapter underlines the need for discursive interdisciplinarity, which is key to the book's theorization of the concept. The book is also unusual in including indigenous perspectives and alternative worldviews.

This Handbook provides a cutting-edge survey of the current state of research on religions and development and interactions between religions and development. It uniquely looks at religions in context when thinking about their relationships to development. Different religious traditions are situated within actual locations and case studies thus allowing a better understanding of their relationships to development. Taking a global approach, the Handbook covers Africa, Latin America, South Asia, East/South-East Asia and the Middle East.

This timely Handbook takes stock of the range of debates that characterise the field of international education and development, and suggests key aspects of a research agenda for the next period. It is deliberately divergent in its approach, recognising the major ideological and epistemological divides that characterise a field that draws on many traditions. Leading and emergent voices from different paradigms and contexts are afforded a space to be heard and each section puts current debates in larger historical contexts through section introductions and historical pieces.

In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. This collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field explores these issues across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, with a wide range of case studies.

This handbook takes stock of policy development and academic research in relation to justice and home affairs and analyses the field in an unprecedented thematic depth. It comprehensively investigates the three dimensions central to European integration: the sectoral, the horizontal and the vertical dimensions.

This book is a comprehensive survey of the emerging field that studies the history of sustainability. It provides a unique resource for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars engaged in the field by providing comprehensive coverage of the state of the art in the field.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport is a landmark publication in sport studies. It goes further than any other book in tracing the contours of the discipline and the core themes, approaches and theories that shape it. With contributions from the world's leading sport philosophers, it is an invaluable companion.

Drawing on over fifty years of research, this book brings together original contributions and offers a state of the art collection of theoretical, empirical, policy-related scholarship on the intersection of fear of crime, victimisation, vulnerability and risk

The book presents a coherent and systematic guide to the current state-of-the-art research and theory in criminology in China and Greater China and will be of interest to those engaged with crime and criminal justice and Asian Studies.

Bringing together leading experts from around the world, this book considers the criminological, genetic and neuropsychological foundations of offending, as well as the legal and criminal justice applications of biosocial criminological theory.

This important volume is designed to help medical educators working in today's changing and challenging circumstances by giving an overview of best practices and research in medical education around the world.