Leading experts illustrate that Africa’s energy landscape is defined by a paradox of abundant renewable resources alongside severe energy poverty, requiring a transition rooted in justice, inclusivity and strategic industrial policy. They argue that, if the continent adopts context-specific policies, attracts equitable financing and strengthens regional cooperation, it could become a potential leader in global energy transition. Assessing diverse case studies, authors advocate for an integrated approach to enable Africa to build a resilient low-carbon future on its own terms, bridging the gap between high-level policy analysis and on-the-ground technical implementation.

Enlightening and incisive, this Handbook is an invaluable tool for academics and students in energy studies, African studies, development economics and environmental policy. Policymakers and government advisors will likewise benefit from its innovative and pragmatic recommendations for the future.

This is the first book dedicated to Alexandria’s religious world, reconstructing its sacred topography, material culture, and ritual life across seven centuries from the establishment of the Ptolemaic Kingdom through its transformation under Roman imperial rule, up to the twilight of pagan antiquity.

It offers a systematic, evidence-based reconstruction of religious life in ancient Alexandria, examining the emergence of a structured ‘sacred confederation’ of cults under the Ptolemies, the mechanics of ruler worship and sacred kingship, and the formation of a distinctive Alexandrian religious identity from both Greek and Egyptian traditions. The study extends into the Roman period, tracing the transformation of the city’s major sanctuaries, the richness of its civic and funerary culture, and glimpses of domestic cult and folk practice where the material record allows. Drawing on architecture, sculpture, inscriptions, funerary art, and recent underwater and salvage discoveries, the study treats material evidence as an independent record of religious life rather than an illustration of ancient literary sources ? a methodological approach that repeatedly challenges and revises the city’s inherited scholarly image.

Alexandria of Egypt, The Divine Cosmopolis is suitable for students and scholars of Hellenistic and Roman archaeology and history, Egyptian archaeology and Egyptology, and ancient religion. It is also of interest to researchers working on sacred topography, multicultural urbanism, and the archaeology of religion in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Estelle Ivanova and Ian Blackshaw explain how EU competition law shapes sports governance, examining its principles, scope, extraterritorial reach, enforcement and judicial dialogue, and its interaction with fundamental freedoms, human rights and international sports arbitration.

Key Features:

• Analyses the dual role of sports governing bodies as regulators and economic operators in organising and commercialising competitions
• Examines the application of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU and EU merger control to sporting rules and commercial arrangements, including restrictive practices and abuse of dominance
• Analyses the application of EU law by CAS panels and the judicial review of CAS awards, including issues of Swiss public policy and ECtHR scrutiny
• Dissects leading disputes, including the Ticombo v IOC complaint, Royal Antwerp, RFC Seraing v FIFA and recent multiple club ownership disputes

This Practical Guide is designed for sports lawyers and competition practitioners handling sports-related disputes. It also serves as a valuable resource for sports administrators, sports marketers, academics, researchers and students of EU competition and sports law.

Privacy in the Age of Social Media: Beyond the Like explores the hidden dynamics of social media and the ways our online behavior is tracked, analyzed, and monetized, offering an accessible overview of the interaction between social media engagement and personal data privacy.

This book dives into the heart of social media’s greatest paradox: the pursuit of connection versus the protection of personal privacy. It reveals how everyday online interactions drive engagement, targeted advertising, and predictive analytics; build detailed user profiles; shape the content we encounter; and influence how platforms operate.

This book explores ethical considerations, regulations, and practical strategies for protecting personal and organizational data, while identifying emerging trends in social norms and technology that may shape the future of privacy and social media. Through case studies, expert insights, real-world examples, and accessible explanations, readers are equipped to understand the hidden mechanics of social media, engage online with awareness, and safeguard their digital footprint. The authors also illustrate how the simple "Like" button transformed the digital landscape?what began as a quick tap of approval has become one of the most powerful tools in the online ecosystem.

This compelling book is essential reading for marketers, business professionals, and those working in the fields of social media, cybersecurity, and data privacy, as well as organizations seeking to understand how platforms operate behind the scenes. It will also be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of social media, marketing, cyberpsychology, data privacy, digital media, and business management.

Chapters explore how politicians are experimenting with new methodologies and how citizens are reclaiming political agency through citizens’ assemblies, participatory budgeting, digital platforms and workplace democracy. Combining empirical case studies with theoretical and critical perspectives, the Handbook assesses examples of participatory democracy across Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America, with particular focus on experiences from the Global South. Contributing authors analyse debates on deliberation, gender, ecology, science, participation professionals and post-colonialism. Adopting a systemic perspective, the Handbook investigates the tensions, promises and limitations of participatory approaches, while also highlighting the potential for deliberative democracy to create new opportunities for improving elections.

The Handbook of Participatory Democracy is a crucial resource for scholars and students of political science, public policy and governance, sociology and postcolonial studies. Its insights into emerging debates and international experiences makes this prime reading for politicians, civil servants, journalists and activists interested in the operation of democracy.

Broadening the international scope of the original Handbook, this edition includes case studies in Botswana, Hungary, Papua New Guinea and Thailand, assessing how different national administrative environments shape corruption, and how governments seek to eradicate the unique problems it poses. Additional chapters address the global governance challenges of state capture, open data, AI and anti-money laundering. Enhancing the conceptual framing of the first edition, the Handbook strengthens the links between corruption, ethics and integrity systems, analysing new data and policy developments and advancing research in this fast-developing field.

This Handbook is a key resource for scholars and students of public administration and management, politics and public policy and sociology. Policy-makers, government employees, anti-corruption watchdogs and public sector agencies will also benefit from the proposed strategies for tackling corruption and building integrity.

Contributing authors analyse the central role of learning in addressing existential and transformative challenges while also highlighting the risks of drawing incorrect conclusions or learning for the wrong purposes. The Handbook examines cutting-edge topics in both democratic and authoritarian systems, including emotions and narrative learning. Chapters showcase a diverse range of learning theories and mechanisms across scholarship, practice and teaching, paving the way for future research to become more explicit about its subjects, objects, contexts and outcomes.

Outlining the multifaceted nature of learning and its impact on both public policy and broader society, the Handbook of Policy Learning is a valuable resource for scholars and students of political science, public administration, governance, sociology, anthropology and economics.

Social Problems and Ideologies: The Impact of Federalism, Capitalism, Neoliberalism, Libertarianism, and Populism on American Social Problems takes a structural approach to American social problems by examining the foundational ideologies that create, maintain, and make it difficult to resolve those problems.

Remarkably, much of that ideological framework has come to dominate American society only in the last 50 years. A brief, readable chapter on each of the five topics tells the story of seemingly complicated ideas in a way that is concise, engaging, and directly connected?through innumerable examples?to the contemporary American landscape. The book offers a scholarly but accessible perspective on the forces shaping American social problems.

Social problems can be complex, multi-dimensional, shifting, and sometimes intractable. To manage some of the challenges intrinsic to such material, Social Problems and Ideologies is structured so that students can read a chapter in one or two sittings, instructors can devote two or three weeks to its in-depth analysis, and the entire volume can be completed in a semester. The ideologies covered in each chapter connect to and build upon one another. Using the illustrative news articles at the end of each chapter, students will be able to see the operation of course material in real time. By the end of the semester, they will have the conceptual tools by which to understand “where” we are, how we got here, and the complexities that attend American social problems. This structure aims to provide students with material that is interesting, respectful of their time, and manageable emotionally, which is especially important in social problems courses.

This book will be an important foundational text for use in social problems, political sociology, and sociology of culture courses, as well as in courses in American political studies, and contemporary American culture and history.

The Endgame Election? European Views on the United States Elections of 2024 examines whether the 2024 U.S. presidential election marks a decisive turning point in American democracy by analyzing the contest and its broader political context from the perspective of European scholars.

Bringing together European scholars of American politics, this volume examines how Donald Trump’s return to power unfolded against the backdrop of democratic backsliding, institutional fragility, and shifting electoral coalitions. It analyzes the internal transformations of the Democratic and Republican parties, the extraordinary replacement of Joe Biden by Kamala Harris, the role of media ecosystems and misinformation, the dynamics of voter suppression and the Electoral College, and the growing openness to executive aggrandizement within parts of the Republican Party. The book situates the 2024 election within broader debates about constitutional accountability, partisan polarization, and the erosion of democratic guardrails, asking whether the election narrowed the avenues of democratic self?correction that once defined the American system. The European vantage point offers analytical distance and comparative insight into patterns of democratic erosion familiar from other contexts.

This volume will be essential reading for scholars, students, and researchers of American politics, comparative politics, and democratic governance, as well as for policymakers and informed readers seeking to understand the implications of the 2024 election for the future of U.S. democracy.

Adopting an interdisciplinary and inclusive approach, leading experts provide insights into domestic and international challenges faced by policymakers and governing entities amid rising migration. They argue that, in the light of issues such as anti-migrant sentiment and social integration challenges, migration in Asia is not only shaped by economic factors and intra-regional dynamics, but also by widespread social change and shifting global geopolitics. The Handbook covers critical topics such as regional migration, differential skills policies, incorporation, and displacement and irregular migration, highlighting gaps in governance structures at global, regional, national and sub-national levels.

Timely and incisive, this Handbook is a crucial resource for scholars and students of migration, development studies, sociology and Asian politics. Policymakers and government officials will likewise benefit from its astute insights and practical recommendations.

Post-Separation Violence and Abuse in the Lives of Women and Children amplifies the voices of women and children to highlight the myriad issues encountered post-separation when perpetrators of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) continue to exert their control.

Despite increased scholarship on DVA and its consequences, post-separation violence and abuse remains an under-studied and written about issue. As the first book dedicated to the subject, this work frames post-separation violence and abuse as a continuum of DVA, too often overlooked and negated, and uses lived experiences to highlight the wide-ranging consequences it can have for women and children. Chapters offer detailed insights into the effects of harassment and stalking, femicide-homicide, the experiences of minoritised women and children, and a discussion of child contact as a form of post-separation violence and abuse. This volume also presents perpetrators' accounts, as well as consideration of what is required for rebuilding lives in the aftermath of post-separation violence and abuse.

This essential work will be of interest to a range of professionals and practitioners across the voluntary and statutory sectors, as well as scholars and students of social work, social policy, gender studies, criminology, and psychology.

In this illuminating volume, Tamas Pataki critically examines Freud's psychoanalytic approach to religion, tracing its intellectual evolution and impact on contemporary theories and practice.

This book delves deeply into Freud's psychoanalytic critique of religion, offering readers a comprehensive analysis of his naturalist perspective and its implications for understanding religious belief systems. Pataki explores Freud's theories alongside the contributions of other prominent thinkers such as Erich Fromm, Ana-Maria Rizzuto, W.W. Meissner, W. R. Bion and N. Symington highlighting their expansions and critiques of Freud's work. Examining Rizzuto's research on God representations, Meissner's insights into the spiritual dimensions of religion, contributions from attachment theory and the emerging trends of spiritually sensitive psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic mysticism the book provides a philosophically rigorous and nuanced comparison of psychoanalytic approaches to religion. This book offers a rich tapestry of ideas that explore the complex interplay between psychology, culture, and spirituality.

Ideal for scholars, students and professionals in psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology and psychology, this book is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand the complex relationship between religion and the human psyche.

Leading experts assess a variety of 'culprits' behind the financialization of housing, evaluating the role of institutions, social movements, grass roots initiatives and broader economic contexts. They advocate for an integrated method of analyzing these entry points and argue that stages of financialization must be understood as multi-level processes. Drawing on critical political economy and post-Keynesian economics, the book ultimately calls for a wider understanding of capitalist dynamics in order to synthesize various strategies for resisting financialization.

Resisting the Financialization of Housing is an essential resource for scholars and students of sociology, social policy, public policy, inequalities and sustainable development. Government policymakers and financial regulators will also benefit from its actionable recommendations.

The Puzzle of Paul in Acts explores the long-standing historical challenge of Luke's story of Paul through a fresh analysis of its major issues based in contemporary linguistic and historiographical theory.

Luke's story of Paul has long been subject to debate in New Testament criticism; it is surprisingly similar to, yet unavoidably different from, Paul's autobiography in his letters. This book provides a new model of historical interpretation built on "linguistic description" and "historical explanation" to reanalyze the central issues in the criticism of Paul in Acts, including the genre and historical content of Luke-Acts, the relation of Acts and Galatians, the "we" material in Acts, and Paul's fabled Athenian address. It advances a new argument that Luke constructed an independent and reliable account of Paul and that he collaborated with plausibly identifiable eyewitness sources in his narrative.

The Puzzle of Paul in Acts is suitable for students and scholars of Paul and Luke-Acts, as well as those working in early Christianity, early Christian historiography, and ancient Greek language and linguistics.

Technomorphisms and the Posthuman Turn explores the profound intersections between psychoanalysis and posthumanism, shedding light on the evolving complexities of subjectivity in a hyper-technological world.

This ground-breaking volume delves into the hybridization of the human, nature, and technology, examining how these intersections reshape notions of gender, sexuality, identity, and subjectivity. Through contributions from leading thinkers, the book addresses the ethical and theoretical challenges posed by posthumanism, including the rise of nomadic subjectivities, prosthetic bodies, and the dominance of digital culture. It critically investigates the impact of these transformations on psychoanalytic theory and practice, urging a re-evaluation of traditional epistemological frameworks. By fostering dialogue with other disciplines, the book seeks to deepen our understanding of unconventional subjectivities and the shifting itineraries of sexuality and gender in contemporary society.

This book is an essential resource for psychoanalysts, scholars, and students interested in the intersections of psychoanalysis, gender studies, posthumanism, and technology. It is also invaluable for anyone seeking to understand the ethical and theoretical implications of living in a world where the boundaries of the human are constantly being redefined.

This edited collection assembles a groundbreaking series of chapters from childhood and youth scholars investigating the ethical, political, and transformative possibilities that creative methodologies can bring to the field of gender and sexuality research.

Drawing on original empirical studies from a diverse array of international and transnational projects, contributors illustrate how they draw upon arts-based research and a wide range of creative methods, from body sculptures to zine-making, to engage children and young people at every stage of the research process, from a project’s conception to its communication with diverse audiences. Each chapter foregrounds a particular method, and the central thread running through this book focuses on how gender and sexuality research with children and young people is configured and conducted and carries what matters into the world, when creativity is centred in the research process. As a collection, it will address the generative tensions and advantages of working creatively across various methods, disciplines and contexts.

This book will be of great interest to international audiences of academic scholars and students interested in arts-based and creative methods in diverse fields, including social research methods, childhood and youth studies, sociology of education, gender and sexuality studies, and queer studies, as well as practitioners, policymakers, and artists interested in advancing their creative work on gender and sexualities in childhood and youth.

Now in its second edition, Applied Spatial Statistics and Econometrics offers a modern and accessible introduction to spatial data analysis using R. Emphasising reproducibility, real-world datasets, and practical workflows, this comprehensive guide introduces spatial thinking from a critical analytical perspective, highlighting the importance of location, distance, and neighbourhood effects in shaping social and economic phenomena.

Readers are guided through foundational concepts, including spatial data structures (areal, point, and grid data), visualisation techniques, and spatial econometric models such as spatial lag, spatial error, and spatial Durbin specifications. Updates reflect the substantial evolution of spatial models and R packages, such as the transition to sf:: and terra:: packages, enhancements to spatstat:: package, new tools for spatial sampling and bootstrap, and fully reproducible analyses with complete R code. Topics include geographically weighted regression, spatial point pattern analysis, DEGURBA classification, and spatial principal component analysis.

Accompanied by datasets and complete R code on GitHub and RPubs, the book enables readers to replicate analyses and adapt methods to their own research. It is an essential resource for advanced students of econometrics, spatial planning, and regional science, as well as researchers and data scientists seeking to harness the power of spatial analysis for evidence-based insights and policy recommendations.

Higher Education in a Postdigital World invites readers to engage in a radical reconceptualisation of learning spaces by challenging definitions of what counts as a learning space and asserting that bounded learning spaces are insufficient for learning in a postdigital era.

Chapters explore how learning spaces have expanded and evolved and how learners navigate, connect and apply structured and unstructured learning to answer three main questions:

* What kinds of learning spaces might enable social, emotional, cognitive and moral/ethical/spiritual identity development in postdigital learning environments?

* How is learning to be negotiated, constructed and embodied as a social practice within dynamic cultural contexts in the postdigital age?

* How do learners and educators design, experience and assess learning within and across various learning domains?

This book will encourage educators across disciplines to reimagine learning and development for a postdigital age.

This conceptual Atlas of Medieval and Renaissance Thought, Philosophy and Science presents visual overviews, thematic outlines, surveys and summaries of the many thematic aspects of this long period of European intellectual history, c. 400 to 1600.

Conceptual charts and 'maps' are well suited for structuring, organizing and presenting information, although this approach is rarely used in the humanities. The pictorial representations in this atlas are multi-dimensional: chronological, thematic, rating the importance of the thinker or tradition and showing affinities and tensions between them. Many of the diagrams are chronologically proportional which gives the reader an immediate sense of time and historical distance. This book constitutes a sort of 'intellectual atlas', in many ways comparable to a geographical atlas, but instead charting out the intellectual landscape of this period. The topics covered include the history of medieval Christianity, Judaism and Islam; the history of science; the Renaissance; the history of books, literacy and education; the history of knowledge; and medieval and Renaissance historiography.

Each diagram offers the perfect starting point to a fuller understanding of an aspect of medieval and Renaissance thought, allowing students to engage with the topic visually to support making their own assessments. The atlas can function as a companion volume to, or as a reference work for, a wide range of courses, approaches to and interests in medieval and Renaissance history.

This book argues that modern capitalism has given way to Financialism, a new stage of political economy in which legal institutions, financial markets, and professional norms reorganize corporations, public institutions, and everyday life around the imperatives of finance.

It provides the first systematic account of Financialism as the organizing order of contemporary social life. Drawing from legal history, corporate governance, and political economy, this book explains how law, financial markets, and professional practices have transformed the American corporation. It also demonstrates how these forces have extended financial discipline across labor markets, public institutions, and daily economic activity. This book traces how this transformation altered the temporal structure of economic decision-making and weakened the capacity of democratic institutions to govern society. Finally, it develops principles for post-Financialist capitalism and proposes institutional strategies to restore democratic authority. Central to this reconstruction is a theory of democratic time, a framework for reclaiming control over democratic decision-making from the accelerating demands of finance.

This book is an essential reading for scholars, graduate students, and policymakers in corporate law, finance, political economy, corporate governance, and business history. It is also ideal for readers interested in how financial power reshapes democratic governance and the structure of everyday life.

This volume traces the historical development of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment through apartheid to contemporary unity efforts. The study examines mission-to-church transitions, responses to apartheid, and multiple attempts at achieving unity including the formation of FELCSA, LUCSA, and includes:

• Comprehensive historical analysis of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment to contemporary unity efforts
• Examination of mission-to-church transitions and responses to apartheid within Lutheran denominations
• Critical assessment of unity initiatives including FELCSA, LUCSA, and joint theological education at LTI
• Analysis of the 1964 UELCSA and 1975 ELCSA formations and their impact on racial divisions within Lutheran churches
• Documentation of failed unity attempts and the 2008 collapse of unity talks with lessons for future efforts

This title has been co-published with UKZN Press. T&F does not sell or distribute the print versions in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Unexpected Consequences of State Support for Religion: An Empirical Analysis of Christian-Majority addresses the consequences of one of the most basic decisions a government must make when dealing with religion: the decision to support a state religion or to provide separation of religion and state and religious freedom.

Drawing on the rational choice literature on religion and politics as well as the broader literature on religion in the social sciences, this book takes the perspective that politicians and governments decide on government-religion policy based on their own interests. It tests five potential consequences of supporting a state reli>gion in Christian-majority countries: religiosity (how religious are people in the country?), governmental legitimacy, levels of both public and private morality in a country, social trust, and patterns of violence and social unrest. Many empirical analyses reveal unexpected costs and benefits of supporting a state religion. For example, while most assume that when governments support a religion, it is at least in part because they believe it will increase their legitimacy, this book finds, with some exceptions, that this is not the case. Similarly, it finds an incentive structure that perversely incentivizes increased discrimination against religious
minorities.

The Unexpected Consequences of State Support for Religion will appeal to scholars and students of politics, religion, and sociology, particularly those interested in Christian nationalism and government and state politics.

Drawing on the rank-scale hypothesis of Systemic Functional Linguistics, this book explores the synergetic relationships among syntactic complexities at the sentence, clause, and group levels. It also examines how these relationships vary among academic English writers of different proficiency levels.

Viewing language as a dynamic, self-organizing, and self-regulating system, the book examines how changes in complexity at higher levels affect their constituent units. Linguistic complexity is conceptualized systematically across four dimensions: sentence, clause, group, and word. Dependency grammar is employed as an accessible, quantitative metric for complexity analysis. Through an analysis of academic texts produced by three groups of writers with varying levels of proficiency-Chinese Master's students, Chinese Doctoral students, and native English-speaking Doctoral students-the study identifies features of academic writing related to proficiency and uncovers interrelationships among the four dimensions of linguistic complexity. Based on these findings, the book proposes a synergetic model of linguistic complexity that illustrates how these dimensions interact and achieve dynamic balance in English academic writing across different proficiency levels.

This book offers valuable insights for researchers, educators, and graduate students. It provides theoretical exploration and practical guidance for teaching and assessing academic writing.

The Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax. Its principal focus is on describing the Dutch language; technical issues related to linguistic theory are addressed only if new light is shed on the subject.

The work is organized around the four lexical categories verbs (volumes 1-3),nouns (volumes 4-5), adjectives (volume 6), and adpositions (volume 7). It includes a general introduction to the semantic, morphological, and syntactic properties of these categories, their argument structure, their modification possibilities, and issues related to word order. The functional categories (determiners, complementizers, etc.) are discussed in relation to the lexical categories with which they occur. Volume 8 concludes the work by considering a number of issues that extend beyond proper sentence grammar: main-clause external elements, coordination, and ellipsis.

The Syntax of Dutch will be an indispensable resource for researchers and advanced students of languages and linguistics interested in the Dutch language.

The Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax. Its principal focus is on describing the Dutch language; technical issues related to linguistic theory are addressed only if new light is shed on the subject.

The work is organized around the four lexical categories verbs (volumes 1-3),nouns (volumes 4-5), adjectives (volume 6), and adpositions (volume 7). It includes a general introduction to the semantic, morphological, and syntactic properties of these categories, their argument structure, their modification possibilities, and issues related to word order. The functional categories (determiners, complementizers, etc.) are discussed in relation to the lexical categories with which they occur. Volume 8 concludes the work by considering a number of issues that extend beyond proper sentence grammar: main-clause external elements, coordination, and ellipsis.

The Syntax of Dutch will be an indispensable resource for researchers and advanced students of languages and linguistics interested in the Dutch language.

The Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax. Its principal focus is on describing the Dutch language; technical issues related to linguistic theory are addressed only if new light is shed on the subject.

The work is organized around the four lexical categories verbs (volumes 1-3),nouns (volumes 4-5), adjectives (volume 6), and adpositions (volume 7). It includes a general introduction to the semantic, morphological, and syntactic properties of these categories, their argument structure, their modification possibilities, and issues related to word order. The functional categories (determiners, complementizers, etc.) are discussed in relation to the lexical categories with which they occur. Volume 8 concludes the work by considering a number of issues that extend beyond proper sentence grammar: main-clause external elements, coordination, and ellipsis.

The Syntax of Dutch will be an indispensable resource for researchers and advanced students of languages and linguistics interested in the Dutch language.

The Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax. Its principal focus is on describing the Dutch language; technical issues related to linguistic theory are addressed only if new light is shed on the subject.

The work is organized around the four lexical categories verbs (volumes 1-3), nouns (volumes 4-5), adjectives (volume 6), and adpositions (volume 7). It includes a general introduction to the semantic, morphological, and syntactic properties of these categories, their argument structure, their modification possibilities, and issues related to word order. The functional categories (determiners, complementizers, etc.) are discussed in relation to the lexical categories with which they occur. Volume 8 concludes the work by considering a number of issues that extend beyond proper sentence grammar: main-clause external elements, coordination, and ellipsis.

The Syntax of Dutch will be an indispensable resource for researchers and advanced students of languages and linguistics interested in the Dutch language.

The expanded group of BRICS nations informally known as BRICS+ encompasses of both established members and the new additions nations which includes Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). These BRICS+ nations stand at the cusp of unparalleled growth and economic expansion. BRICS+ contributes significantly to global primary energy production, accounting for 48% of the sector.

This book emphasizes the significance of energy for growth and sustainability, highlighting the role of BRICS+ nations in enhancing global energy resilience. This resilience could be achieved through collaborations, policy strategies, and economic implications, calling attention to energy trading free from sanctions. Further, it embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic landscape inhabited by the BRICS+ nations, a collective that includes established BRICS+ countries as well as new members. At its core, the narrative confronts the looming spectre of structural shocks, with a keen focus on the energy sector, and the profound implications these disruptions pose for the economic potential of these nations. What sets this work apart is its emphasis on the vulnerabilities of the BRICS+ nations, characterized by fiscally fragile economies heavily reliant on imported energy. It delves into the international externalities that make these nations susceptible, compounded by their geological predisposition to volatility. The book charts a course for change, proposing a systematic departure from these disruptions through academic insights and elaborations, laying the foundation for sustained and successful growth.

As such, it will be a useful guide for academics, students, researchers and policymakers concerned with the discourse on sustainability and resilience in BRICS+ nations, paving the way for a more informed and innovative approach to the challenges faced by these nations in the interconnected global landscape.

Navigating Organizational Complexity: Resilience and Adaptability from Black Swans to Green explores the challenges of contemporary management in an era defined by unpredictability, complexity, and environmental volatility. Drawing on Nassim Taleb's metaphor of the "black swan", this book expands this concept to include a typology of transformative events: Black Swans (negative and unexpected), White Swans (positive and unexpected), Gray Swans (known but neglected threats), and Green Swans (long-term environmental megatrends). Through interdisciplinary analysis, it examines how organizations can build resilience, adapt to uncertainty, and thrive in the face of disruption. It offers practical tools and frameworks for strategic foresight, leadership, and risk management, making it an essential resource for navigating the complexities of the modern business environment. Key features include an innovative approach to the "black swan" metaphor, integrating concepts such as antifragility, organizational resilience, and sustainability. This book combines insights from management, sociology, psychology, and economics, with references to global crises, climate change, and digitization. Readers will benefit from practical strategies for fostering adaptability, learning cultures, and visionary leadership, supported by rich academic literature and real-world examples. It is ideal for academics, researchers, and advanced students in management, organizational studies, and sustainability, as well as business leaders seeking actionable insights to future-proof their organizations.