Intelligent Urban Infrastructure: Smart Solutions for Sustainable Cities explores how emerging digital technologies are reshaping the design, management, and sustainability of modern cities. This comprehensive book examines the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, and intelligent automation into critical urban systems such as transportation, energy, water management, healthcare, and public safety. It presents a forward-looking perspective on how infrastructure can evolve to become more adaptive, resilient, and environmentally responsible. The book highlights practical frameworks and technology-driven content that demonstrate measurable improvements in efficiency, cost optimization, and environmental performance. Designed for researchers, postgraduate students, urban planners, engineers, policymakers, and industry professionals, this book serves as a valuable reference for those seeking to understand and implement intelligent infrastructure solutions that enable smarter, greener, and more livable cities worldwide.

Adopting a fresh approach, this book explores our understanding of nature's limits and proposes a new perspective to reframe the relationship between these limits and human freedom.

Where should we look to uncover the deeper roots of today's environmental disagreements?

A common answer might be: the conflict between nature's limits and human freedom. Yet, surprisingly, this critical topic has received little direct attention. To delve into this issue, the book turns to ontology; the philosophical study of being, and argues that our ontological understanding of nature profoundly shapes our ideas about freedom. By rethinking what limits in nature truly mean, we can gain new insights into what happens when we exceed those limits; into the real role of science and technology; and into what genuinely enhances freedom versus what diminishes it. Ultimately, the book contends that our current trajectory sacrifices the environment for a system that paradoxically offers less and less freedom. If this argument holds, it opens the door to reassessing the entrenched understanding of the conflict between human freedom and nature's limits to find a more lasting path forward.

This book is a must-read for environmental scholars seeking to deepen their understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of today's ecological challenges.

Automation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence draws on historical and contemporary debates to examine the future of work in the age of artificial intelligence.

While automation is often portrayed as an inevitable technological force driving economic progress or job loss, this book reframes it as a socially constructed discourse that is shaped by competing beliefs, interests and narratives about human labor, progress and value. It situates current anxieties about AI within a longer trajectory of industrial transformation by identifying four distinct ways of understanding automation: the activist, resigned, status quo and
futurist discourses. By analyzing how these discourses emerge in policy debates, media coverage and academic research, this book reveals how language and ideology influence the adoption and governance of new technologies.

This book offers conceptual framework for scholars in sociology, political economy and science and technology studies, as well as for policymakers and labor advocates seeking to navigate automation's social impacts. In doing so,
it moves beyond deterministic narratives of job loss to uncover the deeper cultural meanings attached to technological change and the uncertain future of work.

The Art of Coaching is a book to shift thinking and open up new possibilities, stimulate fresh insight, and adapt to your needs as a coach, leader or manager and to use creatively in practice. The first edition of this unique and bestselling book quickly became a staple in the coaching world; now the revised edition has been updated to include new models and diagrams that have been developed by the authors in response to changing social and political events.

Written by two experienced, highly qualified international coaches and supervisors, it is packed full of ideas, with tens of visual images, many original to the authors. Now with an additional chapter on Coaching in Turbulent Times and updated references for further reading, this new edition is a must-have for coaches, supervisors, managers and human resource professionals. Each model in the book is explained with a clear, accessible diagram and a simple guide to what it is, how it works and how to put it into action. The text is full of inspiration for applications of the ideas in scenarios based on real coaching practice.

This book is an invaluable resource for quick reference, instant accessibility and fast learning. Built on a strong theoretical base, it will inspire professional development, individual and team coaching, and transform thinking for coaches looking for new ways of developing awareness with clients, coaching students and trainees, coach supervisors, learning and development professionals and those working in human resource departments.

Through a dialogue between contemporary Western philosophy and ancient Chinese philosophy, this book reveals significant common ground between the two. Despite their many differences, it argues that they hold considerable potential for integration.

The book presents a philosophical system of its own. In the "universally interconnected" cosmic network, every event, object, or person possesses its currently manifest state and an inexhaustible web of connections as its background. In Chinese aesthetic terms, the former is termed "the manifest" ("xiu"), and the latter is termed "the hidden" ("yin"). In Western philosophical terms, the former is referred to as "that which is present," while the latter is called "that which is absent" (Heidegger described the former as "presencing" and the latter as "concealing"). The latter constitutes, forms, and fulfills the former; it is the source and origin of the former. Every event, object, and person in the cosmos is a unity of the present and absent - a fusion of manifest and hidden.

This book will be valuable for scholars and students of philosophy, especially those interested in the interaction between Chinese and Western philosophy.

This book explores narratives' contribution to leadership development and how the development of narrative leadership provides leaders with opportunities in an age of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

Bringing together educators, researchers, coaches, and practitioners, the book traverses the dark side of leadership storytelling, leadership storytelling for inclusiveness, and innovative narrative practices. It introduces critical concepts such as narrative betrayal, narrative humility, and narrative reflexivity in order to examine storytelling not only as a source of inspiration and belonging but also as a site of ethical tension, power, and responsibility. This book will deepen readers' understanding of how and why storytelling is important in leader and leadership development contexts and provide practical tools and strategies for leadership development.

Ideal for leadership educators, facilitators, researchers, and organisational practitioners, this book provides essential tools and perspectives for developing leaders in today's complex world. More than a toolkit, it is an invitation to reflect more deeply on leadership itself.

Chapters evaluate the first reflections from the 19th century by great figures (such as Saint-Simon, Comte, Fourier, Proudhon, Courcelle-Seneuil & Leplay), tracing how they shaped the classics of the early 20th century such as Le Chatelier, the introducer of Taylorism in France and Henri Fayol, the 'father' of administrative theory. Chanlat then analyses French industrialists, such as Andre Citroen and Louis Renault, the French Fords, Charles Gide, the father of social economy thinking, Simone Weil, the philosopher of work, and the main currents that emerged after the Second World War, contextualising the nature and influence of contemporary French research. He also assesses the emergence of contemporary French language studies across the disciplines of sociology, psycho-sociology, economics and technology. The book seeks to develop a broad culture in the social sciences and encourage a multilingualism scholarship.

This important and unique book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of business and management, organization studies and sociology. It will also benefit researchers and business consultants looking to globalise their knowledge of administrative sciences and to discover or rediscover the richness of the French speaking tradition in organization and administrative sciences.

Contributors address the discipline's foundational principles of property, territory and sovereignty while engaging with contemporary issues such as urban governance, environmental regulation and transnational legal regimes. Referencing global case studies, chapters illustrate how various infrastructures influence spatial justice and configure landscapes of inclusion and exclusion to highlight how legal categories and procedures are unevenly enacted across space. Advocating for a dialogue between legal and economic geography, contributors sketch the grounds for sustained shared projects whereby law and geography are approached as mutually constitutive.

The Research Handbook on Legal Geography is an essential resource for scholars and students of environmental law and human geography. Practitioners and activists working in areas of governance and environmental regulation will also benefit from its analysis and recommendations.

Detention in Extraterritorial Non-International Armed Conflicts provides crucial insights into State practices on detention review boards, establishing the minimum legal criteria for an independent and impartial process. Chapters explore the treatment of NIACs under international humanitarian law and international human rights law, highlighting the limitations of both. Through conducting innovative research into the difference between judicial and administrative independence, the book proposes practical guidelines to assist detaining authorities in implementing their review obligations.

Students and academics of humanitarian law, human rights and public international law will find this an enlightening read. The book's guidance on the implementation of the legal criteria discussed will also be beneficial for jurists and government lawyers.

The authors describe how the norms of international law are enforced by national and international tribunals and authorities. They consider the enforcement of human rights law, the law of armed conflict, international criminal law, international environmental law, international economic law, and the law of the sea across jurisdictions, drawing on case studies from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America.

The book is a crucial resource for scholars and students of international law, environmental law, and comparative law. It will be a valuable resource for legal practitioners, policymakers, and social activists.

This book presents the psychoanalytic writings of the Greek Surrealist Andreas Embiricos in English for the first time.

A pioneer of psychoanalysis in Greece, Embiricos produced two remarkable case studies that highlight his unique practice of psychoanalysis, clinically rigorous and resolutely Surrealist in its belief in the revolutionary potentialities of Eros. The volume also includes a lecture on psychoanalytic technique from the 1940s, together with several texts on the life and work of Princess Marie Bonaparte, a close friend and collaborator of Embiricos. Complementing these writings are an interview in which Embiricos reflects on his psychoanalytic practice, and four scholarly essays examining key dimensions of his psychoanalytic career and intellectual legacy.

Bringing together clinical material, historical documents, and contemporary scholarship, this unique collection will be of interest to psychoanalysts as well as to scholars of the history of psychoanalysis, Surrealism, Greek literature, and European intellectual and cultural history.

Cutting-Edge Agri-Technologies for Next-Generation Farming explores how emerging innovations such as nanotechnology, genome editing, artificial intelligence, precision agriculture, and smart sensing systems are reshaping modern food production. Bringing together insights from leading global experts, this volume presents interdisciplinary perspectives on improving crop productivity, enhancing resource-use efficiency, and strengthening resilience to climate change. It offers a holistic roadmap for developing sustainable, technology-driven farming systems that balance economic viability with environmental stewardship. Designed for researchers, policymakers, students, and industry professionals, this book serves as a comprehensive reference for advancing the future of agriculture through science-based innovation.

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.

Drawing on a broad array of theoretical viewpoints including liberal, postmodernist, and historical materialist accounts, the Encyclopedia examines key foundational concepts along the continuum of sociology, organization studies, business and critical management. Entries embrace the plurality of organizations to include and go beyond corporate workplaces, extending to universities, informal groups, cooperatives, libraries, and more. Key topics covered are work/life balance, intersectionality, Marxism, gig work, power, gendering, and race. Entries in this volume reflect the pressing issues that are currently reshaping the field such as algorithmic control, coercive organizations, digital nomads, greenwashing, organizational ecology, and systems thinking.

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Sociology is an essential resource for scholars and students exploring empirical research and theory in the interdisciplinary field of organizational sociology, and its interface with a range of other disciplines such as political science, economics, psychology, and business management.

Key Features:

• Contains over 130 accessible entries
• Includes contributions from an international cohort of authors across the Global South and North
• Highlights the variety of styles, themes, methodologies, and theories across organizational sociology

India accounts for 20% of the global disease burden despite having only 17% of the world's population, underscoring the critical need for effective health communication. This volume delves into how the world's most populous democracy addresses health communication challenges across its vast linguistic, cultural, and socio-economic diversity, offering vital insights for global health practitioners.

Organized into three parts, the book traces the evolution of health communication in India. The first part establishes theoretical foundations from psychology, sociology, and mass communication that shape Indian practices. The second examines specific diseases-cancer, tuberculosis, leprosy, and COVID-19-through traditional media such as print, broadcast, and film. The third explores cutting-edge digital advancements, including mHealth tools for primary health workers, artificial intelligence, and the growing challenge of health misinformation. Featuring contributions from national and international scholars, practitioners, journalists, NGO workers, and a bureaucrat, the book presents diverse perspectives. Case studies highlight innovative approaches like Positive Deviance for malnutrition, destigmatization campaigns for leprosy, and patient navigation systems that enhance provider-patient communication.

As India confronts persistent health inequities alongside notable achievements, this volume is essential for postgraduate students, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, journalists, and government officials. This will be of interest to those in the fields of health communication, public health, digital health and technology, journalism, media studies, sociology of health and illness, and psychology.

Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques is a practical, inspiring guide to Viktor Frankl's meaning-centered approach.

In 100 concise, engaging chapters, it offers a clear roadmap for anyone navigating uncertainty, burnout, loss, loneliness, or the disorienting pace of modern life-whether in their personal journey or professional practice. Drawing from Frankl's timeless framework and contemporary research and clinical developments in the field, the book moves from foundational principles to hands-on techniques and real-world applications across a remarkable range of settings: therapy and counseling, healthcare, education, organizations, community, and beyond. What makes this volume distinctive is its integration of theory, evidence, and ready-to-use practices in one coherent, highly readable format. At a time when uncertainty, disconnection, and rapid change have made the search for meaning more urgent than ever, this book is an invaluable companion-insightful, motivating, and deeply human-for anyone who wants to live and work with greater purpose, courage, and direction.

Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques serves as an indispensable resource for psychotherapists, counsellors, and anyone seeking to integrate meaning-centred perspectives into their personal or professional lives.

This book explores the role of Eric Miller in establishing and developing the practice and application of the systems psychodynamics paradigm to organisational development consultancy, research, and training.

The book covers the key areas of Miller's focus: developing the idea and role of the consultant; the importance of psychoanalytical thinking and socio-technical systems; the need for a deep understanding of group work; the application of his ideas in a wide variety of different urban and rural settings; and the role of women in organisations.

With contributions from across the world of organisation consultancy and systems psychodynamics, this is key reading for anyone interested in group dynamics, organisational work, and the application of systems psychodynamics interventions in business and societal settings.

For 50 years, the Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC) has been responsible for enforcing the state's campaign finance, conflict-of-interest, and lobbying laws. Created by citizen initiative in 1974, the agency has faced constant political pressure, including eight legislative attempts to abolish it. This book traces APOC's turbulent history and shows how public opinion, court rulings, and repeated citizen-led initiatives kept the agency alive despite ongoing efforts to weaken it. It offers a rare inside look at how a regulatory body survives in a politically charged environment.

Unlike most studies of campaign finance, which focus on national trends or compare multiple states, former APOC Executive Director Paul R. Dauphinais offers an in-depth, unbiased examination of a single state, Alaska, grounded in firsthand experience and a nonpartisan historical lens. Alaska's geographic isolation, extractive economy, and small legislature create a distinctive political ecosystem that allows for unusually close study of how laws are enforced and resisted. Dauphinais highlights how oil wealth, lobbying pressures, legislative turnover, and shifting political incentives have shaped APOC's work and the controversies surrounding it.

By examining what happens after elections, how laws are implemented, how violators fare, and how voters respond when elected officials attempt to weaken oversight, the book offers a fresh perspective on democratic accountability. It will appeal to scholars and students of state politics, public administration, political reform, and the evolving relationship between citizens and the institutions designed to regulate those who govern them.

As well as highlighting the most relevant topics and resources, supported by a clear glossary of terms, this guide empowers newcomers to successfully navigate thorny ethical and logistical challenges. It argues that community engaged learning serves as a powerful antidote to the panic caused by AI in education by prioritizing authentic human interactions, from awkward moments and humility to humor and trust-building. It helps instructors move beyond passive learning strategies and facilitate transformative learning experiences which are highly valued by students.

Whether you are a course instructor, administrator or a community partner, this book provides the know-how and skill to transform small yet powerful ideas into a successful reality.

This book focuses on the evolving landscape of teaching and learning. It brings together an array of pedagogical materials, case studies, and stories used in teaching from around the world.

By showcasing teaching-focused innovations, this book bridges gaps between institutions and across geographical boundaries, demonstrating that what may seem commonplace in one setting can be groundbreaking in another. The perpetual quest for improving student satisfaction and enhancing their learning experience underscores the need for fresh perspectives and approaches, which this book delivers with diversity.

Featuring contributions from faculty around the world, this compendium is a valuable reading for early and seasoned academics who are passionate about creativity in teaching and pedagogical innovation.

Supply or substitute educators play a crucial role in keeping classrooms running and student learning on track. However, stepping into an unfamiliar classroom, with students you've never met and minimal guidance, is far more challenging than it may seem. Drawing on over 20 years of classroom and leadership experience, this practical guide explores how temporary teachers can navigate the complex world of unfamiliar schools, build meaningful connections with students, and develop a strong professional identity.

Each chapter is designed to support you in managing the unique demands of being a temporary teacher. You'll learn how to maintain high expectations, manage behaviour, build credibility, and create meaningful learning opportunities, even under pressure. Throughout there are real-life stories and examples from temporary teachers around the world, and expert insights from current teachers and school leaders to illustrate how the ideas in the book can be applied in different contexts.

More than a handbook for cover work, this book is a toolkit for professional growth, confidence, and belonging. Whether you're aiming for permanent roles or excelling in temporary positions, it will empower you to see yourself as a skilled professional, make a lasting impact on students, and rediscover your sense of purpose in the classroom.

The first collection to address the role of the oceanic in literary texts and traditions from across the Nordic region, this book explores applications of ecocriticism, postcolonial theory, new materialism, and gender studies at a time when interest in marine ecosystems and their vulnerabilities to anthropogenic climate change is generating new theoretical insights and interest across the humanities.

The Nordic countries with their long coastlines and archipelagic geographies have long histories of seafaring and mariculture. This book simultaneously introduces Nordic literatures about the sea to international scholars with an interest in the oceanic and blue humanities to scholars working within Scandinavian/Nordic Studies. Its historical sweep incorporates the work of Nordic writers of particular significance for European and world literature, such as Henrik Ibsen and Tove Jansson; it also explores texts known chiefly within the Northern countries, including contemporary literature engaging with the sea; and historical texts, such as the Icelandic sagas and Early Modern seafaring guides. The book takes an innovative geographical orientation, grouping chapters to correspond to the various pelagic ecosystems that surround the Scandinavian Peninsula and connect it to the rest of the globe.

The combination of canonical and lesser-known texts with key theoretical approaches makes the volume ideal for teaching. With its broad historical and theoretical scope, The Sea in Nordic Literature is a valuable resource for scholars and students in blue humanities, Scandinavian and Nordic studies, and comparative literature.

This book brings together global experts and thought leaders in coaching in higher education to share best practice on how coaching can be used to empower students, educators and administrators to improve the experience of university life.

Universities face a multitude of challenges, and this book demonstrates tried-and-tested practices that have a significant impact on some of the most important questions, such as:

• How can we support students from a broad range of backgrounds to flourish in the university setting?
• How can we develop the resilience of students and academics to adapt to a rapidly changing higher education landscape?
• How can university students cope with the mental health challenges of going to university, and what can be done to increase their employability and career prospects?

The book provides examples of using coaching to educator flourishing, provide coaching to staff and faculty, empower students to achieve success and wellbeing, equip university students with skills to provide peer coaching and to enhance the leadership skills of university administrators.

Richly illustrated with the author's exquisite drawings, this visual manual provides a concise and practical introduction to contemporary urban landscape architecture with trees and forest: Sylvan City Design.

Aimed at student and professional landscape architects and environmental designers, the manual will also appeal to other urban disciplines and to communities engaged with neighbourhood spaces in the context of the potential for trees to transform city living for climate resilience, green health, social equity, biodiversity and - at the same time - enriched urban culture.

A sylvan city is foremost 'made, shaped or formed of woods or trees'. Catherine Dee sets out to demonstrate how and why settlements may be better designed by considering trees as the indispensable 'ground' of a city, forming a life-giving, long-term dwelling matrix into which buildings and built infrastructure are fitted.

The manual is organised in two parts. Part I: Principles, Strategies + Methods introduces the central aims of sylvan city design and establishes key design principles, strategies and ethos: 1 What is a Sylvan City? 2 What is Sylvan Design? 3 Sylvan Space, 4 Sylvan Time, 5 Sylvan Climate and 6 Sylvan Specificity, Diversity + Robustness.

Part II: Forms, Functions + Habitats explores context-specific design, illustrating a wide range of urban situations, scales and types of tree environment from tiny street corners through to city-wide tracts using the patterns: Forest, Locale, Greenway, Grove, Glade, Parkland, Avenue, Hedgerow, Thicket, Garden, Farm, Woodland, and Wilderness. In each section, the design approach is to refresh and re-orient long-practised forms of tree cultivation and ecological management by matching them with urban social, cultural and biodiversity functions to create a contemporary environmental language adaptable to evolving sylvan cities in diverse global regions and changing climates.

Communicated in vivid drawings inspiring new ways to dwell with trees, this is a DIY landscape architecture manual for all.

Adopting Virtual Reality in Inclusive Higher Education offers a timely exploration of how higher education can realize the transformative potential of VR while foregrounding accessibility and equity through inclusive design.

This volume challenges the persistent inequities in educational technology adoption, presenting a rigorous framework that integrates theoretical foundations, practical implementations, and institutional strategies. Through compelling case studies and evidence-based insights, it demonstrates how inclusive design broadens access and supports learning for diverse students, addressing barriers of ability, socioeconomic status, and cultural background. Readers will discover how pedagogical effectiveness and inclusive design function as inseparable imperatives, each strengthening the other, rather than competing priorities. With a focus on sustainable capacity-building, the book reveals how educators and institutions can embed inclusion across pedagogical rationale, instructional design, and institutional planning, ensuring VR adoption serves diverse learners rather than privileging technological novelty.

Essential for educators, administrators, and researchers, this volume redefines what it means to innovate responsibly in the digital age.