Contributors present key insights into well-established and newly emerging carbon markets across the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Chapters consider the rapidly evolving frameworks for global carbon markets, taking into account developments under the Paris Agreement and in voluntary carbon markets. Adopting a forward-looking approach, the Handbook explores topics including carbon dioxide removal, carbon leakage, carbon markets and climate justice, and the interactions between different types of carbon markets in achieving net-zero goals.

The Handbook of Carbon Markets is an essential resource for academics and researchers in climate policy, environmental law and economics. Postgraduate students and government officials will equally benefit from the balanced and diverse exploration of these key instruments of climate policy.

In a rapidly evolving landscape of educational research, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) and interpretable machine learning (IML) are emerging as pivotal tools that enhance transparency, efficiency, and innovation. This book serves as a comprehensive guide to understanding and leveraging these technologies to transform teaching, learning, and research practices. It aims to bridge the gap between complex technological advancements and practical educational applications. It delves into how XAI and IML can be harnessed to analyze vast educational datasets, assess student performance, and design adaptive learning environments, all while ensuring the interpretability and ethical deployment of AI systems. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world examples, the book explores topics such as the foundations of XAI, the development of IML algorithms for education, and the ethical implications of data-driven decision-making. A unique feature of this volume is its interdisciplinary approach, combining perspectives from educators, researchers, and data scientists. It emphasizes collaboration and encourages contributors to address emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities in the application of XAI and IML. Case studies from diverse educational contexts provide practical insights and inspire innovative solutions to pressing educational issues. The book serves as a comprehensive and definitive guide for practitioners and researchers dedicated to enhancing educational processes.

The promise of Cultural and Creative Industries as a development pathway has spread with remarkable speed and, too often, with insufficient scrutiny.

Through detailed analysis of policy experiments across diverse contexts, this book challenges the often-celebratory narratives around creative industry development by examining how institutional structures shape both successes and systemic failures. The author provides a nuanced critique of how institutional contexts - from funding mechanisms to power dynamics - fundamentally shape policy outcomes. Drawing on Global North and South cases, it demonstrates how similar policies produce markedly different results across institutional settings, often reproducing existing inequalities.

For scholars and policy professionals committed to understanding creative industries as a genuine force for development, this book offers an indispensable critical framework that will be valuable reading for scholars and reflective policy professionals around the world.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the regulatory framework governing sustainability in the non-banking financial sector, with particular emphasis on insurance companies and investment funds. It examines the implications of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and climate-related regulations for ESG risk to management practices and market behavior within these institutions. While existing literature predominantly focuses on the banking sector, this book addresses a significant research gap by offering an in-depth examination of non-banking financial institutions.

This book is structured into two parts. The first part outlines the general sustainability framework applicable to insurance companies and investment funds, focusing on key concepts, regulatory developments, and emerging trends in ESG risk regulation across the non-banking sector. It explores how insurance companies and investment funds design and implement ESG risk management strategies in major jurisdictions, including Europe, the United States, and other global markets. The second part assesses the impact of ESG regulatory frameworks and their ongoing evolution on market behavior, considering factors such as geographical location, industry characteristics, firm size, and the level of market development.

By integrating an analysis of existing regulatory initiatives with practical insights into ESG risk management, this book offers both theoretical and applied perspectives. It is intended for academics and students in financial law, economics, and sustainable finance, as well as for policymakers, regulators, and practitioners seeking to understand, assess, and manage ESG risks in financial institutions.

Nearly 20 years after the first edition captivated readers, Fundamentals of Developmental Psychology returns in its third edition, offering a thoroughly updated and enriched exploration of developmental psychology. Building on the success of previous editions, this new version reflects the latest discoveries and evolving perspectives in the field, while maintaining the clarity, accessibility, and engaging style that have made it a favourite among students and instructors alike.

New chapters on 'Prenatal Development,' 'Development in Adolescence,' and 'Development of Self' expand the book's scope, while integrated examples of atypical development and global perspectives reflect the diversity of developmental trajectories and the growing emphasis on decolonizing the curriculum. The book continues to balance cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development, while emphasizing the importance of theory in explaining developmental changes, going beyond mere description to uncover the mechanisms that drive growth and change. Designed with pedagogy at its core, this edition is packed with features to support learning and engagement. Bolded key terms, chapter aims, stop and think boxes, chapter summaries, example essay questions, and further reading are included to support learning and engagement, alongside a complete glossary for clarity.

Perfect for introductory courses, this third edition provides a comprehensive yet concise introduction to developmental psychology. With its engaging content, full-colour illustrations, and student-friendly organisation, it inspires curiosity and critical thinking while equipping readers with the tools to explore the complexities of developmental psychology and the fascinating journey of human growth and change.

Accompanied by support materials, instructors can access lecture slides summarising key content with diagrams from the book, a test bank of multiple-choice questions for assessment, and an online glossary for easy download. A letter to instructors also provides guidance on using the text and highlights major updates from the previous edition.

This comprehensive guide reveals how to systematically identify and capture cross-selling and up-selling opportunities, whether through internal transformation, organisational consolidation or merger and acquisition scenarios. By understanding the fundamental principles of revenue expansion and cost optimisation at the same time, business leaders can dramatically improve their company's value proposition while strengthening market position.

Every business professional will encounter organisational change - whether through M&A activity during economic booms or internal restructuring during downturns. These pivotal moments present extraordinary opportunities to simultaneously increase sales and reduce costs, yet most organisations fail to maximise their potential. This book provides the strategic framework and practical tools needed to excel during these critical transitions, showing how to plan and implement cross-selling initiatives that deliver substantial revenue growth while streamlining operations for maximum efficiency. Drawing from real-world M&A scenarios and internal transformation case studies, this guide demonstrates how to improve profit from both ends of the equation. You will learn to identify cross-selling opportunities that others miss, develop implementation strategies that minimise disruption and create sustainable revenue streams that outlast the initial organisational change.

Whether you are leading a merger integration, managing a divisional consolidation or simply seeking to optimise your current sales approach, this book provides the insights and methodologies to transform organisational complexity into competitive advantage and measurable profit improvement.

'The Anthropocene' is one of the most important scientific concepts of our time. It is also one of the most contested. This book offers the most advanced yet accessible introduction to the complex and often heated debates about the meaning, nature, and implications of the Anthropocene.

Drawing on the work of physical and human geographers, alongside geographically-informed contributions from natural and physical scientists, sociologists, historians, anthropologists, philosophers, and others, this book maps and critically evaluates the implications of the Anthropocene for the discipline of Geography and for geographical thinking across other fields. It asks: Does the Anthropocene mark the start of the greatest environmental crisis in history? Which humans are most responsible? What impacts is it having on human well-being and the natural world? What needs to be done to mitigate its threats, and who will bear the costs? How does 'the Anthropocene' challenge the conduct of research, policy, and activism around issues like environmental justice, resilience, nature conservation, or decolonisation? Is 'the Anthropocene' even the best name for this new age?

Essential reading for university students and researchers in Geography and beyond, this book also appeals to general readers interested in understanding how human actions are reshaping the Earth and what this means for the future of people and planet.

This Advanced Introduction provides a succinct overview of the modern forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Examining the variety of disputes in contemporary society, Carrie Menkel-Meadow argues that a fluid and adaptable resolution framework is necessary in order to fulfil the core principles of ADR: cheaper, faster and better solutions to legal disputes.

Key Features:

• Reviews the latest issues in multi-party, multi-issue international disputes
• Outlines adjudication, arbitration, mediation, negotiation and various hybridized processes
• Analyses critiques of alternative forms of dispute resolution as well as jurisprudential theories
• Explores innovations in online dispute resolution, including the challenges and opportunities which arise from the use of artificial intelligence
• Illustrates how innovative processes of facilitation and consensus building can be used for group decision making and deliberative democracy

The Advanced Introduction to Alternative Dispute Resolution is an essential resource for scholars and students of arbitration, business law and consumer law. Legislators and international relations professionals will likewise benefit from its insightful suggestions for modern dispute resolution.

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.

Moroccan Judeo-Arabic Dialects as Jewish Languages provides an in-depth analysis of the diachrony and synchrony of the Judeo-Arabic dialects formed in Morocco from the 16th onwards, their diversity, their constituents, their forms, their categories, and their uses in community and family life.

Drawing on extensive linguistic data from a wide range of sources, including manuscripts and oral performances, this book examines the phonetics, phonology and morphology of the Judeo-Arabic dialects to offer insightful analyses and discoveries. Framed by a theoretical and methodological introduction, this book combines the findings of fieldwork with hundreds of informants from over 130 urban and rural Moroccan Jewish communities, for whom Judeo-Arabic is their mother tongue and primary language, with the advantages of modern linguistic, sociolinguistic, and socio-pragmatic analyses that allow for a better understanding of natural dialectal phenomena and their interpretation.

The book will be relevant to scholars of Arabic dialectology, sociolinguistics, and Jewish languages.

This book examines how Ukraine's agricultural system can move from resource-intensive production toward more sustainable, resilient, and agroecological pathways. It shows why this transition matters not only for Ukraine, but also for global food security.

Combining agricultural economics, environmental governance, and resource management, the volume offers an integrated account of the forces reshaping Ukrainian agriculture. It analyzes the country's natural resource base-chernozem soils, water systems, forests, and biodiversity-alongside the historical evolution of farming structures, land policy, and the environmental and social trade-offs of industrial agriculture. It also situates these issues within the wider context of war, post-war recovery, and the strategic choices that will shape the future of Ukrainian agriculture. The book addresses soil degradation, nutrient imbalances, pollution, war-related contamination, climate risks, and landscape fragmentation, while also examining how digital and precision technologies, sustainability metrics, data systems, reporting frameworks, climate finance, and scenario analysis can support a more governable transition. By linking environmental diagnosis with policy design, investment priorities, and institutional change, the book offers readers a clear framework for understanding both the vulnerabilities of the current model and the pathways to long-term agricultural resilience.

This book will appeal to scholars, students, policymakers, and practitioners in agricultural economics, environmental policy, sustainable development, rural studies, and food system governance.

Rejecting the view that liberal individualism is to blame for the rise of authoritarian governments, Vibert points instead to the way in which markets and political institutions are challenged by the superabundance of information associated with the information age. Chapters decry neo-liberalism and post-liberal theory as misrepresentations of the liberal tradition and advocate for narrowly defined constitutional processes as opposed to constitutional declarations. Emphasising the importance of liberal values such as tolerance, moderation, accommodation and harmony, the book warns against political forces which encourage a divisional 'them versus us' culture.

The Liberal Tradition and Political Order is an essential resource for scholars and students of politics and public policy, constitutions and political theory. Think tank professionals and NGO workers will similarly benefit from its actionable approach to preempting modern authoritarian movements.

This book centres on neurodivergent social workers and how managers and supervisors can ensure they offer neuroinclusive support and guidance in social work teams and organisations.

Explaining key theory, information, and practice regarding neurodiversity to develop understanding, it will also enable practitioners to connect with how neurodivergent social workers may experience social work practice and the impact on their practice and well-being. Using a strengths-based and neuro-affirming perspective, it shows how managers and supervisors can understand, value, and utilise the knowledge skills and values of neurodivergent social workers within teams and services. Offering frameworks, ideas, and advice on specific social work contexts such as supervision, organising, and planning work, enabling a sensory-affirming workplace, as well as developing trusted and empathic working relationships, it will help social work professionals to practice inclusively and anti-oppressively with their neurodivergent colleagues.

This book will be a useful resource for social work managers and supervisors, as well as practice educators and the wider organisation. Neurodivergent social workers will also find the information useful in terms of their own working strategies and approaches.

Israel's Public Administration: Structure, Functions and Needed Reforms provides a comprehensive and critical examination of Israel's civil service, its institutional evolution, and the challenges it faces in maintaining effective and democratic governance.

Drawing on extensive historical analysis, quantitative data, and comparative perspectives, Itzhak Galnoor and Nissim Cohen trace how foundational institutional choices have shaped the structure, culture, and performance of Israel's public administration. The book identifies key structural weaknesses - including fragmented accountability, politicized appointments, opaque budgeting practices, and problematic privatization policies - and explains how these dynamics have contributed to inefficiency, inequality, and democratic deficits. This second edition incorporates the latest available data and introduces a new chapter examining the public administration's handling of the coronavirus crisis, offering timely insight into state capacity under conditions of emergency. The authors conclude with concrete and practical reform proposals, including legal safeguards, strengthened accountability mechanisms, outcome-oriented budgeting, and measures to reinforce professionalism and inclusivity in the civil service.

This book will appeal to students and scholars of public administration, political science, and Israeli politics, as well as policymakers, civil servants, and practitioners interested in governance reform, state capacity, and democratic accountability.

The authors argue that student services must be approached through a growth mindset. They propose actionable, student-focused strategies using social support structures, boundary setting, fostering belonging and personal value systems. Readers will be inspired by the personal narratives of resilience from ten current and recent college students and the authors' own lived experience as a college administrator and a first generation student with a background in foster care, making this a nuanced and highly practical book. Readers are shown how institutions can implement organizational-wide changes to reinforce individual interactions that are strengths-based and trauma-informed, creating an open and supportive ecosystem.

How to Build Resilience in College Students is a crucial resource for college and university administrators, counselors and student services staff members. Faculty teaching in higher education and researchers focusing on young people will also benefit from the evidence-based insights and practical recommendations.

Great Power Politics, Elites and Energy explores the dynamics between great power politics, elites and energy, utilizing a critical political economic and historical materialist perspective that moves away from a Western-centric viewpoint and dominant International Relations methodologies.

The book highlights the reality of national ruling class competition and domination that is at the core of the dynamics of the international system, and the dependence on ever-increasing amounts of energy to bolster state power, a great power politics that locks in a power-up and ongoing usage of fossil fuels, when a power-down and energy transition is actually what is required. The way in which elites dominate their own society, and can dominate other societies, is fully theorized, together with the fundamental clash between Chinese and US political economic models and elites. The internal dynamics of China, the USA and Russia are investigated through historical materialist analyses which take full account of their specific historical development. The book links the imperative of economic growth for both elite legitimacy and relative national power to the dependence on ever-increasing amounts of energy required for that growth, rejecting the fallacy at the core of eco-modernism. It covers the inability of the international community to act effectively with respect to the energy transition while the dynamics of great power politics play out, and identifies possible interim measures.

Great Power Politics, Elites and Energy provides a provocative alternative to both mainstream international relations and eco-modernist scholarship in its representation of the dynamics of the international system. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, politics, environmental studies, sociology, economics and public policy.

Work Automation with R provides a solid framework on how to automate tasks and workflows in the workplace with R. This book introduces the most common components used in R automation, one by one, and then shows how to combine them to tackle real-world tasks.

The reader can jump to any chapter to explore solutions or best practices for specific tasks or read the book in chronological order if they are just starting a new automation project. Each chapter begins with a common data task and explores key concepts and multiple solutions using R packages. The author presents a range of solutions as there are often multiple ways to solve the same problem, with the different options have been compared along with key functions discussed in each, and reproducible examples have also been provided.

Aimed at business professionals and data practitioners who want to automate their work, the book assumes a basic working knowledge of R, including writing and running scripts, and performing common data tasks such as importing, transforming, and summarizing data. It also assumes a willingness to write small helper functions to automate repeated steps. Experience with Quarto or R Markdown is helpful but not required. Key tools and patterns are introduced as needed in end-to-end automation examples.

Key Features:

* Offers task-focused resources to smooth automation development.

* Helps identify and minimize common roadblocks that might impact progress.

* Establishes a reproducible workflow of automating tasks with R in a business setting.

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.

For readers who want to understand the hidden logic of how teams actually work, this book challenges the myth of the perfectly aligned, "optimized" culture and instead reveals how tension and conflict make real teams resilient.

Drawing on eighteen months of immersive observation inside four small firms, Eric R. Kushins offers a rare, firsthand look at teams in action. He uncovers how effective team cultures emerge, shift, and sustain themselves over time. Readers gain new conceptual tools for recognizing how relationships, rituals, and routines shape organizational performance, along with practical strategies for managing the cultural cycle of stability, crisis, and growth.

Culture is not a program to be rolled out. It is a performance lived every day. By understanding the dynamics that govern team interaction, leaders can better coordinate work, manage tension, and build organizations capable of navigating change. Hidden Rhythms of Teams is an essential guide for executives, HR leaders, consultants, entrepreneurs, family business owners, and MBA students seeking to build organizations that perform, adapt, and endure.

Southern African Perspectives for Inclusive Welfare provides a comprehensive examination of social policy in the Southern African context. Harnessing interdisciplinary insights from various sociological fields, it challenges the conventional welfare approaches that have proven inadequate for the complex realities of the region.

This volume outlines critical aspects that must be understood and addressed to build welfare systems capable of responding to Southern Africa's intensifying polycrisis, which encompasses climate breakdown, poverty, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and deepening governance challenges. Organised across six thematic parts, the book moves from theoretical and political foundations through empirical analyses of specific policy domains towards a synthetic conclusion, highlighting how social policy challenges and innovations manifest across diverse political, ecological, and socio-economic contexts. Each part demonstrates the systemic character of transformative social policy, an outcome that cannot be achieved without confronting the political economy of donor dependency and the epistemological conditions under which social policy knowledge is produced.

With empirical case studies and analyses drawn primarily from contributions within the region, this book will be of great interest to students and academics of social policy and social welfare, as well as development practitioners, civil society organisations, humanitarian agencies, and policymakers.