Drawing on multijurisdictional insights from both legal and economic perspectives, this book provides a structured framework for understanding how competition law and policy can meaningfully contribute to sustainability while safeguarding legal certainty and coherence. The authors explore how competition law not only prevents harmful conduct but also accommodates arrangements that promote sustainability goals. Across the chapters a range of key topics are analysed, including constitutional foundations in EU law, guidance development at EU level and a wide range of the other leading jurisdictions in and outside the EU, as well as emerging anticompetitive enforcement practices, the abuse of dominance and mergers.

This book is an invaluable resource for academics and students in competition and antitrust law, sustainable development and environmental law. Sauter and Nowag's comparative approach is also beneficial to political scientists, policy analysts and practitioners working towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Expert contributors examine enduring topics and metatheoretical approaches, including relational developmental systems perspectives, developmental evolution and the emergence of moral capacities in early life. They highlight moral self-identity and developmental processes in emerging and early adulthood. Expanding on lifespan considerations of generativity, purpose and self-transcendence, the Research Handbook presents questions on the development of social justice as well as cultivating character and virtue.

The Research Handbook on Lifespan Moral Development is a vital resource for academics and researchers of moral psychology. Scholars and practitioners of developmental psychology and philosophy will also greatly benefit from its theoretical and practical recommendations.

This book explores educational reform in China through the author's roles as a state-designated foreign expert, assistant professor, and senior editor. Based on fieldwork in urban and rural areas, it examines the integration of authentic literary materials into EFL instruction during a transformative period of curricular innovation.

The research spans diverse regional contexts-from capital city Beijing to semi-rural Zhaotong in the southwest and Zhuhai, a special economic zone in the southeastern coastal region-and compares key educational institutions at the university and secondary levels. Through transcript excerpts of recorded classroom conversations, focus group interviews, and surveys, it amplifies the voices of mainland Chinese EFL teachers and students. Teachers reflect on their approaches to teaching L1 literature and adapting it for EFL courses, while students engage with literary texts by a major Chinese American author, gaining awareness of cultural and generational gaps that shape their own lives. This rich ethnographic narrative provides empirical insights into progressive pedagogy within applied linguistics contexts.

This monograph is intended for researchers and practitioners in applied linguistics, TESOL, education, and Chinese studies, as well as lay readers interested in contemporary mainland Chinese classroom practices, particularly of literature.

If my booking a flight doesn't make a difference to the plane taking off and to climate change, what reason is there for me not to fly? If my small donation doesn't make a difference to what Doctors Without Borders can achieve, why should I donate? If my purchase of a factory-farmed chicken doesn't make a difference to how many chickens suffer and die, why not just buy it These questions reflect a broader issue: the Inefficacy Problem, where individual actions seem insignificant in the face of collective harms.

This is the first edited volume dedicated exclusively to the Inefficacy Problem. It examines existing solutions, explores new ones, and sets the stage for future developments in the debate. Featuring contributions from Julia Nefsky, Chrisoula Andreou, Carolina Sartorio, Julia Driver, Mark Budolfson, and others, it offers a comprehensive look at this pressing issue. The book addresses central questions in the debate. Some chapters define the problem, while others explore instrumental solutions, arguing that even if we can't make a difference, we can still influence outcomes in meaningful ways. Additional chapters discuss non-instrumental solutions, maintaining that even when we are instrumentally insignificant, we can still be significant in some non-instrumental way (e.g., act out of fairness, or make a statement). Finally, some chapters draw parallels between interpersonal and intrapersonal dilemmas.

The Ethics of Inefficacy is an essential resource for researchers and graduate students in normative ethics, applied ethics, philosophy of responsibility, metaethics, metaphysics, epistemology, action theory, political philosophy, and philosophy of law.

Providing the first international edited resource in over 20 years on this topic, International Perspectives on Child and Youth Firesetting brings together a wealth of global perspectives to create an interdisciplinary and authoritative work that argues for the treatment of firesetting behaviour as a public health issue.

With contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and clinical experts in the field of child and youth firesetting, this volume considers existing research through both a developmental lens and a public health approach, highlighting opportunities for addressing youth firesetting at multiple levels and filling a significant gap in current literature. Divided into three parts, it guides the reader through the social and cultural context of fire use and misuse, understanding firesetting behaviours in children and adolescents and, lastly, how to respond to these behaviours.

International Perspectives on Child and Youth Firesetting will be of interest to scholars and researchers studying or working with children and adolescents who set fires, and practitioners in mental health, forensic settings, education, social care, youth justice and emergency services.

This forward-thinking Research Agenda examines the wide-ranging impact of big data and considers what kind of regulatory framework is needed in response. Challenging the perception of big data as a driver of progress, leading scholars identify the legal debates that should guide the next phase of research.

Questioning dominant assumptions about scale, innovation and technological development, contributing authors assess how big data has reshaped domains including climate policy, children's online safety, digital health, transport and finance. They highlight that data-driven systems are not neutral or cost free, outlining their dependence on resource-intensive infrastructures. The Research Agenda explores how this dependence can allocate responsibilities unequally across many actors and move faster than the law, compounding inequality. It concludes that governance must move beyond narrow compliance models towards more coherent approaches grounded in accountability, transparency, sustainability and justice.

Combining conceptual and doctrinal analysis with practical insights, A Research Agenda for Big Data and the Law is an essential guide for scholars and students of technology law, data protection law, and intellectual property law. Policymakers and regulators in media law and financial regulation will also find its discussions on regulatory gaps, governance models and emerging legal challenges invaluable.

The Research Handbook is organized around three interconnected themes. The first concerns foundational questions: how competition policy relates to innovation, inclusive growth, industrial policy, sustainability, and democracy. The second addresses substantive law, examining how frameworks for cartels, dominance, mergers, and digital markets require adaptation to serve development objectives in contexts ranging from South Africa and Brazil to India and Southeast Asia. The third focuses on enforcement, confronting the practical challenges of institutional independence, resource constraints, priority-setting, South-South cooperation, and the power asymmetries embedded in international convergence processes such as the ICN. Ultimately, the Research Handbook rejects the push toward harmonisation and universalisation, insisting instead that effective competition law in the Global South must be context-specific, inclusive, and oriented toward structural transformation.

This book is an essential reference for scholars and students of competition law, law and development, and comparative economic regulation, as well as policymakers and practitioners navigating the intersection of market governance and development strategy.

This book proposes a comprehensive legal framework for regulating Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), integrating insights from law, economics, and process management.

Adopting a structured, future-focused, and risk-based approach to address the unique challenges of AGI regulation, this book validates the "singularity scenario" as a legitimate field of scientific inquiry. It critically examines the limitations of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in governing AGI, and introduces a foundational four-level analytical model rooted in transaction cost theory. Through a detailed exploration of the what, who, and how of regulation, the book maps the risks associated with AGI, discusses the potential role of electronic legal personhood, and develops a practical legal framework aimed at ensuring AGI's trustworthiness and alignment with human values. Ultimately, it argues for proactive, rather than reactive regulatory strategies in anticipation of the technological singularity.

The book will be of interest to researchers in the field of the law of emerging technologies, artificial intelligence and regulation.

Employing pluralist democratic theory, agenda setting scholarship and critical race theory, contributors explore politics in legislatures and courts, spatial boundaries, accountability systems, micropolitical negotiation and community mobilization. They review education politics in both urban and rural communities, illustrating its implications at the local, state and national level. Drawing on commentaries on ethics and injustice, the Modern Guide to Education Politics in the US advocates for public education's thoughtful and persistent engagement with politics.

This timely Modern Guide provides valuable insights for scholars and students of education policy reform, particularly those focused on contemporary US education policy. Practitioners and policymakers working in education will also benefit from the book's approach to prescient debates in the field.

Employing a wealth of British newspaper articles this book explores the ways in which British attitudes to Rhodesia/Zimbabwe developed from the post-war period through to the early years of independence by reconstructing how the print media portrayed the colony. Using articles from a range of different sources it traces the narratives that were presented to the public from the creation of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland to the early years of Robert Mugabe's regime.

Exploring the cultural, political, moral and ideological relationship between metropole, white settler colonialism and African nationalism at the end of Britain's empire in Africa, it maps out the public debates, representations and perceptions of decolonization and Britain's role in it. It lays open ideological fracture lines that existed in the political mind-set in Britain, explores how attitudes towards Empire were shaped through the media, and the extent to which the various crises of southern Africa permeated the British consciousness during this period.

Going beyond typical genderblind analyses, contributors illustrate how anti-gender ideology, reproductive constraints, backlash against feminism and hostility towards LGBTIQ identities are both responses to and exacerbated by the polycrisis. Chapters demonstrate gender's centrality in different dimensions of this phenomenon, including war and conflict, the care crisis, migration, masculinity and race. In addition to addressing exigent contemporary issues, this book also adopts a historical viewpoint, highlighting the long shadow of colonisation as a key dimension of the polycrisis.

Gender Politics in a Turbulent Era is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of political science and theory, gender studies and international relations seeking insights into the most extant geopolitical and social issues faced by society today. Due to its relevance, this book will also be an enlightening read for anyone interested in investigating current affairs through a gendered lens.

Halldorsson's How Digital Screen Use Alienates Human Societies examines recent processes of technological rationalism, which were intensified by the Covid-pandemic, and explores how they alienate human societies in the name of progress. Challenging the prevailing assumptions of such 'progress', the book argues that these processes undermine the essential 'social magic' - the everyday human sociality that builds communities - which results in societal fragmentation, marked by alienation in the form of social isolation, consumption, polarisation, fear, and conflict.

The paradox of how increased connectivity through digital networks, can lead to lack of human connection is the critical question this book pursues. It explores how intense processes of technological rationalisation has undermined human sociality and alienated the world by replacing human-to-human relationships with human-to-machine interactions. The author argues that communication with/through screen machines is incapable of replacing vital social relationships that breed 'social magic' and build communities. This disconnection, which is driven by technological capitalism, undermines human sociality and causes alienation. Ultimately, the book asserts that humanity needs more social magic, fostered through human-to-human relationships - and offers critical sociological analysis and potential remedies.

This book is a critical academic treatise. It will be of interest to social science scholars and students as well as a broader audience seeking to resist the relentless makeover of human societies, in the name of technological rationalisation, and make the world more humane, meaningful, and magical.

By considering historical and doctrinal analysis with qualitative empirical work, the book combines theory and practice to provide an institutional understanding of patent agency. Comparing research from across Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the book reveals how professional enclosures have reshaped patent drafting standards, examination practices, and quality debates. Moving beyond diagnostic approaches, Aoun challenges current institutional arrangements and proposes reforms to restore broader participation in patent governance and ensure these systems better serve innovation ecosystems.

Combining critique with constructive suggestions for change, this book is an essential resource for intellectual property scholars and law professors. It is also an insightful read for patent practitioners and attorneys given its critical reflection on the profession, as well as a valuable toolkit for policymakers focusing on patent reform.

This book explores how public spaces-such as streets, squares, parks, and shared urban environments-are designed and experienced and why they remain a vital but often overlooked part of urban design. Although the idea of the public realm has been central to cities for decades, there is still no clear or widely shared understanding of what it means or how it should be shaped in practice. Many of the key theories that continue to influence the field were developed between the 1960s and 1980s and no longer fully reflect today's social, environmental, and technological realities.

Cities are now changing rapidly due to factors such as climate change, digital technologies, migration, and increasing cultural diversity. These shifts are transforming how public spaces are planned, governed, and used, while also raising urgent questions about inclusion, resilience, and social justice. In response, this collection brings together new ideas, research, and practical approaches from a range of international contexts. The contributors examine innovative design strategies, the impact of crises on urban life, and new forms of social and institutional interaction, presenting the public realm as a dynamic, contested, and constantly evolving part of contemporary cities.

This book addresses broad subject areas including urban design and planning, architecture, geography, sociology, environmental studies, and public policy. It is essential reading for academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in these fields as well as urban planners, architects, policymakers, and practitioners engaged in shaping inclusive, resilient, and sustainable cities for the future.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability.

Contributors assess how entrepreneurial activities have become increasingly focused on creating value through cooperation, governing commons and applied social innovation. Drawing on a wealth of international case studies, chapters propose institutional-level solutions for promoting inclusion and reviving cooperatives, such as urban farming planning and affordable housing initiatives. Analysing entrepreneurship from grassroots movements providing affordable, renewable energy, to the actions of global banks and corporations, the book showcases actionable strategies while advocating for consistent sensitivity to local contexts.

Case Studies on Urban Entrepreneurship is a vital resource for scholars and students of business and management, sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and entrepreneurship. Urban activists and government officials will also benefit from its discussions of community-centred endeavours.

The book integrates perspectives from diverse disciplines, including systems thinking, ecofeminism, corporate governance and indigenous knowledge. Contributors adopt a global approach to assessing systems change, drawing on detailed case studies across Africa and Asia, with a particular focus on indigenous communities. Presenting forward-looking insights on feminist AI, regenerative economics and ecosystem restoration, the book provides innovative suggestions for navigating transformation processes to enhance long-term system vitality.

Sustainability Transformations is a vital resource for scholars and students in sustainability studies, human geography and policy, climate change studies and development studies. Its practical suggestions will also benefit policymakers and practitioners in environmental, economic, and social governance institutions.

Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence provides an in-depth exploration of the intersection of business analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI). Tailored for undergraduate, graduate, and professional learners, it equips readers with the knowledge and skills to leverage data-driven insights and AI technologies for strategic decision-making, operational optimization, and innovation in a dynamic global business environment. This book bridges the gap between theory and practice by:

- Introducing the foundational principles of business analytics and AI

- Demonstrating the integration of advanced AI techniques into business analytics processes

- Providing a unified guide to business analytics and machine learning with a focus on real-world applications

- Presenting a clear, practical, and accessible framework to harness AI and machine learning for solving complex business problems, optimizing operations, and driving innovation

- Exploring the ethical, legal, and social implications of AI in business contexts

- Presenting case studies and real-world applications from diverse industries to showcase best practices.

The textbook combines foundational concepts, advanced techniques, and hands-on applications, catering to readers with varying levels of technical expertise. It includes global perspectives of BA and AI, case studies, practical examples, and coding snippets (in Python or R) to help readers implement AI-driven solutions in their organizations. Topics span predictive analytics, machine learning, data visualization, natural language processing, and decision support systems, emphasizing how these tools empower businesses to stay competitive and ensure operational sustainability.

• How stablecoins differ from cryptoassets, tokenised deposits and central bank digital currencies
• Real-world applications for crypto markets, payments, remittances, financial inclusion, humanitarian finance, insurance, gig work and in tokenisation and agentic payments and the machine economy
• Case studies and practical frameworks necessary for assessing stablecoin arrangements with both commercial realism and legal discipline
• The crucial features of major and emerging stablecoin regimes, such as those in the EU, UK, Switzerland, the USA and UAE, as well as offshore jurisdictions
• Risks, enforcement and mitigation tools including blockchain analytics, tracing, freezing, and asset forfeiture

Stablecoins is an essential resource for legal practitioners, in-house counsel and law firms advising on stablecoins, cryptoassets, finance and banking law and corporate law. Compliance and money laundering reporting officers and those working in anti-fraud services will also benefit from discussions on the risks of stablecoins and how they can be used in digital economic crime.

This volume uses classical liberal thought to present new theoretical and empirical perspectives on freedom of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals and communities.

Rainbow Liberty emphasizes the institutions that sustain tolerance, pluralism, and freedom of association, which empower marginalized communities to build civil associations in the face of social and political pressures. Classical liberal methodological and normative studies on LGBTQ life have been conspicuously absent in scholarly literature but are applied in this volume to explore the circumstances and implications of queer agency and freedom. The ideas of Adam Smith, F. A. Hayek, James M. Buchanan, and Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, among other thinkers in the classical liberal tradition, give a unique and underappreciated perspective on LGBTQ issues.

This volume is an invaluable resource for scholars exploring sexuality and gender from a variety of disciplines, including economics, political science, philosophy, sociology, and related fields. Rainbow Liberty appeals more broadly to anyone interested in how queer freedoms have shaped, and continue to shape, our world.

Combining deep theoretical analysis with international and national case studies, contributing authors highlight how environmental harm is experienced unequally in everyday life through health, work, care, and survival. Chapters rethink regulation, switching the emphasis from dominance and control to connection and responsibility, establishing the need to recognise our interdependence with both each other and our ecosystem. Featuring interdisciplinary perspectives from legal academics and practitioners drawing on diverse strands of feminist scholarship, the Handbook proposes more caring and accountable forms of governance oriented toward justice and ecological integrity.

The Research Handbook on Feminist Approaches to Environmental Law is an essential resource for students and scholars of environmental law, feminist legal theory, and gender studies. Policymakers and researchers will also benefit from its global coverage and innovative analysis.

This edited collection offers an exploration and critical reassessment of the sciences in educational research, foregrounding its agential and material qualities rather than treating it as a neutral instrument of knowledge. Addressing the enduring allure of research as expertise and of science as an elixir for enabling the good life, it examines a distinctive form of activism within modernity and challenges the ahistorical assumptions that often frame the practices of the human sciences.

The book comprises original historical and sociological studies by international scholars who examine the infrastructures of ideas, theories, methods, and technologies through which scientific knowledge is produced. Across a wide range of educational contexts, the authors interrogate how science operates performatively, shaping norms, subjectivities, and modes of governance. Part of a two-volume series, Volume One, Infrastructures, Differences and Space of Action in Education explores how science produces new phenomena as comparative logics in kinds of people.

It will appeal to scholars and researchers across interdisciplinary fields including sociology of education, sociology of knowledge, historical sociology, political philosophy, educational policy, comparative and international education, and transnational studies.