Port Economics is the study of the economic decisions (and their consequences) of the users and providers of port services. A port works as an "engine" for economic development. This book provides a detailed discussion of port freight service users, such as freight water and land carriers, that have their ships and vehicles serviced and their cargoes unloaded by ports, as well as passenger services such as ferry carriers which are serviced by ferry passenger ports.

The text continues to enhance our understanding of port economics by exploring the economic theories, supply and demand curves, and the actual and opportunity costs relating to the carriers, shippers and passengers who use ports. This edition includes three new chapters focusing on:

• Cargo port choice behaviour from the perspective of port freight service providers;
• The state-of-the-art theory of cargo port choice equilibrium between shippers and cargo port service providers;
• The state-of-the-art theory of cargo port choice equilibrium between shipping lines and cargo port service providers.

This updated and comprehensive introduction to port economics will be of benefit to students and researchers in their study of port economics and management. It is also of great importance to professionals who manage and operate ports as well as freight and passenger carriers.

Adopting a combination of value-, principle- and risk-based approaches to due process challenges, chapters introduce a comprehensive checklist and compliance scale. These tools are adaptable, technology-neutral and designed to assist platform operators, coders and regulators in improving their systems. Informed by human rights jurisprudence, the book grounds the compliance framework in risk assessment methodologies already adopted in data protection and AI regulation and analyses the position of consumers as weaker parties.

Built on an interdisciplinary theoretical foundation, Due Process in Blockchain Dispute Resolution is an essential guide for legal scholars and graduate students working at the intersection of law and technology, particularly those interested in digital governance, procedural justice and platform regulation. It is also beneficial for policymakers and regulators seeking to manage BDR platforms and ensure procedural safeguards.

This volume explores the poetic and philosophical boundaries between humanity and divinity across the Hebrew Bible, Graeco-Roman literature, and early Christian thought. Inspired by Psalm 8 and the verses of Sappho and Catullus, the title evokes the ancient tension between being human and "almost divine."

Essays by leading scholars examine prophetic transmission, divine legitimization of power, asceticism, animal symbolism, and mystical emptiness-tracing how ancient cultures conceptualized the divine-human interface. From Mesopotamian treaties and biblical naming to Latin hymnody and Indian mysticism, the volume traverses cultural and ontological boundaries.

Dedicated to Sten Hidal, whose pioneering work bridged Hebrew and Classical traditions, this collection honors his legacy by continuing the inquiry into what it means to be "a little less than a god."

Cultural Disability Studies in Education unites cultural disability studies and Disability Studies in Education in recognising education as a discourse between educators and students who examine how disability is represented across academic disciplines and curricular to language, theory, narrative, and characterisation.

Enhanced and updated throughout, this new edition combines disability studies with a selection of 10 indicative disciplines, making the case that disability studies is a great asset to many other disciplines including aesthetics, film studies, Holocaust studies, gender studies, happiness studies, popular music studies, humour studies, media studies and now including two new chapters on disability and literature and disability and radio studies. Discussions are approached via the tripartite model of disability, a critical framework that disrupts one-dimensional representations and enables complex analyses along the lines of normative positivity, non-normative negativity, and non-normative positivity.

Fully revised and expanded, this second edition will be required reading for all scholars and students of disability studies, cultural disability studies, disability studies in education, sociology and cultural studies.

Combining interdisciplinary perspectives from leading experts, entries cover historical, political and sociocultural aspects of the study of nationalism. They address debates such as the origins of nationalism, how ideas spread and questions of Eurocentrism within the field. The Encyclopedia also considers the main processes currently characterising modern nationalism.

Presenting a systematic overview of a complex field, this Elgar Encyclopedia is a key resource for scholars and students of political science, political theory, sociology and history, particularly those with an interest in nationalism and the nation state. It is also of value to practitioners and policymakers seeking topical insights on the field.

Key Features:

• Includes extensive cross-referencing of entries
• Provides thematic groupings of entries to aid navigation
• Spans diverse conceptual, methodological and theoretical approaches and research topics
• Features 151 contributing authors from a wide array of backgrounds, disciplines and countries

Presenting insightful and stimulating contributions from leading global experts, chapters examine pressing issues such as ageism, loneliness, homelessness, dementia, substance use problems, sexuality and gender and end-of-life care. They also consider practice across settings, from case work, integrated care and residential services to community engagement, family support, digital technologies and social work education.

This Handbook is an essential resource for scholars, students and practitioners across the fields of social work, social policy and sociology keen to understand the challenges and opportunities of contemporary ageing.

This book examines the justification for restitutionary awards for a failure of condition and considers when, given this justification, such awards should be made.

It argues that such awards give effect to, but do not enforce, an agreement between the parties. In recent years, this question has been the focus of more scrutiny and scepticism on the part of private law scholars. Adding to this scepticism, this study promotes a new 'agreement theory' of failure of condition, which offers a much less controversial way of understanding the role of restitution in such failures.

Innovative and thought-provoking, this is a significant new way of considering awards for failure of condition.

Challenges the dominant narratives that frame peace as a civilizational ideal. At a time when millions demand an end to war, occupation, and systemic oppression, this volume gathers diverse voices in a transnational and decolonial conversation. The contributors interrogate how "peace" is too often deployed as a mirage-reproducing systems of exclusion and violence under the guise of stability, order, and reform.

Exposing the coloniality embedded within hegemonic peace discourses, contributors reveal how imperial power configurations transform freedom into occupation, democracy into exclusion, and security into violence. Through critically self-reflective engagement with both religious and secular worldviews, contributors propose that peace is not an abstract ideal, but a deeply political construct shaped by empire, enforced through intervention, and justified by a faith in modernity's civilizing mission. Rejecting both reformist inclusion and idealized neutrality, these essays embody a political commitment to the tormented, the resisting, and the marginalized.

From "post-conflict" pacification to imperial "peace deals," contributors unmask peacebuilding as often war by other means-while advancing liberative spiritualities that reimagine peace as justice from below. This book is not merely critique-it is a call to transformation.

Fleck analyses longitudinal studies across varied industries and ownership regimes, revealing three core requirements for healthy long-term survival: renewal fostering, slack producing and integrity cultivating. Chapters examine the dual role of growth and how it can both constructively and destructively affect the existence of an organization, its members and the relevant environment. The book highlights how responsible leadership is essential to address the entrepreneurial, environmental and organizational trio of growth challenges and to prevent self-destruction. Fleck also demonstrates how fostering a sustainable strategy can result in socially responsible and environmentally conscious behaviors.

This book is a crucial read for scholars and students of business, organization, entrepreneurship and strategic, general and critical management studies. It is also highly relevant to business owners, CEOs and entrepreneurs seeking organizational success.

The Play Advantage: Global and Indigenous Perspectives in Higher Education is a multidisciplinary scholarly volume that brings together educators, researchers, and practitioners from around the world to explore how play functions as a transformative pedagogical and epistemological approach in education.

Rooted in Indigenous knowledge systems and enriched by diverse international perspectives, this work challenges conventional ideas of learning and knowledge development by positioning play as a serious, justice-oriented method for educational innovation. Organized into thematic sections, the book examines key theories, cultural practices, interdisciplinary applications, and the connections between story, justice, and belonging. Contributors draw on decolonial approaches, social constructivist theories, and critical pedagogy to frame play as a means of inquiry, resistance, and relational accountability. Case studies from a range of contexts-including Indigenous storytelling, community arts, and AI-supported learning-demonstrate the potential of play to foster creativity, inclusion, and ethical engagement.

Designed for scholars, educators, and policymakers committed to equity, cultural awareness, and pedagogical development, this volume offers both conceptual frameworks and practical insights. It encourages readers to view higher education not simply as knowledge transfer, but as a dynamic, co-creative process grounded in imagination, reciprocity, and systemic change, and it contributes to ongoing academic conversations on decolonizing education, interdisciplinary learning, and relational pedagogies as a resource for advancing research and practice in contemporary higher education.

This timely book problematises growing structural housing unaffordability and the lack of affordable housing across the advanced economic world. It offers both a historically and geographically sensitive critique of why we face these issues and struggle to adequately respond, and informed speculation towards addressing this crisis collectively, equitably, and longitudinally.

Utilising a 'Critical-Relational Political Economy' approach, the unaffordability dilemma is linked to converging patterns of cumulative neoliberalising and globalising developments during intense capitalist expansion from the 1970s onwards. Housing unaffordability is not explained by regulatory and planning failures but by a growth model transformation under de-industrialisation, away from labour-inclusive capitalism to city-centric, private landed property-directed political economies. Whereas residential accumulation is characterised by inflationary tendencies, households' capacity to pay for housing largely follows deflationary dynamics. The consequence is politically stimulated, institutionally mediated, and structurally variegated housing-labour decoupling on now epic proportions.

This book will be essential reading for informed audiences interested in housing, spatial planning, economic development, and political economies, as well as questions of social, spatial, and inter-generational justice. Besides researchers, policymakers, and advocates, it will be postgraduate and undergraduate students who will benefit most from compelling crisis (re)framing and original rethinking of affordable futures for people and places.

Creative Arts PhD Compass: Essential Insights from Practice to Wellbeing equips creative arts doctoral candidates with the knowledge and frameworks to navigate their PhD with confidence and clarity, fostering genuine research independence at every stage.

Organised around eleven decalogues, each comprising ten key principles, the book guides scholars through both fully written and creative artefact theses. It can be read sequentially or used as a reference, with individual decalogues consulted as needed. Rather than prescribing universal rules, it offers decision-making frameworks and contextually informed principles that reflect the lived reality of doctoral study, encompassing its technical, practical, existential, emotional, ethical, and intellectual dimensions. The book's structure allows readers to engage with each stage before reaching it, anticipating challenges rather than encountering them unprepared. Extensive suggested reading lists direct scholars to resources suited to their own focus and circumstances.

This book is for anyone considering or currently undertaking a creative arts PhD and is especially valuable for practitioners coming to academic research for the first time. It accompanies the scholar from the decision to enrol through to completion, preparing them for the requirements, challenges, and complexities unique to creative arts doctoral study.

Talmud uncovers the 'folk economics' - laymen imaginaries and rituals - which have sustained Bitcoin's value beyond pure markets through recessions, time-warped algorithms and patchy regulations. Chapters analyse Bitcoin's unique temporal orders, where algorithms entwine socioeconomic hopes and future imaginations, Bitcoin's regulatory gaps and the architectural role of the state to map the currency as a financial asset. Exposing the socially crafted nature of money in the digital age, the book argues that Bitcoin has not overthrown banks or states, but has been absorbed into their web of power plays, fresh infrastructures and enduring hierarchies.

Embedded Digital Money is a vital resource for scholars and students of economics and finance, social policy, sociology and political economy. Cryptocurrency policy analysts and stakeholders will also benefit from its detailed assessment of government fintech regulation.

Key Features:

• Enables readers to locate and extract core passages from the ECtHR's procedural case-law
• Presents case-law pertaining to cross-cutting matters emerging from the Court's case-law that have implications across the Convention system
• Traces the lines of jurisprudence and the evolution of Strasbourg case-law from its inception in 1961 to the present
• Systematically analyses specific provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights from the perspective of the Court's case-law, cutting through peripheral detail to consolidate the most critical legal information

The European Convention on Human Rights: Volume II, Procedure is an essential resource for legal practitioners and scholars needing to understand the Court's position on procedure, and forms an ideal companion to The European Convention on Human Rights: Volume I, Substantive Rights.

Key Features:

• Presents case studies from diverse countries, regions, and continents
• Includes teaching notes alongside key discussion questions and recommended answers
• Bridges the gap between theory and practice by providing insights into responsible and irresponsible corporate activities

This engaging casebook is an essential resource for instructors, scholars and students of business management, CSR and business ethics. It may also prove useful to managers and professionals worldwide interested in the growing influence of sustainable development.

The secret to boosting research productivity, managing workloads and responding to changing circumstances is to harness project management tools in the academic environment. With academics increasingly being asked to perform all of these feats at once, this book could not come soon enough. It sets out the basics of project management as a practical, step-by-step process for integrating the demands of research projects into the working life of today's academics.

This book's central premise is that as a research academic you are already a project manager whether or not you identify as such, by virtue of the particular professional demands made of you. It explains how to take a structured approach to delivering research by determining your goals, defining their success and fully embracing the planning process. With a well-planned, well-managed project under your belt, it also explains the best ways of concluding and delivering a project, including how to guide your team through the invaluable review process to make sure that your next project is managed even more successfully.

By understanding that you are a project manager and exactly what tasks and responsibilities this involves, you will be able not only to improve your output, manage your workload and expand your prospects, but use your unique experience and skills to further develop in the role itself.

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.

In the 2010s, digital platforms swiftly became the dominant way to disseminate media content, promising to make communication transparent in ways that print, cinema, and broadcast never could. The Digital Transparent critically interrogates this claim, arguing that while platforms introduce new transparencies, they also create opacities intrinsic to their technology and architecture.

Using Michel Foucault's concept of the dispositif, the book demonstrates that transparency arrangements are always selective, partial, and strategically constructed. It argues that transparency functions both as an opening up of the platform and as a mechanism that enables platforms to govern. Through dispositif analysis of two key transparency devices-the dashboard and the transparency centre-the book examines YouTube, SoundCloud, Facebook, and X.com/Twitter using textual analysis, interface analysis, and interviews with YouTubers.

The Digital Transparent is essential reading for students and scholars in media studies, offering a historical perspective on digital platforms that reveals what is genuinely new and what continues from earlier media. It will appeal to those interested in Foucault's work and its application to contemporary media, researchers in transparency studies seeking critical perspectives on communication and distribution, and platform scholars focused on governance, creative practices, and regulation.

Using a combination of short case scenes and role-play opportunities, the authors allow readers to experience building an HR department. They demonstrate how role-play and simulations can be used to create effective, experiential learning environments for complex business topics, incorporating a variety of workplace contexts from startups to multinational corporations. Advocating for simulation-based approaches which align with modern executive education methods and support applied learning, the book imparts practical knowledge on how HR departments are established while developing applied skills in hiring, employee relations and workforce management.

Allowing readers to move beyond theory to practice real-world decision-making, Building Practical Skills in Human Resource Management is an essential resource for faculty members, aspiring HR professionals and instructional educators focused on simulation-based learning. Scholars and students of HR and business administration will similarly benefit from its novel conceptual approach.