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The Armenian Social Investment Fund supports communities' efforts to improve local infrastructure during Armenia's economic transition away from central planning, financing community-designed and -implemented projects to rehabilitate primary schools, water systems, and other infrastructure. This article considers the targeting, household impact, and community effects of the social fund's activities. It relies on a nationally representative household survey, oversampled in areas where the social fund was active. Using propensity and pipeline matching techniques to control for community self-selection into the social fund, it evaluates the household effects of rehabilitating schools and water systems. The results show that the social fund reached poor households, particularly in rural areas. Education projects increased households' spending on education significantly and had mild effects on school attendance. Potable water projects increased household access to water and had mild positive effects on health. Communities that completed a social fund project were less likely than the comparison group to complete other local infrastructure projects, suggesting that social capital was expended in these early projects. By contrast, communities that joined the social fund later and had not yet completed their projects took more initiatives not supported by the social fund.

'Alte Bestände von Massenvernichtungswaffen haben vor dem Hintergrund des Terrorismus erheblich an Brisanz gewonnen. Nicht nur im Irak besteht die Gefahr, dass sie in falsche Hände gelangen, auch in anderen Ländern ist Abrüstung dringend nötig, um eine Verbreitung generell zu verhindern. So ist auch in Russland, der Nation mit dem weltweit größten Bestand an Chemiewaffen, eine Kontrolle der Waffenlager unerlässlich. Russland verfügt jedoch nicht über ausreichende finanzielle und logistische Mittel, um seine Rüstungsanlagen selbst zu entsorgen. Die Europäische Union (EU) bemüht sich daher um gezielte unterstützende Maßnahmen. Sie kann Abrüstungsprogramme planen, durchführen, koordinieren und finanzielle Hilfe vermitteln. Die EU bietet sich aufgrund ihrer Erfahrung in der Koordination verschiedener nationaler Positionen für eine solche Rolle an. Sie kann ihre Mitgliedsstaaten zusammen mit privaten Partnern und anderen Ländern unter einem Dach sammeln und so Ressourcen bündeln. Eine ihrer größten Stärken ist es, Projekte in Kooperation mit dem Hilfsempfängerland zu entwickeln und durchzuführen. Da Abrüstung auf Kooperation und gegenseitigem Vertrauen beruht, ist dies ein sinnvoller Ansatz, um die Bestände an russischen Massenvernichtungswaffen reduzieren zu helfen. Die Autoren stellen diese Programme dar und plädieren für den weiteren Abbau von Massenvernichtungswaffen und eine Verlängerung bestehender Programme über das Jahr 2003 hinaus.' (Autorenreferat)

Part 1: Overview and Major Climatic Disasters Chapter 1_ Climate Change- Extremes, Disasters and Call for Resilient Development -- Chapter 2_Evolution of Disaster Risk Reduction Systems in India -- Chapter 3_ Climate and Weather Forewarning Systems for Disaster Preparedness and Response -- Chapter 4_Community Based Issues and Opportunities in Climate Change Adaptation & Disaster Risk Reduction -- Chapter 5_Flood Management: Present Practices and Future Revisions Under Climate Change -- Chapter 6_Drought Disaster: Issues, Challenges and Risk Mitigation Strategies -- Chapter 7_Cyclone Disaster Mitigation and Management in India: An Overview -- Chapter 8_Heat Wave Disaster Risk Management Action Planning: Experience and Lessons -- Chapter 9_Impact of Climate Change on Forest Fire in India and Climate Adaptive Management Strategies -- Part 2: Thematic and Cross-cutting Issues Chapter 10_Climate Resilient Infrastructure in Developing Countries -- Chapter 11_Climate Change Adaptation in Industrial Areas for Disaster Resilience -- Chapter 12_Managing Disaster Waste in the Aftermath of Emergencies: Addressing Future Climate Risk-Integrating Adaptation -- Chapter 13_Climate Resilient Healthcare System in India -- Chapter 14_WATSAN and Public Health in Hydro-Climatic Disasters -- Chapter 15_Understanding Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Urban Ecosystem for Resilience to Climate Risks -- Chapter 16 Water Governance Transition Pathways: Adaptive Water Governance -- Chapter 17 NbS interventions as tool for urban climate resilience: A case study of peri-urban ecosystem in Noida -- Chapter 18 Equity and Fairness in Community Based Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction -- Chapter 19 Gender and Climate Sensitive Disaster Risk Management -- Chapter 20 Climate Change Impact on Landuse and Livelihood in Sundarbans, A Case Study of Sagar Island -- Part 3: Tools and Strategies Chapter 21 Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in EIA/SEA for Climate and Disaster Resilient Development -- Chapter 22 Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration through Environmental Legislations in India -- Chapter 23 Pathways for Integrating Climate- Disaster Resilience into Planning: Scaling Sub-national Studies to National Policy Paradigms -- Chapter 24 Insight for Climate Resilience and District Level Developmental Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction in Himalayas: A Case of Uttarakhand -- Chapter 25 Risk Management for Averting, Addressing and Minimizing Climate related Loss and Damages -- Chapter 26 Integrating Climatic DRR and CCA into Project Management Cycle -- Chapter 27 Nature Based Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction- Concepts And Lessons -- Chapter 28 Multi-Hazard Risk and Integrated Approach to Resilience -- Chpater 29 Anticipatory Adaptation Planning: An Inherent Vulnerability Approach to Climate Change and Disaster Resilience -- Chapter 30 Adaptive Planning for Resilience and Sustainability - Lessons from India: Project CAP-RES and Network -- Chapter 31 Disaster Risk Reduction through Climate Adaptive Development: Strategies and Road Ahead. .

Successfully Using ChatGPT in Logistics: Are We There Yet? -- When Routing Meets Recommendation: Solving Dynamic Order Recommendations Problem in Peer-to-Peer Logistics Platforms -- A Reactive-Periodic Hybrid Optimization for Internal Hospital Logistics -- Cybersecurity Considerations for the Design of a Digital Twin Enabled AI-Driven Real-Time Distributed Optimization of Container Carbon Emissions Reduction for Synchromodal Freight Operations -- Customer's Choice in the Context of Cross-border E-Commerce: An Application of SEM -- Towards a Deep Reinforcement Learning Model of Master Bay Stowage Planning -- The Dynamic RORO Stowage Planning Problem -- Allocation of shore side electricity: The case of the Port of Hamburg -- Stockyard storage space allocation in dry bulk terminals considering mist cannons and energy expenditure -- Planning LNG Annual Delivery Programs with Speed Optimization and Multiple Loading Ports -- Tramp Ship Routing with Bunker Optimization and Flexible Cargo Quantities: Case from Dry Bulk Shipping -- Digital Twins in Seaports: Current and Future Applications -- Using Neural Networks for ETA Prediction in inland waterway transport -- A Regret Policy For The Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem With Time Windows -- A Tabu Search Algorithm for the Traveling Purchaser Problem with Transportation Time Limit -- GRASP solution approach for the e-waste collection problem -- The heterogeneous fleet risk-constrained vehicle routing problem in humanitarian logistics -- The Snow Grooming Routing Problem -- A constraint programming model for the vehicle routing problem with multiple time windows -- A Variable Neighborhood Search Algorithm for the Truck-Drone Routing Problem -- Prediction and Analysis of Transit Ferries Travel Time: An Open Data-Based Case Study -- A Bi-objective Column Generation Approach for Real-World Rolling Stock Circulation Planning Problems -- An Effective Matheuristic Approach for Robust Bus Driver Rostering with Uncertain Daily Working Hours -- Beyond Cargo Hitching: Combined People and Freight Transport Using Dynamically Configurable Autonomous Vehicles -- Impact of Public Transport Development on Health Care Services in Rural Areas -- Ridesharing in Rural Areas with Autonomous Electric Vehicles and Interrelated Trips -- Operational integration of supply chain activities with earliness and tardiness considerations -- Constrained Multi-Agent Path Planning Problem -- UAV Path Planning for Area Coverage and Energy Consumption in Oil and Gas Exploration Environment -- Minimizing peak energy demand in exible job shops -- Carbon-Aware Mine Planning with a Novel Multi-Objective Framework -- Multi-product lot-sizing problem with remanufacturing, lost sales and sequence-dependent changeover cost. -- A radius-based approach for the bi-objective p-center and p-dispersion problem.

Although the expression "responsibility to future generations" is firmly established in public and political vocabulary, its operational meaning and practice are inadequately understood and yet to be systematically evaluated. Moreover, the term has not been successfully translated into viable ethical and theoretical concepts that can guide public policies and actions. How can the modes of governance and established policy priorities become compatible with the well-being of future generations? The primary objective of this book is to identify the conditions of and obstacles to governance for a sustainable future, or future-regarding governance. Governance concerns steering a society over extended periods of time, not responding to particular policy issues. The ideas and strategies proposed by contributors in this book to establish future-regarding governance are based on the theoretical and empirical analyses of the major long-term problems facing advanced democracies in general, and Japan in particular. Japan is an interesting case indeed. Relatively poor climate policy, rapidly decreasing birth rate, aging population, extensive public debt, prolonged economic recession, healthcare and pension systems that urgently require redesigning, hollowing-out of industries and subsequent loss of jobs, deteriorating infrastructures, increasing nuclear waste, and intensifying social polarization have caused a decline in people's trust in the government and democratic processes. Currently, Japanese citizens are widely circulating their doubts about the social system's sustainability. This book comprises two parts. In Part I, authors from various disciplinary backgrounds examine the idea of governance for a sustainable future from theoretical perspectives. This part discusses issues associated with future-regarding governance that are wicked in nature, such as the philosophical/ethical foundation on which to base the idea of governance for a sustainable future, major impediments to the development of future-regarding governance, and the modes of thinking and action required by leaders and citizens to realize such governance. Chapters in Part II largely focus on the state of long-term governance in Japan. This part uses empirical and in-depth analyses with cross-sectoral and cross-national policy perspectives to identify the state of future-regarding governance in various policy fields and major sectors or organizations mainly in Japan, while also examining strategies and measures to improve their performance. From this perspective, Western democracies and weak democratic regimes elsewhere will be provided with valuable lessons to avoid fatal policy mistakes, thereby improving future-oriented governance worldwide. By combining theoretical discussions on far-reaching issues and empirical analyses of Japanese cases, the book will shed a new light on governance for a sustainable future.

Chapter 1. Mainstreaming Blue-Green Infrastructure for improving urban resilience and sustainability in the warming world -- Chapter 2. Regional trends in Social-Ecological Technological (SET) approaches to Sustainable Urban Planning: Focus on Asia -- Chapter 3. A Risk Assessment Approach to Urban Resilience -- Chapter 4. Promoting Blue Green Infrastructure in Urban Spaces through Citizen Science initiatives -- Chapter 5. Is Ensuring the Sustainable Implementation of BGI Possible? System Thinking of Urban Rivers as Social-Ecological Systems -- Chapter 6. Understanding Blue-Green Infrastructure through Spatial Maps: Contribution of Remote Sensing and GIS Technology -- Chapter 7. Cities and Biodiversity: Hidden Connections Between the Built Form and Life -- Chapter 8. Assessing ecological risks of urban air and water environment to analyse the scenarios for mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions: a case study of Bengaluru city, India -- Chapter 9. Do people appreciate economic value of water in Baku city of Azerbaijan? -- Chapter 10. Homegardens as sustainable urban agroforestry systems to promote household well-being in Kandy, Sri Lanka -- Chapter 11. Opportunities for Improving Urban Tree Cover - A Case Study in Kochi -- Chapter 12. Changing people-nature linkages around green infrastructure in rapidly urbanizing landscapes: the case of a protected area in Bengaluru Metropolitan Region of South India -- Chapter 13. Remodelling Urban Spaces in the Light of Blue-Green Infrastructure: A Case Study of Guwahati, India -- Chapter 14. Nature-based Solutions for the Restoration of the Abukuma River Ba-sin (Japan) after Typhoon Hagibis -- Chapter 15. Nature based solutions (NbS) for sustainable development of the resource-base and ecosystem services of marine and coastal ecosystems of India -- Chapter 16. Physical Vulnerability Assessment to Flooding of Residential Houses along the Coastal Areas in Sta. Rosa City, Laguna, Philippines -- Chapter 17. The significance of ancient water systems and the sacred groves in the landscape of Badami, Karnataka - A geospatial study -- Chapter 18. Urban Sustainability and Resilience building: Blue-Green infrastructure for air pollution abatement and realising multiple co-benefits -- Chapter 19. Disaster Risks and Resilience of Urban Bangladesh: Role of Blue Green Infrastructure -- Chapter 20. Endorsing City Biodiversity Index (CBI): Assessing Ecosystem Health in urban sprawls and Eco-DRR inclusive urban planning -- Chapter 21. Greenhouse Gas Mitigation by Integrating Waste Treatment System towards Low-Carbon City in Vietnam -- Chapter 22. The roles of non-governmental actors in facilitating urban blue-green infrastructures: A comparative review of the community initiatives in Taipei City, Taiwan -- Chapter 23. Mainstreaming blue-green infrastructure in policy and planning for urban resilience in the global south: promises and pitfalls.

Part 1. Ideas -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Why this book? / Frances Rapport and Jeffrey Braithwaite -- Chapter 2. Qualitative Evidence Synthesis and Conceptual Development / Nicky Britten -- Chapter 3. The Life-Project of Personal Wellbeing: Modern healthcare and the individuality of health / Nigel Rapport -- Chapter 4. Socio-Narratology and the Clinical Encounter Between Human Beings / Arthur W Frank -- Chapter 5. Interrupted Body Projects and the Narrative Reconstruction of Self / Andrew C Sparkes -- Chapter 6. The Fourth Research Paradigm: Activating researchers for real world need / Frances Rapport and Jeffrey Braithwaite -- Part 2. Systems -- Chapter 7. Slack Resources in Healthcare Systems: Waste or resilience? / Tarcisio Abreu Saurin and Dayane MC Ferreira -- Chapter 8. Using Qualitative Methods to Understand Resilience in Complex Systems / Zeyad Mahmoud, Kate Churruca, Louise A Ellis, Robyn Clay-Williams and Jeffrey Braithwaite -- Chapter 9. Qualitative Assessment to Improve Everyday Activities: Work-as-imagined and work-as-done / Robyn Clay-Williams, Elizabeth Austin, Jeffrey Braithwaite and Erik Hollnagel -- Chapter 10. Narrativizing Cancer Patients' Longitudinal Experiences of Care: Qualitative inquiry into lived and online melanoma stories / Klay Lamprell, Frances Rapport and Jeffrey Braithwaite -- Chapter 11. Look the Other Way: Patient-centred care begins with care for our physicians / Klay Lamprell, Frances Rapport and Jeffrey Braithwaite -- Chapter 12. Resilient Healthcare in Refractory Epilepsy: Illuminating successful people-centred care / Patti Shih, Frances Rapport, Janet C Long, Emilie Francis-Auton, Mia Bierbaum, Mona Faris and Robyn Clay-Williams -- Part 3. Solutions -- Chapter 13. Sensemaking as a Strategy for Managing Uncertainty: Change and surprise in hospital settings / Holly J Lanham, Jacqueline A Pugh, David C Aron and Luci K Leykum -- Chapter 14. Simulation to Solve Health System Problems / Mary D Patterson and Ellen S Deutsch -- Chapter 15. Cross-Boundary Teaming to Establish Resilience Among Isolated 'Silos' / Kyota Nakamura, Shin Nakajima, Takeru Abe and Kazue Nakajima -- Chapter 16. "What on Earth Is Going on and What Should I Do Now?" Sensemaking as a qualitative process / Kate Churruca, Louise A Ellis, Janet C Long and Jeffrey Braithwaite -- Chapter 17. Deep Inside the Genomics Revolution: On the frontlines of care -- Stephanie Best, Janet C Long, Elise McPherson, Natalie Taylor and Jeffrey Braithwaite -- Information Classification: General -- Chapter 18. Much More Than Old Wine in New Bottles: Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) for healthcare improvement / Hanna Augustsson, Kate Churruca and Jeffrey Braithwaite -- Chapter 19. Conclusion: On progress, directions and signposts to a transformed healthcare system / Jeffrey Braithwaite and Frances Rapport.

Part I – International Law: New Reflections on Humankind as a Subject of International Law by Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade -- Can the Law Respond to Threatened Apocalypse? by Judge David Baragwanath -- The Rule of International Law – Where Are We Going? by Judge Howard Morrison -- Part II – Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law: Coastal State Regulation of the Use of Arms in the Private Protection of Commercial Vessels in the Gulf of Guinea: A Nigerian Perspective by Osatohanmwen O. Anastasia Eruaga -- Joint Development of Transboundary Natural Resources – Lessons from the Nigeria-São Tomé e Príncipe Joint Development Zone by Adaeze Okoye, Mariam Masini, and Alache Fisho -- Implementing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)-based Electronic Waste Institutions in Nigeria: Lessons from the Global North by Irekpitan Okukpon -- Part III – Intellectual Property: The Participation of Pharmaceutical Drug Industry in Patent Governance and Law-Making: A Case Study of India and Nigeria by Amaka Vanni -- Part IV – International Criminal Law: The International Criminal Court – What Has It Accomplished? by Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji -- Improving the Efficiency of International Criminal Courts and Tribunals: The Paris Declaration on the Effectiveness of International Criminal Justice by Judge Ivana Hrdličková, Adrian Plevin and Amanda Fang -- The International Criminal Court on the Rohingyas' Situation and the Early Scholarly Echo of the Decision by Judge Péter Kovacs -- The Law's Response to the Plight of Victims of Trauma in the Context of International Criminal Justice by Judge Daniel D. Ntanda Nsereko -- Part V – International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: TWAILing the Minimum Core Concept: Re-thinking the Minimum Core of Economic and Social Rights in the Third World by Caroline Omari Lichuma -- Health and Development in Africa: How Far Can the Human Rights Jurisprudence Go? by Olasupo Owoeye -- Determining the Termination of a Non-International Armed Conflict: An Analysis of the Boko Haram Insurgency in Northern Nigeria by Solomon Ukhuegbe and Alero I. Fenemigho -- Part VI – International Economic Law/International Investment Law: African Investment Agreement Reform and its Contribution to Sustainable Foreign Investment by Gudrun Monika Zagel -- The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the Imperative of Democratic Legitimacy: An Analysis by Babatunde Fagbayibo -- Part VII – Contemporary Challenges/Emerging Issues: Technology and the Law: The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Litigation and Dispute Resolution in Africa by Izuoma Egeruoh-Adindu -- Child Rights Protection, Nigerian Federalism and Culture: Irreconcilable Goals? by Fife Lekan Ogunde -- Part VIII – Case Comment: Decolonising the Chagos Islands? by John Reynolds.

Chapter 1. Introduction: A New Road is Opened -- PART I MEMORY OF THE WORLD: BASICS, PRINCIPLES, AND ETHICS -- Chapter 2. Memory of the World - An Introduction -- Chapter 3. Memory of the World: Key Principles and Philosophy -- Chapter 4. Memory of the World Registers and Their Potential -- PART II MEMORY OF THE WORLD: THE RECOMMENDATION, GUIDELINES, AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY -- Chapter 5. The Pathway to the Recommendation Concerning the Preservation of, and Access to, Documentary Heritage including in Digital Form -- Chapter 6. Reviewing the MoW General Guidelines-Reflections on the Experiences of 2015-2017 -- Chapter 7. History Wars in the Memory of the World: The Documents of the Nanjing Massacre and the "Comfort Women" -- PART III MEMORY OF THE WORLD IN CONTEXT: HERITAGE DIVERSITY AND CONVERGENCE -- Chapter 8. Methodological Convergence: Documentary Heritage and the International Framework for Cultural Heritage Protection -- Chapter 9. The Appropriation of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme in the Socio-cultural Context of West Africa: The Contribution of the Department "Heritage Professions" of the University Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis of Senegal to a Better Management of Oral Archives -- Chapter 10. Making the Past Visible for the Future; Map of the Old City of Aleppo -- PART IV TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES -- Chapter 11. Memory of the World, Documentary Heritage and Digital Technology: Critical Perspectives -- Chapter 12. Documentary Heritage in the Digital Age: Born Digital, Being Digital, Dying Digital -- Chapter 13. Documentary Heritage in the Cloud -- Chapter 14. Audiovisual Documents and the Digital Age -- Chapter 15. How to Make Information on Nuclear Waste Sustainable? A Case for the Participation of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme -- PART V. EDUCATION AND RESEARCH -- Chapter 16. UNESCO's 'Memory of the World´ in Schools: An Essay towards a Global Dialogue around a Common Culture of Universal Memories -- Chapter 17. Memory of the World Education in Macau -- Chapter 18. Approaching the Memory of the World Programme with Arts Education Projects -- Chapter 19. Exploring the Challenges Facing Archives and Records Professionals in Africa: Historical Influences, Current Developments and Opportunities -- Chapter 20. Terminology and Criteria of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme: New Findings and Proposals for Research -- PART VI EDITORS' AFTERWORDS -- Chapter 21. Back to the Future: A Reflection on Fundamentals -- Chapter 22. Building Bridges between Memory of the World, the Academic World and Memory Institutions -- Chapter 23. Heritage Studies and the Memory of the World – Concluding Reflections

Part I. Methods and Indicators for Quality of Life Research -- Chapter 1. Quantification of Partially Ordered Data and the Evaluation of Financial Literacy (Fattore) -- Chapter 2. Using a Composite Index to Measure Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities (Mazziotta) -- Chapter 3. Measurement of Well-Being in Territories: An Application for Italian Provinces (Costa) -- Chapter 4. Corruption Indicators and Prevention Policies (Carloni) -- Chapter 5. Corruption Prevention: First Evidences from the 2015 RPC Survey for Italian Municipalities (Gnaldi) -- Chapter 6. Transparency and Social-Political Environment in Italy (Galli) -- Chapter 7. The Quality of Life in the Historic Centre of Naples: The Use of PLS-PM Models to Measure the Well-Being of the Citizens of Napels (Cataldo) -- Chapter 8. The Incidence of Sin Taxes: Evidence from Italy (Di Bella) -- Chapter 9. With Whom Do We Compare Our Income? The Effect of Gendered Income Comparisons on Subjective Well-Being (Ravazzini) -- Part II. Social Sustainability, Lifestyle, Cultural Aspects and Local Applications -- Chapter 10. Sustainability of Well- Being: An Analysis of Resilience and Vulnerability through Subjective Indicators (Bachelet) -- Chapter 11. A Multi-Stakeholder FrameBES Data: A Focus on Health in South Tyrol (Salustri) -- Chapter 12. Food Styles and Well-Being of Italian People: A Contribution from Official Statistics (Corazziari) -- Chapter 13. Food, Eating Behaviors and Quality of Life (Di Francesco) -- Chapter 14. Food Waste and Quality of Life (Corvo) -- Chapter 15. Culture Creativity and Quality of Life in Old Age (Cristini) -- Chapter 16. The Past Empowering the Present: Intergenerational Solidarity Improving Quality of Life (Dryjanski) -- Chapter 17. Intergenerational Sustainable Tourism and Quality of Life (Albanese) -- Chapter 18. Territories and Landscapes: Place Identity, Quality of Life and Psychological Well-Being in Rural Areas (Ferrari) -- Part III. Economy, Welfare and Quality of Life -- Chapter 19. Economic Growth, Quality of Life, Life Styles and Sustainability: Correlations and New Variable to be Considered as Indicators (Ciani Scarnicci) -- Chapter 20. European Welfare State: Does Decentralization Affect Poverty? (Coli) -- Chapter 21. Decent Work Principles and Job Quality Criteria to Improve Sustainable and Equitable Well-Being (Conigliaro) -- Chapter 22. Patient Satisfaction and Uncertainty in Illness in Oncology (Giammanco) -- Chapter 23. The Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability of Energy Sources (Borelli) -- Chapter 24. Sports and Physical Activities in Europe: How to Measure Active Life Styles (Mussino) -- Chapter 25. The Emergence of the Middle Class and Improving Quality of Life in the Global South (Bianco)

Destination management and competitiveness : intervention of destination management -- Organizations for global competency from an Indian perspective / Bindi Varghese -- Policing tourism : challenges and opportunities of tourist police system in India / N. Chaitanya Pradeep -- Visitor management and community participation in an ecotourism destination : the case of Kanha Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India / Anu Chandran -- Empowerment of marginalized communities and tourism : a case study of Theyyam dance, an Indian perspective / Jacob John and Megha Jacob -- Influence of perceived risks on destination choice process : an Indian perspective / Jose K. Antony and Joby Thomas -- Community-based waste management for sustainable tourism in backwater regions of Kerala, India / Emilda K. Joseph -- Disturbances and tourism sector : an impact study on Kerala tourism, India / Sandhya Hariprasad and Bindi Varghese -- Ecological tourism pointers : analysis on concepts, frameworks, and applications on the Vembanad Lake of Kerala, India / Suja John -- Managing heritage city for tourism and the contribution to the regional development : a case of Darasuram in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India / K. Selva Kumar -- Organizational culture and employee motivation among the tourism professionals in Karnataka, India / Tomy K. Kallarakal -- Employee engagement in travel organizations in India : the influence of psychological climate on employee engagement and its influence on intent to stay / Ginu George -- Can foreign exchange volatility really influence tourist inflow in India? / Anson K.J. and Avin Thaliath -- Celebrity endorsement solving the destination marketing puzzle : Indian perspective / Rosma Mary Jolly -- Talent development in the tourism industry : a deliberation on the open source talent in Goa, India / Chery Poornima Smith e Venan Dias and Venan Bonaventure Dias -- Role of tourism education in meeting the competency expectations of the tourism industry in India / Nagarjuna G -- Socially responsible investment : a new paradigm in tourism and hospitality sector : an Indian scenario / Gowri Shankar R. and Arjun B.S -- Sociocultural impacts of Namdapha ecocultural festival on the local residents of Miao, India / Pinky Jacob -- The Indian hybridity in its cultural expression : better understanding one's cultural heritage / Githa U. Badikillaya -- Challenges of medical tourism : managerial paradigm in the Indian framework / Bindi Varghese -- Developing a competitive wine tourism destination : a case study of vineyards in Maharashtra, India / Anupama S. Kottur -- Agritourism in India : strategies for growth / Suraj Nair -- Commercialization of art forms : a Kerala tourism perspective, India / Anu Ajayagosh -- Hindu pilgrimage : issues and challenges in Kerala, India / Nikhil Raj -- Sustainable tourism indicators : a literature review on concepts, frameworks, and applications / Shamima Akhtar -- Social media in tourism : challenges and corrective measures / Sneha N. and George B

Urban sustainability transitions : the dynamics and opportunities of sustainability transitions in cities / Niki Frantzeskaki, Vanesa Castan Broto, Lars Coenen and Derk Loorbach -- Anchoring global networks in urban niches : how on-site water recycling emerged in three Chinese cities / Christian Binz and Bernhard Truffer -- Understanding the policy realities of urban transitions / Yvette Bettini, Tracey Arklay, and Brian W. Head -- The governance of transformative change : tracing the pathway of the sustainability transition in Vancouver, Canada / Sarah Burch -- Transitioning complex urban systems : the importance of urban ecology for sustainability in New York City / Timon McPhearson and Katinka Wijsman -- The role of place-specific dynamics in the destabilization of the Danish water regime : an actor-network view on urban sustainability transitions / C.F. Fratini and J. S. Jensen -- Village communities and social innovation policies in Seoul : exploring the urban dimension of grassroots niches / Marc Wolfram -- Spatialising urban sustainability transitions : eco-cities, multilevel perspectives and the political ecology of scale in the Bohai Rim, China / Federico Caprotti and Nichola Harmer -- Urban sustainability transitions : opportunities and challenges for institutional change / Lea Fuenfschilling -- The rise, fall and resurrection of waste-to-energy technologies in Berlin's infrastructure history / Timothy Moss -- The spatial complexity of sustainability transitions in the cities of the East / Anne Maassen -- From building small urban spaces for a car-free life to challenging the global regime of automobility : cases from Vienna and Freiburg / Philipp Späth and Michael Ornetzeder -- Multiple transitions : energy precariousness and "transient" urban tenants / Saska Petrova -- Worth the trouble?! : an evaluative scheme for urban sustainability transition labs (USTL) and an application to the ustl in Phoenix, Arizona / Arnim Wiek, Braden Kay and Nigel Forrest -- Change and persistency : understanding social-ecological transition in a post-socialist city : the example of Leipzig, Germany / Dagmar Haase, Annegret Haase and Dieter Rink -- A multi-actor perspective on urban sustainability transitions / Flor Avelino and Julia Wittmayer -- Cities as arenas of low-carbon transitions : friction zones in the negotiation of low-carbon futures / Harald Rohracher and Philipp Späth -- Mediators acting in urban transition processes : Carlsberg City district and super cycle highways / Andrés Felipe Valderrama Pineda, Anne Katrine Braagaard Harders and Morten Elle -- Flows, infrastructures and the African urban transition / Mark Swilling, Josephine Musango, Blake Robinson and Camaren Peter -- Focusing on ecosystem services in the multiple social-ecological transitions of Lodz / Jakub Kronenberg, Kinga Krauze and Iwona Wagner -- The politics of urban sustainability transitions / Thaddeus R. Miller and Anthony M. Levenda -- Sustainability transitions and the city : linking to transition studies and looking forward / John Grin, Niki Frantzeskaki, Vanesa Castán Broto and Lars Coenen