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  • Geoenergy Modeling II

    Shallow Geothermal Systems

    by Agnes Sachse, Haibing Shao, Olaf Kolditz, Philipp Hein ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book is dedicated to the numerical modeling of shallow geothermal systems. The utilization of shallow geothermal energy involves the integration of multiple Borehole Heat Exchangers (BHE) with Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) systems to provide heating and cooling. The modeling practices explained in this book can improve the efficiency of these increasingly common systems. The book begins by ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan

    Edited by Carola Hein, Philippe Pelletier ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Adding a new perspective to the current literature on decentralization in Japan, Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan, approaches the subject from an urban studies and planning approach. The essays in the collection present a cogent compilation of case studies focusing on the past, present and future of decentralization in Japan. These include small scale development in the fields such ... Read more

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  • Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    This book moves the discussion of affirmative action beyond the United States to other countries that have had similar policies, often for a longer time than Americans have. It also moves the discussion beyond the theories, principles, and laws that have been so often debated to the actual empirical consequences of affirmative action in the United States and in India, Nigeria, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • India Today

    Economy, Politics and Society

    by Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey ...
    Series series Politics Today
    Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by problems of low economic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict. Now India is being feted as an economic power-house which might well become the second largest economy in the world before the middle of this century. ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • 3.11

    Disaster and Change in Japan

    by Richard J. Samuels ...
    On March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the shockwaves of a 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake originating less than 50 miles off its eastern coastline. The most powerful earthquake to have hit Japan in recorded history, it produced a devastating tsunami with waves reaching heights of over 130 feet that in turn caused an unprecedented multireactor meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Housing and Social Transition in Japan

    Edited by Yosuke Hirayama, Richard Ronald ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    Bringing together a number of perspectives on the Japanese housing system, Housing and Social Transition in Japan provides a comprehensive, challenging and theoretically developed account of the dynamic role of the housing system during a period of unprecedented social and economic change in one of the most enigmatic social, political, and economic systems of the modern world.While Japan ... Read more

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  • The Making of Urban Japan

    Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century

    by André Sorensen ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    During the twentieth century, Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into one of the world's largest industrial powers and most highly urbanised countries. Interestingly, while Japanese governments and planners borrowed carefully from the planning ideas and methods of many other countries, Japanese urban planning, urban governance and cities developed very differently from ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Contested Governance in Japan

    Sites and Issues

    Edited by Glenn D. Hook ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volume discusses the contested nature of governance in Japan and the ways in which a range of actors are involved in different sites and issues of governance at home, in the region and the globe. It includes ... Read more

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  • The Durable Slum

    Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai

    by Liza Weinstein ...
    Series series Globalization and Community
    In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In recent years, cities from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro have demolished similar ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Japan Transformed

    Political Change and Economic Restructuring

    by Michael F. Thies, Frances Rosenbluth ...
    With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the country retains a formidable economy and its political system is healthier than at any time in its ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Japan's Subnational Governments in International Affairs

    by Purnendra Jain ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    This book moves away from the common belief that Japan’s international relations are firmly the preserve of the national government in Japan’s highly centralised political system. Examining examples of subnational governments (SNGs) across Japan the book uncovers a significant and generally unrecognised development in Japanese politics: SNGs are ever more dynamic international actors as national ... Read more

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  • Employment, Poverty and Rights in India

    by Dayabati Roy ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarely concerned with identifying possible causes.Employment, Poverty and Rights in India analyses ... Read more

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