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Presenting a robust alternative to mainstream economics, this book outlines a coherent Classical-Keynesian approach to economics - one grounded in the Classical theory of value, the Keynesian principle of effective demand, and the post-Keynesian perspective on money and finance.

The chapters from an international cast list of leading authors are arranged around five key topics: the Classical theory of production, prices and income distribution; the Keynesian principle of effective demand and the supermultiplier, the Keynesian approach to monetary macroeconomics; Classical and Keynesian approaches to the history of economic thought; and Input-output analysis of structural change and environmental issues. The essays explore the dynamics of an advanced market economy, understood as a process organised according to the sequence: finance-production-distribution-spending and accumulation. It is demonstrated that in that process the economy does not gravitate around a full-employment position, that the level of activity, the composition of output, and employment are driven by growth engines located in the autonomous demand connected to output through the supermultiplier, and that money is not neutral and the growth engines require sustainable funding.

This book will be essential reading for researchers in political economy, history of economic thought, economic theory, heterodox economics and alternatives to the mainstream.

This core text on economic geography from acclaimed scholar Barney Warf provides students an accessible, balanced, and concise overview of why location matters in business and economics.

Offering numerous U.S. based examples, Economic Geography drives home concepts while being engaging and relevant for students. Warf explores all aspects of the economy, from developmetn and globalization, agriculture and manufacturing, to e-commerce and retail. Each chapter ends with a set of defined glossary terms, study questions, and suggested readings, to encourage further student engagement. The full color art program boasts over 100 figures, illustrating examples for better learning retention. Students will leave with an understanding that capitalism as we understand it today is not inevitable, but rather resulting from historical and contextual factors.

This innovative Research Agenda critically engages with the concept of cultural political economy to explain socio-economic development across different contexts. Emphasizing the role of space, place and scale, an international range of leading experts from multiple social science disciplines apply aspects of cultural political economy to a broad range of research areas.

Drawing from and expanding on a variety of cultural political economy approaches, the Research Agenda explores progressive ways to think about the economy-society-nature nexus. The chapters outline the lifeworlds, semiotic worlds and material worlds constituting economic geographies and demonstrate the connections between discourse, circuits of capital and materialities. The contributors address key themes including global production networks, labour, migration, alternative food imaginaries, global development initiatives, green economy,resource geographies and cultural political ecology, looking ahead to future areas of inquiry in these fields.

A Research Agenda for Cultural Political Economies of Space is a key resource for scholars and students of human geography, business and management, sociology and politics, particularly those with an interest in political economy. The transdisciplinary nature of the approach means these insights will be valuable to researchers across the social sciences.

Causal Inference in Marketing: A Practical Toolkit for Panel Data is a two-volume guide to turning messy marketing panels into credible causal evidence. Written for data scientists, marketing analysts, econometricians, and applied researchers, it connects modern causal inference with the operational realities of advertising, pricing, loyalty, platforms, and marketing effectiveness. The set is distinctive in its design-first treatment of panel data: it begins with estimands, assignment mechanisms, support, and diagnostics before moving to estimators. Readers should be comfortable with regression and applied statistics, but the exposition is built to make the assumptions behind causal claims explicit rather than hidden inside software defaults.

Across the two volumes, readers learn how to choose, implement, diagnose, and report causal designs for marketing measurement. Volume 1 develops the foundations, including potential outcomes, design-based thinking for panels, difference-in-differences, event-study designs, synthetic control, hybrid synthetic control methods, interactive fixed effects, matrix completion, dynamic treatment effects, heterogeneity, interference, and spillovers. Volume 2 extends the toolkit to machine learning for nuisance adjustment and treatment-effect heterogeneity, high-dimensional controls, regularisation, continuous and nonlinear panel models, threats to validity, inference and uncertainty quantification, design diagnostics, and applied marketing workflows. The result is a practical framework for evaluating incrementality, media mix models, geo-experiments, platform data, pricing, promotions, customer lifetime value, retention, and reproducibility while keeping the causal target, data limitations, and business decision aligned.

This book analyses the structuring role that gender plays for accessing work, experiencing work, and working conditions in Pakistan.

Considering how these structures have been challenged and changed, the collection provides a fine-grained engagement with the role of gender at work in Pakistan against the backdrop of policy and academic discourses that often invisibilise the work and employment of women and transgender persons while normalising a male breadwinner model and masculine norms in and beyond the workplace. The book engages explicitly with feminist thought from South Asia and informs wider feminist discourses with fresh perspectives from Pakistani thinkers. Chapters straddle the analysis of occupations as diverse as agricultural labour, home-based industrial outwork, and domestic and unpaid care work. In line with transnational feminist thought, this book contextualises gendered labouring practices whilst paying attention to how gendered relations at work are embedded within cross-border dynamics, colonial histories and the global political economy. This wide perspective includes a critical engagement with neoliberal discourses around women's paid employment as empowerment and the celebration of women's entrepreneurship. Taking on board how gender can become a resource for resistance, this book counters and complicates the trope of 'victimised' Southern or Muslim women.

Informed by disciplines including organisation theory, sociology, economics and social psychology, and including contributions from practitioners, government and NGO workers and academics, this book will be of interest to scholars and professionals concerned with challenging binary notions of gender in the workplace, and how this is complicated through the intersections of gender with ethnic, class, caste, religious, generational and other social divisions and hierarchies in the global South.

Three decades after the fall of communism, the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have achieved income convergence that would have seemed implausible in 1990. This book argues that the growth model which powered this catch-up, built on integration into foreign-controlled value chains, large capital inflows, technology adoption rather than indigenous creation, and EU transfers, has also created structural dependencies that now constrain further development. Income convergence, in other words, has occurred without comparable convergence in productive capabilities.

Eight thematic chapters examine how this tension plays out across specific domains: macroeconomic convergence and divergence, the evolving role of FDI and productivity, export competitiveness, the deceleration of global trade, energy transition, agricultural modernisation under the CAP, demographic change, and fiscal policy under competing pressures from defence spending, ageing populations, and decarbonisation. The analysis introduces several integrating concepts and draws comparisons with Southern European and East Asian development trajectories.

The book is intended for scholars and advanced students in economics and European studies, policymakers in national governments and EU institutions, and informed readers seeking to understand what lies beneath CEE's convergence headline and what the region must do differently to sustain its progress.

This book analyses the historical, social, economic, and political factors that influence inequality and accounts for the persistent high levels in Latin America and the Caribbean.

It offers practical, evidence-based solutions to empower policymakers, activists, and scholars to promote social justice and create meaningful change. Economic growth in the region has been less than stellar, and some countries have experienced significant periods of negative growth. Latin America and the Caribbean remain one of the most unequal regions in the world in terms of income distribution, with the majority of the population living in poverty, whilst a small elite holds a disproportionate share of income and wealth. This book investigates the trends, policies, and mechanisms that mitigate or exacerbate inequality and assesses their consequences for individuals, communities, and societies. The book also considers cross-disciplinary issues, such as how the capacity to respond to and adapt to climate change relates to existing disparities, particularly for marginalised communities. The book concludes by making the case for economic growth and political will, and presents actionable solutions and strategies to address economic inequality in the region.

Interdisciplinary and forward-thinking in its outlook, this book will be an important read for policymakers and researchers across economics, sociology, and political science.

This book addresses the urgent issue of nations being 'left behind' in an era defined by AI, advanced manufacturing, and knowledge-intensive industries.

Through incisive analysis, the book examines industrialization dynamics across Africa and Asia, using advanced econometric techniques like the ARIMA model to uncover the determinants of deindustrialization. Key chapters include comparative case studies of leading manufacturing firms in China and India, highlighting their strategies for innovation and global competitiveness. The book also delves into the role of infrastructure, education, R&D, and industrial policy in fostering or hindering economic growth, offering a unique perspective on why some nations succeed while others stagnate.

The Economics of Left Behind Regions is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, investors, and development practitioners seeking to understand and address global inequality. It provides actionable insights and a blueprint for nations striving to rebuild their productive systems and achieve sustainable growth in an increasingly knowledge-driven world.

Agricultural Communication: Advances in Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems examines the transformative role of communication technologies in modern agriculture. It highlights the critical need for effective dissemination of agricultural knowledge and technologies to farmers, addressing the challenges posed by poor linkages between research and advisory services. The book explores the integration of Indigenous Technical Knowledge (ITK) with advanced Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to empower farmers, enhance decision-making, and promote sustainable agricultural practices. Covering topics such as precision agriculture, drones, artificial intelligence, and mobile technology, it emphasizes the importance of timely and accurate information in overcoming market complexities, climate change, and resource constraints.

• Examines emerging trends such as robotics, AI, and precision farming, emphasizing their potential to revolutionize agriculture and address global challenges like climate change and food security.
• Addresses real-world challenges faced by small farmers, offering actionable knowledge on decision-making, market dynamics, and resource optimization to improve livelihoods.
• Highlights the importance of Indigenous Technical Knowledge (ITK), showcasing its role in sustainable farming practices and its integration with modern technologies for enhanced agricultural productivity.
• Offers best practices for different agroclimatic zones.

This book provides an introductory overview on SDG two on Zero Hunger and associated complexities and challenges in context of the Global South. It reviews the transition from MDGs to SDGs - specifically Zero Hunger and presents a comprehensive picture on where the Global South stands today and how global developments such as the Covid-19 pandemic and conflict affect this positioning. More importantly, this book critically reflects on the indicator-based framework of SDG two, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. While eradicating hunger unquestionably needs to be at the top of policy agenda, it is also important to parallelly engage in critical reflection so that this agenda is translated locally.

This volume highlights three omissions from Zero Hunger framework - urbanization of hunger, centrality of structural determinants and group inequality, which are defeating for the 2030 agenda for 'leaving no one behind'.

Topical and rich in primary and secondary data, this book is a must read for students of sustainable development, development studies, environment and sustainability, public policy, and professionals working in development sectors, aid organisations, and NGOs.

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.

Advancing a new social science-based approach to the welfare state, this book puts forward a systematic understanding of public procurement that brings together perspectives from legal, public administration, sociological, and policy studies.

Public Procurement and the Welfare State offers fresh insight into an important, complex, and interconnected activity of the welfare state and proposes a framework for exploring, understanding, and analysing this important area of state activity. Detailing the multi-faceted nature of public procurement processes that are essential for safeguarding vital services, constructing and maintaining infrastructure, and supplying the public sector, E.K. Sarter examines public procurement as a technical tool for safeguarding the availability of goods, works, and services, a social and political act, a policy tool, and a space for negotiation. This volume showcases the multi-faceted nature of public procurement and highlights the importance of decision-making processes and power relations that underly and for shape public spending decisions and processes, and thereby outcomes.

Offering a timely and holistic framework for understanding public spending that can be put in the service of equality, this is essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, political science, welfare state studies, public and social policy, public administration, economic justice, social innovation, and feminist economics.

The Economic Report of the President provides valuable information about the present state of the U.S. economy and its future course. The Economic Report is issued by the Executive Office of the President and the Council of Economic Advisers and transmitted to Congress no later than 10 days after the submission of the Budget of the United States Government. It includes:

?Current and foreseeable trends and annual numerical goals concerning topics such as employment, production, real income and federal budget outlays.
?Employment objectives for significant groups of the labor force.
?Annual numeric goals.
?A program for carrying out program objectives.

For more than 70 years, the Economic Report has provided a nearly contemporaneous record of how administrations have interpreted economic developments, the motivation for policy actions, and the results of those interventions.

Included in the Economic Report of the President is the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers. Each year, the Council of Economic Advisers submits this report on its activities during the previous calendar year in accordance with the requirements of the Congress as set forth in section 10(d) of the Employment Act of 1946 as amended by the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978.

Artificial Intelligence Ethics argues that we cannot afford to repeat those failures.

Across nineteen chapters, Georgios Dimitropoulos deploys a rigorous historical-comparative method, drawing on the Industrial Revolution, the nuclear age, civil rights movements, environmental regulation, and the evolution of weapons governance, to expose recurring patterns in which transformative technologies outpace the institutions designed to govern them.

The result is a diagnostic framework: failure patterns that recur across multiple domains where AI operates, and an Ethical Implementation Architecture that translates ethical principles into organisational practice.

This book is a vital resource for scholars and researchers across AI ethics, philosophy of technology, law, public policy, and business analytics, as well as governance practitioners and policy advisors seeking to bridge the gap between ethical principle and institutional implementation.

This book shows how AI must be governed by learning from what we have already survived.

Arguing that the economy is the whole as well as the part, the book advocates a broader understanding of economics. From the sovereign individual to the social organism, Reisman demonstrates that economic activities are governed by norms, values, rights and duties, as well as being dependent on habits, heuristics and bounded rationality. He emphasises that without our memories and ideologies there would be no economic processes to meet our needs and wants. He supports his contention with reference to areas such as work and creativity, shared institutions, social capital and the economics of envy.

Interdisciplinary in scope, The Social Economy is an essential resource for scholars and students of economic theory, economic sociology, institutional economics and the history of economic thought. Practitioners and social policymakers will also find value in its comprehensive coverage of current debates.

In an age of climate disruption, economic insecurity, technological acceleration, political fracture, and intensifying great-power rivalry, crises no longer arrive one at a time. Global Polycrisis offers a clear and compelling guide to the defining condition of our century: the convergence of multiple large-scale disruptions that interact, amplify one another, and defy conventional solutions.

Organized around eight interlocking domains-energy, economy, technology, Earth systems, food, ideology, mental health, and geopolitics-the book shows how ecological overshoot, precarity, social fragmentation, and militarized competition are not separate problems but expressions of a deeper systemic disorder. Each chapter pairs rigorous analysis with an experiential project that moves learning beyond abstraction, inviting readers to connect planetary-scale forces to everyday institutions, and personal lifestyle choices.

Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in global studies, leadership, environmental studies, political economy, and related fields, this book also speaks to educators, practitioners, and serious readers seeking an accessible, ethically grounded framework for understanding a turbulent world.

Authors highlight how the nexus between institutions and economic performance in CEE11 countries embodies a distinct model of patchwork capitalism in the EU, reinforcing the belief that institutions are a significant differentiating factor. The book systematically compares the economic performance of the patchwork model to four Western European models of capitalism. In doing so, it challenges widespread interpretations of the post-socialist transition and presents a more nuanced explanation of modern capitalist diversity.

Presenting theoretical methods and tools for research on comparative capitalism, especially the emerging topic of post-communist capitalism, this book is a key resource for scholars and students of economics, political science and sociology. It also provides valuable guidance for policy makers and practitioners interested in the evolving patterns of institutional, economic and political development in Central and Eastern Europe.

The Essential Guide to Financial Independence blends corporate-level principles with personal finance, distilling decades of market experience into a practical, actionable guide for individuals seeking financial independence-demonstrating how the frameworks used by world's largest firms can be adapted to personal financial planning and work for anyone with disciplined execution.

The book empowers individuals to take control of their financial future through thoughtful planning, smart saving, and disciplined investing. It provides tools to understand income needs, build a sustainable finance portfolio, avoid common investing mistakes, and integrate financial decisions with broader life goals-ultimately helping readers or their clients create a balanced, purposeful life where money supports, rather than dictates, their choices. It enables you to:

* Construct a personalised financial plan tailored to your life goals.

* Determine how much you need to save for a secure retirement.

* Avoid the pitfalls of over-saving and missing out on meaningful life experiences.

* Above all, align your purpose in life with achieving financial independence and what you will do with it.

Independent Financial Advisors will find in-depth analysis, holistic frameworks and case studies that can enhance their professional practice and broaden their toolkit for advising clients. It also bridges the gap between professional finance and personal money management and offers actionable insights grounded in real-world financial practice for individual investors.

This book examines the necessary political-economic conditions for successful state-building in Africa, developing a contractualist framework that redefines the role of the state and reconfigures the relationship between individuals and state institutions.

It bridges the divide between contractarian (liberal) theory and practice by offering case-based insights into the challenges of applying liberal principles in diverse cultural settings in the post-colonial world. Cases on Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Somaliland help illustrate why and how states should prioritize economic freedom and liberal governmentality to enact contractualist transitions. It argues that stable, organic states in Africa can only emerge through institutions that facilitate and codify free, voluntary transactions among autonomous individuals.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of African Studies, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, and Development Studies.

The author examines how the foundations of the discipline have shifted as climate change, sustainability, global food supply and resource allocation gain increasing prominence on political and economic agendas. Demonstrating the profound influence this will have on the theoretical and empirical basis of food economics, he explores the agri-food value chain and specific examples of food industry transformation. Investigating prices, market structures, demand patterns and globalisation trends, chapters are grounded in statistical evidence and illustrated with data that reflects real-world developments. The book provides an updated and renewed description of food economics in light of ongoing changes.

Understanding Food Economics is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of agricultural, food and applied economics. Practitioners and political officials in food ministries and agencies will also benefit from this guide to the challenges and balances currently affecting the industry.

This book critically interrogates sustainable business and finance practices within the unique African context. With increasing stakeholder pressure for sustainability adoption aligned with Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainable finance emerges as the pathway to create resilient African economies. Sustainable practices in Africa are anchored on integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) tenets into business decisions, creating intersectionality between capital flows and sustainable business goals.

This edited collection delves deeply into sustainable business and finance mechanisms, systems, models, and processes, alongside international best practices. It offers comprehensive assessment of how green finance can unlock sustainable business value in Africa amid unprecedented geopolitical risks. Adopting transdisciplinary and multisectoral approaches with comparative case studies, this book provides practical insights into responsible financial investment models, financial sustainability, sustainable artificial intelligence, green leadership, SDGs, environmental stewardship, green business practices, carbon markets, climate change risks, and sustainability-linked loans from an African standpoint. It addresses regulatory and policy inconsistencies while bridging the gap between theory and practice.

Drawing on theoretical frameworks and empirical studies, this collection equips business practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and postgraduate learners with practical tools to navigate sustainable business and finance complexities in African economies, contributing significantly to global business sustainability discourse.

The global advertising market is roughly US$1.1 trillion, with digital channels accounting for most of that activity. Marketing measurement therefore increasingly depends on complex data environments: high-dimensional covariates, machine-learning systems, continuous treatments, platform reporting constraints, and organisational pressure to turn evidence into decisions. These settings create opportunities for richer causal analysis, but they also raise difficult questions about validity, uncertainty, diagnostics, reproducibility, and whether an estimated effect is useful for the decision at hand.

Volume 2 of Causal Inference in Marketing: A Practical Toolkit for Panel Data carries the framework of Volume 1 into the advanced and operational half of the book. It extends the core panel toolkit into machine learning, high-dimensional adjustment, continuous and nonlinear treatment settings, threats to validity, inference, diagnostics, applied marketing workflows, data and measurement systems, reproducibility, and open problems. The emphasis throughout is on applying causal principles under the constraints of real marketing data and real organisational settings.

Key Features:

• Develops machine-learning and high-dimensional methods for panel data, including orthogonalisation, cross-fitting under panel dependence, heterogeneous treatment effects, policy learning, regularisation, and double selection.
• Provides a diagnostics and inference playbook covering pre-trends, placebos, sensitivity analysis, bootstrap and randomisation inference, multiplicity, weak instruments, and uncertainty communication.
• Connects advanced causal methods to marketing applications, including media mix models, geo-experiments, platform data, pricing, promotions, customer lifetime value, retention, measurement systems, and reproducible evidence production.

Written for data scientists, marketing analysts, econometricians, and applied researchers, this volume is intended for readers who are comfortable with regression and applied statistics and who want to extend causal design into robust implementation, diagnosis, and reporting. Volume 1 develops the foundations, including potential outcomes, design-based thinking, difference-in-differences, event studies, synthetic control, factor and matrix methods, dynamics, heterogeneity, interference, and spillovers.

Charles Shaw is a Data Science Director at WPP Media, where he leads econometric measurement and optimisation for global brands. His work focuses on causal inference, econometric measurement, Bayesian modelling, machine learning, and marketing effectiveness. He develops applied frameworks for privacy-constrained attribution, media incrementality, platform effects, dynamic pricing, and scalable causal workflows in commercial settings.

The global advertising market is roughly US$1.1 trillion, before accounting for the wider investments firms make in pricing, promotions, loyalty, and customer acquisition. Yet the evidence used to measure these investments is often fragile. Traditional marketing mix models offer operational convenience, while modern econometric methods promise stronger causal identification. In practice, marketing teams must work with short panels, staggered rollouts, overlapping campaigns, platform interference, and competitive responses that make simple before-and-after comparisons unreliable.

Volume 1 of Causal Inference in Marketing: A Practical Toolkit for Panel Data develops the foundations and core panel designs needed to turn those messy data structures into credible causal evidence. Grounded in potential-outcomes reasoning and design-based thinking, it translates causal inference into the language of marketing measurement: incrementality, attribution, budget allocation, and decision-relevant reporting. The emphasis throughout is on clear estimands, credible identification, practical diagnostics, and recognising when the available data cannot support the causal claim being made.

Key Features:

• Provides a practitioner-first framework for causal panel design in marketing, including estimands, assignment mechanisms, support, diagnostics, and reporting standards.
• Covers the core modern panel toolkit, including difference-in-differences, staggered adoption designs, event studies, synthetic control, augmented synthetic control, synthetic difference-in-differences, interactive fixed effects, and matrix completion.
• Includes dedicated treatment of dynamic effects, heterogeneity, interference, and spillovers in advertising, pricing, loyalty, platforms, and marketing effectiveness settings.

Written for data scientists, marketing analysts, econometricians, and applied researchers, this volume is intended for readers who are comfortable with regression and applied statistics and want a rigorous, practical route from marketing panel data to causal evidence. Volume 2 extends the toolkit into machine learning, high-dimensional adjustment, continuous treatments, inference, diagnostics, applications, data systems, reproducibility, and future practice.

Charles Shaw is a Data Science Director at WPP Media, where he leads econometric measurement and optimisation for global brands. His work focuses on causal inference, econometric measurement, Bayesian modelling, machine learning, and marketing effectiveness. He develops applied frameworks for privacy-constrained attribution, media incrementality, platform effects, dynamic pricing, and scalable causal workflows in commercial settings.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of sustainable and resilient solutions for existing urban public transit systems, addressing current challenges related to mobility needs, air quality, and the user experience. Sustainability and resilience play crucial roles in today's urban public transit systems, promoting greener transportation while ensuring that functionality is regained after disruption. The book takes a holistic approach and combines the different aspects of urban transit systems, blending theoretical frameworks with practical insights, and showcasing a range of case studies from around the world of successful implementation of resilient and sustainable transportation practices. Key themes include performance-based development and management, strategic recommendations for enhancing transit resilience, and an insightful analysis of the economic, environmental, and social pillars of sustainable urban transit. Emerging technologies, the integration of renewable energy (such as transportation electrification), and innovative policy and governance models are also thoroughly examined, offering readers a forward-looking perspective on the future of urban mobility. This serves as a reference book for urban public transit system operators, planners and researchers.

This book explores how food modernisation is a dynamic process, where dietary habits are constantly changing and adapting to shifts in society. Combining historical, sociological, and real-world research, it examines the development of modern Japanese food culture and the contrasting realities of food abundance and food poverty in today's Japan.

Using newly uncovered archival materials, the book challenges the idea that Japanese nutrition simply copied Western science. Instead, it shows how Japan developed its own unique dietary model after World War II, entering a phase of reflexive modernisation where food practices were shaped by reflection and adaptation. The focus then moves to contemporary Japan, where these changes have accelerated. Drawing on a nationwide survey and interviews with urban single-mother households-many of whom face poverty-the book reveals how inequality and family changes influence everyday food choices. It introduces new ideas like food affluence, food poverty, and food capability, looking beyond income and nutrition to explore how time, space, relationships, and cultural meaning affect eating habits. By blending history, sociology, and research, this book highlights Japan as a key example for understanding food, inequality, and daily life in modern industrial societies.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students in food studies, food policy, sociology, Asian Studies and Japanese studies, as well as readers concerned with food inequality and everyday life in contemporary societies.

This book explores energy poverty through a social science lens, drawing on the author's research experience at the Universities of Trieste and Milan and his work as an energy poverty project manager for the City of Milan.

Energy poverty is no longer a localized issue related to warmth and energy affordability. It has turned into a global concern shaped by multifaceted economic, environmental, socio-demographic, spatial, and geographical factors. This groundbreaking book provides an updated perspective from the social sciences, exploring how evolving forms of energy deprivation challenge traditional understandings of the phenomenon and demand new analytical frameworks that consider the full complexities of energy vulnerabilities. It considers the drivers of energy vulnerability globally and explores how decision-makers can be equipped to craft targeted local actions for vulnerable households amid urban energy transition agendas. These insights integrate lived experiences into measurements and form the basis for policy recommendations designed to foster energy justice and security for vulnerable households.

Bridging academic theory and empirical research, this volume equips the reader to address one of today's most pressing global challenges. It is a deal for researchers, policymakers, and social scientists with a focus on energy transitions, energy policy, and energy inequality.

This book showcases how marine reserves, when implemented and protected effectively, could simultaneously achieve conservation and reef fishery goals.

Marine reserves, permanent spatial closures to fishing, are often viewed as detrimental to fisheries, reducing the area available for fishing and concentrating effort into smaller areas. But what if these reserves could supplement reef fisheries? Drawing on over forty years of research and teaching experience, the author explores the concept of net export-where reserves produce such abundant fish biomass that they spill over into fished areas, partly compensating for the loss of fishing grounds. The book delves into recent advancements in larval tagging and tracking, showcasing studies from the Great Barrier Reef, Papua New Guinea, and beyond, to demonstrate how recruitment subsidy, net export of fish larvae from reserves to fished areas, combined with reductions in fishery effort outside reserves when reserves are implemented, can lead to sustainable reef fisheries alongside conservation. The book argues that with the right balance between conservation and catch, marine reserves can achieve a "win-win" scenario, ensuring both healthy fish populations and sustainable reef fisheries. This book calls for conservation and fisheries to co-ordinate, not confront, in order to simultaneously achieve their objectives.

Written in clear and accessible language, this book is essential reading for marine conservation and fisheries professionals and policymakers, as well as students and scholars of marine science and conservation.