This book provides a rigorous analysis of the factors underlying the Philippines' relative economic stagnation compared with its Southeast Asian neighbors despite sustained optimistic government rhetoric.

Three critical factors are identified: failure to industrialize and undergo a complete economic transformation, resulting in an underdeveloped agricultural sector and an economy dependent on low-productivity services; ineffective reforms that differ markedly from successful regional models; and self-defeating fiscal conservatism that has prevented adequate investment in essential public goods and industrial policy. Using two innovative economic models-a macro-econometric model and an employment-education forecasting model-the book offers forecasts of the Philippines' income per capita, poverty, or economic structure, through 2050. The researchers warn that unless the country's economic policy focuses on the transformation of the economy (with emphasis on the modernization of agriculture and the development of the manufacturing sector) and the government adopts a more active role, the Philippines will experience more of the same (MOTS) during the next decades.

An accessible resource for scholars, students, journalists, officials, and business professionals as an introduction to Philippine history, politics, and economy, the book will also be useful for development practitioners with its insights on structural transformation and on fiscal and monetary policy.

Building on a transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach to supply chain management, this book critically examines strategic supply chain analytics trends, developments, and critical success factors in the contemporary digital business world. In the context of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues related to supply chain analytics, it explores how organizations operating in African economies can deploy supply chain analytics technologies to gain real-time insights into green procurement, risk modelling, and environmental compliance.

Recent developments in supply chain management heighten the need for the acquisition of new digital skills by strategic leaders when it comes to the infusion of supply chain analytics into evidence-driven decision-making. This book critically interrogates the relevance and effectiveness of strategic supply chain analytics in the digital world. It encompasses the strategic issues surrounding robotics, diagnostic analysis, machine learning, prescriptive analysis, predictive analysis, descriptive analytics, smart warehousing, and blockchain technology, within the context of supply chain management. It also identifies the transformation imperatives and policy directions for crafting robust supply chain analytics strategies.

This unique collection will be a valuable resource for researchers, scholars, policymakers, and students of supply chain management, logistics, technology management, and innovation.

As ports are critical nodes in global energy flows, understanding their evolving functions in supporting renewable energy carriers is essential. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of European ports in the energy transition, focusing specifically on the import, storage, and infrastructure challenges related to green hydrogen and ammonia.

The authors address the pressing need for strategic guidance on how ports can adapt to and facilitate the shift from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy sources. They offer a scenario-based approach to infrastructure allocation, investment requirements, and strategic positioning of key European ports under future decarbonization pathways. By providing detailed analyses, cost and surface area calculations, and scenario projections, this book equips readers with the tools to optimize port planning for the integration of green hydrogen and ammonia, thus enabling a more sustainable and resilient energy supply chain in Europe.

This volume will be of particular relevance to researchers and graduate students in the fields of port economics, energy logistics, and sustainable transport systems. The actionable insights presented will also appeal to policymakers and industry stakeholders.

Intercultural Bible Reading in Empirical Design offers an innovative exploration of how global Christian communities engage with Scripture together across cultural, theological, and denominational boundaries.

Focusing on the text of the Jerusalem Council (Acts of the Apostles 15), the book analyses digital ecumenical encounters among youth from Student Christian Movements (SCMs) affiliated with the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF). Drawing on qualitative methods, grounded theory, and the use of MAXQDA software, the study identifies key factors that foster or hinder successful intercultural and ecumenical dialogue. The book builds on a transcultural framework that frames Christian faith as an open, networked system of multidirectional change. The author introduces a model of "receptive ecumenism" grounded in lived experience, affective trust, and ongoing interpretive negotiation among "grassroots" communities.

Situated at the intersection of empirical hermeneutics, intercultural communication, and ecumenical theology, this work offers both scholarly insight and a practical roadmap for churches, educators, and dialogue facilitators seeking renewed Christian unity amid the diversity of biblical interpretations.

Airports are dynamic infrastructure assets and organisations, which are subject to constant change as a result of increasing traffic, ownership changes, environmental, economic, safety and technological changes. Customers (airlines, passengers and freight organisations) and stakeholders (government, community) also put pressure on airports to change.

This book examines the pressures to change faced by airports of different sizes, from small community airports to intercontinental mega-hubs, and will help readers to understand and anticipate the changes which will happen at airports with which they are involved. The objective of this book is to look at the broad value chain of airports and the roles of the various players within the value chain, identifying how airports can manage their staff, stakeholders and customers, the ways in which governance and staffing models can be evolved to cope with the emerging challenges faced by the industry, and risks faced by airports, together with mitigation approaches. Each chapter ends with a series of questions which can be applied when considering a specific airport. The key target users of those questions are board members and investors, who need to grill management to ensure that they fully understand and appreciate the airport under consideration, but the questions will also be useful prompts for any reader of the book.

This book has, therefore, been written for the person who is starting to work in or for the airport industry - as an airport employee, a board member, a regulator, a supplier of equipment or services to airports, an investor in airports, anyone engaged in non-aviation work such as airport retail or property development, or an airline staff member who has to deal with airports as a user.

This book presents a construction-based approach to understanding English syntactic constructions that challenge traditional form-function relationships, exploring complex linguistic phenomena that have posed empirical and analytical puzzles in grammatical research.

The volume establishes theoretical foundations before examining how unusual mapping relations between form and function manifest in complex English constructions. Drawing exclusively on attested data, the book investigates constructions with unpredictable form-meaning relationships, developing an innovative framework that enables broader predictions about specific phenomena and related grammatical structures. The approach advances understanding of English grammar while maintaining methodological rigor through emphasis on empirical evidence. The book offers a mathematically robust grammar from a construction-based perspective while minimizing formal representations to ensure accessibility across theoretical frameworks. It provides fresh insights into form-meaning mismatches across diverse complex grammatical phenomena. The author strikes an optimal balance between data and theory, grounding analyses in authentic language use to ensure theoretical contributions are empirically sound and practically applicable. Examples illuminate broader insights into complex form-function mappings in English, paving the way for future research in construction grammar and syntactic theory.

This book will interest students and scholars in linguistics, syntax, construction grammar, and theoretical linguistics.

The Latter-day Saint theological tradition includes philosophically interesting commitments that are distinctive in relation to Classical Christian traditions. This is the first volume to offer an explicitly philosophical treatment of key ideas in the Latter-day Saint tradition.

Contemporary philosophy of religion has paid little attention to minority and heterodox traditions like that of the Latter-day Saints. This volume provides a starting place for the inclusion of the Latter-day Saint tradition in philosophy of religion. It collects original essays from contemporary philosophers, most of whom come from Latter-day Saint backgrounds and tackle philosophical issues concerning the Latter-day Saint tradition from an internal perspective. The chapters explore the existence and nature of God, ethics and morality, and various issues related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Contemporary Philosophy and the Latter-day Saint Tradition will appeal to researchers and graduate students working in philosophy of religion, Mormon studies, and theology.

Muslim women have remained sidelined in the post-Partitioned public sphere in India. To overcome the marginality of voice and visibility, they have travelled from the private world to the public sphere; they have crossed several milestones-tin talaq (arbitrary divorce), polygamy, the burqa (veil) and Muslim personal law reform. These discursive pillars have recurrently defined and redefined their identity. This book discusses the growing influence of communalisation of Hindu-Muslim relations in India and how it has affected Muslim women's negotiation and engagement with the public sphere, including professional spaces, marketplaces, universities, literary creations, the burqa and public mobilisation.

It addresses 'the ways' Muslim women have been negotiating through this changing public sphere in West Bengal and predominantly in Kolkata. The conceptual and methodological frameworks of the book look at the lived experiences and subjectivities of Muslim women in these changing spaces and contexts. It focuses on the multiplicities of public spheres, women's experiences and disruptions in these conceptualisations in the past and the present and delineates Muslim women's role as counterpublic. It also examines the 'new' ways of asserting identity, visibility and rights for Muslim women.

This book will be of interest to students and researchers of political science, sociology, women's studies, gender studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies.

This book argues that economic credibility should be assessed not only on the basis of financial stability and economic growth, but also on the state's ability to maintain democracy and long-term social cohesion.

Why do some countries maintain economic stability and investor confidence, while others experience credibility crises? This book examines how political decisions, institutional integrity, and public trust shape economic policy. The authors highlight the consequences of populist governments, which often undermine economic efficiency and democratic stability. The book analyses how populist governments affect a country's economic credibility and long-term stability. It offers a comprehensive framework for assessing a country's economic credibility that goes beyond conventional financial indicators, advocating for a more holistic approach that supports democracy. Supported by research contained in reports on Poland's economic credibility index, the book benefits from data visualisations, policy recommendations, and comparative analyses of state models, resources which provide the reader with practical tools for assessing economic credibility in various contexts.

This book will be of interest to policymakers, economists, political scientists, and business leaders, among others. With its multidisciplinary approach to the links between economic policy and institutional credibility, it provides valuable insights for those seeking to understand the complexity of modern governance.

Unlock Your PhD Potential is a comprehensive guide designed to help you overcome the hurdles of securing and succeeding in a PhD programme. The book demystifies the doctoral journey, offering step-by-step advice on navigating applications, funding, and the challenges of academic life, while prioritising equity, diversity, inclusion, and mental well-being. Written by an expert in psychology, it empowers readers to approach their doctorate with confidence and resilience, highlighting how successfully navigating human relationships is central to PhD success.

Packed with actionable insights, the guide covers everything from choosing the right supervisor and managing work-life balance to combating procrastination and imposter syndrome. Drawing on decades of experience mentoring students from diverse backgrounds, as well as on her research expertise in the psychology of discrimination and structural barriers, Prof. Zagefka combines academic expertise with practical, real-world advice. Whether you are preparing to apply or already deep into your doctoral studies, this book offers essential strategies for excelling at every stage.

Unlock Your PhD Potential is ideal for prospective and current PhD students in the UK and beyond, including international applicants and those from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. Academic advisors and supervisors will also find it an invaluable resource for supporting doctoral researchers. With its accessible language and expert insight, it is your roadmap to academic success.

How, in a context of prolonged economic and political crisis, do city dwellers reinvent the means of their survival in Kinshasa? This book answers that question. Through fine-grained ethnography, it shows how micro-social arrangements enable small-scale traders to provision the city and ordinary citizens to keep living, immersing the reader in the many forms of "resourcefulness" that organize small-scale trade across Kinshasa's markets.

The book moves beyond the formal/informal binary to theorize an "economy of resourcefulness," where economic, social, political, and cultural dimensions are tightly entangled. It traces how cooperation and cunning, solidarity and extortion, coexist in everyday pursuits of income under precarious conditions. Following retail circuits while attending to shifting state presences, digital payments, congestion, and risk, it reconstructs the practical norms and negotiated rules through which actors coordinate, conflict, and protect themselves-offering a bottom-up view of governance in practice and of ongoing social change.

This volume will interest scholars and students of African studies, anthropology, sociology, political science, geography, urban studies, and development studies, as well as practitioners concerned with popular economies, urban governance, and everyday livelihoods in the Global South.

This book makes a compelling case for the urgent need to develop a new approach to food and farming-one that integrates the principles of food security and sovereignty.

In the face of escalating challenges such as climate change and increasing political instability worldwide, it is essential to rethink food production and future-proof it by prioritising resilience. While food security and sovereignty are widely recognised and debated concepts, this book considers the critical yet often overlooked dimension of food stability as a cornerstone for shaping future food policy. As public interest in sustainable food systems continues to grow, this book provides readers with a deeper understanding of the complexities of the food system and offers actionable insights into how consumption patterns can be shifted to foster a more sustainable future. Tracing the journey from farm to fork, the chapters explore key topics such as climate resilience, genetic diversity, supply chains, food resilience, and market competition. With a particular focus on the UK food system, this book examines the implications of the 2025 UK Government Food Strategy for England and its potential to reshape the future of food governance.

This book is an essential resource for anyone seeking to better understand UK food policy and the pathways to achieving a secure, equitable, and sustainable food future.

International Maritime Transport: Management Perspectives offers a comprehensive exploration of the challenges and opportunities in contemporary maritime transport management. By applying a modeling-based approach, this book addresses critical issues of safety, security, and sustainable development, providing readers with a robust understanding of maritime transport's role in the global economy. Through theoretical insights and practical applications, it introduces a set of original management tools designed for policymakers, industry leaders, and maritime administrators to optimize operations and mitigate risks. The book delivers wide-ranging perspectives on both established and emerging management concerns. It serves as an essential resource for stakeholders in maritime industries, port authorities, shipowners, regulators, and advanced students specializing in maritime economics, transport management, and logistics.

• Offers a holistic analysis of maritime transport challenges, focusing on safety, security, and sustainable development through a modeling-based approach.
• Presents a set of original, theory-driven management tools designed to assist policymakers, maritime administrators, and industry leaders in optimizing decision-making and operations.
• Combines expert contributions and real-world applications to provide actionable solutions and in-depth insights into the evolving landscape of international maritime transport management.

This book describes economic value as a representational phenomenon and considers what is involved when people represent value to themselves and to others. It provides an original and thorough account of value from a pragmatic and interactionist perspective.

McGill uses Peircian semiosis and other theoretical tools from linguistic anthropology in order to study economic value. He argues that economic laws are realized in situated interaction as Peircian legisigns and the situated, indexical features of exchange are further described in relation to these laws as legisigns. Such an approach is shown to have implications for the formation of interests and ideology, the reification of labor and the instantiation of markets through habit.

Offering some innovative tools for theorizing economic value in a new era, this volume will be of interest to anthropologists, linguists and other scholars concerned with language, semiotics, and political economy.

This groundbreaking book makes the often-undiscussed aspects of fieldwork accessible to novice researchers by drawing on the authentic experiences of young field researchers from diverse backgrounds. From landing in unfamiliar territories and navigating local politics to data collection challenges and psychological impacts, this practical guide transforms real experiences into actionable insights.

Venturing into the field for the first time can be both exhilarating and daunting - unlike traditional manuals, this book offers multiple perspectives that prepare you for the realities of fieldwork while providing tools like SWOT analysis to evaluate your preparation. The journey unfolds through comprehensive chapters that follow the complete fieldwork cycle - from proposal development to post-fieldwork reflections. Learn how to judge the quality of your research design, make the most of preparatory visits, adapt when original plans need revision, and handle unexpected situations from medical emergencies to political complexities. Unique chapters address specific challenges such as conducting research in your hometown, safety concerns for female researchers, and the psychological dimensions of fieldwork that range from alienation to powerlessness. This essential resource serves multiple audiences across disciplines where field data collection is central - ethnography, anthropology, social geography, environmental studies, and beyond.

It's invaluable for Master's and MPhil students preparing for their first field experience, PhD candidates planning extensive fieldwork, and supervisors guiding them through this critical process. Perfect as course material for fieldwork preparation classes and as a discussion tool for communities of practice, this book bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application, ensuring that new researchers feel supported rather than isolated in their fieldwork journey.

Offering the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of what Christian nationalism in America is and isn't, and how it became the political religion of Donald Trump's MAGA movement, the chapters in this book describe the way Christian nationalism has embedded itself in American politics.

Understanding Christian Nationalism emphasizes that Christian nationalism's sacralization of the United States must be seen against the backdrop of American civil religion, which since the founding of the republic has represented the country in sacred terms that transcend political partisanship. By contrast, partisanship is central to the Christian nationalist enterprise. Although Christian nationalist politics can be found in the nineteenth century, this book shows that the Christian nationalism experienced in today's America derives from the rise of the religious right in the late 1970s. Adapting civil religious language to advance the electoral success of the Republican Party, the religious right set the stage for the MAGA movement by promoting the restoration of a country dominated by White, heterosexual men, when Protestant Christianity enjoyed favored status as the country's effective religious establishment. This collection makes clear that the use of religious language to characterize the United States is not exclusively an expression of Christian nationalism. It also demonstrates that many Christian nationalists in America see themselves as part of an international movement to restore Christian values around the world.

Featuring chapters that use historical methods, media analysis, survey data, interviews, and ethnographic observations, this book is essential to students, instructors, and readers in sociology, social theory, sociology of religion, cultural sociology, US history, and politics to understand the Christian nationalism integral to Trump's appeal and electoral success.

Communication for Development and Social Change introduces readers to the foundational concepts of development communication including key theories and models that shape diverse perspectives. It provides a robust
framework for understanding and applying the theoretical, practical and creative skills essential to the study of development communication.

The book enhances understanding of development processes, focusing on their role in driving social change, public development programmes and advocacy efforts. It explores interactive approaches to working with communities, creating tailored messages and utilising various communication channels to foster positive behaviours and sustain individual, community and societal change. Additionally, it highlights the importance of communication in promoting social and behavioural transformation, with a particular focus on its application in health, social and other development fields.

This book serves as an ideal textbook for students and researchers in communication for development, journalism and mass communication, sociology, development studies, public health and women and gender studies. It is also an invaluable resource for professionals in media, government, NGOs and the advertising sector. With its comprehensive approach, the book is well suited for adoption as a textbook in South Asia, North America and parts of Africa, where communication for development is a key area of study at graduate and postgraduate levels.

Now in its fourth edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces students to the main issues and theories in twenty-first-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena.

Author William G. Lycan structures the book's thirteen chapters into four general parts. Part I, Reference and referring, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Descriptions (and its failings), Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the Description Theory of proper names, Searle's Cluster Theory, and the Causal-Historical Theory. Part II, Theories of meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic meaning and compares their various advantages and liabilities. Part III, Pragmatics and speech acts, introduces the basic concepts of linguistic pragmatics and includes an introduction to the Relevance approach to pragmatics. Part IV, The expressive and the figurative, examines various forms of expressive language, as well as what "metaphorical meaning" is and how most listeners readily grasp it.

Features of Philosophy of Language include:

• chapter overviews and summaries
• clear supportive examples
• study questions
• annotated lists of further reading
• a glossary.

Key updates to the fourth edition:

• a new section on the predicativist theory of proper names
• an expanded section on inferentialist theories of meaning
• a new section on dynamic ("update") theories of meaning
• a separate section on varieties of presupposition
• an all-new section on "applied" philosophy of language, listing eleven recent areas of
  research
• up-to-date coverage of new literature, further reading lists, and the bibliography.

Interpreting Korean Communication and Narrative presents a ground-breaking framework for the cross-cultural analysis of Korean multimodal communication and narrative within its own cultural and linguistic contexts.

By combining rigorous formal methods rooted in Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) with culturally grounded Korean socio-pragmatic primitives, the book provides Anglophone (culturally Western) researchers with the tools to decode the intricate interplay of verbal, non-verbal, and prosodic modalities that shape meaning in Korean narrative. Through extensive analysis and data collection of 169 extracts from South Korean films, this study shows how these socio-pragmatic expressions function systematically within Korean social hierarchies and cultural contexts, revealing conventions of communication which are often invisible to foreign viewers. The development of the Korean Segmented Film Discourse Representation Theory (K-SFDRT) and its system of graphical representation in Korean Segmented Film Discourse Structures (K-SFDRS) represents a major advance in multimodal research, offering a formal, replicable, and culturally contextualised methodology that decolonises research of Korean media, arts, and communication. It sets a new standard for multimodal research, providing a pioneering approach to understanding the dynamics of narrative and interaction in culturally rich contexts.

Making visible the role of multimodal honorifics in South Korean narrative cohesion, Interpreting Korean Communication and Narrative offers key insights to researchers and graduate students of film, translation, Korean studies, and multimodal communication.

This comprehensive volume showcases cutting-edge research on stuttering from a wide range of perspectives including neuroscience, genetics, epidemiology, speech-motor control, language effects, machine learning, disability studies, treatment options and assessment. Featuring the work of a diverse range of specialist authors from around the globe, the book discusses psychological, neuroscientific and medical aspects of stuttering.

Several core topics are introduced by tutorial chapters written by specialists. These explain modern approaches in a way that is accessible to non-specialists, sometimes introducing developments not yet applied to stuttering research that have the potential to impact future work on stuttering. Tutorial chapters are followed by content chapters digging deeper into the topic, and highlighting a range of up-to-date research in the field. The book also features discussions of neuroplasticity in people who stutter, and explores a range of assistive technologies including virtual reality and mobile apps.

The Routledge International Handbook of Stuttering will be essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of fluency disorders, speech and language pathology, communication studies and applied linguistics.