Book Search
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Transnational Agency and Migration
Actors, Movements, and Social Support
Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
Migrants, both spatially and mentally, no longer settle in only one national territory but interact or move across borders regularly, profoundly challenging the nation-state and the image of society as a container. This volume explores the ways in which migrants connect social worlds...
To Be Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Informed Cities
Tools for Monitoring Sustainable Communities
The role of research (academic and policy-related) in the monitoring of local sustainable development across Europe is key in providing the evidence-based policy making that local governments are increasingly required to deliver. Yet the opportunities and mechanisms for collaboration between...
To Be Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Psychopharmaceuticals in India
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
This book analyses two specific processes of globalization that have had an impact on the changing nature of doctor-patient encounters in India. One is the immense and successful growth of the global market in antidepressants over recent years, to the effect scholars speak of an "antidepressant era...
To Be Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Constructing a German Diaspora
The 'Greater German Empire,' 1871-1918
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
German unification in 1871 had a significant impact on those Germans who found themselves living outside, or migrating across, the borders of the newly founded Empire. Migrants’ redefined their relationship with their country of origin and were increasingly represented as outposts of ‘Germanness’...
To Be Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
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Management Consultancies
Knowledge-Based Innovation at Work
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
Although there has traditionally been considerable field-level attention on how consultants market their ideas and practices, there is still a lack of research that discusses the earlier intra-organizational phases in the development process. While the present literature provides important insights...
To Be Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Scalable Green Chemistry
Case Studies from the Pharmaceutical Industry
To Be Published January 30th 2013 by Pan Stanford Publishing
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Low-carbon Land Transport
Policy handbook
This book provides a guide for transport policymakers and planners on achieving low-carbon land transport systems and describes possible measures for reducing emissions. Based on wide ranging research, case studies from developed and developing countries and an overview of policy scenarios, it book...
To Be Published January 20th 2013 by Routledge
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Interdisciplinary Economics
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Kenneth Boulding was a prolific writer across so many different fields that not only is he often much referred to and cited, he is considered a core member of many of these fields. Boulding is the quintessential interdisciplinary scholar. He died in 1993, but he has left a legacy in economics,...
To Be Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Sustainable Culinary Systems
Local Foods, Innovation, and Tourism & Hospitality
Series: Routledge Studies of Gastronomy, Food and Drink
There is increasing public and academic interest in local and sustainable foods and food tourism. These interests have been reflected in such diverse elements as the growth of farmers markets, green restaurants, food miles, crabon and sustainability labelling, concerns over food supply and security...
To Be Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge