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Global Environmental, Social and Governance Policy: Towards A Universal Model (Routledge Studies in the Economics of Business and Industry)
by Biswas, Edited by Prana KrishnaThis book sheds light on environmental, social and governance (ESG) policy principles, practice and the implications of integrating ESG factors into business operations, investment strategies and corporate governance frameworks, across both developed and developing countries (Europe, Asia and the US). This is the first book which brings together academics from different continents to share their views and knowledge on this subject, with a focus on regional perspectives. The book argues that exhaustive research has been conducted on ESG integration for financial performance, risk management and stakeholder engagement in developed countries, with research showing a positive correlation between ESG performance and value creation. Furthermore, transparency and accountability in ESG disclosures by companies have played a critical role in the firm’s performance and market value. This is also supported by the regulatory initiatives taken by the government in promoting industry standards for ESG practices. On the contrary, developing countries face several challenges in the adoption and implementation of sustainable practices. The book underscores the importance of maintaining a harmonious balance between economic development and environmental and societal factors. The book examines the norms and standards that constitute ESG in Asia, Europe and the US, analyses whether ESG supports business management and GDP growth, and looks at the main barriers to implementing ESG Policy by companies in the selected regions. It includes a comprehensive set of case studies from each region and across various sectors to demonstrate how ESG policy is implemented around the world. Researchers, scholars and students who specialize in sustainable development, development economics and international business management will be interested in this book.
Global Film Policies: New Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Media and Cultural Industries)
by Ruby Cheung, John Hill, Nobuko Kawashima and Paul McDonaldGlobal Film Policies challenges conventional analyses of film policy as a stand-alone public policy confined within national boundaries and usually focused on supports for film production. The book argues for a more multi-faceted approach, extending beyond national boundaries and broadening its scope to recognise how other forms of policy pertain to film, including tax, labour, language and education.A team of experts in various areas of film and media studies critically analyse specific areas of film policy and engage with other public policy programmes, related concepts and/or phenomena. Each chapter brings together a general discussion of the conceptual and critical issues at stake, with specific references to particular territorial or historical contexts, institutions and policy initiatives that illuminate the more general issues. Case studies from different continents illustrate how film-related policies work with other public policies to maintain their influence not just on the film sector but also society more generally.This book will be an important resource for scholars and students studying global film policy in the areas of film, media or creative industries and business.
Global Midwifery Mentorship: Building Capacity Through Connection
by Elaine Jefford Lyn EbertThe book begins by exploring the history of mentoring and its relationship to education and practice. Theories and models of mentorship, education and leadership within the context of midwifery will be discussed, along with the importance of critical thinking and reflection. The editors use the lens of global mentoring to focus on how mentoring in midwifery has developed and been implemented in 15 countries from North and Central America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia. Each chapter explores regulation, professional accountability, education, leadership and career pathways in the country in question.This international text draws on the perspectives of Australian mentors, mentees, healthcare organisations and academics to highlight the complexities of mentorship in real work midwifery practice, and includes a chapter discussing how to take cultural considerations into question. The final chapters draw on the previous discussion to make recommendations that will support midwifery to implement and sustain a successful and supportive mentorship program for the next generation of midwives.In this book, authors often refer to midwives as women to reflect the gendered nature of subordination of midwifery. While most midwives globally are women providing care to women, not all midwives in Mexico or globally identify as women. We acknowledge and celebrate the diverse identities of midwives, as this is the best way to build an environment that guarantees enabling sexual and reproductive care for all people who need midwives. Further, the term First Nations which is used is a collective term that refers to Indigenous Australian and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia. First Nations peoples will refer to themselves by any of these terms and may also identify through language groups. This term is used in acknowledgement that First Nations peoples have the right of self‑determination to identify however they choose to do so.This book is an invaluable read for midwifery students, educators and practitioners.
Global Modern Art: Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa
by Margaret A. RichardsonThis accessible, foundational volume explores how modern art developed around the world by comparing contexts and artistic production in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa from the 1850s through the 1960s. To provide a broader, more comprehensive view of modern art, both chronological and thematic approaches will be used and selections from all regions of the world will be included—from Africa, Asia, the Americas, as well as Europe. Each section begins with an overview of the region, leading into more detailed case studies of specific countries’ historical contexts, including their cultural and aesthetic values and the ways in which cultures have interacted with regional neighbors and outside forces. Examples of specific artists and groups will be discussed for each country and will illuminate themes that illustrate cultural distinctions and connect to broader modern trends traced throughout the text. This book will be of interest to students and scholars working in art history, modernism, globalization, and decolonization.
Global South-North Dichotomies in Higher Education: Critical Dialogue, Reflection and Collaboration (Routledge Research in Higher Education)
by Vander TavaresRevisiting foundational concepts and practices that have long sustained global divisions and hierarchies, this seminal volume challenges Global South-North dichotomies in higher education by exploring the possibilities and limitations of such socio-political dichotomies from multiple perspectives.Foregrounding a diversity of international voices from countries and territories such as Brazil, China, Denmark, India, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Zimbabwe and others, this book presents conceptual reflections and empirical studies on strategies, initiatives, and policies aimed at enhancing collaboration between South-North higher education contexts. Chapters engage critically with traditional concepts and practices, such as academic conferences, research and teaching methodologies, academic publishing and writing, and epistemic frameworks that have helped maintain South-North educational dichotomies while clearly articulating nuanced perspectives on the complexities associated with such South-North dichotomies. Innately forward-looking in approach, chapters discuss micro, macro, and potentially radical, transformative practices that encourage dialogue and reimagine the academic environment to further challenge existing power differentials, drawing on Indigenous, local, and trans-local epistemologies.Ultimately offering critical perspectives from real-world global contexts on how to address systemic inequalities and promote dialogue, this book will be of relevance to scholars, researchers, and students in the fields of higher education, international and comparative education, teacher education, and multicultural education. Policy makers working in ethnic and cultural studies, development and internationalization may also benefit from this volume.
Global Strategy: A Market Creation Approach
by Sali Li Noman Ahmed ShaheerGlobal Strategy: A Market Creation Approach is a groundbreaking textbook that redefines the field of global strategy, shifting the focus from scaling established businesses to creating innovative businesses responding to international market needs. Authors Sali Li and Noman Shaheer equip future multinational leaders with the tools and insights needed to succeed in the rapidly evolving world of global business.
Global Strategy: A Market Creation Approach
by Sali Li Noman Ahmed ShaheerGlobal Strategy: A Market Creation Approach is a groundbreaking textbook that redefines the field of global strategy, shifting the focus from scaling established businesses to creating innovative businesses responding to international market needs. Authors Sali Li and Noman Shaheer equip future multinational leaders with the tools and insights needed to succeed in the rapidly evolving world of global business.
Global Value Chains and Geopolitical Uncertainty: Disruption and Transformation
by Imran Ali William Ho Thanos PapadopoulosThis book offers a timely and insightful look at how political tensions, economic disruptions, and technological advances are reshaping the way goods and services move across borders. At a time when global trade faces mounting pressure, this book explores how businesses, governments, and communities can adapt to an increasingly uncertain world.Spanning diverse geographic areas and themes, the book delves into the evolving trade dynamics between developed and developing countries, the involvement of governments alongside international partnerships, as well as the impact of emerging digital technologies such as automation and artificial intelligence. Additionally, it addresses how companies are reevaluating their business models to enhance resilience, adopt sustainable practices, and meet rising demands for ethical conduct. Rich case studies from recent years bring these themes to life, highlighting real-world examples of innovation, adaptation, and strategic thinking.This volume serves as a vital resource for students, researchers, policymakers, and business executives aiming to comprehend and tackle the intricate challenges currently confronting global value chains. Whether engaged in international trade studies or overseeing a multinational enterprise, readers will find practical advice and forward-looking strategies essential for navigating a period characterized by transformation.
Globalization and Media in the Digital Platform Age
by Dal Yong JinAn empirically rich and student-friendly book in which global media expert Dal Yong Jin discusses the nexus of globalization, digital media, and popular culture and provides an essential introduction to the shifting media ecology of the early 21st century.Offering an in-depth look at globalization processes as they relate to the global media, this second edition maps out the increasing role of digital platforms as they continue to shift the contours of globalization. This book introduces core theoretical concepts—such as cultural imperialism, platform imperialism, and soft power—that can be critically applied to a broad range of contemporary media policies, practices, movements, and technologies in different geographic regions of the world, with a view to determining how they shape and are shaped by globalization. Fully updated throughout, this second edition explores new critical issues—such as the impact of COVID-19 and the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) in cultural production—emphasizing the ever-increasing role digital platforms play in the globalization process. It also introduces new theoretical frameworks for understanding globalization, such as transnational proximity. End-of-chapter discussion questions prompt further critical thinking and research.An essential book for students of digital media, global media, and globalization that want to understand the increasing impact of AI and digital platforms on global media and culture in the digital platform era.
Goal Setting in the Writing Classroom: Building Student Agency, Independence, and Success
by Valerie BollingGoal setting is an integral part of life. But when and how do we teach this important skill to students? And how can we do so in ways that are engaging, rewarding, and nestled into our other priorities in the writing classroom?In Goal Setting in the Writing Classroom: Building Student Agency, Independence, and Success, Valerie Bolling breathes new life into the work of goal setting with students. Bolling guides teachers, step by step, through helping students set goals, monitor progress, revise (and sometimes even abandon!) goals, and celebrate their achievements along the way. Moreover, Bolling illustrates how teachers, themselves, can set their own goals so that they are learning alongside their students and serving as models for them.Goal Setting in the Writing Classroom draws on Valerie Bolling’s experiences as a teacher, instructional coach, and children's book author to offer relevant and engaging stories, lessons, strategies, and graphic organizers to help all students become successful and independent goal setters and writers.
Goal!
by Marley RichmondTeamwork helps players succeed in all kinds of sports, whether scoring a goal in soccer or earning a point in volleyball. Beginning readers hone their phonics skills while learning about the many ways teams work together to score! As readers practice decoding words with long vowel teams, they gain nonfiction knowledge Every Stairway Decodables book combines multiple aspects of the Science of Reading to support small group instruction, independent reading, and reading practice at home.
Going on Being in Challenging Times: Psychoanalytic Reflections
by Michelle Flax J. Gail WhiteIn this volume, we explore what it is to live through trauma while experiencing huge losses that threaten our well-being. The book demonstrates how clinicians can help patients regain meaning and purpose once again.The authors in these chapters sensitively annotate their therapeutic journeys with their patients, all of whom grapple with extremely difficult emotional conditions. There is much that can be learned about going-on-being from psychoanalysts, who have always worked in the depth of the unconscious psychic dimension. The authors focus on the psychic processes, the core experiences, and the qualities of selfhood that help to move the human soul through despair on to hope and new beginnings. Rich clinical vignettes illustrate these ideas in a way that is sure to help clinicians and other readers face and work with their own and others’ places of pain and challenge.We have all been shaken by the winds of unsettling social and political change over the past few years; hence this book will appeal to a wide audience. Psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, counselors, students and others in the helping professions will find this book essential reading, as will members of the wider public who have experienced challenges in their own or their loved one’s “going-on-being”.
Golda and Ezra's Animal Rescue
by Hollie MichaelsGolda and Ezra are busy planning a party for their pets when the cats run outside. The stepsiblings get their pets back, but not before one of the cats catches a bunny. They take the bunny to the local animal shelter for care. Will the bunny recover? And how can Golda and Ezra keep other wild animals safe?
Golda and Ezra's Park Plan
by Hollie MichaelsGolda and Ezra’s charity Tzedakah box is filled, and they have the perfect idea for how to spend the money. They’d like to purchase a storage box for the park, so people can always have access to balls and other play equipment. The only problem? They have to get permission from Coach Martin, the super strict head of the parks department.
Golda the Brave
by Hollie MichaelsGolda is supposed to play Queen Esther at her family's Purim party, but she doesn't feel brave enough to play Esther. After all, Golda was too nervous to ask for a book about Purim at the library. But Ezra reminds Golda that Queen Esther wasn't brave at first either. Is Golda ready to step into her brave role?
Goldfish and Sharks
by Dionna L. MannSharks and goldfish can seem very different, from their habitats to their diets. Sharks are big and live in the salty ocean, while goldfish live in small freshwater ponds or bowls. Sharks eat fish, and goldfish eat plants and packaged fish food. But they both have physical traits such as gills, scales, and fins, that let them live underwater. Can they possibly be related? Through easy-to-read text, colorful photos, and a comprehension quiz, readers will learn about the behaviors, senses and skills, and habitats of these fish relatives by exploring their similarities and differences.
Goulicious Halloween Treats
by Ruthie Van OosbreeDo you love all things spooky, scary, and eerie? Then it’s time to cook up some ghoulicious Halloween treats with this holiday cookbook! Mix up a batch of green mac ‘n’ cheese fit for a monster. Dip strawberries in white chocolate to create ghoulish ghosts. Make a bowl of gelatin worms to freak out your friends. These fun and spooky treats will be the hit of any Halloween party!
Governing China's Digital Transformation: Industrial Policy, Regulatory Governance, and Innovation (Routledge Studies in the Economics of Innovation)
by Jiwei QianThis book examines China’s digital transformation and its complex policy landscape, offering fresh insights into how the world’s second-largest economy navigates the challenges of governing its rapidly evolving digital sector. Through detailed analysis, it reveals the intricate relationship between technological innovation and policy implementation in contemporary China.The book explores critical themes including digital industrial policies, competition policy, data governance, and artificial intelligence development. It introduces two dynamics: the “digital amplification of fragmentation,” which explains how digital technologies intensify existing governance challenges, and the “technology-policy recursive loop,” which describes the interaction between technological advancement and regulatory responses. Using diverse data sources and covering developments such as China’s 2020–2021 regulatory crackdown of major technology firms like Alibaba and Tencent, the book provides a comprehensive examination of China’s unique approach to digital governance. Special attention is paid to pressing issues such as data security, cross-border data flows, and technological self-reliance.An essential read for policymakers, business leaders, and scholars seeking to understand China’s digital economy and its implications for global digital governance. Its accessible analysis offers valuable insights for anyone interested in the intersection of technology, policy, and economic development in contemporary China.
Governing Energy Transitions: A Study of Regime Complex Effectiveness on Geothermal Development in Indonesia and the Philippines
by Kathryn ChelminskiAs the world moves with increasing urgency to mitigate climate change and catalyze energy transitions to net zero, understanding the governance mechanisms that will unlock barriers to energy transitions is of critical importance. This book examines how the clean energy regime complex-the fragmented, complex sphere of governance in the clean energy issue area characterized by proliferating and overlapping international institutions-can be effective in fostering energy transitions at the domestic level, particularly in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). Through comparative case studies of geothermal development in Indonesia and the Philippines, the chapters provide two different tales of energy transitions, demonstrating how domestic factors have hindered or facilitated progress. This book will be useful for students, researchers, and practitioners working in international relations, energy politics, political science, development studies, public policy, international law, and sociology. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Governing States and Localities
by Kevin B. Smith Alan H. GreenblattThe #1 book in the market for state and local politics! The trusted and proven Governing States and Localities guides students through the contentious status of state and local politics, helping them understand the ins and outs of these systems and why they′re important. With engaging journalistic writing and crisp storytelling, Kevin B. Smith and Alan Greenblatt use a comparative approach to examine how and why states and localities are both similar and different to showcase real-life applications of policy and politics. The Tenth Edition has been thoroughly updated to look at developments and issues in today′s hyperpartisan political environment. This text is offered in Sage Vantage, an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support.
Grab a Snack
by Marley RichmondSnacks can be yummy, and they help kids grow! Beginning readers hone their phonics skills while learning about different types of snacks, from sweet treats to nuts and milk that help kids stay strong. As readers practice decoding words with consonant blends, they gain nonfiction knowledge. Every Stairway Decodables book combines multiple aspects of the Science of Reading to support small group instruction, independent reading, and reading practice at home.
Graph Mining: Practical Uses and Instruments for Exploring Complex Networks (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Science)
by Tien Anh Tran Suman Kumar Swarnkar Yogesh Kumar Rathore Riju BhattacharyaThis book provides a thorough introduction to graph mining and addresses foundational concepts and advanced techniques along with practical applications across various fields. As graphs have become increasingly vital for data representation in domains such as social network analysis, bioinformatics, and transportation, there is a growing demand for a comprehensive source that covers both theory and practical insights. This book seeks to fill that gap by offering clear explanations, practical examples, and actionable insights, making complex graph mining techniques accessible to students, postgraduate readers, and researchers. The authors also provide an extensive investigation into the process of gaining insightful knowledge from graph representations, ranging from interpreting intricate relationships to decoding complex data structures. Readers will learn to identify anomalous patterns, locate communities, arrange nodes, predict connections, and evaluate graphs effectively.
Grassroots Development Initiatives in India: Rights Based Approach to Development and Advocacy
by Sampat KaleThis book examines how the voluntary organisations engaged with development programmes work with the approach of conscientisation to empower Adivasis. Their work has been instrumental in making government machinery pro-poor by implementing development programmes with greater transparency and accountability. Conscientisation of Adivasis by voluntary organisations through their educative role has resulted in the advancement of their lives and the emergence of autonomous leadership. The study concludes that the ideological base of the founders of the organisations made the Adivasis independent and self-supportive for their development from their earlier status of servitude through initiating and accomplishing the task of conscientisation. This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
Green
by April R. HughA bowl of green beans. Mint chocolate chip ice cream. Soft grass under our feet. With vibrant, eye-catching photos and fun facts about all things green, young readers explore the many familiar ways this soothing, earthy color shows up in their world.
Green Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Applications (Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Software and Systems Engineering #8)
by Satchidananda Dehuri Margarita Favorskaya Sung-Bae Cho Sarat Chandra NayakThis proceeding book explores emerging field of Green AI, which emphasizes innovations to make AI more environmentally sustainable. Green AI seeks to mitigate the environmental impact of AI technologies by streamlining algorithms, enhancing hardware efficiency, and adopting eco-friendly data management practices—all while maintaining the high performance that modern AI systems promise. It addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with reducing AI&’s energy consumption, lowering carbon emissions, and promoting ethical and responsible AI practices. The book insights into the development of energy-efficient algorithms by design (Green-in-AI) as well as algorithms specifically created to tackle environmental challenges (Green-by-AI). It highlights the potential of Green AI in fostering a more sustainable technological future, which inspires researchers, engineers, and innovators to pursue ideas and solutions that balance technological advancement with environmental stewardship.