This original, international work offers new perspectives on leisure studies. For the first time in English, it presents interdisciplinary dialogues from countries like Brazil and Portugal that depart from traditional viewpoints to consider leisure as a political practice.
This volume offers new approaches to considering Italy’s traumatic experiences through a wide array of unanalyzed media. It looks at trauma not simply as a national event, but as the force creating subnational and transnational communities.
As modern life creates new health challenges, scientific research reveals the benefits of forests. This collection highlights up-to-date findings on the beneficial effects of forests on human health, providing evidence that can be implemented in practice and policy.
A knowledge-rich society cannot sustain itself without wisdom. This book defines wisdom as a science, arguing its application should be as commonplace as arithmetic to transform a chaotic civilization into a wise one.
This book highlights physicochemical parameters and micro-constituents used to determine the botanical and geographical origins of honey, in combination with chemometrics. It is the ultimate research guide for honey uniqueness, appealing to academics and practitioners alike.
Stress in Plants
This book provides an overview of the challenges of increasing crop productivity for a growing population. It links plant activity to tolerance and adaptation, offering strategies to counter the impact of environmental stress, a threat magnified by climate change.
This book explores the partnership between the French state and Disney to create Val d’Europe. It reveals why a welfarist state joined a capitalist giant and critically examines their ongoing efforts to build a massive urban tourism pole despite criticisms and challenges.
This book analyses data from floods, earthquakes, and bio-infections to provide a model of ethnological disaster research. It focuses on communities’ quality of life, offering contributions to policy for disaster prevention, response, and recovery.
Sport Tourism Development
This book brings together international authors to explore sport tourism from theory to practice, examining E-sport events, territorial development, and sustainability. Essential for academic researchers, students, policymakers, and professionals in sports tourism and management.
The Legend, Lore and Spirit of the Water Horse
This book explores the legends of the water horse in mythology, folklore, and art. It delves into the romance and mystery of water as a sacred, cleansing element and also as an untamed, disruptive force. How are these manifestations linked to the human psyche?
This book introduces citizen science approaches to coastal and marine sciences. It goes beyond the narrow definition of citizen science to include contributions from the tourism industry, discussing methods from social media and apps to tour operator sighting logs.
This book offers an application of Bourdieu’s framework to the under-examined experiences of community-college students seeking a second chance in Hong Kong. It explores how middle and working-class students see themselves and face academic challenges throughout their journey.
Waste Research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Perspectives
Diverse international scholars interrogate waste from the social sciences and humanities. Offering insider perspectives and practical experiences from global South and North communities, they highlight innovative solutions and propose new approaches to our shared waste dilemmas.
This book explores the role of MNCs in Cameroon’s economic development. An empirical survey on corporate social responsibility finds that some MNCs may contribute more to underdevelopment than development, and argues for policies to better regulate their activities.
Virtual communities are one of the most important factors affecting consumer decisions. This text explains their features and types, arguing that understanding how they change is more relevant than ever for the students and business owners of the future.
This collection offers a glimpse into the challenges and opportunities of globalization for youth in Africa and its diaspora. It issues a call for action to governments to tap into the energy of its youth through education, agriculture, sport, and technology.
The folktales of Libyan Jews reveal views on social issues that couldn’t be expressed openly due to cultural inhibitions and fear. This study examines these tales, exploring relationships, the position of women, and attitudes towards the “Other,” including the Muslim majority.
Revolutionary Essays on Life, Earth, and Politics
Science is our only guide to the Crisis of the Anthropocene. This wakeup call explores climate change, biodiversity collapse, and the political failures behind them. Data shows the US is not an advanced democracy, and threats like Trumpism put freedom itself at stake.
This volume examines the challenges of social exclusion and inequality facing Western Balkan countries on their path to the EU. It explores how state failures to protect women, young people, and Roma minorities have driven high rates of outward migration.
Re-theorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora
How do 30 million people of the Indian Subcontinental diaspora renegotiate their identities? This volume explores their historical, socio-cultural, and economic migration patterns, examining diasporic writers, films, and unique case studies ushering in a new era of identity.