Chapter 1. From economics of place to place-based economics -- Chapter 2. The Place of Right Livelihood in Overcoming World Inequity -- Chapter 3. Identity and Authenticity Breaking with our heritage for sustainable regional human development -- Chapter 4. “A place for learning that feels like...

This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World-the world’s first “global economy”-from a longue durée perspective. Spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, these essays move beyond the usual focus on...

The twenty-first century has thus far been characterised by a persistent amplification of diverse and interconnected global flows, as well as various attempts to control, harness and channel these flows for individual and collective benefits. Whether we resist, appropriate, or simply observe...

"Globalization, along with its digital and information communication technology counterparts, including the Internet and cyberspace, may signify a whole new era for human rights, characterized by new tensions, challenges, and risks for human rights, as well as new opportunities. Human Rights and...

"This book compiles prestigious research and provides a well-rounded composite of role of human enhancement technologies in emerging areas for those involved in computer science and the humanities, as well as many engaged in a humanities approach to metasystems, new artificial life, and...

1. IT-enabled global ethical problems -- 2. Current ethically globalized institutions -- 3. IT's contribution to globalization -- 4. The basis of ethical principles -- 5. Domestic theories of justice -- 6. Political realism and the society of societies -- 7. Cosmopolitanism -- 8. The ethical...

Peter J. Taylor has produced a sweeping, empirically grounded, defense of cities as fundamental building blocks of long-term, large scale social structures; a way of freeing social science from state-centric bias; and indeed, mankinds hope. However, the single greatest strength of this complex,...