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Chapter 1. Ten Guidelines for Phycosecurity Implemented as Biosecure Ecosystem Services Management of Tropical Seaweed Farms -- Chapter 2. Diversity of Eucheumatoids in the Philippines -- Chapter 3. The Role of Molecular Marker Technology in Advancing Eucheumatoid Research -- Chapter 4. Reproductive Biology and Novel Cultivar Development of the Eucheumatoid Kappaphycus alvarezii -- Chapter 5. A Review of the Use of Spores for the Supply of High Quality Kappaphycus alvarezii Seedlings -- Chapter 6. Evaluation of a Low-Cost Prototype for Micropropagation of Kappaphycus alvarezii and Its Application -- Chapter 7. The Importance of the Biosecurity Concept for a Resilient Eucheumatoid Aquaculture Industry -- Chapter 8. The Bio Economic Seaweed Model (BESeM) for Modelling Kappaphycus Cultivation in Indonesia -- Chapter 9. Cultivation and Domestication of Kappaphycus Alvarezii Strains at Ubatuba Bay, São Paulo State, Southeastern Brazil -- Chapter 10. Kappaphycusalvarezii Farming in Brazil: A Brief Summary and Current Trends -- Chapter 11. Developing Cultivation Systems and Better Management Practices for Caribbean Tropical Seaweeds in US Waters -- Chapter 12. Diverse Seaweed Farming Livelihoods in Two Indonesian Villages -- Chapter 13. Commercial Farming of Kappaphycus alvarezii in Sri Lanka: Current Developments and Opportunity for Becoming a Major Carrageenophyte Producer -- Chapter 14. Eucheumatoid Farming in India: Current Status and Way Forward for Sustainable Production -- Chapter 15. Boutique-type Cultivation of Kappaphycus alvarezii (Doty) L.M. Liao in the Subtropical Waters of Tosa Bay, Shikoku, Japan -- Chapter 16. Status and Trends of Eucheumatoid and Carrageenan Production in China -- Chapter 17. Opportunities for Strengthening the Indonesian Seaweed Penta-Helix Through Collaboration -- Chapter 18. Seaweed Production in Kenya Amid Environmental, Market and COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges -- Chapter 19. Integration of Precision Technology into Adaptive Phyconomy Systems for Extensive Tropical Red Seaweed Farming -- Chapter 20. Seaweed Health Problems: Major Limiting Factors Affecting the Sustainability of the Seaweed Aquaculture Industry in the Philippines -- Chapter 21. Anti-Microbial and Growth-Promoting Properties of Cultured Seaweeds Confer Resistance and Attraction to Ice-Ice Disease-Causing Bacteria: A Proposed Seaweed-Bacteria Pathosystem Model -- Chapter 22. Novel Methods for Protecting Kappaphycus alvarezii from Herbivores: An Overview of Development and Economic Prospects -- Chapter 23. A Phyconomic Game-Changer: Extracts of Selected Brown Seaweeds as Phyco(bio)Stimulants for Eucheumatoids -- Chapter 24. Stakeholders' Perspectives and Gender Relations as Indicators of Knowledge Systems: Empirical Evidence from the Philippine Seaweed Industry -- Chapter 25. Understanding the Organism: Insights from Chondrus crispus (Rhodophyta) for the Tropical Carrageen Seaweed Industry -- Chapter 26. The Center of Excellence for Development and Utilization of Seaweeds, Hasanuddin University (CEDUS-UNHAS) – Collaborating on Research and Outreach for the SDGs.

Chapter 1. Landslide Risk and Vulnerability; Real issues, Thoughts and Perspectives -- Chapter 2. Landslide Susceptibility Mapping by Using Geospatial Technique: Reference from Hofu City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan -- Chapter 3. Landslide hazard risk and vulnerability monitoring – GIS based Approach -- Chapter 4. Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Methods – A Review -- Chapter 5. Mapping of Landslide Susceptibility using state-of-the-art method and Geospatial Techniques in the Rangamati District in the Chattogram Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh -- Chapter 6. Towards Artificially Intelligent Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A Critical Review and Open Questions -- Chapter 7.Landslide Susceptibility Analysis by Frequency Ratio Model and Analytical Hierarchical Process in Mirik and Kurseong, Darjeeling Himalaya, India -- Chapter 8.Suitability analysis of landslide susceptibility model of Uttarkashi District in Uttarakhand, India: a comparative approach between weighted overlay and multi-criteria decision analysis -- Chapter 9. Determining Land induced factors for landslide susceptibility in Indian cities -- Chapter 10.Moisture-Driven Landslides and Cascade Hazards in the Himalayan Region: A Synthesis on Predictive Assessment -- Chapter 11. Landslide susceptibility map showing the spatial relationship between various landslide factors and landslide using remote sensing and GIS-based Frequency Ratio method in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India -- Chapter 12. Landslide susceptibility using weighted regression model: A Geo-spatial approach -- Chapter 13. Assessment of climate change impact on landslides in Darjeeling district of West Bengal: a geospatial, geostatistical and ecosystem service based approach.-Chapter 14. Landslide vulnerability analysis of tourist spots through Shannon Entropy model : A case study on Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand -- Chapter 15. Landslide Hazard Susceptibility Analysis and Modelling in the Vicinity of the Proposed Subansiri Lower HE Project, Arunachal Pradesh.-Chapter 16. Land Use and Land Cover as a Conditioning Factor in Landslide Susceptibility: A Literature Review -- Chapter 17. A Geospatial Review Analysis of Increased Frequency of Large Glacier-Related Landslides in Mountainous Regions -- Chapter 18. Landslide Detection Using DInSAR Technique: A Case Study -- Chapter 19. Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment Using GIS and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) Approach: Evidence from 2017 Rangamati Hill Tracts Landslide Event, Bangladesh -- Chapter 20. Landslide risk assessment, awareness, and risk mitigation: case studies and major insights -- Chapter 21. Community-based Landslide Disaster Mitigation on The Northern Slope of "Telaga Lele" Hill, Banjarnegara Regency, Indonesia -- Chapter 22. Evaluation of Double Fusion Satellite Rainfall Dataset in Establish Rainfall Thresholds for Landslide Occurrences over Badung regency - Bali -- Chapter 23. Landslide Susceptibility and Risk Assessment in Hilly Regions of Bangladesh: A Geostatistical and Geospatial Modeling Approach for Sustainability -- Chapter 24. Landslide Hazard and Risk Management Framework for Alaknanda Basin in the Indian Himalayan Region.

Part 1: The Foreign Investment Law and Its Interpretation Article by Article -- Part 2: The Foreign Investment Regime in Practice Since the Entry into Force of the Foreign Investment Law -- Chapter 1 Drafting History of the Basic Law for Foreign Investment -- Chapter 2 The Origin of the Title of the Foreign Investment Law in Chinese -- Chapter 3 Basic Norms of the Foreign Investment Law.-Chapter 4 The Foreign Investment Law and the Rule of Law -- Chapter 5 The Foreign Investment Law and the Negative List -- Chapter 6 The Foreign Investment Law and Enterprise Laws -- Chapter 7 The Foreign Investment Law and International Investment Agreements -- Chapter 8 Concluding Remarks -- Part 3: Harmonization and Coordination of the Foreign Investment Law with other Relevant Laws and Regulations -- Chapter 9 Linkage between the Foreign Investment Law and the Catalogue of Special Management Measures for Admission of Foreign Investment -- Chapter 10 Linkage between the Foreign Investment Law and Relevant Laws, Regulations and Rules on National security review -- Chapter 11 Harmonisation between the Foreign Investment Law and the Relevant Rules on Foreign Investment Verification and Recordation System.-Chapter 12 Relationship between the Foreign Investment Law and the Company Law and Partnership Law -- Chapter 13 The Relationship between the Foreign Investment Law and the Contract Law -- Chapter 14 The Relationship between the Foreign Investment Law and the Antimonopoly Law -- Chapter 15 The relationship between the Foreign Investment Law and the Government Procurement Law -- Chapter 16 The relationship between the Foreign Investment Law and the previous foreign investment-related ministerial rules -- Chapter 17 Negative List and the Negative List for Free Trade Zones -- Part 4: China's Foreign Investment Law from the Comparative Law Perspective -- Chapter 18 Admission of Foreign Investment -- Chapter 19 National security Review -- Chapter 20 Antimonopoly Review -- Chapter 21 Investment promotion -- Chapter 22 Investment protection -- Chapter 23 Information reporting -- Chapter 24 Concluding Remarks -- Part 5: Interaction between China and International Investment Rules -- Chapter 25 China's Place in the Rapidly Changing Landscape of Global Investment Flow -- Chapter 26 International Investment Rules and Their Development -- Chapter 27 Interaction between China's Foreign Investment Legislation and International Investment Rules -- Chapter 28 The Future Evolution of International Investment Rules and Its Impact on China's Foreign Investment Regime -- Chapter 29 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1:The Regulations on the Implementation of the Foreign Investment Law -- Appendix 2: Special Management Measures for Foreign Investment Admission (Negative List)(2020) -- Appendix 3: List of the Normative Documents relating to the Foreign Investment Law.

1. Synthetic composite indicators for monitoring changes in countries' development rankings - a bibliometric analysis -- 2. Motivation "after work": the right to retire versus the right "not to retire" -- 3. Assessment Models of the Digital Economy and Knowledge-based Societies in Europe -- 4. Economic Growth Through Financial Development: Empirical Evidences From New Member States And Western Balkan Countries -- 5. Capital markets union and international risk-sharing -- 6. FESBAL-UPM Food Bank Chair and the Service-Learning Projects from the "Working With People" perspective -- 7. Economic Aspects of the Innovative Alternatives Use in Agriculture -- 8. Scenarios for the allocation of direct payments under the CAP National Strategic Plan 2023-2027: coupled support -- 9. Romanian agri-food products competitiveness – an analysis using trade balances and unit values. Did the COVID-19 crisis influenced it?- 10. The Economic and Social Impact of Increasing Electricity Prices. Estimates, Analysis and Predictions -- 11. Maintaining green goals in disruptive times. Evidences from the European energy sector -- 12. Transition to a low carbon economy and the impact on the urban regeneration process -- 13. Analysis of the Changes Induced by the COVID-19 Crisis in the Structure of Daily Electricity Consumption -- 14. The importance of R&D in reducing CO2 emissions from passenger transport -- 15. The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the tourism sector. New challenges -- 16. Effects of COVID-19 pandemic crisis on vulnerable groups in Romania. Social policy responses -- 17. The special employment centers: The Spanish response to the insertion of people with functional diversity and its impact on the social economy -- 18. Geospatial characteristics of unemployment for the period 2010 – 2020 in the South-West Oltenia Development Region, Romania -- 19. Urban village - a trend accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Analysis of the Bucharest - Ilfov region -- 20. Nature-based solutions for green infrastructure development -- 21. Hotel management in the XXI century: Opportunities, threats and implications -- 22. Digital divide and employment. From job disruption to reskilling workers for the future world of work -- 23. Global ethics – a potentially integrative paradigm of sustainable development for the new economy -- 24. How resilient is the labor market after a crisis? A comparative analysis of the effects generated by the financial crisis vs. the Covid-19 crisis -- 25. Investigating the economic and social impact induced by electricity prices -- 26. The Short Cycles of Labour Market Operation and Industrial Relations in Interwar Romania -- 27. Urbanization and the crisis of natural resources, in the context of sustainable development.

Chapter 1: New Directions in Kashmir Studies: Unsettling State Power, Military Violence, and Border Regimes Across Kashmir -- Part I: The Princely State and the End of Empire -- Chapter 2: Locating Jammu and Kashmir -- Chapter 3: Locating Azad Kashmir -- Chapter 4: Locating Gilgit-Baltistan -- Part II: Unequal Sovereignties and Contestations for Power Across Kashmir -- Chapter 5: Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan: Politics of Power Sharing and Status Quo -- Chapter 6: Power, Parties and Politics in the Liminal Spaces of Gilgit-Baltistan -- Chapter 7: Peoples' Struggle for Participatory Governance in Gilgit-Baltistan -- Chapter 8: "Democracy": Making Sense of Grassroots Politics in Kashmir -- Chapter 9: From Incorporation to Elimination: Interlocution as an Apparatus of Occupation in Kashmir -- Part III: Kashmir in Transnational Context and International Law from Below -- Chapter 10: International Law and the Kashmir Dispute: A Critical Reflection -- Chapter 11: Critical Interventions: Human Rights and International Justice in Kashmir -- Chapter 12: Creating Archives of Memory: The Landscapes of Human Rights Documentation in Kashmir -- Chapter 13: Grieving Kashmir: Counter-memory, Accountability and A People's Tribunal -- Chapter 14: British Kashmiri Workers: Solidarity Networks and Dreams for "Home" and Freedom -- Part IV: Islam, Embodiment, and the Politics of the Human -- Chapter 15: Looking Beyond "Human": Animal and the Kashmiri Resistance Movement -- Chapter 16: The Logics of Counterinsurgency Education and Resistance in Thirdspace -- Chapter 17: On Kashmiri Men: Disappearance, Nonbeing, Islam -- Chapter 18: Intrusion into the Intimate: Home and the Gendered Anatomy of Crackdowns in Kashmir -- Chapter 19: "Men Had Turned Brutes": Refugees, Recovery, and Rehabilitation Processes in the State of Jammu and Kashmir, 1947-1952 -- Part V: Belonging, Borders, and Contested Sovereignties -- Chapter 20: Humanitarian Internationalism and Funding Relief for Refugees from Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan, 1947-1951 -- Chapter 21: Sectarianism or Separatism: Iran, Pakistan and the Dynamics of Shia Politics in Kashmir -- Chapter 22: The Blank Space between Nationalisms: Locating the Kashmiri Pandits in Liberal and Hindu Nationalist Politics in Relation to Kashmir and India -- Chapter 23: Making State Space: The Symbolic Reorganization of Borders in the Kashmir Borderland -- Chapter 24: Peace for Kashmir? The (Non-) Politics of "Civilian Peacebuilding" across the Line of Control -- Chapter 25: Ecumenical Voices: Deterritorializing Kashmir -- Part VI: Technology, Power, and Transformative Landscapes -- Chapter 26: Women, Roads and Development: Infrastructures of State-Making in Gilgit-Baltistan -- Chapter 27: The Economic Mal-Development of Jammu and Kashmir: Uncovering the Myth of Lagging Behind -- Chapter 28: An Ecopoetics of Refusal: Crisis Epistemologies and Environmental Violence in Pakistan-administered Kashmir -- Chapter 29: Chinese Infrastructure and the Pakistani Military State in Gilgit Baltistan. .

Introduction -- Part I: Legal issues and Politics within the Lusophone World -- Chapter 1. The Feasibility of the Portuguese Legal System in the Former African Colonies -- Chapter 2. The onto-anthropological foundation of Criminal Law in Brazil -- Chapter 3. Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: a view of Portugal and Brazil -- Chapter 4. Economic Law: a focus on Lusophone Competition Laws -- Chapter 5. The Role and Influence of Portuguese Law in the Macau SAR of the People's Republic of China: Issues and Perspectives -- Chapter 6. The Pillars of Portuguese Foreign Policy: From the first globalization to the 21st century. -Chapter 7. Reframing Portuguese Foreign Policy after 1974: The Lusophone Discourse as Instrument of a Global Coloniality of Power -- Chapter 8. Portugal and China Geopolitics: Avenues to Cooperation -- Part II. The Atlantic and the Lusophone World -- Chapter 9. China, Portugal and the Atlantic: the Shifting Geopolitics, by Jorge Tavares da Silva, Paulo Afonso B. Duarte and Rui Pereira -- Chapter 10. Lusophone Connections and China's Growing Presence in the South Atlantic -- Chapter 11. "So much sea": opportunities and challenges in Portugal-Brazil maritime cooperation -- Chapter 12. Lusophone cooperation frameworks and the expansion of the Atlantic Maritime Security -- Chapter 13. The Spatial Development Initiatives: The Case of African Portuguese Speaking Countries -- Chapter 14. Brazil´s reach out to Africa -- Chapter 15. The nativist movement in Angola: a proposal for a modern state and society in the Lusophone context -- Chapter 16. Cabo Verde´s Geopolitical Position in the Mid-Atlantic -- Chapter 17. Mozambique Geopolitics in the Lusophone World: Challenges and Perspectives -- Chapter 18. Luso-Mozambican Diplomatic Cooperation in the Case of the Terrorist Conflict in Cabo Delgado -- Chapter 19. Lusophone Geopolitics: Blue Economy and Maritime Security in Contemporary Mozambique's Geopolitics -- Part III. Influence and Institutional cooperation in the Lusophone World -- Chapter 20. The Geopolitics of the Portuguese Language: Knowledge and Influence -- Chapter 21. The Portuguese Science Diplomacy and EU's External Activities with Lusophone Africa: Looking at the Co-Building Approach -- Chapter 22. The Nets that Empires Weave: The Commonwealth of Nations and the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries -- Chapter 23. The Soft Power of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries -- Chapter 24. Wavering cooperation: Portugal and Lusophone Africa at the United Nations General Assembly -- Chapter 25. Transition to a New Geopolitics of Energy: the Lusophone World -- Chapter 26. The Role of Forum Macao in the People's Republic of China Foreign Policy -- Chapter 27. The Geopolitics of Timor-Leste: Belt & Road Initiative, ASEAN and CPLP.

Part 1: Introduction - the Rhetoric and Myth of a Diffuse Concept – Populism -- Chapter 1. Donald J. Trump and the Art of Falsehood-fakery -- Part 2: Ambivalence of Populism -- Chapter 2. Democracy in Perplexity: Donald Trump Entangled in a Colonial Legacy of Race-based Enfranchisement -- Chapter 3. Cultural Backlash: the Long-term Damage of Trump's Legacy to American Democracy and Global Politics -- Chapter 4. Trump, Authoritarian Populism, Covid-19, and Technopolitics From a U.S. Perspective -- Chapter 5. Trump's Big Lie and the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol: Going Beyond the Select Committee Report -- Part 3: the Nexus of Populism and Foreign Policy -- Chapter 6. In Search of the Elusive Trump Doctrine -- Chapter 7. Ever Enough: the Policy 'deals' of Trump White House -- Part 4: Trump and World Order: Trends in Polarization & Resilience -- Chapter 8. Polarization, Trump and Transatlantic Relations -- Chapter 9. Latinos for Trump: Three Explanations for a Shift in the 2020 Election -- Chapter 10. The Us-Iran Showdown: Was It Smart for President Trump to Authorize the Assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani? -- Part 5: Power Without Persuasion and the Social Construction of Trump's Reality -- Chapter 11. A Critical Into U.S. Media's Fact-checking and Compendiums of Donald Trump's Falsehoods and 'lies' Inquiry -- Chapter 12. The Trump Effect: A Journalistic Discourse Analysis of Islamophobic Rhetoric in Facebook Comments -- Chapter 13. "the Linguistic Construction of Trump's Social Reality" -- Part 6: De-democratization - Populism, Partisanship and Pandemic -- Chapter 14. Trump Redux: the Former President and Political Turmoil Go Hand-in-hand -- Chapter 15. Nietzsche, Trump and the American Far Right -- Chapter 16. Donald Trump: the Epitome of Populism -- Chapter 17. The Journey to the Top: Donald Trump, Perception of Race, the Rhetorical Presidency and Public Leadership -- Chapter 18. Trump Administration's Approach to Global Health Governance -- Part 7: L'étranger, Ressentment, and the Truth -- Chapter 19. Trumpism and Putinism: Just Old Wine in New Bottles -- Chapter 20. Who Are You, Donald J. Trump? -- Chapter 21. Odds and Ends: the Importance of Political and Social Variables in Explaining the Politics of Mortality in the Wake of Trump's Presidency -- Part 8: Climate Change Denial and Populist Antiestablishment Attitude -- Chapter 22. Populism and Private Property Rights in President Trump's Decision to Withdraw From the Paris Agreement on Climate Change -- Chapter 23. How America's Discontent Fueled the Rise of Trump's Populism: Causes and Remedies From the Perspective of Michael Sandel -- Part 9: This Time is Different -- Chapter 24. Fighting for 'the People', Unsettling Democracy: Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Young.

Part 1. Study on Certain Theoretical Issues of Independent Innovation -- Chapter 1. Development History, Connotation and Objectives of Independent Innovation -- Chapter 2. Roadmap of the Independent Innovation Model and Independent Innovation Capacity Building and Development of Innovation Entities -- Chapter 3. Technical Standards and Independent Innovation -- Part 2. Study on the Path of Independent Innovation with Enterprises Serving as Principal Innovation Entities -- Chapter 4. Enterprises as Principal Innovation Entities -- Chapter 5. Dynamic Development of Enterprise Technology Innovation Models -- Chapter 6. Typical Cases of Innovation-Driven Growth of Foreign Firms and Implications -- Chapter 7. An Empirical Study on the Path of Independent Innovation of Chinese Enterprises -- Chapter 8. The Dominant Path of Independent Innovation of Chinese Enterprises -- Part 3. Independent Innovation Capacity Building and Technological Catch-Up in Chinese Industries -- Chapter 9. Factors Influencing Independent Innovation and Technological Catch-Up in Chinese Industries -- Chapter 10. Measurement and Development of China's Industrial Independent Innovation Capacity -- Chapter 11. Analysis of Typical Cases of China's Industrial Independent Innovation Capacity Building -- Chapter 12. Impact of FDI on China's Manufacturing Innovation Capacity and Performance -- Chapter 13. Model Selection and Enhancement Mechanism for Industrial Independent Innovation Capacity Building -- Part 4. Study of Independent Innovation Cluster Based on Regional Network -- Chapter 14. The Construction of a Theory of Open Multi-Level and Multi-Factor Regional Innovation System -- Chapter 15. Mechanism to Enhance Cluster-based Independent Innovation Capacity Building Featuring Collaboration of Multi-Level Multi-Entity Networks -- Chapter 16. Multi-Level Multi-Factor Knowledge Networks and Cluster-Based Independent Innovation -- Chapter 17. Strategy to Enhance Cluster-based Independent Innovation Capacity Based on Comprehensive Innovation -- Part 5. Secondary Innovation and Catch-Up in Global Value Networks -- Chapter 18. Catch-Up Scenarios and Independent Innovation in Global Value Networks -- Chapter 19. Learning Mechanism and Evolutionary Path of Enterprise Independent Innovation in Global Value Networks -- Chapter 20. Business Model Innovation Based on DMS Integration in Global Value Networks -- Chapter 21. Analysis of the Mechanism of ODI Influencing Independent Innovation Capacity and Evolution -- Chapter 22. Strategy of Independent Innovation, Catch-Up and Overtaking in Global Value Networks -- Part 6. Study on the Path and Policy of Independent Innovation with Chinese Characteristics -- Chapter 23. Path of Independent Innovation with Chinese Characteristics Based on Comprehensive Innovation -- Chapter 24. Enterprise Innovation Ecosystem and National Innovation System for Comprehensive Innovation -- Chapter 25. Policy System for Comprehensive Innovation.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Talking with spies: from naïve to distrustful researcher -- Chapter 2. Doing research on, for and with Police in Canada and Switzerland: Practical and methodological insights -- Chapter 3. Research in probation settings: experience and "field policy" -- Chapter 4. Silence of the altars: Researching sexual abuse in religious institutions in Catalonia (Spain) -- Chapter 5. Studying the military: unlocking a closed organization -- Chapter 6. Researching the elites of power: the case of the parliamentarians -- Chapter 7. Challenges and complexities when researching vulnerable populations and sensitive topics: Working with women experiencing violence and homelessness -- Chapter 8. Researching party zones: Drugs, alcohol, and the night -- Chapter 9. Conducting criminological practitioner research with sex workers in Switzerland -- Chapter 10. Fieldwork and ethical challenges on criminological research with immigrants -- Chapter 11. Researching the Roma in criminology and legal studies: Experiences from urban and rural participant observation, interviews and surveys -- Chapter 12. Street children, criminological research and emotional labour: Reflections from the field -- Chapter 13. Research in child and adolescent victimization: Incentives, threats and challenges -- Chapter 14. Research with trafficking victims. Exploring methods, ethics and emotions -- Chapter 15. How to do criminological research on, for, and with children and young people -- Chapter 16. Researching imprisoned persons: Views from Spain and Latin America -- Chapter 17. Language, emotions, and access to refugee women: Ingredients for reflexivity -- Chapter 18. Gangs: Fieldwork experiences, ethical dilemmas, and emotions in youth street groups research -- Chapter 19. Exploring organized crime beyond institutional sources -- Chapter 20. How to investigate a criminal psychopath? -- Chapter 21. Researching extremists and terrorists: Reflections on interviewing hard-to-reach populations -- Chapter 22. Conducting research with, and on perpetrators of domestic and family violence: insights from Australian research -- Chapter 23. Protecting them, protecting you: tips and cautions when doing research in sexual offending -- Chapter 24. Control, confusion, and failure: Fieldwork in areas of violent conflict and limited state authority -- Chapter 25. Using ethnography to access, understand and reflect on video observation of violence -- Chapter 26. Researching cybersecurity governance: Insights from fieldwork with cybersecurity experts and end-users -- Chapter 27. Fieldwork experiences researching cybercriminals -- Chapter 28. Hidden platforms for cybercrime: Experiences investigating darknet service -- Chapter 29. Conducting psychosocial research with victims of sexting and online sexual victimization -- Chapter 30. Researching cyberbullying: A colorful palette of methods and experiences -- Chapter 31. Researching hate: Negotiating the digital as field site in the study of extremist cultures and propaganda online -- Chapter 32 Deciphering the unspoken: A collective examination of sensitive fieldwork experiences in Criminology and Security Studies.

Part 1: Eurasian Business Perspectives: Corporate Governance -- Chapter 1. Board Diversity and Sustainability: Indonesian Evidence -- Chapter 2. The Impact of Audit Committee Composition on Corporate Risk Disclosure in Emerging Countries -- Parts 2: Eurasian Business Perspectives: Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 3. The Dynamic Capability and Ambidexterity in the Early-stage Startups: a Hierarchical Component Model Approach -- Chapter 4. The Impact of Institutional Framework on Entrepreneurship in OECD Members Countries -- Parts 3: Eurasian Business Perspectives: Management Information System -- Chapter 5. Combining Robotic Process Automation With Artificial Intelligence: Applications, Terminology, Benefits and Challenges -- Chapter 6. Google Analytics Best Practices in Slovak and Czech Online Business -- Parts 4: Eurasian Business Perspectives: Sustainability -- Chapter 7. Product Sustainability in Spatial Competition With Consumer Environmental Awareness -- Chapter 8. Circular Economy, Key Factor in Reducing Urban Pollution -- Parts 5: Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Agricultural Economics -- Chapter 9. Rural Development in the Context of Agricultural Models: Evidence From Bulgaria -- Chapter 10. Risk Management in Agriculture – Lesson From Bulgaria -- Parts 6: Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Banking -- Chapter 11. Impact of Merger Announcements on Stock Price of Participating Banks -- Chapter 12. Impact of Macroprudentiality on Customer Protection of Banking Services- the Case of the Republic of Moldova -- Parts 7. Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Empirical Studies on Finance & Economics -- Chapter 13. The Lack of Public Health Spending and Economic Growth in Russia: a Regional Aspect -- Chapter 14. Analysing the Asymmetric Effect of Oil Price Shock on Inflationary at the Aggregate and Disaggregated Levels in Malaysia -- Chapter 15. Qatari Real Estate Market and Its Response to Shocks -- Parts 8: Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Investment -- Chapter 16. Investor Sentiment and Efficiency of the Cryptocurrency Market: the Case of the Crypto Fear & Greed Index -- Chapter 17. The Key Determinants of Financial Risk Tolerance Among Gen Z Investors: Propensity for Regret, Propensity for Overconfidence and Income Level -- Chapter 18. Profiling the Victims of Ponzi Schemes: the Role of Financial Literacy -- Parts 9: Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Public Economics -- Chapter 19. Chosen Central European Countries Compared in Measuring Efficiency of General Government Expenditures -- Chapter 20. A Contribution to the International Trade Theory -- Parts 10: Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Tourism -- Chapter 21. Covid-19: How Do Companies in the Tourism Sector React? The Case of Riccione -- Chapter 22. Analysis of Social Capital in Aragon's Tourism Cluster: a Social Network Resources Perspective in Twitter -- Chapter 23. The Economic Value of Recreational Assets During the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Example of BÓBR Valley Railway "Bobertalbahn".

1. Introduction -- I. Foundations of Teaching and Learning in Social Work Management -- 2. Foundations of a Social Work Management Education – A Discipline-Specific Framework for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education -- 3. Applying Threshold Concept Theory in Social Work Management Education -- 4. Systematic Didactics to Academic Teaching and Learning in the Field of Social Work Management -- 5. Thinking Social Economy from the Social Side – A mutual Relationship between Social Work and Management -- II. Socio-Economic Conditions and Institutional Contexts for Social Work Management Education in Different Countries -- 6. COVID-19 and Emotional Analysis: Socio-Economic Conditions and Social Work Interventions in India -- 7. Introducing creativity and imagination into social workers' curricula in Italy: Conceptual and practical aspects -- 8. Resilience as a resource in the course of studies and in professional life of Social Work Managers in Germany -- 9. About the Importance of Interdisciplinarity and Resonance in Teaching and Learning in Social Work Management in Germany -- 10. Internationalisation in Higher Education – focused on Social Work Management in Austria -- III. Methods of Teaching and Learning -- 11. Fieldwork and supervision as a teaching method and learning strategy in Social Work: Innovation in the training of social work student supervisors -- 12. Learning Empirical Research: Method, Competence and Attitude on the way to Professional Social Work -- 13. Promoting Civic Engagement in Social Work Research Education -- 14. Teaching Social Work Management through Service Learning -- 15. Teaching testable explanations and putting them into practice -- 16. Experiences in immersive learning environments: Potentials and Challenges of VR and AR Technologies in Social Work Management Education -- 17. The E-Pedagogy of Social Work Management in Distance Education in Africa -- 18. Learning hybrid by doing hybrid: Teaching critical digital skills in a safe learning space -- IV. Best Practices and Country-Specific Case Studies -- 19. From Campus to Online – Reflections of Social work education in a German-Swedish context -- 20. The "learning factory", or how to teach learning for people who have forgotten to learn -- 21. Values Building in Social Work Education in V4 countries -- 22. Analysis of Mission Statements of Social Service Organisations as Practical Anthropology – An Example from the Teaching in Social Work Management -- 23. Promoting self-determination and motivation as leadership skills: A didactic to strengthen autonomy support and the importance of role models in German Social Work Management Education -- 24. Professional Social Work within Formal Institutions: Lessons Learnt from Sri Lanka -- 25. An interwoven tapestry: Teaching social work and management theory and practice in New Zealand. .

Part I: Healthy Life Expectancy Estimates -- Chapter 1. The Direct Healthy Life Expectancy Estimates from Life Tables to Support HALE Measures done by the World Health Organization. A New Tool for a Standard Measure -- Chapter 2. Expanding the Life Tables for Companion Dogs in UK and Japan to include the Healthy Life Expectancy -- Chapter 3. Direct Healthy Life Expectancy Estimates from Life Tables with a Sullivan Extension: The case of Brazil 2003 -- Chapter 4. Assessment of the CASP-12 scale among people aged 50+ in Europe: An analysis using SHARE data -- Chapter 5. Possibilities of creating new health indicators -- Chapter 6. Expanding the Life Tables to Include the Healthy Life Expectancy -- Part II: Health – Covid-19 -- Chapter 7. Reaction to COVID-19 Pandemic: An Evaluation of Pandemic Management Around the World -- Chapter 8. A Stochastic Characterization of Omicron Variant of SARS-COV 2 Virus -- Chapter 9. Factors associated with direct and indirect aspects of loneliness among Europeans aged 50 or higher -- Chapter 10. Neuropsychological Normed Measures for the Tinker Toy Test (TTT). Exploring Latent Structures -- Chapter 11. A Tool for Measuring Alcohol Policy Scoring in Czechia and EU: The Innovative Alcohol Policy Indicator -- Part III: Mortality -- Chapter 12. Epidemic models with several levels of immunity -- Chapter 13. Preventable deaths and maternal and newborn factors in a region of Brazil: panel data modeling -- Chapter 14. Comparing the mortality regimes in the once called "western world." -- Chapter 15. Kane Tanaka's 119 birthday and the Supercentenarians' age estimation. Further remarks on the oldest old record of 122 years by Jeanne Calment -- Chapter 16. Recent changes in Human mortality: The case study of Greece -- Part IV: Data Analysis -- Chapter 17. Exploring cross-national comparability of unidimensional constructs -- Chapter 18. Measuring transition smoothness into European labour market(s) -- Chapter 19. Could the idea of equitable normal pension age stabilize the pension system? -- Chapter 20. The use of Artificial Intelligence in medical imaging. Scientific Research and opinions of doctors and radiologists towards the use of artificial intelligence in radiology -- Part V: Demography And Society -- Chapter 21. Semantic integration of data: from theory to social research practice -- Chapter 22. To read on not to read? Examining the relation between students' well-being and their attitude towards reading -- Chapter 23. The demographic, social and regional "profile" of peoples' perceptions of their social class: Evidence from the 7th wave of the World Values Survey, 2017-2020.

Part I State Responses and the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. COVID-19 and Human (In)Security in the Caribbean: An Assessment of Grenada -- 3. Navigating Motherhood and Work: Caribbean State Responses in a Global Health Crisis -- 4. Revisiting Democracy in the Anglophone Caribbean in the Context of COVID-19 and Beyond -- 5. Elite Authoritarianism Versus Individual Liberty: The Politics of COVID-19 Management in Barbados -- 6. COVID-19 Pandemic: Mainstreaming Risk Assessment and Management -- Part II Navigating COVID-19: Economic Development Issues in the Caribbean -- 7. COVID-19 and the Caribbean: Economic Perspectives -- 8. Social Insecurity: COVID-19, Unemployment Insurance, and the Case for Reform in the Eastern Caribbean -- 9. Managing COVID-19 in the French Caribbean: The Case of Martinique -- 10. Using Monitoring and Evaluation and Evidence-Based Data to Build a More Resilient and Sustainable Caribbean Post COVID-19 -- Part III Tourism and Hospitality Perspectives on COVID-19 -- 11. Absorb, Adapt, or Transform? An Exploratory Analysis of Small Tourism Businesses' Resilience Strategies During the Pandemic -- 12. "Furloughed and Frustrated But I am Fighting": Women Hotel Workers and the Cost and Value of COVID-19 -- 13. The Impact of Government Policies on Hotel Performance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Caribbean Countries -- 14. COVID-19: A Catalyst for E-Commerce in the Food and Beverage Service Industry in Barbados? -- 15. An Analysis of Residents' Affinity for Tourism and Tourists During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Barbadian Experience -- Part IV Business Responses to the Pandemic -- 16. Key Recommendations for Managing Organisational Change Hesitancy in Caribbean Workplaces Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Conceptual Paper -- 17. Understanding the Pandemic Transformed Consumer: What Is the New Normal? -- 18. The Impact of Fear and Loneliness on the Buyer-Seller Interface and Service Quality in the Context of COVID-19: A Caribbean Perspective -- 19. Too Small to See but Too Painful to Ignore: Regulatory Solutions to Sudden Stop in Cash Flow in MSMEs Caused by the COVID-19 -- 20. COVID-19 and AML/CFT Regulation of the Barbados Global Business Sector -- Part V Responses to COVID-19: Public Health and Public Policy -- 21. Regional COVID-19 Pandemic Response in the Caribbean: Contributions of the Caribbean Public Health Agency Expert Advisory Group -- 22. One Hand Cannot Clap: Building Resiliency Through Collaborative—Policy Decisions in the New COVID-19 Era -- 23. Public Policy in a COVID-19 Era: The Cost of Self-Autonomy -- 24. COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Uptake in the Caribbean: A Cross-Country Intersectional Perspective -- 25. Afterword: Re-imagining Caribbean Futures Post-COVID-19.

Part I COVID-19 and Caribbean Society -- 1. Introduction -- 2. In the 'Shadow' of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Naming Gendered Violence in the Era of a Global Health Crisis -- 3. A Clinical Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 in Jamaica -- 4. Disrupted Economy and Sociality: Examining the Socio-economic Impact of COVID-19 on Urban Low-Income Communities in Guyana -- 5. Social Capital in the Contexts of Barbados and Jamaica: The Crisis of COVID-19 -- 6. The COVID-19 Incubator: Unpacking the Impact of the Pandemic on the Triple Vulnerabilities Experienced by Marginalised Communities -- 7. Spread and Severity of COVID-19: A Data-Driven Exploratory Analysis of Vulnerability in the Caribbean -- 8. Afflicted Verses for Afflicted Times: An Exploration of Olive Senior's Pandemic Poetry: First Wave -- Part II COVID-19 Religion and Rights -- 9. COVID-19 and Human Rights in Caribbean Prisons: Evidence from Barbados, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago -- 10. Disruptions and Transformations: COVID-19 and Social Lives of Churches in Barbados -- 11. The Role of Faith-Based Organisations in Shaping Caribbean Responses to COVID-19 Public Health Measures -- Part III Psycho-social Impacts of COVID-19 -- 12. Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior Model Predicting Vaccine Intentions: The Roles of Conspiracy Ideation and Risk Perception -- 13. COVID-19 and Women in the Informal Sector: The Psychological Impact -- 14. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Work-Life Balance of Women in Barbados -- 15. The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Caribbean -- 16. An Overview of the Psychosocial and Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Children and Their Parents in the Caribbean -- 17. Are Caribbean COVID-19 Policies Ageist? An Analysis from Barbados, Jamaica and the Bahamas -- Part IV Education, Innovation and Technology -- 18. Breaching the Education Boundaries: COVID, Classrooms and Shifting Technologies -- 19. Swimming Against the Tide, Flipped Upside Down: Navigating the Teaching and Learning Environment in the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 20. Locked Down or Locked Out? The Push and Pull of Maintaining Academic Integrity Using E-Proctoring Software -- 21. Social Media, the Communication Tool Used by Caribbean Public Health Entities During the Pandemic: An Examination -- 22. Pivoting Towards Emergency Remote Teaching: A Case Study of the Barbados Institute of Management and Productivity -- 23. COVID-19 and Big Data Research: Techniques and Applications in the Caribbean -- 24. Afterword: Re-imagining Caribbean Futures Post COVID-19.

Chapter 1.Understanding Indigenous Social Work Education and Practice: Local and Global Debates -- Part I: Indigenous Social Work: Multidimensional Perspectives -- Chapter 2. Decolonial Social Work from an Indigenous Perspective -- Chapter 3. Acting With Intentional Dissent as Minorities: Opportunities and Challenges in the Higher Education -- Chapter 4. Linking the Global Indigenous Landscape: A Social Work Sustainability Perspective with Co-Production of Knowledge -- Chapter 5. Georgian Social Work Development: From Micro to Macro Social Work Roles -- Part II- Indigenous Social Work: Curriculum and Pedagogy -- Chapter 6. Indigenizing the Social Work Curriculum: Why It Matters and How to Start? -- Chapter 7. Comparative Conceptions of Social Work: Context, Sources of Knowledge and the Professional Role in Scotland and Nigeria -- Chapter 8. Teaching Indigenous Social Work in Mainstream Social Work Education in Taiwan -- Chapter 9. Integrating Indigenous Perspectives into International Social Work Education: A Case Study in Japan -- Chapter 10. Innovations in Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand: Embedding Indigenous Wisdom Within Social Work Education and Practice -- Chapter 11. Indigenous Social Work Education for the Global South -- Chapter 12. Colonization, Racism, and Positionality in Social Work Education in Chile: Contemporary and Multilocal Perspectives -- Chapter 13. Exploring a Decoloniality Perspective of Social Work Education in Malawi -- Part III Indigenous Social Work: Poiesis and Praxis -- Chapter 14. Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource in Social Work Practice: The Case of Bedouin Society -- Chapter 15. Indigenous Practice of Social Work in North East India: Issues and Challenges -- Chapter 16. The Role of Malawi's Indigenous Knowledge and Practices in Social Work Practice -- Chapter 17. Resources for a Practice of Anti-Discriminatory and Indigenous Social Work in the South of Spain from a Biographical Experience -- Chapter 18. Indigenizing Social Work with Older People in Africa: Issues, Trends, and Implications for Practice -- Chapter 19. Social Work with Remote Indigenous Community in Indonesia: Policy, Service, and Practice -- Chapter 20. Intercultural Health in Chilean Indigenous and Afrodescendant Older People: Challenges for Culturally Relevant Social Work -- Part IV Indigenous Social Work: Insights from Diverse Cultural Contexts -- Chapter 21. Embracing Cultural and Indigenous Approaches to Child Discipline: A Response to Corporal Punishment Outlawing in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 22. Alternative Childcare Arrangement in Indigenous Communities: Apprenticeship System and Informal Child Fostering in South East Nigeria -- Chapter 23. Indigenous Social Work Practice: The Influence of Yoruba Concepts on Effective Intervention in Social Work Settings -- Chapter 24. Inculcating Spirituality in Social Work Practice with Indigenous People in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 25. Interconnectedness and Co-creating Indigenous Social Work: Collaborative Approach and Future Directions for Sustainable Development.