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This case study describes how Phinda Private Game Reserve has evolved over three decades from privately owned land and infrastructure at the outset, to a mixture of community owned land and a joint-venture partnership. The operations have generated substantial benefits for conservation and social benefits for local people over many years.

Witsieshoek Mountain Lodge (WML) is an 88-bed lodge in the South African section of the Maloti Drakensberg Transfrontier Park World Heritage Site. WML is a community owned lodge, privately operated by Transfrontier Parks Destinations (TFPD). By providing business acumen, market linkages, and securing investment finance TFPD has transformed a dilapidated community owned lodge into a thriving enterprise. It generates meaningful financial returns for the community owners, and also secure full-time employment for local people. Furthermore, the lodge has been independently certified as a sustainable tourism business by Fair Trade Tourism.

The aim of this essay is to point out the challenges and opportunities of government export credits and insurance in Europe. The Covid-19 pandemic confronted the entire world with new challenges. This also applied to the export financing and insurance market. Furthermore, there are also challenges that play a major role for ECAs regardless of the pandemic. However, the risks are also offset by opportunities that may enable European export credit agencies to prevail against international competition. The focus of this essay is on the export credit agencies from Finland (Finnvera), Sweden (EKN) and Portugal (COSEC). As part of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) the three ECAs share many fundamental similarities but in some points they may also distinguish from each other.

List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction, Andreas Musolff, Ruth Breeze, Kayo Kondo and Sara Vilar-Lluch -- Part I: The Discourse of Authority in a Global Crisis: Who Defines (If There Is) a Pandemic? -- 1 COVID-19 Press Conferences Across Time: World Health Organization vs. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dennis Tay -- 2 Exploring the Multimodal Representation of COVID-19 on the Official Homepage of World Health Organization (WHO): A Social-Semiotic Approach, Amir H. Y. Salama -- 3 COVID-19 Representations in Political Statements: A Corpus-Driven Analysis, Alexandra Papamanoli and Themis P. Kaniklidou -- 4 How Autocrats Cope with the Corona Challenge: Belarus vs. Russia, Daniel Weiss -- 5 Counting Coronavirus: Mathematical Language in The UK Response to Covid-19, Lee Jarvis -- Part II: The Discourse of Crisis Management: How is the Public Meant to and How Does it Understand the Pandemic? -- 6 "Coronavirus Explainers" for Public Communication of Science: Everything the Public Needs to Know, María José Luzón -- 7 'COVID Warriors: An Analysis of the Use of Metaphors in Children's Books to Help them Understand Covid-19, María Muelas-Gil -- 8 Corona in the Linguistic Landscape, Neele Mundt and Frank Polzenhagen -- 9 Political Comedy and the Challenges of Public Communication during the Covid-19 Crisis: A Corpus-Based Study of Last Week Tonight's Coverage of the Pandemic, Virginia Zorzi -- 10 Social Reaction to a New Health Threat: The Perception of the COVID-19 Health Crisis by British and Spanish Readerships, Sara Vilar-Lluch -- 11 How to Pass this Exam? Dealing with COVID-19 through Metaphors in Turkish Online Public Discourse, Melike Bas and Esranur Efeoglu-Özcan -- Part III: The Discourse of 'War' against the Pandemic: How to 'Fight' COVID-19? -- 12 When Wars are Good: Emotional Unpacking Anti-Coronavirus Measures, Molly Xie Pan and Joanna Zhuoan Chen -- 13 Legitimising a Global Fight for a Shared Future: A Critical Metaphor Analysis of the Reportage of COVID-19 in China Daily, Yating Yu.

Preface. 1. The Gonds in History and Literature 2. The Material and Cultural Environment 3. The Settlement Pattern 4. The Village as a Social Unit 5. The Neighbourhood 6. Phratries -- The Main Pillars of the Social Structure 7. The Clan System 8. The Feudal System -- Past and Present 9. Pardhans -- The Bards of the Gonds 10. Tribal Justice and Social Values 11. The Mythological Foundations of the Social Order 12. The Early Phases of Life 13. Avenues to Marriage 14. Marriage, Divorce and Inheritance 15. The Kinship System 16. Death and the Cult of the Dead 17. Farming -- The Basis of Gond Economy 18. Religious Beliefs and Practices 19. The Cult of the Clan Deities 20. The Changing Fortunes of the Adilabad Gonds. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.