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The economy of the 21st century in the OECD countries and in China, is characterized by a new phenomenon: the structural surplus of private savings in relation to private investment. On the one hand, this excess saving is due to people's increasing inclination to save in light of rising life expectancy. On the other hand, investment is not keeping pace with the rising desire to save. The resulting gap between the private desire for wealth and private investment can only be closed by increasing public debt. This open access book offers a new, capital-theoretical perspective on the macroeconomic relationship between desired wealth and investment, and it presents new empirical data on private wealth and its composition in the OECD plus China area. The authors argue that a free economic and social order can only be stabilized if the wealth aspirations of individuals are met under conditions of price stability. This is not possible without substantial net public debt. A new way of thinking about the economy as a whole is required. By way of an in-depth theoretical and empirical analysis, the book demonstrates this new way of thinking and describes the current challenges facing economic policy. An impressive, and convincing theoretical dive into the fundamentals behind secular stagnation, with very strong implications for actual debt policy. Public debt may be needed to improve welfare. Olivier Blanchard, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Professor of Economics Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund from 2008 to 2015. Saving and Investment in the Twenty-First Century gives a wholly new perspective on macroeconomics. (...) Weiz­säcker and Krämer describe a simple, practical solution to the underemployment that has plagued Southern Europe for more than a decade. George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2001. Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. This is a profound and original contribution that can help us to understand and act on the great issues of our times. Nicholas Stern, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. Author of the Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change. Chief Economist at the World Bank from 2000 to 2003.

"Author Stephen Lowe provides the first comprehensive study of legal action in South Carolina, beginning in the mid-1930s, when Charles Hamilton Houston established the framework for the assault on segregation, and continuing well into the post-Brown era. He situates the study within the historiography of the "Long Civil Rights Movement," demonstrating that both advancement towards, and resistance to, the expansion of African American civil rights began much earlier, and continued much later, than is often recognized within the standard periodization of the movement. African American plaintiffs and lawyers from South Carolina, with support of lawyers from the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, brought and argued civil rights lawsuits in the federal courts of South Carolina attempting to equalize, then desegregate schools, parks, and public life. Meanwhile, White citizens, mostly state politicians and local officials, hired lawyers who crafted new legal theories to defend state practices and forestall Black equality. Over the course of several decades, Blacks and Whites in South Carolina used the courts as a venue within which to contest the Constitutional definitions of justice, equality, and citizenship. Among its contributions, the manuscript expands the dominant narrative of the civil rights movement in South Carolina. While there is a growing literature on the struggle for civil rights in South Carolina, the current project further enhances our ability to understand the many and varied events and individuals who contributed to the struggle in the state. It also explores, in great detail, the extent to which South Carolinians, both black and white, used the courts as a battleground, either to advance racial justice or to delay the implementation of civil rights decisions through new legal and (spurious) sociological arguments respectively. It complicates the "desegregation with dignity" narrative that dominates the popular memory of the civil rights movement in South Carolina. In so doing it helps to answer the question of why the state, which had a long history of often violent repression of African American rights, saw relatively few incidents of the bus burnings and gubernatorial confrontations that marked the period in other states. In South Carolina, Lowe argues, "massive resistance" took place within the context of the federal courts, which were far from uniformly progressive in their rulings around racial equity"--

"Invisible Ink is the story of Guy Stern's remarkable life. This is not a Holocaust memoir; however, Stern makes it clear that the horrors of the Holocaust and his remarkable escape from Nazi Germany created the central driving force for the rest of his life. Stern gives much credit to his father's profound cautionary words, "You have to be like invisible ink. You will leave traces of your existence when, in better times, we can emerge again and show ourselves as the individuals we are." Stern carried these words and their psychological impact for much of his life, shaping himself around them, until his emergence as someone who would be visible to thousands over the years. This book is divided into thirteen chapters, each marking a pivotal moment in Stern's life. His story begins with Stern's parents-"the two met, or else this chronicle would not have seen the light of day (nor me, for that matter)." Then, in 1933, the Nazis come to power, ushering in a fiery and destructive timeline that Stern recollects by exact dates and calls "the end of [his] childhood and adolescence." Through a series of fortunate occurrences, Stern immigrated to the United States at the tender age of fifteen. While attending St. Louis University, Stern was drafted into the U.S. Army and soon found himself selected, along with other German-speaking immigrants, for a special military intelligence unit that would come to be known as the Ritchie Boys (named so because their training took place at Ft. Ritchie, MD). Their primary job was to interrogate Nazi prisoners, often on the front lines. Although his family did not survive the war (the details of which the reader is spared), Stern did. He has gone on to have a long and illustrious career as a scholar, author, husband and father, mentor, decorated veteran, and friend. Invisible Ink is a story that will have a lasting impact. If one can name a singular characteristic that gives Stern strength time after time, it is his resolute determination to persevere. To that end Stern's memoir provides hope, strength, and graciousness in times of uncertainty"--

"The true story behind a labor leader reputed to be a serial killer. Aaron Goings offers a vivid biography of Billy Gohl (1873-1927), a prominent union official in Grays Harbor, Washington who came to be known for killing dozens of people, maybe even more than one hundred. In a cruel twist, many victims were his union members. "These anonymous dead men, culled from the hordes of migrant laborers who had flocked to Grays Harbor to cut trees, came to be known as the floater fleet. Billy Gohl was credited with launching most of them," Murray Morgan wrote in The Last Wilderness: A History of the Olympic Peninsula. "If he was responsible for even half of the floaters found in the harbor during his day, Gohl was America's most prolific murderer. Over a ten-year period the fleet numbered 124." A union leader turned serial killer? As a labor historian, author Aaron Goings felt compelled to get to the bottom of the story. So he dug into the archives. In this popular biography, Goings uses Gohl's life to illuminate the brutal nature of everyday life in that era: the Yukon gold rush, the brutally dehumanizing lives of sailors and loggers, and the heated clashes between pro- and anti-union forces in Grays Harbor, the world's busiest lumber shipyard, where millions of dollars were at stake. Goings carefully examines court records and other archival sources to sort through the lore and legends surrounding Gohl, painting the story of a violent man in a violent time who did kill someone-maybe even more than one-but comes almost comically short of his storied reputation. Why did people believe such outrageous things about Gohl, then and now? And where did all those dead bodies come from? Goings shows how powerful economic players help build the myth of "Gohl the Ghoul" to undercut the credibility of union advocates. By pinning all these deaths on one man and building up the story of an extreme pathology, no one had to confront the structural violence of capitalism. The resulting book is not a grisly true crime tale; but an equally intriguing mystery about the creation of myth and the cost in human bodies in the making of the Pacific Northwest"--

"This book considers the manner in which the enactment and implementation of law and governance is changing in the global context. It explores this through a study of the deployment of the global anti-doping apparatus including the World Anti-Doping Code and its institutions with specific reference to professional cycling, a sport that has been at the forefront of some of the most famous doping cases and controversies in recent years. Critically, it argues that the changes to law and governance are not restricted to sport and anti-doping, but are actually inherent in broader processes associated with neoliberalism and social and behavioural surveillance and affect all aspects of society and its political institutions. The author engages with concepts and arguments in contemporary social theory, including: Dardot and Laval on neoliberalism; Agamben on sovereignty; Hardt and Negri on globalisation; and others including Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari and Louis Dumont. The work seeks to answer a question posed by both Foucault and Agamben; that is, given the growing primacy of the arts of government, what is the juridical form and theory of sovereignty that is able to sustain and found this primacy? It is argued that this question can be understood by reference to the shift from a social or public contract that was understood to be the foundation of society, to a society that is constituted by consent, private agreement and contract. In addition, the book examines the juridical concepts of the rule of law and sovereignty. Commencing with the Festina scandal of 1998, the Spanish case of Operación Puerto and concluding with the fall from grace of the American cyclist Lance Armstrong in 2012, the principal processes examined include: - The increasing crossing of the borders between different legal regimes (whether supranational or simply particularised) and with it the erosion of what we knew as state sovereignty and constitutionalism; - The increasing use of judgment achieved through the media and how this arrives at new configurations of moral panic and scapegoating; - The creation of a need for rapid outcomes at the expense of the modernist value or version of the rule of law; - The increasing use of new and alternative methods of guilt, proof and ultra-legal detection"--

"Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil War years with foremothers Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth as she explores the links of the woman suffrage movement to the abolition of slavery. After the Civil War, Congress granted freed African American men the right to vote but not white and African American women, a crushing disappointment. DuBois shows how suffrage leaders persevered through the Jim Crow years into the reform era of Progressivism. She introduces new champions Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul, who brought the fight into the 20th century, and she shows how African American women, led by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, demanded voting rights even as white suffragists ignored them. DuBois explains how suffragists built a determined coalition of moderate lobbyists and radical demonstrators in forging a strategy of winning voting rights in crucial states to set the stage for securing suffrage for all American women in the Constitution. In vivid prose DuBois describes suffragists' final victories in Congress and state legislatures, culminating in the last, most difficult ratification, in Tennessee. DuBois follows women's efforts to use their voting rights to win political office, increase their voting strength, and pass laws banning child labor, ensuring maternal health, and securing greater equality for women. Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote is sure to become the authoritative account of one of the great episodes in the history of American democracy. (less) Professional Reviews Kirkus Reviews Kirkus Reviews November 2, 2019 Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which finally recognized women as participants in democracy, historian DuBois (History/UCLA; co-author: Through Women's Eyes: An American History With Documents, 2018, etc.) offers a lively, deeply researched history of the struggle for suffrage.From 1848, when Elizabeth Cady (read more) Library Journal Library Journal November 1, 2019 DuBois (Feminism and Suffrage) provides a digestible overview of the history of women's suffrage in America, making this book a good choice for those who are familiar with the basics of the movement but who want a deeper understanding of the ways the pieces fit together. Beginnning with the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention-the first women's rights meeting (read more)"--

"African nations have an underdeveloped industrial and economic base such as their water supply, electrical systems, roads, railways, etc. Massive funding is required to build each of these basic services to the levels of developed nations - funding they don't have. Many African countries rely on assistance from the government and global companies looking to invest or facilitate projects in the region. And for a variety of reasons, many of these projects fail or are inadequate to fulfil the needs of the nation. In order to facilitate their own economic development, African nations need to cultivate efficient project management practices and policies that will help them achieve their goal of sustainability. This book by a multidisciplinary project management consultant, contributes to the body of knowledge that each African country can attain and sustain economic development by suggesting how to eliminate and correct most causes of failures of projects in construction, water treatment, electricity and renewable energy. It suggests that they should also be able to obtain the sustainable harvesting of the benefits of project deliverables which have been planned for in order to implement the various aspects of their economic development. The suggestions in this book will make a difference in project delivery and are comprehensive enough to create a root-and-branch change which will affect the people involved in making decision on projects and their delivery. Thus, project management teams and their managers, organization decision makers, companies looking to invest in the region, and politicians who plan the economy have to understand the causes of unhelpful practices and what needs to be done in order to produce productive and effective delivery of long-term sustainable project. The principal goal of this book is to advise public and private companies, and international organizations conducting projects in Africa on how to prepare themselves, their businesses and enterprises to solve the problems that cause failure of projects and abandonment of project deliverables. The book also recommends the necessity for a commercial enterprise or government entity to prepare and develop its vision, mission, and strategic objects to constitute the basis of a business plan which should be implemented for successful operations. After first identifying various failed and abandoned projects in Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, the author provides an analysis of why these proj ...

This book is about China's economy transformation. Currently, China's macro-leverage ratio has been effectively controlled, the central market interest rate (one year fixed interest rate) has gone down, and liquidity is now relatively abundant. However, financial institutions are generally reluctant to lend, the local governments are unwilling to act, and the fact that liquidity released by the central bank cannot be effectively transmitted to the real economy is leading to a contraction of credit and higher financing costs for private enterprises. Meanwhile, the downturn in the internal economic cycle has been exacerbated by the external shocks caused by frictions in Sino-US trade, and this set of circumstances has contributed to the polarization of expectations regarding China's real economic prospects and policy trends, as seen, for example, in the questions and discussions about policy trends relevant to the private economy. Indeed, one might claim that the current confusion of expectations even exceeds that of 2008, when the international financial crisis breaks out. From a dialectical perspective, the more pessimistic expectation of economic trend, the easier it is to build consensus on reform, and the more remarkable actual effects of reform, which must be based on a comprehensive understanding of the phased characteristics of China's economic development. In this book, based on the experience working in central bank of China, the author argues that China's policy should focus on internal demand. In the coming period, China needs to persevere in the market orientation, step up reform and opening up, and create a favorable business environment. This book represents the following opinions: First, to reach a common understanding of the medium and high economic growth, and avoid the dream of high growth. Second, to stick to supply-side structural reform, accelerate economic transformation and structural adjustment, and further unleash the reform dividends and growth potential. The long-term and structural problems cannot be attributed to short-term and cyclical problems. Third, the challenges of external shocks could be also regarded as opportunities, which include but not limited to accelerate reform to improve property rights protection, state-owned capital management, corporate governance, income distribution, and social security. Fourth, whenever the trade friction happens, a multilateral framework is always helpful.

Series Editor's Note -- Preface -- Brief Contents -- Part I. Basic Concepts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Nature of Understanding -- 3. Science as an Approach to Understanding -- Part II. Core Processes -- 4. Creativity and the Generation of Ideas -- 5. Focusing Concepts -- 6. Thought Experiments for Variable Relationships -- Part III. Frameworks for Theory Construction -- 7. Causal Models -- 8. Mathematical Modeling -- 9. Simulation as a Theory Development Method -- 10. Emergent Theory: Qualitative/Mixed-Methods Approaches -- 11. Emergent Theory: Quantitative Approaches -- 12. Historically Influential Systems of Thought -- Part IV. Theory at the Level of Measurement -- 13. Theory and Measurement: General Frameworks -- 14. Theory and Measurement: Types of Measurement Strategies -- Part V. Concluding Issues -- 15. Theory Revision -- 16. Reading and Writing about Theories -- 17. Epilogue -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- About the Authors -- Extended Contents -- Part I. Basic Concepts -- 1. Introduction -- Organization of the Book -- Theories and Settings -- 2. The Nature of Understanding -- The Nature of Reality -- Concepts: The Building Blocks of Understanding -- Conceptual Systems: The Bases for Deeper Understanding -- Box 2.1. Concepts, Cultures, and Values -- Communication -- Summary and Concluding Comments -- Suggested Readings -- Key Terms -- Exercises -- 3. Science as an Approach to Understanding -- Approaches to Understanding -- Box 3.1. The Fringes of Science -- The Essentials of Scientific Endeavor -- Science and Objectivity -- The Process of Theory Construction -- Characteristics of a Good Theory -- What Is a Theoretical Contribution -- Summary and Concluding Comments -- Suggested Readings -- Key Terms -- Exercises -- Part II. Core Processes -- 4. Creativity and the Generation of Ideas -- One Small Step for Science -- Creativity -- Choosing What to Theorize About -- Literature Reviews -- Heuristics for Generating Ideas -- Box 4.1. The Nacirema -- Scientists on Scientific Theorizing -- Conceptual Logic Models -- Summary and Concluding Comments -- Suggested Readings -- Key Terms -- Exercises -- Appendix 4.1. Examples of Weak Argumentation -- 5. Focusing Concepts -- The Process of Instantiation -- Shared Meaning, Surplus Meaning, and Nomological Networks -- Practical Strategies for Specifying Conceptual Definitions -- Box 5.1. Etic and Emic Constructs -- Multidimensional Constructs -- Creating Constructs -- An Example of Specifying Conceptual Definitions -- Operationism -- Summary and Concluding Comments -- Suggested Readings -- Key Terms -- Exercises -- 6. Thought Experiments for Variable Relationships -- Thought Experiments for Relationships in Grounded and Emergent Theory -- Describing Relationships with Different Types of Variables.

"Offering a critical account of the ways in which the US deployed its war power under liberal auspices throughout the Cold War, this book casts a geopolitical lens onto cultural productions preoccupied with black freedom, Asian liberation, and Pacific Islander decolonization against the backdrop of U.S. militarism in the Asia-Pacific region. The book examines the centrality of this militarism to the political and cultural imagination of racialized subjects in an era of serial U.S. "police actions" abroad and what writers such as James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and W.E.B. Du Bois described as a police state at home, contending that U.S. informal warfare relied on racial counterintelligence campaigns that structured not only America's hot wars in Asia but also its approach to radical activism, racial protest, and urban riots on the domestic front. As the author demonstrates, even as U.S. war politics may have taken the guise of anti-racist, multicultural alliance-building and marshaled the rhetoric of mutual defense, they gave rise to dissident visions of human rights that converged in a critique of the unilateralism of U.S. militarism, one that did not point in the direction of today's interventionist human rights politics. The book is in critical conversation with a spate of recent publications that might be called "Afro-Asian," but unlike these last, which tend to emphasize cross-racial solidarity, it highlights racial collusion, collaboration, and alignment with the post-1945 U.S. war machine as a paradoxical effect of the securitized "anti-racism" of the so-called Pax Americana. For Asian writers, artists, and filmmakers, Ōe Kenzaburo, Nakazawa Keiji, Byun Young-Joo, and Carlos Bulosan, the imagination of postcolonial or post-imperial justice is troubled by the period's deferral of decolonization. Literature by Miné Okubo, Chang-rae Lee, and Robert Barclay variously takes immigration, repatriation, or relocation as its theme, yet looming over this conditional incorporation into the postwar U.S. body politic is the specter of America's militarism in Asia. If these works by Asian American and Pacific Islanders implicitly query whether material redress is satisfied through U.S. citizenship or economic assistance, the major African American writers examined in this study critique civil rights as too narrow a horizon for racial democracy. Positing Jim Crow as war without end, they seek a vernacular for racial justice that transcends national boundaries, an ...

"From a stage erected in front of the US Capitol, on April 25, 1993, Michael Callen surveyed the throng: an estimated one million people stretched across the National Mall in the largest public demonstration of queer political solidarity in history. "What a sight," he told the crowd, his earnest Midwestern twang reverberating through loudspeakers. "You're a sight for sore eyes. Being gay is the greatest gift I have ever been given, and I don't care who knows about it." He then launched into a gorgeous rendition of "Love Don't Need a Reason," the AIDS anthem he composed with Marsha Malamet and the late Peter Allen. As Callen finished singing, people stood cheering and flashing the familiar American Sign Language symbol for "I Love You." For they knew the song's sentiment rang true for Callen, who had recently announced his retirement from music and activism after a living for more than a decade with what was then called "full-blown AIDS." After the March on Washington, Callen returned to his recently adopted West Coast home, Los Angeles. In the ensuing months, his health rapidly declined, and on 27 December 1993, Callen died of AIDS-related pulmonary Kaposi's sarcoma.

Love Don't Need a Reason focuses on Callen's most important and lasting legacy: his music. A witness to the overlooked last years of Gay Liberation and a major figure in the early years of the AIDS crisis, Michael Callen chronicled these experiences in song. A community organizer, activist, author, and architect of the AIDS self-empowerment movement, he literally changed the way we have sex in an epidemic when he co-authored one of the first safe-sex guides in 1983. A gifted singer, songwriter, and performer, he also made gay music for gay people and used music to educate and empower people with AIDS. Listening again to his music allows us to hear the shifting dynamics of American families, changing notions of masculinity, gay migration to urban areas, the sexual politics of Gay Liberation, and HIV/AIDS activism. Using extensive archival materials and newly-conducted oral history interviews with Callen's friends, family, and fellow musicians, Matthew J. Jones reintroduces Callen to the history of LGBTQIA+ music and places Callen's music at the center of his important activist work."

"Musicians often pay a high price for sharing their art with us. Underneath the glow of success can often lie loneliness and exhaustion, not to mention the basic struggles of paying the rent or buying food. Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave raise important questions – and we need to listen to what the musicians have to tell us about their working conditions and their mental health." Emma Warren (Music Journalist and Author). "Singing is crying for grown-ups. To create great songs or play them with meaning music's creators reach far into emotion and fragility seeking the communion we demand of it. However, music's toll on musicians can leave deep scars. In this important book, Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave investigate the relationship between the wellbeing music brings to society and the wellbeing of those who create. It's a much needed reality check, deglamorising the romantic image of the tortured artist." Crispin Hunt (Multi-Platinum Songwriter/Record Producer, Chair of the Ivors Academy). It is often assumed that creative people are prone to psychological instability, and that this explains apparent associations between cultural production and mental health problems. In their detailed study of recording and performing artists in the British music industry, Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave turn this view on its head. By listening to how musicians understand and experience their working lives, this book proposes that whilst making music is therapeutic, making a career from music can be traumatic. The authors show how careers based on an all-consuming passion have become more insecure and devalued. Artistic merit and intimate, often painful, self-disclosures are the subject of unremitting scrutiny and data metrics. Personal relationships and social support networks are increasingly bound up with calculative transactions. Drawing on original empirical research and a wide-ranging survey of scholarship from across the social sciences, their findings will be provocative for future research on mental health, wellbeing and working conditions in the music industries and across the creative economy. Going beyond self-help strategies, they challenge the industry to make transformative structural change. Until then, the book provides an invaluable guide for anyone currently making their career in music, as well as those tasked with training and educating the next generation

Introduction -- Chapter 1 - The BRI in Historical Perspective: PRC Economic Statecraft Since 1949 -- Chapter 2 - China, the BRI, and the New Vocabulary of Global Governance -- Chapter 3 - The Globalizing Discourse of the Belt and Road Initiative -- Chapter 4 - The BRI in Xi's China "Grand Strategy": an instrument to restore Chinese centrality in a New Era -- Chapter 5 - People-to-People Exchanges: A Cluster of Narratives to Advance Purposeful Constructivism -- Chapter 6 - The Belt and Road Initiative in Global Governance: Impact on the International World Order -- Chapter 7 - Glocalization of Belt and Road Initiatives: The Importance of Local Agency -- Chapter 8 - The Chinese Agenda on the World Economic Forum. Assessing Political Evidence Between Rhetoric and Practice -- Chapter 9 - COVID-19 Pandemic, China and Global Power Shifts: Understanding the Interplay and Implications -- Chapter 10 - Enacting inclusive globalization in a VUCA context whilst emerging from Covid-19 -- Chapter 11 - China's Ambition in Promoting Green Finance for Belt and Road Initiative -- Chapter 12 - Liability of emergingness of emerging market banks internationalizing to advanced economies -- Chapter 13 - Chinese health strategy: a tool towards global governance -- Chapter 14 - Digital China: Governance, Power Politics and the Social Game -- Chapter 15 - The New Face of Multilateralism: The Case of "Chinese" Forums -- Chapter 16 - Secular Stagnation and World Leadership: China´s rising path -- Chapter 17 - Visuality and Infrastructure: the case of the Belt and Road Initiative -- Chapter 18 - The Belt and Road Initiative: can it signalize a new pendulum movement? -- Chapter 19 - The EU-China Geo-Economic Equilibrium in a World of Uncertainty -- Chapter 20 - A shifting current: Europe's changing approaches vis-à-vis China, the Belt and Road Initiative and the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter 21 - China in Central and Eastern Europe: New opportunities for small states -- Chapter 22 - China and the European Union - Inside the economic dynamics of a challenging relationship -- Chapter 23 - A review of China's contribution to the sustainable development of the European tourism industry: A case study of economic effects and sustainability issues in Albania -- Chapter 24 - A greater Eurasian Partnership? Xi and Putin's Road to integrate and lead -- Chapter 25 - Health, Road, and Russia: Perspectives on Russian Involvement with China' s Health Silk Road -- Chapter 26 - India's Challenge to the BRI: Shaping the Global Normative Consensus -- Chapter 27 - China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): India's Conundrum and Policy Options -- Chapter 28 - China in Latin America: to BRI or not to BRI -- Chapter 29 - Why America Opposes the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) -- Chapter 30 - The Belt and Road Initiative's Security Challenges: The Chinese Globalization Project and Sino-American Rivalry -- Chapter 31 - Sino-Iranian cooperation in Artificial Intelligence: a potential countering against the US hegemony -- Chapter 32 - China and the wave of Globalization focusing on the Middle East -- Chapter 33 - China-Iran's 25-Years deal: The Implication for the Belt and Road Initiative and Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) -- Chapter 34 - China's New Maritime Silk Road Cooperation: Why Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines are Clings in Disagreement? -- Chapter 35 - The Belt and Road Initiative and the Uneven Triangle of Latvia, Belarus, and China -- Chapter 36 - The Impact of Belt and Road Initiative on Asian Economies along the Route -- Chapter 37 - The Belt and Road in the Kyrgyz Republic: Mapping economic risks and risk perceptions -- Chapter 38 - Belt and Road Initiative's economic impact on Central Asia. The cases of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan -- Chapter 39 - How Does BRI Affect the Degree of Globalisation in Southeast Asia? -- Chapter 40 - Vietnam's Attitude Toward China's Belt and Road Initiative Amid Globalization -- Chapter 41 - The South Atlantic in China's Global Policy: Why It Matters? -- Chapter 42 - Belt and Road Initiative: Impact and Implications for Africa-China Relations -- Chapter 43 - The unequal modalities of China's intervention in Africa -- Chapter 444 - Africa's thirst for infrastructure: Contemporary phenomenon that makes China the trading partner -- Chapter 45 - Why is China Going Polar? Understanding Engagement and Implications for the Arctic and Antarctica.

List of Figures Part 1: Management of the Pandemics of COVID-19⁰́₄General Issues 1. Impact of COVID-19 on the Effectiveness of Safety Practices on Construction Projects: A Comparative Analysis Framework of Health and Risk Assessment 2. Mapping COVID-19 for Risk Reduction and Capacity Building in Indian Scenario 3. Harnessing People Factor at Workplace During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Public Sector Study in Kolkata 4. Enlightenment: The Covid-19 Pandemic 5. Retrospection of NDMP and Forecasting its Prophecy with Special Reference to COVID-196. Optimal Lockdown Management Using Short-term COVID-19 Prediction Model 7. Decision Support System Framework for Epidemic Disaster Mitigation/Management 8. Assessing the Impact of Corona Pandemic on Adopting Healthy Habits Among People of Uttar Pradesh 9. Temporal Patterns of Population Level Help Seeking Behaviours During Covid-19 Pandemic in India: An Exploratory Study 10. The Coronavirus Pandemic Infects All, Even the Fundamental Right Guaranteed by the Constitution of India! 11. Judicial Stand on Compensation During Covid-19 in the Light of Reepak Kansal v. Union of India & Ors. 12. Underlining the Role of Legal Systems, Legal Education and Legal Awareness in Managing Substance Abuse During Covid-19 Pandemic with Special Reference to Alcohol Consumption in India 13. Biodefence Preparedness for Emergency Response and Disaster Management: Lesson Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic Part 2: Management of the Pandemics of COVID-19⁰́₄Social Issues 14. Study for Gender Perspective⁰́₄During "New" Normal 15. Building Community Capabilities in Pandemic Response: Role of Mental Models held by Lay-People of Phenomena Related to Covid-19 16. Education in India⁰́₄During COVID-19 Challenges Faced and Solutions for a Post-Pandemic Era 17. Education in Maharashtra During Covid-19: A Risk-Informed Response Perspective 18. Empowering Students with Visual Impairments to Prepare for Earthquake (A Study of Rajkiya Visually Impaired Inter School of Lucknow City) 19. Community, Communication, and Capacity Building: Integrated Risks of COVID-19 Response in India 20. India⁰́₉s Shadow Pandemic⁰́₄A Study of Domestic Violence During the Covid 19 Part 3: Management of the Pandemics of COVID-19⁰́₄Economic Issues 21. "Indian Railway⁰́₄A Galloping Elephant" (Life in the Times of Covid-19) 22. Post COVID-19 Impact on Construction Industry: Challenges and Solutions 23. Covid-19 and Banking Sector of Bangladesh: Navigating Turbulent Times and the Way Forward 24. Significance of Healthcare Investment in Tackling Pandemics: Lessons from Kerala on the Backdrop of COVID-19 25. Impacts of Covid 19 on Textile Industry Workers in Bangladesh: Socio-Economic Perspective 26. Disaster and Business: The Approaches of Corporate Towards Disaster Response with Special Context of CSR in India 27. Corporate Response to Disaster Resilience: Examining Problems and Potential for Indian CSR Regime 28. Cash-Aid Support of Bangladesh Government During Covid 19 Pandemic; Effectiveness and Challenges Part 4: Management of the Pandemics of COVID-19⁰́₄Issues of Health 29. Four Zone Deployable MediCAB for COVID-19 Management 30. Origin, Transmission and Spread of COVID-19: Lessons for Future 31. Modeling and Prediction of COVID-19 Spread in India for Growth Rate Estimation 32. Mass Casualty Management due to Road Traffic Accidents in this Era of Covid-19 Pandemic: A Tertiary Care Institutional Experience 33. Critical Medical Resource Allocation during COVID-19 Pandemic 34. SMART MEDIAIRGUARDTM (A Proactive Solution to Monitor and Control Infection Risks in Healthcare Facilities) 35. UVC MEDIAIRGUARDTM (A Non-contact Swift Solution to Disinfect COVID-19 Care Centers) 36. MEDIIAGVTM (Minimal Contact Medical Waste Management from Source Collection to Disposition Point) 37. The Lessons of COVID-19 for Public Health Climate Preparedness Part 5: Management of the Pandemics of COVID-19⁰́₄Issues of Mental Health 38. Psycho-Social Support Based Intervention for Patients and Caregivers Stranded During the Lock-Down During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study Report from India 39. Psychosocial Support for Community of Migrant Workers During Lockdown Imposed due to COVID-19 Pandemic 40. Perceived Stress and Wellbeing of School Teachers During COVID-19 Pandemic41. ⁰́₈SAANTHWANA⁰́₉⁰́₄A Psychosocial Support Helpline for Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic at NIMHANS

Introduction -- Part I: View of the Global Environmental Economy under the Conditions of Climate Change from the Positions of the Sustainable Development Goals -- Chapter 1. The Global Economy under the Conditions of Climate Change: A Path of Preservation of Economic Growth with the Implementation of SDG 13 -- Chapter 2: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Crisis as a Result of the Reduction of Biodiversity under the Conditions of Climate Change: A View from the Positions of SDG 3 -- Chapter 3. Responsible Innovations, Environmental Products and Green Trade: Trends of the Environmental Economy under the Conditions of Climate Change to Support SDG 12 -- Chapter 4. Green Jobs in the Environmental Economy under the Conditions of Climate Change with the Implementation of SDG 8 -- Chapter 5. Social Inclusivity and Reduction of Inequality in the Environmental Economy under the Conditions of Climate Change to Support SDG 10 -- Part II: Sectoral Specifics of the Influence of Climate Change on the Environmental Economy -- Chapter 6. Decarbonization and Transition to Clean Energetics as a Response to Climate Change -- Chapter 7. Development of ESG Investment as a Reaction of Financial Markets to Climate Change -- Chapter 8. Recycling: Reduction of Production Waste as as Mechanism of Industry's Adaption to Climate Change -- Chapter 9. Green Growth of Territories as a Priority of State Management of the Economy under the Conditions of Climate Change -- Chapter 10. Environmental Risks of Agriculture under the Conditions of Climate Change and their Influence on Food Security -- Part III: The International Experience of Development of the Environmental Economy under the Conditions of Climate Change -- Chapter 11. The Specifics of Decarbonization and Transition to Green Energetics as a Response to Climate Change in Developed and Developing Countries -- Chapter 12. The International Experience of the Fight against Climate Change with the Help of Green Investment -- Chapter 13. Preservation of Biodiversity and Protection of Eco-Systems Based on the Reduction of Production Waste and Consumption in Central Asia as a Measure of the Fight against Climate Change -- Chapter 14. Advantages of the Green Economy for the Sustainable Development and Growth of Russia's Regions under the Conditions of Climate Change -- Chapter 15. Managing the Environmental Risks of Agriculture and Providing Food Security in the EAEU under the Conditions of Climate Change -- Part IV: Technological Transition as a Perspective Answer of the Global Economic Policy to Climate Change -- Chapter 16. The Fourth Industrial Revolution as a Technical Transition of the Modern Time: Implementation of SDG 9 as a Response to Climate Change -- Chapter 17. Scenarios of the Fight Against Climate Change in the Decade of Action Depending on the Scale of the Technological Transition: Digital Economy vs Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0 -- Chapter 18. Cyber-Physical System of Industry 4.0 as an Optimal Environmental for the Well-Balanced Environmental, Social and Technological Changes -- Chapter 19. The Smart Region as a Socio-Economic Environment with High Adaptability to Climate Change -- Chapter 20. Green Digital Innovations and Smart ESG Finance as the Perspective Directions of Corporate Responsibility under the Conditions of Climate Change -- Part IV: Recommendations for Solving the Current Problems of the Global Environmental Economy under the Conditions of Climate Change Based on the Leading Technologies -- Chapter 21. Green Jobs for Digital Personnel in the Environmental Economy Based on Robotization to Support the Fight Against Climate Change -- Chapter 22. Digital Inclusivity Based on Ubiquitous Computing as a Mechanism of Social Adaption to Climate Change -- Chapter 23. Climate-Resilient IoT-Based Framework of Smart Agriculture to Support Food Security -- Chapter 24. Big Data and Data Sets for Smart Environmental Monitoring and Preservation of Biodiversity under the Conditions of Climate Change -- Chapter 25. The Systemic Approach to Adapting a Smart Region to Climate Change Based on Carbon Polygon, Recycling and Reconstructive Natural Resource Use -- Conclusion.