Planning for Rural Resilience asks central questions about the nature of change and the ability to adapt in rural regions. While change is often feared, communities have capacity that can be rallied, harnessed, and turned towards planning policy and action that responds to threats to the future....

Natural resources are often held responsible for intrastate conflicts. As a consequence, both national and international measures to avoid the detrimental impact of resource endowments have increasingly been discussed and implemented in resource-rich countries. These measures include...

"This book analyses tourism and development in Southeast Asia. Critically debating and offering new understandings of the dynamics of tourism on the global and local levels, it seeks to assesses its impact on residents and localities across the region. Offering a myriad of case studies from a...

How to escape the corporate lizard brain : the true role of AI -- Purpose of AI : naming and shaming the corporate lizard brain : one meeting at a time -- Case study : US vs. PRC in the banking lizard brain shift to ai fintech machines -- Banking and insurance transformation in the US, China,...