Bücher der Reihe Routledge International Handbooks

With original contributions from more than 60 authors with expertise in a wide range of resource types and world regions, this handbook offers an essential guide to the study of resources and their role in socio-environmental change.

This handbook provides an evidence-based account of psychological perspectives on issues in music education and music in the community through the life-course, exploring our understanding of music learning and participation across contexts.

This handbook is a landmark volume providing students and teachers with a comprehensive and accessible guide to the major topics and trends of research in the social sciences of artificial intelligence.

This book demonstrates the diversity of the interactionist perspective in social science, providing an overview of the developments in interactionist theory, methods and research. Thematically organised, it explores the history, contemporary state and possible future of interactionist research.

This book covers crime, criminal justice and victimization in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, focusing on the issues, their effect on the country and the government's efforts to mitigate them. Authors are from the U.S., India, UK, Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Singapore.

The Routledge Handbook of EU¿Russia Relations offers a comprehensive overview of the changing dynamics in relations between the EU and Russia provided by leading experts in the field.

Authoritative, multi-displinery and international, this handbook defines the new theoretical and empirical traditions of Critical Gang Studies, taking into account the gang as a socio-cultural formation, its various forms and stages of development, the role of race and political economy, and the contradictory impact of repressive policies.

This handbook is the first volume to address the dynamic issues related to sexuality from a social work perspective by providing a comprehensive, current and international overview of issues related to sexuality.

This book brings together the work of public sociologists from across the globe to illuminate possibilities for the practice of public sociology and the potential for collaboration and international exchange, highlighting core themes including the importance of knowledge production and exchange, policy impact and the role of students.

This handbook provides a synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems (SES) research. The book is primarily targeted at graduate students, lecturers and researchers working on SES, and has been written in an accessible style for readers entering the field from a variety of backgrounds.

A compendium of relevant empirical research and clinical best practices for assessment and treatment, this handbook charts the course that clinical sport psychology has taken since its inception as a distinct clinical specialty and highlights future directions for this rapidly growing practice domain.

This comprehensive handbook examines relationships between religion, politics and ideology, with a focus on several world religions ¿ Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism ¿ in a variety of contexts, regions and countries.

The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history.

This handbook presents a timely, broad-ranging and provocative overview of the essential nature of ecotourism. The chapters will both advance the existing central themes of ecotourism and provide challenging and divergent observations that will thrust ecotourism into new areas of research, policy and practice.

This book offers the reader a comprehensive understanding and the multitude of methods utilized in the research of urban mobilities with cities and `the urban¿ as its pivotal axis. It covers theories and concepts for scholars and researchers to understand, observe, and analyze the world of urban mobilities.

Featuring a stellar international cast-list of leading and cutting-edge scholars, this book presents the state of the art of the discipline that considers ecological issues and crises from a political economy perspective.

Leading experts from across the globe explore cutting-edge research on the role of emotion in selecting and processing media contents, the emotional consequences of media use, emotions in political communication and persuasion, as well as emotions in digital, interactive, and virtual encounters.

The handbook seeks to illuminate the key concepts in the study of development-environment by showcasing some of the Majoritarian (formerly "Developing") world¿s scholars in order to explore theoretical connections through critical/radical theory, ¿small¿ theory, various conceptual frameworks, and non-western and subaltern viewpoints.

Featuring chapters from an international range of leading and emerging scholars, this Handbook provides a collection of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that sheds new light on contemporary futures studies.

The Routledge Handbook on American Prisons is an authoritative volume that provides an overview of the state of U.S. prisons and synthesizes the research on the many facets of the prison system.

The handbook discusses smart technologies, covering a broad range of technological trends such as artificial intelligence, advanced robotics and cyber-physical systems to shed light on the associated potentials and challenges for the economy and society from the perspective of social, economic, natural and political sciences.

This handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the dynamic and complex relationship between democracy and sustainability in contemporary theory, discourse, and practice. Scholars look at the present state of this relationship, asking how it has evolved and where it is likely to go in the future.

The Routledge International Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy is a multidisciplinary collection of writings by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world, reflecting on the geopolitical and technological shifts that have led to the global emergence of the current form of diplomacy.

This handbook fills a significant gap in the European studies literature by providing crucial and groundbreaking coverage of several key areas that are usually neglected or excluded in European integration collections.

This handbook represents the standard reference text and practical resource for everybody who analyses issues as local electoral systems, voting behavior or political representation in Europe.

Higher education has come under increasing public scrutiny, assailed with demands for greater efficiency, accountability, cost-reduction and job training. This updated second edition employs sociological approaches to address these concerns and adds new chapters to explore the transformations wrought by neoliberal reforms.

Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies outlines the foundations of and developments in public criminology, underscoring the need to not only understand earlier ideas and debates, but also how scholars pursue public-facing work through a range of different approaches.

Featuring 60 contributions from leading academics and practitioners, this Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the world's most pressing global development challenges - including how they may be better understood and addressed through innovative practices and approaches to learning and teaching.

The aim of the Handbook is to strike a balance between theory and practice, which we see as inseparable, while also seeking to achieve a geographical spread, disciplinary diversity and perspectives, and a mix of authors from academic, practitioner, management, and community backgrounds.

This pioneering handbook proposes an approach to pluralism that is relational, principled, and non-relativistic, going beyond banal calls for mere "tolerance".