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Globalization increases the interconnectedness of people and places around the world. Goods and services consumed in one country are often produced in other countries and exchanged via international trade. This book describes how local consumption, particularly in urban areas, is increasingly met by global supply chains, often involving large geographical distances and leading to more global environmental impacts, such as pollution, climate change, water scarcity, and deforestation and other land conversions, all impacting on important ecosystem services.

It is shown how...

Examining the major academic and policy debates over China's rise and related policy issues, this book looks into the motivations and intentions of a rising China.

Most of the scholarly works on China's rise approach the question at a structural level by looking at the international system and the systemic impact on China's foreign policy. Traditional Realist theorists define China as a revisionist power eager to address wrongs done to them in history, whilst some cultural and historical analyses attest that China's strategic culture has been offensive despite its weak material...

Stories to Awaken the World, the first complete translation of Xingshi hengyan, completes the publication in English of the famous three-volume set of Feng Menglong's popular Chinese-vernacular stories. These tales, which come from a variety of sources (some dating back centuries before their compilation in the seventeenth century), were assembled and circulated by Feng, who not only saved them from oblivion but raised the status of vernacular literature and provided material for authors of the great Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) novels to draw upon. This trilogy has been...

This open access book explores the mechanisms and modulation of invasive neural electrical stimulation in the brain. Drawing from the author's extensive research experience, it offers in-depth yet accessible content, enriched with vivid illustrations and practical applications. Notably, the book provides detailed techniques for animal experiments and methods for recording and processing neural electrical signals with a depth rare in similar works. The book is divided into two parts. Part I introduces fundamental electrophysiological theories and experimental methods. It covers the basic...

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the three workshops held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems, WISE 2006, in Wuhan, China, in October 2006.