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    This book examines the approaches to climate change adaptation in water governance taken by South Korea and Germany. By comparing their political decision-making processes, this book explores the factors behind their differences. Adaptation to the changing climate is critical to human society and water is the principal medium through which climate change will affect us. Due to high levels of ... Read more

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  • Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia

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    Considering Asian cities ranging from Taipei, Hong Kong and Bangkok to Hanoi, Nanjing and Seoul, this collection discusses the socio-political processes of how neoliberalization entwines with local political economies and legacies of ‘developmental’ or ‘socialist’ statism to produce urban contestations centered on housing. The book takes housing as a key entry point, given its prime position in ... Read more

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    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In Traffic in Asian Women Laura Hyun Yi Kang demonstrates that the figure of "Asian women" functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of U.S. power/knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century. Kang analyzes the establishment, suppression, forgetting, and illegibility ... Read more

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    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2014, held on Jeju Island, Korea, in August 2014. The 30 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as malware detection; mobile security; vulnerability ... Read more

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