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This book offers the first comprehensive social science perspective on geoengineering—technologies that deliberately intervene in Earth’s systems to counter climate change. It examines the political, legal, economic, and societal dimensions of Carbon Dioxide...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-27
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This book investigates some of the key economic and societal transitions that define our contemporary world. Analysing financial contagion during crises, shifts in macro-financial linkages, transformations in gender equality and industrial structures, or the potential...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-21
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This book offers a forward-looking exploration of sustainable development, focusing on how the responsible use of ocean resources can drive both economic prosperity and environmental resilience. By bridging global policy, innovation, and finance, this book provides a...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-21
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Drawing on interviews with over 50 women in rural villages in Ghana, this book analyzes the poverty of older, rural, and illiterate women in Ghana within the framework of the feminization of poverty. The book demonstrates that alleged gains in gender equality are not...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-20
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This book examines the unique challenges, opportunities, and practices of social work across diverse Asian contexts. It bridges the gap in the literature by providing a platform for Asian scholars to share their insights and experiences. The editors have brought...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-19
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This book provides a fresh narrative of policy reforms to support low-income workers in France and the United Kingdom in recent decades. It tackles the puzzle of why two institutionally-distinct welfare states came to make use of similar instruments – including...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-19
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This book investigates the internal dynamics and mechanisms that shaped one of the European Union’s most ambitious and far-reaching pieces of digital legislation: the Data Act. While the importance of data to the economy and society has been widely acknowledged,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-14
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This book examines metropolitan governance and interjurisdictional collaboration in Latin America, focusing on the “metropolitan problem” created by fragmented jurisdictions that produce inefficiency, inequity, and weak coordination. Moving beyond...
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Springer
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2026-01-11
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This book questions through a critical lens how resources can be mobilized to advance the development of environmental resilience and economic growth, examining new financial mechanisms, policy frameworks, and strategic partnerships. Using case studies, emerging...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-09
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Pareto ci introduce a un mondo in cui l'economia è il risultato dell'opposizione tra due forze fondamentali: i gusti (le preferenze degli individui) e gli ostacoli (le condizioni di produzione e di scambio). È all'interno di questo quadro che lo studioso sviluppa...
Editeur :
Cactus
Parution :
2026-02-26
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Perhaps the most extraordinary period in modern British history, the years between the Great Recession and Brexit have often been dubbed ‘the lost decade’ because of the economic and political turmoil caused by those two great events. Michael Burton outlines how the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-30
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Dieses Buch setzt sich mit bürgerschaftlichem Engagement aus verschiedenen Perspektiven auseinander. So wird u.a. bürgerschaftliches Engagement als demokratisches Heilmittel, Innovationsmotor oder Gestaltungskraft für demografischen Wandel diskutiert. Was bewegt...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-05-28
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This is the first book that examines healthy human relationships in post-apartheid South Africa. In contemporary South Africa, human relationships are under considerable threat. Despite the 1994 commitment to an inclusive and human-rights-based democracy, human...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-10-11
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Das Standardwerk bietet einen breiten empirischen Überblick über die Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse in Deutschland und die zentralen sozialen Problemlagen. Im Mittelpunkt der Darstellung stehen Arbeitsmarkt, Arbeitslosigkeit und Arbeitsbedingungen, Arbeitsbeziehungen,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-07-10
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?In diesem Handbuch wird das grundlegende Wissen über die Europäische Union auf dem aktuellen Stand der Forschung präsentiert. Ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten befassen sich in den rund vierzig Einzelbeiträgen mit der Entstehungsgeschichte, den Institutionen und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-04-06
Collection :
Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften
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This Handbook is a comprehensive anthology of up-to-date chapters contributed by current researchers in budget forecasting. Editors Daniel Williams and Thad Calabrese had previously found substantial deficiencies in public budgeting forecast literature with current...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-14
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This book promotes an in-depth understanding of the key mechanisms that govern the functioning of capitalist economies, pursuing a Classical Political Economics approach to do so. It explores central theoretical issues addressed by the classical economists Smith and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-09-05
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This book presents perspectives from world experts in the field of wisdom studies to propose how wisdom can provide the foundation upon which solutions to social and global problems can be grounded. The authors argue that where society has come to rely on leaders with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-03
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This timely book presents a vital analysis of the politics, policy and practice of youth work services in England and the impacts of the austerity agenda introduced after the 2007-08 financial crisis. Davies frames his research within the ideological, political and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
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Hort der Vergangenheit oder moderner Publikumsmagnet? Das Handbuch stellt die Gedächtnisinstitution Museum in der Theorie und in ihrem Selbstverständnis vor und geht auf die Aufgaben ein: Sammeln, Dokumentieren, Konservieren, Erforschen, Ausstellen und Vermitteln. Nach...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-26
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