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The book examines management strategies for developing and implementing strategic resilience and sustainability plans for sustainable and climate-resilient communities and organizations. It examines trends in resilience and sustainability planning,...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-02-21
Collection :
Sustainable Development Goals Series
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The European Union, as a regulatory polity based on integration through law, arguably relies more on legal compliance with its policies than any other political system. Proceeding from this point of departure, this book puts the spotlight on the subnational tier and...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-02-21
Collection :
The Future of Europe
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The book is an edited collection of contributions by a distinguished international panel of academics on the main scientific, juridical, and economic aspects involved in the mitigation and adaptation processes imposed by climate change. Explicitly interdisciplinary, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-02-19
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This Open Access publication focuses on China’s goal of achieving peak carbon emissions in 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. The book is the first to systematically build a framework combining a top-down and bottom-up analysis of this acute topic.What does carbon...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-02-18
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This book critically surveys a decade of disasters in Otautahi Christchurch. It brings together a diverse range of authors, disciplinary approaches and topics, to reckon with the events that commenced with the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence. Each contribution...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-13
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Du willst was für das Klima tun? Nicht mehr abwarten? Damit du richtig durchstarten kannst, erklärt dir dieses Buch in kurzen Texten, was beim Klimawandel und der Erderwärmung passiert. Die reinen Fakten werden kombiniert mit einfachen Experimenten.Du hast dann...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2022-02-11
Collection :
Für Dummies
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The book deals with technological governance of cyberspace and threat landscape, with a special focus on the Indian context. It provides a historical and chronological understanding of cyber threats across the world, and their impact on the nation-states. It places the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-09
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Infrastructure is the foundation of modern economies. A robust, efficient, and well-maintained infrastructure system is critical to support the nation’s economy, improve quality of life, and strengthen global competitiveness. The serious infrastructure deficit in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-04
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Making Energy Markets charts the emergence and early evolution of electricity markets in western Europe, covering the decade from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Liberalising electricity marked a radical deviation from the established paradigm of state-controlled...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-01
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This open access book centres on the advisory roles of political scientists in Europe. Based on a cross-national survey, the book offers a comparative analysis of the viewpoints and activities of university-based political scientists on external...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-31
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Building on hundreds of thousands of systematically collected and content-coded local policy agenda observations, this book examines – theoretically and empirically - the policy agenda effects of four central aspects of any political system:...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-26
Collection :
Comparative Studies of Political Agendas
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This book comprehensively addresses the economic and social implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. In each chapter of the book, the effects of the pandemic on different economic and financial sectors are discussed.The book tackles many topics and issues that are of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-01-19
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Is work a primordial curse? Or a spiritual calling? Or is it a tedious necessity that technology will abolish, freeing us to indulge lives of leisure? In this book David A. Spencer argues that work is only an alienating burden because of the nature of work under...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-01-19
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This book looks at how the language of the law has changed over time, and how this has empowered judges. In particular it looks at how this has empowered judges to rule against governments.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-17
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This book undertakes an in-depth examination of the dynamics of commitment in U.S.-Southeast Asia strategy. Drawing on cases including the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam and Washington’s pivot to Asia amid China’s growing regional role, it constructs an original balance...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-13
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This edited volume presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Business, Economics, Management, and Sustainability (BEMAS), organized by the Centre for International Trade and Business in Asia (CITBA) at James Cook University.This book...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-01-12
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This two-volume book examines the most important global problem—the recovery of the social-economic crises due to the COVID-19 pandemic.This economic crisis has its own basis and differs from others by the lockdown of most businesses on the decision of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-12
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This book explores when, why, and how regional organizations adopt and design institutions to promote and protect fundamental standards of democracy, human rights, and rule of law in their member states. These regional institutions have spread globally. While their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-10
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This open access book is about mismanagement of public agencies as a threat to life and limb. Collapsing bridges and buildings kill people and often leave many more injured. Such disasters do not happen out of the blue nor are they purely technical in nature since...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-07
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City governments are going bankrupt. Even the ones that aren’t are often stuck in financial chaos. It is easy to blame pensions, poor leadership, or a bad economy. But the problems go much deeper. With decades of experience in local government, author Mark Moses...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-06
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