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International society led by the United Nations has been working to improve and standardize every country's post-disaster recovery policy. In particular, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction adopted at the UN World Conference at Sendai, Japan, in 2015...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-16
Collection :
Kobe University Monograph Series in Social Science Research
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This book draws on recent empirical research and reports unique insight into the craft of public administration of the most senior echelons of the Australian Public Service (APS).This work is set in the context of a comparative analysis of the significant public sector...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-11
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In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the wall of Wittenberg church. He argued that the Church’s internally consistent but absurd doctrines had pickled into a dogmatic structure of untruth. It was time for a Reformation. Half a millennium later, Steve Keen...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-11-11
ePub
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In the merciless arena of life, we are all subject to the law of the jungle, to ruthless competition and the survival of the fittest – such is the myth that has given rise to a society that has become toxic for our planet and for our and future generations. But today...
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Polity
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2021-11-11
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In der Publikation werden die Herausforderungen des Managements der Teilhabe von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen vor dem Hintergrund des neuen Bundesteilhabegesetzes diskutiert. Es werden die Dimensionen des Teilhabebegriffs im Hinblick auf die Soziale Arbeit...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-11-10
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The volume on China:The Bankable State rejects neoliberal consensus and focuses on crucial contributions of the Chinese state in shaping Chinese economy. This book makes crucial theoretical contributions to the study of local political economy of China. This...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-09
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Das Integrationsprojekt der Europäischen Union ist über seine wirtschaftlichen Erfolge noch nicht weit hinausgekommen, die ursprüngliche Idee einer politischen Union ist nach den Krisen des vergangenen Jahrzehnts in weite Ferne gerückt. Globalisierung, Migration,...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2021-11-02
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Land system reform in China has always been a hot topic and a controversial one. After the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee (2013) issued its “Decision,” people throughout society generally responded well to the part relating to land system...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-10-25
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This book provides a framework for understanding the creation of public value in urban environments. The ability of cities to produce value is related to their capacity to generate meaningful resources for city residents and workers that enable them to craft...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-25
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In No Standard Oil, environmental policy expert Deborah Gordon examines the widely varying climate impacts of global oils and gases, and proposes solutions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in this sector while making sustainable progress in transitioning to a carbon-free...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-22
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This open access book documents myriads of ways community-based climate change adaptation and resilience programs are being implemented in South Asian countries. The narrative style of writing in this volume makes it accessible to a diverse audience from academics and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-21
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This book explores the involvement of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the issue area of environmental and disaster displacement. In considering both agencies’ historical involvement,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-21
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This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-11
Collection :
Executive Politics and Governance
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The world's problems--climate change, epidemics, and the actions of multinational corporations--are increasingly global in scale and beyond the ability of any single state to manage. Since the end of the Cold War, states and civil society actors have worked together...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-07
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This book focuses mainly on strategic decision making at a global level, which is rarely considered in approaches to sustainability.This book makes a unique contribution as the work looks at global consequences of mineral exhaustion and steps that can be taken to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-01
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This book addresses the ‘bigger picture’ of local-European relations and adds a new dimension to existing studies on multilevel governance and the Europeanisation of local government. Drawing from a combination of European integration theories and operational...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-30
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In thirteen chapters, the contributors to this volume analyse the different dimensions of a new form of collaboration, termed collective co-production, in the Scandinavian countries. It is a characteristic of the Scandinavian countries – Sweden, Norway and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-30
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This book explores the institutional factors in social policymaking and implementation in China. From the performance evaluation system for local cadres to the intergovernmental fiscal system, local policy experimentation, logrolling among government departments, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-28
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This book is an essential guide on surrogacy, discussing various legal issues that arise in surrogacy cases. It provides a comprehensive coverage to various issues pertaining to surrogacy arrangements due to failure to meet the needs of those involved in surrogacy, be...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-09-27
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This book highlights the notion of Circular Economy under the umbrella of Sustainability because of the widespread momentum it is gaining. Today the whole world is certainly in emergent need of an alternative system to traditional economy which is linear, i.e. make, use...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-09-27
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