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This book represents a synthesis of research findings on energy in remote rural areas in East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia, demarcating a localised understanding of electricity issues that are relevant to similar community profiles in other developing countries, which are...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-07
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This open access book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, psychological, family sociological and demographical insights. It describes how, despite the long evolution of broken families, only...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-07
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For a long time, volunteering lacked standardized data sets allowing methodologically robust comparative analyses and global policy making. Starting from 2011, the International Labour Office (ILO) and the United Nations (UN) have provided global statistical standards...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-07
Collection :
Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
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This book examines the politics of renewable electricity policy in democratic Spain. It provides the first comprehensive political analysis of how and why successive Spanish governments have increased or reduced support for renewable power, especially wind and solar. In...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-01
Collection :
Environmental Politics and Theory
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This book propounds the thesis that it was the dysfunction of globalization and liberalism that prompted the rise of nationalism and populism. Recent developments in global affairs are challenging assumptions and the basis upon which international relations, as a broad...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-25
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This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe. More than sixty prominent European scholars’ original texts present the field’s main...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-24
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Welfare states face profound challenges. Widening economic and social inequalities have been intensified by austerity politics, sharpened by the rise in ethno-nationalism and exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, recent decades have seen a resurgence of...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-06-22
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This book presents a series of analyses of educational policies – largely in the UK, but some also in Europe – researched by a team of social scientists who share a commitment to social justice and equity in education. We explore what social justice means, in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-06-22
Collection :
Education Science, Evidence, and the Public Good
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Japan was ahead of the rest of the world when it introduced intermediate processing of municipal waste by such means as incineration in the 1960s. Owing to the small land area of the country and the difficulty in securing landfill sites, the incineration ratio of...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-19
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Geographic Information Science for Land Resource Management is a comprehensive book focusing on managing land resources using innovative techniques of spatial information sciences and satellite remote sensing. The enormous stress on the land resources over the years due...
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Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2021-06-15
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We think our wealth today comes from productive corporations and workers, but they merely add icing to a cake baked long ago. In this provocative book, Peter Barnes argues that most of today's wealth is co-inherited from nature and past human efforts, not individually...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-06-11
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Scholars have often claimed that democracies, whatever their virtues, are functionally short-sighted. The evidence is clear: we have been unable to manage many long-term issues including climate change, nuclear waste disposal, natural disaster preparedness,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-11
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‘Deep adaptation’ refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for – and live with – a climate-influenced breakdown or collapse of our societies. It is a framework for responding to the terrifying realization of increasing disruption by...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-06-09
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How do we rein in the power of Big Tech?How do we tackle the climate crisis?How can all of us play a part in making change happen? For the past four years, Ed Miliband has been discovering and interviewing brilliant people all around the world who are successfully...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2021-06-03
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Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook is a major new reference work, which provides historical background and up-to-date information and analysis on health politics and health systems throughout Europe.
In particular, it captures developments that have taken place...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-02
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Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook is a major new reference work, which provides historical background and up-to-date information and analysis on health politics and health systems throughout Europe.
In particular, it captures developments that have taken place...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-02
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Das Lehrbuch bietet einen Einstieg in die elementare Verbindung Sozialer Arbeit mit dem menschlichen Nahrungsbedürfnis. Gegenwärtig ist Hunger als menschliches Grundbedürfnis in der Sozialen Arbeit zur Nebensache geworden, obwohl beide konstitutiv miteinander verbunden...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-02
Collection :
Basiswissen Soziale Arbeit
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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence.
Around the world, governments...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-27
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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence.
Around the world, governments...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-27
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Inaction by governments in the face of climate change is often attributed to a lack of political will or a denial of the seriousness of the situation, but as Mark Alizart argues in this provocative book, we shouldn’t exclude the possibility that part of the reluctance...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-05-20
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