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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Dieser Sammelband gibt einen Überblick über aktuelle Formen und Formate politischer Partizipation auf kommunaler Ebene, auf Quartiersebene sowie im Bereich von Parteien, Verbänden und Hochschulen. Neben wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der politischen Beteiligung werden...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-09-23
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We were drowning in in record levels of debt before the COVID-19 crisis, and we are now deluged in it. U.S. private-sector loans have tripled relative to income since 1950 – and government debt is also at an all-time high. Soaring debt burdens individuals, stifles...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-09-21
Collection :
The Case For
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A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive.“A rich survey of the past.” ?NatureHuman-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2021-09-21
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This book examines why authoritarian governments are willing to address environmental problems that have an international impact, such as CO2 emissions, but are reluctant to address problems that have only a domestic impact. In a case study of Azerbaijani oil...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-09-14
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Recent political science research into the American legal academy has been ‘captured by conservatism’—this research has framed the institutional and ideological developments occurring within the law schools over the past forty years solely through the prism of modern...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-08
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This book showcases the different ways in which contemporary forms of data analysis are being used in urban planning and management. It highlights the emerging possibilities that city-regional governance, technology and data have for better planning and urban management...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-09-08
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Traditional economics is built on the assumption of self-interested individuals seeking to maximize personal gain, but that is far from the whole story. Sharing, caring, and a desire to uphold the collective good are also powerful motives. In a world wracked by...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-09-03
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From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world, turning the physical proximity which is central to the creative energy of the city into a potentially deadly threat to our health and well being. Yet most of us live or work in...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2021-09-02
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This book details the relationship between culture and the language used by public figures, including politicians, political candidates, and government officials, in the broad context of political behavior and communication. Employing a variety of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-09-01
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