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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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-06-22
ePub
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-7%
21,50€
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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...
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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...
Editeur :
Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2021-06-15
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-10%
218,95€
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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
ePub
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-18%
14,70€
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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,...
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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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-06-09
ePub
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-23%
16,95€
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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
ePub
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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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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
ePub
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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
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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
ePub
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-20%
11,30€
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This book distinguishes conceptually between indigenous and constructed social capital and the associated spontaneous and induced collective action for rural development and natural resource preservation. While some of the case studies in this book show that induced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-14
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This open access book explores a special species of trouble afflicting modern societies: creeping crises. These crises evolve over time, reveal themselves in different ways, and resist comprehensive responses despite periodic public attention. As a result, these crises...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-10
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This open access book asks whether cash-transfer programs for very low-income households promote social and economic citizenship and, if so, under what conditions. To this end, it brings together elements that are too often considered separately: the transformation of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-07
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Raphael M. Peresson untersucht in diesem Buch die unterschiedlichen wirtschaftspolitischen Strategien der Linksregierungen in Venezuela und Brasilien. Ab Ende der 1990er Jahre begann sich in Lateinamerika eine politische Linkswende abzuzeichnen, deren gemeinsamer Nenner...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-04-28
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The book relates three years of history of social movements from Asia and Europe who work on social justice, as a rough overview.The work for the book is mainly done on the ground, day after day, working in villages and cities, with people and their organisations,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-24
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This book provides the first comparative assessment of the energy-efficiency retrofit programs in the social housing sector of Canadian cities, focusing on program efficiency and effectiveness. The analytical framework explores key policy instruments - regulatory,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-04-21
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