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Dieses Buch hilft dabei, die Wichtigkeit der Thermodynamik für Wirtschaft, Umwelt und Gesellschaft zu verstehen. Es plädiert für die Integration der ersten beiden Hauptsätze der Thermodynamik in die Lehrbuchökonomie. Dabei führen systemische Gemeinsamkeiten in der...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2018-12-08
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This book analyses the coverage of elections that occurred between September 2015 and February 2016 in six European countries (Greece, Portugal, Poland, Croatia, Spain and Ireland). The sample examined includes all news stories published during the official electoral...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-07
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This edited volume studies the complex interrelation of poverty, work, and different stages in the life course, and how it contributes to the permanent existence of poverty and inequality in vulnerable groups in society. Mechanisms of productions and reproduction of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-07
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This book examines new member states’ problems with the absorption of EU funds. Since accession, many new member states from Central and Eastern Europe struggle to access their billions of development funds from Brussels. While existing research mostly emphasizes the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-07
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This book is a collection of 15 case studies on China’s foreign aid and economic cooperation with developing countries. Each case introduces the general information of a China’s project, analyzes its features and impacts, and especially focuses on analysis of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-06
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book investigates the reasons behind the 2017 youthquake – which saw the highest rate of youth turnout in a quarter of a century, and an unprecedented gap in youth support for Labour over the Conservative Party –...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-12-06
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Young People and Politics
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This book offers new ways of thinking about corruption by examining the two distinct ways in which policy approaches and discourse on corruption developed in the UN and the OECD. One of these approaches extrapolated transnational bribery as the main form of corrupt...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-06
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This book examines how patterns of political representation, party system, and political culture have changed in Southern Europe following the “Great Recession” of 2008. It draws on the experience of Portugal to argue that austerity measures have significantly deepened...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-06
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Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments. Over time, soldiers, scholars,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-06
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Lernen Sie mit dem Buch „ShareCity“ die Grundlagen des Konzepts der Sharing Economy kennen und erfahren Sie, wie Städte diesen Ansatz in die Tat umsetzen. Die Autoren sehen in Sharing (zu Deutsch „teilen“) eine Entwicklung, die aufgrund von Trends wie u.a. Car- oder...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2018-12-06
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This book reveals how the idea of human security, combined with other human-centric norms, has been embraced, criticized, modified and diffused in East Asia (ASEAN Plus Three). Once we zoom in to the regional space of East Asia, we can see a kaleidoscopic diversity of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-06
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The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene, the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-06
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Die Regierung unter Donald Trump mischt die internationale Politik auf. Dabei stellt sie internationale Normen ebenso in Frage wie etablierte Beziehungen und Organisationen. Nicht wenige sehen hierin einen Angriff auf die liberale Weltordnung.Die Beiträge dieses Bandes...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-05
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Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-12-05
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In 2005, the international community made a landmark commitment to prevent mass atrocities by unanimously adopting the UN’s “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) principle. As often as not, however, R2P has failed to translate into decisive action. Why does this gap persist...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-12-05
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Undocumented Storytellers offers a critical exploration of the ways undocumented immigrant activists harness the power of storytelling to mitigate the fear and uncertainty of life without legal status and to advocate for immigration reform. Sarah C. Bishop chronicles...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-03
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Over the last few decades, politics in India has moved steadily in a pro-business direction. This shift has important implications for both government and citizens. In Business and Politics in India, leading scholars of Indian politics have gathered to offer an...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-03
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Arab Film and Video Manifestos presents, in their entirety, five key documents that have fundamentally shaken up and helped change the face of image culture in the Middle East and beyond. The book collects together, for the first time, these influential, collectively...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-11-30
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The social question is back. Yet today's social question is not primarily between labour and capital, as it was in the nineteenth century and throughout much of the twentieth.The contemporary social question is located at the interstices between the global South and the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-30
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?Bei Bauprojekten ist Bürgerbeteiligung inzwischen üblich. Relativ neu ist hingegen, dass Bürgerbeteiligung auch in der Gesetzgebung zum Einsatz kommt. Aber auch dort hat sie sich bewährt. Das zeigt die Analyse zahlreicher Kombinationen aus Online- und Offline-Formaten...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-11-29
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