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This book explores climate change responsiveness policies for cities and discusses why they have been slow to gain traction despite having been on the international agenda for the last 30 years. The contributing role of cities in accentuating the effects of climate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-30
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Maike Heber geht der Frage nach, wie sich in Italiens Politik und Gesellschaft die dominierende Vorstellung von Demokratie und ihrer Gestaltung nach 25 Jahren Reformprozess verändert hat. Die Verfassung von 1948 ist trotz vieler Versuche, das politische System zu...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-28
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is the notion that nearly everything we use, from gym shorts to streetlights, will soon be connected to the Internet; the Internet of Everything (IoE) encompasses not just objects, but the social connections, data, and processes that the IoT...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-28
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This edited volume brings together a wide range of academics to engage with inter-disciplinary research perspectives in response to the development of The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which opens unparalleled opportunities to gain access to new markets in Asia, Europe...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-27
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Abualwafa Mohammed schärft in seiner Arbeit das Wissen über den Koran in seinen drei Dimensionen aus traditioneller, moderner und didaktischer Sichtweise in Auseinandersetzung mit dem Begriff des Dschihads. Die Berücksichtigung aller drei Perspektiven ermöglicht eine...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-22
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In this memoir about overcoming adversity in America, the U. S. Senator responsible for creating "opportunity zones" explains how hard work and community growth can drive businesses and end poverty.Senator Tim Scott knows adversity. As the son of a single mother from...
Editeur :
Center Street
Parution :
2020-04-14
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This book addresses current challenges in public administration and regional management in Russia. By taking into account socio-economic factors, as well as key ethnic, cultural and social processes in multicultural regions, it identifies the prerequisites for...
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Springer
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2020-04-10
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Why is it so difficult to control, or fix, pollution? How can we justify harvesting the world’s natural resources at unsustainable rates, even though these activities cause known harm to both people and ecosystems? Scientific knowledge and technological advances alone...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-09
Collection :
What is Politics
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Selected as one of The Progressive’s ‘Favourite Books of 2020’Wildness was once integral to our ancestors' lives as they struggled to survive in an unpredictable environment. Today, most of us live in relative stability insulated from the vicissitudes of nature....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-03
Collection :
Environmental Futures
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Albert Einstein was one of the initiators of the peace movement in Europe in the early twentieth century. He tirelessly denounced the imperfections of society due to the primitive institution of war and devoted his energies to outlawing war. After Hitler’s rise to...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2020-04-01
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Australia's public broadcaster, 'Aunty', is about to turn 90, yet your ABC has seldom been in this much trouble: budget cuts, ferocious political pressure, sagging staff morale, leadership chaos and hostile commercial rivals.Meanwhile audiences are deserting broadcast...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2020-03-31
Collection :
On Series
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What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-03-27
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Over the past quarter-century China has seen a dramatic increase in income inequality, prompting a shift in China's development strategy and the adoption of an array of new policies to redistribute income, promote shared growth, and establish a social safety net....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-26
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Largely privately funded with relatively little public regulation, the United States healthcare system is both expensive and inefficient, providing poor care to large parts of the population. For decades, Americans have wrestled with how to fix their broken healthcare...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-03-23
Collection :
The Case For
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The book brings to the reader a set of political and social narratives woven around people’s resistance against big dams, mining and industrial projects, in short, displacement and dispossession in Odisha, India. This saga of dispossession abounds with stories and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-20
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This volume makes a contribution to the field of neurolaw by investigating issues raised by the development, use, and regulation of neurointerventions. The broad range of topics covered in these chapters reflects neurolaw's growing social import, and its rapid expansion...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-20
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This book addresses the factors that have led to the lackluster economic performance of the oil MENA region, despite the wealth of its vast natural resource. It offers a radical policy recommendation as a way out. Using data from a wide variety of sources, it analyzes...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-03-19
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This book provides a blueprint for the allocation of public expenditures “in” and “for” agriculture at the dis-aggregated state level and suggests a reorientation in favour of disadvantaged regions where the marginal returns on additional investments would be...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-03-19
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What we count matters - and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if you’re not counted, you don’t count. Alex Cobham argues that systematic gaps in economic and demographic data not only lead us to understate a wide...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-03-19
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