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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
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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
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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...
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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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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...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-20
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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...
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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...
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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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This book combines modern evolutionary economics and classical political economy. Modern evolutionary economics with its pluralistic and contingent view of reproduction does not presuppose equilibrium or harmonious reproduction. A society that consists of multiple...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-03-18
Collection :
Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science
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Können die Überzeugungen einzelner Entscheidungsträger die Außenpolitik eines Staates beeinflussen? Bestimmte Angela Merkels „belief system“ während der Griechenlandkrise von 2010 bis 2015 die deutsche Außenpolitik? Danae Ankel untersucht zunächst Merkels Überzeugungen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-03-14
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
International banking standards are...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-12
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
International banking standards are...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-12
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The book analyzes recent changes to the identities and cultures of the GCC countries. These important transformations have gone largely unnoticed due to the fast-paced changes in the region that affect all aspects of society.The volume unpacks these transformations by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-10
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This book discusses the role of electronic governance in least developed countries (LDCs) within the context of public finance management and service delivery keeping in view of the experience of Afghanistan. The book includes examples of good practices in electronic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) from a government and public policy perspective. Since 2011, federal spending on IoT has been growing at a compound annual rate of ten percent. New technologies,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-06
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Ziel der Arbeit von Veit Ebermann ist es, den Entwicklungsprozess von staatlichen Klimaanpassungsstrategien auf Länderebene besser zu verstehen und somit das Politikergebnis und das Handeln der Akteure nachzuvollziehen. Am Beispiel des Landes Niedersachsens...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-03-06
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