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Climate change impacts-more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms-have already harmed communities around the globe. Even if the world could cut its carbon emissions to zero tomorrow, further significant global climate change is now inevitable. Although we...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-10-01
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'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies and visions that...
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Penguin
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2019-09-26
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Palmöl ist das billigste und beliebteste Fett in der Lebensmittel- und Kosmetikbranche. Indonesien liefert 90 Prozent des weltweit gehandelten Palmöls, hinter dessen Anbau aber eine ökologische und soziale Katastrophe steht. Im Zuge der Rodung des indonesischen...
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Springer VS
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2019-09-25
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Sustainable development is often thought of as a product that can be obtained by following a prescribed course of interventions. Rather than conceptualizing it as a sweet spot of economic, ecological, and social balance, sustainable development is an ongoing process of...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-09-24
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Disputes over government policies rage in a number of areas. From taxation to climate change, from public finance to risk regulation, and from health care to infrastructure planning, advocates debate how policies affect multiple dimensions of individual well-being, how...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-09-23
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Klaudia Köhn untersucht, welche Rolle die Tschechische Republik im Irak-Konflikt 2003 spielte und erläutert, was das Švejk’sche Rätsel ist: Wenn einerseits eine ABC-Waffen-Abwehreinheit in Kuwait, Überflugrechte für US-amerikanische B-52-Bomber und ein Feldlazarett im...
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Springer VS
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2019-09-18
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Die aktuellen Debatten zeigen, wie schwierig es ist, Grenzen zu ziehen und Grenzwerte festzulegen. Ohne Grenzen jedoch, fehlen uns Orientierung und Positionierung. Viele Grenzen unseres alltäglichen Lebens sind nicht von Natur aus vorgegeben, sie unterliegen vielmehr...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-09-17
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The period since the Global Financial Crisis and numerous scandals have exposed some areas of serious illegal and unethical conduct within western banking systems. Despite extensive reforms it is increasingly apparent however that there is a persistent problem with the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-12
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The period since the Global Financial Crisis and numerous scandals have exposed some areas of serious illegal and unethical conduct within western banking systems. Despite extensive reforms it is increasingly apparent however that there is a persistent problem with the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-12
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This book discusses various climate smart agro-technologies, their technical and economic feasibility across heterogeneous agro-climatic conditions, assessing farmers’ willingness to adopt those technologies, impact of climate smart technology in agricultural production...
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Springer
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2019-09-10
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Globalization and the information revolution have highlighted the catalytic role of local governments for improving economic and social outcomes at the local level as well as growing the national economy by enhancing international competitiveness. This comprehensive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-05
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*Winner of the Enlightened Economist Prize 2019**Winner of Debut Writer of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020**Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2019*'Extreme Economies is a revelation - and a...
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Transworld Digital
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2019-09-05
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No economist has written more incisively and provocatively on financial crisis than Hyman Minsky. Minsky is best known for his claim that "stability is destabilizing" – that the seeds of the bust are sown in the boom. This financial instability hypothesis received...
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Polity
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2019-09-05
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In dieser Open-Access-Publikation analysieren die Autoren die öffentliche Debatte um Chancen und Risiken von Big Data und diskutieren die konkreten Implikationen in verschiedenen Lebensbereichen.In einer repräsentativen Befragung vermessen sie das Wissen und die...
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Springer Gabler
Parution :
2019-08-30
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Ist die Größe des Niedriglohnsektors ein Ergebnis staatlicher Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Arbeitsmarktregulierung? Und welche Bedeutung hat der Wohlfahrtsstaat für die Verbreitung von Niedriglohnjobs? Durch Verbindung politökonomischer und wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Perspektiven...
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Springer VS
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2019-08-23
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Looking at discretion broadly as the exercise of controlled freedom, this edited volume introduces insights from a range of social sciences perspectives. Traditionally, discussions of discretion have drawn on legal notions of the appropriate exercise of legitimate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-21
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Technological dominance is shifting the balance of global economic stability. This is the central premise behind the latest book from Lorenzi and Berrebi who view the rise of artificial intelligence, robotics, use of private data, and genetic transformation, among other...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-14
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A growing number of environmental groups focus on more sustainable practices in everyday life, from the development of new food systems, to community solar, to more sustainable fashion. No longer willing to take part in unsustainable practices and institutions, and not...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-14
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A growing number of environmental groups focus on more sustainable practices in everyday life, from the development of new food systems, to community solar, to more sustainable fashion. No longer willing to take part in unsustainable practices and institutions, and not...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-14
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This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities in contemporary Europe. Ongoing debates on migration, on local, national, inter- and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-13
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