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This book asks the question, how would economics look today and into the future if one started with a blank sheet of paper? Written mainly for a technical audience, yet accessible to the lay reader, Economics of a Crowded Planet addresses the ontology, epistemology...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-08
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Looming trade wars and rising nationalism have stirred troubling memories of the 1930s. Will history repeat itself? Do we face the chaotic breakdown of the global economic system in the face of stagnation, protectionism and political tumult? Jeremy Green argues that,...
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Polity
Parution :
2019-11-08
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This book examines the integration experiences of refugees to Sweden from Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), and more recently from Syria (2014-2018) - two of the largest-scale refugee movements in Europe for the last thirty years.
It focuses on refugees’ interactions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-06
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This book is about how coast guards are becoming states’ foremost tool to manage changes occurring in ocean politics generally, and in the Arctic specifically. It looks at states’ rights at sea, changes occurring in the Arctic region, how coast guards are handling...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-04
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The migration movement, which has taken place since the beginning of the story of mankind, increasingly continues voluntarily or compulsorily for various reasons such as social challenges, technological revolutions and wars. Due to migration, many new questions emerge...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-10-31
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Daniela Strüngmann entwickelt ein integratives Legitimitätsmodell, mit dem sie die Akzeptanz öffentlicher Verwaltung bei den Bürgern erklärt. Anhand eines Mehrmethodenansatzes gewinnt sie aus der Empirie eine Typologie von Akzeptanztypen und untersucht Einflussfaktoren...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-10-25
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The book discusses the socio-cultural-historical, occupational, educational, employment and discriminatory status of one of the most neglected and marginalised communities: the de-notified tribes or ex-criminal tribes of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Based on primary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-24
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This book discusses the role of regional design and visioning in the formation of regional territorial governance to offer a better understanding of (1) how a recognition of spatial dynamics and the visualization of spatial futures informs, and is informed by, planning...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-10-22
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This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth—ranging from Black immigrant youth in the American city of Newark, New Jersey, to students...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-21
Collection :
Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
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This book presents an innovative democratic framework that ensures public participation, based on applying principles of good governance to facilitate urban transport decision-making in an integrated and structured manner. While – given the need for mobility in cities –...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-21
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This book analyses and discusses the multiple dimensions of social exclusion/inclusion seen in South Asia. It not only captures how ‘social exclusion’ is intrinsic to deprivation or deprivation in itself, but also the processes of political engagement and social...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-19
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This book discusses Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and their potential to protect and maintain critical infrastructure in a variety of global governmental settings. Critical infrastructure is defined as essential services that underpin and support the backbone of a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-18
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What is a buffer? Is it a control zone? Or is it rather a transition space, a blurred boundary? Since "buffer zones" were introduced in the late 1970s as a complementary protection layer to World Heritage sites, the dimensions of heritage have changed significantly;...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2019-10-16
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This book provides an overview of factors fostering well-being in Latin America and discusses many threats to well-being in the region. The book assesses the current well-being situation in Latin American countries and offers an explanation based on its many drivers,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-14
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Austerity has been at the center of political controversy following the 2008 financial crisis, invoked by politicians and academics across the political spectrum as the answer to, or cause of, our post-crash economic malaise. However, despite being the cause of debate...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-10-14
Collection :
What is Political Economy?
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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...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-09-18
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