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The Politics of Fair Trade argues that fair trade is more than just labels on specialty coffee products. Nor is fair trade just protectionism in disguise. Rather, fair trade is opposition to unrestricted trade based on sincere concerns about environmental and labor...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-04-04
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In crisis management operations, strategic errors can cost lives. Some international organizations (IOs) learn from these failures whereas others tend to repeat them. Given that they have high rates of turnover, how is it possible that any IO retains knowledge about the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-04-02
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When immigrants to the United States need to learn English, receive health services, open a bank account or get a work certification, US state and local governments or non-profit organizations usually assist as part of the process of supporting immigrant integration...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-04-02
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This book aims to identify the challenges presented by current urban environmental governance practices in fast growing Indian cities, to propose changes to the current governance implementation strategies, and to explore the best practices to achieve sustainable urban...
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Springer
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2018-03-29
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The Urban Book Series
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This book brings together the theory and practice of managing public trust. It examines the current state of public trust, including a comprehensive global overview of both the research and practical applications of managing public trust by presenting research from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-26
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This book presents a selection of contributions on the timely topic of structural reforms in Western economies, written by experts from central banks, the International Monetary Fund, and leading universities. It includes latest research on the impacts of structural...
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Springer
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2018-03-22
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The book aims at perfecting the national governance system and improving national governance ability. It evaluates the balance sheets of the state and residents, non-financial corporations, financial institutions and the central bank, the central government, local...
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Springer
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2018-03-22
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This Pivot offers a comprehensive cross-country study of the effects of large-scale resource extraction in Asia Pacific, considering how large-scale extractive industries engender contentious social, political and economic questions. Addressing the strong association in...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-03-20
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Cord Drögemüller beschäftigt sich mit der regionalen Dimension des Entsorgungskonflikts hochradioaktiver Abfälle in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Aus der Perspektive der Governance- und Partizipationsforschung untersucht er lokale Problemwahrnehmungen. Dabei werden...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-17
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Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection
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Environmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future wastelands of ecological depletion and social chaos. But it has also generated rich new ideas about how humans might live...
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Polity
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2018-03-15
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This book discusses sustainable forest management from the perspectives of sociology, anthropology, politics, economics and policy. It examines the roles of governments, private sectors, NGOs, academics and local communities in implementing sustainable plantation...
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Springer
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2018-03-15
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This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security issues, construction cost conundrum, infrastructure...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-12
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This book delivers a fresh and fascinating perspective on the issue of the minimum wage. While most discussions of the minimum wage place it at the center of a debate between those who oppose such a policy and argue it leads to greater unemployment, and those who favor...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-09
Collection :
Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity
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From home mortgages to i-phones, basic elements of our daily lives depend on international economic markets. The astonishing complexity of these exchanges may seem ungoverned.
Yet the global economy remains deeply bound by rules. Far from the staid world of treaties...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-09
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From home mortgages to i-phones, basic elements of our daily lives depend on international economic markets. The astonishing complexity of these exchanges may seem ungoverned.
Yet the global economy remains deeply bound by rules. Far from the staid world of treaties...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-09
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What is the relationship between the principles of social justice and global justice? How can we best reconcile the quest for greater social justice ‘at home' with greater social justice in the world? Are the social justice pressures our societies currently face the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-03-08
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Castles of our Conscience presents a new and distinctive analysis of the role of the modern state in the shaping of policies of social control. Staples provides a theoretical framework for understanding the mechanisms of state policy-making and capacity. This framework...
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Polity
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2018-03-08
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This book is the first authoritative account of the UK’s independent television production sector, following the creation of Channel 4 in 1982. It examines the rise of a global industry, increasingly interconnected through format development, distribution, ancillary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-07
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This book illustrates the role of international economic advisors in the development of Israel’s economic policies. Based on extensive archival and historical research, it presents case studies on the policy impacts of the world-renowned advisors Michal Kalecki, Abba...
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Springer
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2018-03-06
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In recent years, environmental and human rights advocates have suggested that we have entered the first new geological epoch since the end of the ice age: the Anthropocene.In this new epoch, humans have come to reshape unwittingly both the climate and natural world;...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-03-01
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