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This collection of essays addresses the glaring gap between policy commitments and actual investments in gender equality, ranging across sectors and focusing on development aid, peace-building and climate funds. Casting a spotlight on the application of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-06
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This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security. The first section of the book establishes the context of...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-03-02
Collection :
Natural Resource Management and Policy
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In diesem Herausgeberband wird das vielfältige Themenfeld der Verbraucherwissenschaften wissenschaftlich-konzeptionell definiert, skizziert und strukturiert. Ausgewählte Problemfelder der Verbraucherwissenschaften und der Verbraucherpolitikberatung stehen im Fokus...
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Springer Gabler
Parution :
2017-03-01
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This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care. Structured in three parts, the book begins by framing social policy as an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-28
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Successful social work practice is underpinned by knowledge, theories and research findings from a range of related disciplines, key among which is psychology. This timely book offers a grounded and engaging guide to psychology's vital role at the heart of contemporary...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-02-27
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This book provides an account of fatherhood and changing parental roles in Sweden and Poland. It uses a comparative perspective to show what men understand a father’s role to be, and how they seek to live up to it. Fathering, the author argues, is a social phenomenon...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-23
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This book links tropical agri-chain dynamics – with which CIRAD and AFD have been involved for decades – to that of sustainable development. Increased environmental and social concerns urge agri-chain actors and development practitioners to design innovations, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-02-20
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This book addresses the interface of the British Foreign Office, foreign policy and commerce in the twentieth century. Two related questions are considered: what did the Foreign Office do to support British commerce, and how did commerce influence British foreign...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-16
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This book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of women’s homelessness. Drawing together work from Europe’s leading homelessness scholars, it presents a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-08
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Rome's wars delivered great wealth to the conquerors, but how did this affect politics and society on the home front? In Power and Public Finance at Rome, James Tan offers the first examination of the Roman Republic from the perspective of fiscal sociology and makes the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-02-08
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Since the 1960s, America's policymaking system has transitioned from one in which leaders like Lyndon Johnson could simply disparage the concept of budget projections to one in which policymakers consciously manipulate cost estimates. Paradoxically, the very safeguards...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-01-27
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This edited collection shows that good parenthood is neither fixed nor stable. The contributors show how parenthood is equally done by men, women and children, in and through practices involving different normative guidelines. The book explores how normative layers of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-24
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This book provides an analysis of the urban government system in Bangladesh, focusing on its upper tier, the City Corporation (CC), and the institutional and legal frameworks within which it operates. Along with a discussion of the scale and magnitude of urbanization,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-21
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Peter Kern macht polizeiliche Kommunikation bei Großveranstaltungen erstmals zum Gegenstand einer wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung und beleuchtet dabei die Parameter gelungener Kommunikation. Sowohl beim zivilen polizeilichen Gegenüber als auch in den Reihen der...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-01-20
Collection :
Sicherheit – interdisziplinäre Perspektiven
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This book sheds new light on the complex EU-Russia relationship, by providing the first comprehensive account of the EU-Russia Energy Dialogue. The author examines why Moscow and Brussels have failed to cooperate in this crucial area of interdependence. By invoking...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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On 18 September 2014, Scotland held a referendum on the question: Should Scotland be an independent country? This is a most unusual event in modern democracies and engaged the political class, civil society, and the general public to an unprecedented degree, leading to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-01-19
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On 18 September 2014, Scotland held a referendum on the question: Should Scotland be an independent country? This is a most unusual event in modern democracies and engaged the political class, civil society, and the general public to an unprecedented degree, leading to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-01-19
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Der Sammelband bündelt in transdisziplinärer Perspektive Beiträge, die sich mit den aktuellen Herausforderungen der kommunalen Steuerung beschäftigen. Denn um diese besser zu bewältigen, müssen sie verwaltungswissenschaftlich aus einer Vielzahl von Perspektiven...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-01-18
Collection :
Theorie und Praxis der öffentlichen Verwaltung
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The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented health...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-01-12
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This book is a collection of the contributions to the Governing Europe project, which tackles the current situation and the future developments of the European mechanism of governance, putting forward a series of policy and institutional recommendations for the medium...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2017-01-09
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