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This book examines how and why local communities have been neglected in development initiatives in South Asia, focusing on Sri Lanka, and assesses the significant support from NGOs in increasing the capacity of local government and in promoting local development. Based...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-22
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This book illustrates how global economic progress has reached its upper limit under the current economic paradigm, and how the next major revolution in global progress will rely on our ability to tap into the collective knowledge of the “everyday genius” to drive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-15
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This text provides a cutting edge analysis of the increasingly central role think tanks play in societies worldwide. Examining their control of global resources both in economic and political policy fields and their inroads into structures of power, it addresses key...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-30
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This book explores how public organizations and not-for-profit organizations (NPO) can be more collaborative, innovative and effective in solving social issues in both developing and developed countries. “Social innovation,” led by social entrepreneurs and/or social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-28
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This book considers how public sector institutions can be transformed to better support sustainable development by exploring the concept of green inside activism and its importance for institutional change. The phenomenon of inside activism has been shown to be crucial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-21
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This book investigates the basic theoretical framework and conducts a logical analysis of China’s new supply-side economics, while also providing a strategic path to remedy the plight of China’s economic development. From the perspective of connotation, theory and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-16
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This book examines the politics of harm in the context of palm oil production in Colombia, with a primary focus on the Pacific coast region. Globally, the palm oil industry is associated with practices that fit the most conventional definitions and perceptions of crime,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-16
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National governments and private stakeholders have long recognized that protecting the global environment requires international cooperation. Climate change, tropical deforestation, biodiversity loss, ozone depletion, hazardous wastes, and ocean pollution are among...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-15
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This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, and derives questions to be addressed in multi-disciplinary research toward a new...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-15
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This book offers comprehensive coverage of current energy policy in Scotland focussing on non-fossil fuel energy options: renewables, nuclear power and energy efficiency. Covering issues of policy and practice, planning, legislation and regulation of a range of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-14
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This book examines how property rights are linked to socio-economic progress and development. It also provides a theoretical analysis, an economic/social analysis of planning, case studies of the implementation of planning and regulation instruments, practices related...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-10
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This book analyses the effects of technological development, innovation, entrepreneurship and governance in middle income countries, such as Turkey, in detail. How to best practise innovation and entrepreneurship, which many researchers and policy makers believe to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-05
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Carmen Wunderlich geht der kontraintuitiven Frage nach, ob ‚Schurkenstaaten‘ – vermeintliche Gegner der westlich-liberalen Ordnung – auch ‚Normunternehmer‘ sein können, sich also proaktiv für die Förderung internationaler Normen einsetzen und ihnen zur Geltung verhelfen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-24
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The book reveals how the ‘social value of art’ may have one meaning for a policy maker, another for a museum and still yet another for an artist – and it is therefore in the interaction between these agents that we learn the most about the importance of rhetoric and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-18
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This book uses an economic framework to examine the consequences of U.S. farm and food policies for obesity, its social costs, and the implications for government policy. Drawing on evidence from economics, public health, nutrition, and medicine, the authors evaluate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-18
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Die Autoren untersuchen am Beispiel des Ankunftsquartiers Duisburg-Marxloh Herkunftssituation, Wanderungswege und -motive sowie die Lebenssituation von Zuwanderern aus Bulgarien und Rumänien. Sie analysieren die Einstellungen der schon länger im Quartier lebenden...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-07
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Uranium, the most atomically unstable natural element on earth, has a unique place in the global geopolitics of resources. It provides energy to millions of people and its isotopes are used to power spacecraft and in nuclear medicine. But it is also at the heart of many...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-07-03
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Resources
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This book argues that the factors contributing to obesity as a product of food insecurity have risen largely from the exploitation of vulnerable communities. In the past, food insecurity has been understood as primarily a matter of famine, hunger, and undernutrition....
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-07-02
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GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major economic, social and environmental crises has exposed the flaws of our...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-06-30
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This book examines the use of presidential powers in Central and East Europe between 1990 and 2010. Focussing on presidential vetoes and the formation of governments, it maps patterns of presidential activism and its determinants across nine democracies. Thereby,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-20
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