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Looking at recent developments around the world, it seems that democratic values -- from freedom of association and speech to fair and free elections and a system of checks and balances -- have come under threat. Experts have, however, disproportionately focused on the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-31
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This book analyses the struggle for social justice in São Paulo, Brazil. It takes the wave of protests that began in the city in 2013 as a starting point, and grounds them in the history of social movement mobilisation in urban Brazil. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-29
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This interdisciplinary book challenges current approaches to “environmental problems” that perpetuate flawed but deeply embedded cultural beliefs about the role of science and technology in society. The authors elucidate and interrogate a cultural history of solutionism...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-29
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This book brings together the findings of a multi-disciplinary and international research project on environmental crime in Europe, funded by the European Union (EU). “European Union Action to Fight Environmental Crime" (EFFACE) was a 40-month research project that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-27
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology
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Looking at recent developments around the world, it seems that democratic values -- from freedom of association and speech to fair and free elections and a system of checks and balances -- have come under threat. Experts have, however, disproportionately focused on the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-24
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Stefan Klaßmüller beschäftigt sich in diesem Buch mit der Wettbewerbsintensität im deutschen Bankensektor und dem Einfluss des Wettbewerbs auf die Bankenstabilität. Der Autor führt eine empirische Analyse durch, die bestätigt, dass starke regionale Unterschiede in...
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Springer Gabler
Parution :
2017-03-23
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This book discusses the immediate and severe threat posed by global climate change and the various obstacles that stand in the way of action. Judith Blau presents scientific evidence relevant to The Paris Agreement (COP-21): an international treaty that promises to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-21
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This book reviews the key policy debates during the post-crash era, describing the issues that policymakers grappled with, the decisions that they took and the details of the policy instruments that were created. Focusing specifically on issues in monetary and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-16
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This book offers an authoritative study on special economic zones in China. With articles from economic experts and scholars, the scope of the book includes new theories, methods and discoveries in the field of special economic zone studies. It foscuses on discussing...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-03-15
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Der Länderbericht bringt erstmals Daten des Deutschen Freiwilligensurveys für einen Vergleich der vierzehn Bundesländer zusammen.Der Freiwilligensurvey wurde 2014 zum vierten Mal im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ)...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-03-07
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“An exacting look at gentrification” (New York Times Book Review)—and the lives devastated in the process The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don’t...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2017-03-07
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This book analyzes how recent welfare state transformations across advanced democracies have shaped social and economic disparities. The authors observe a trend from a compensatory paradigm towards supply oriented social policy, and investigate how this phenomenon is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-07
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This book puts forward a distinctive theoretical approach and analytical framework for studying business as an international actor in the environmental field, and provides detailed case studies of the most important environmental challenges in recent years.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-07
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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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-02
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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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-02-20
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