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In this thesis, Orlando Zaddach applies a discounting scheme derived by Krysiak (2010) in the latest DICE model and presents its implications for optimal climate policy. Furthermore, he carries out a one-factor-at-a-time (OFAT) sensitivity analysis to check the...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2015-11-26
Collection :
BestMasters
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The monograph covers the fundamentals and the consequences of extreme geophysical phenomena like asteroid impacts, climatic change, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, flooding, and space weather. This monograph also addresses their...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-11-23
Collection :
Geophysical Monograph Series
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history. Its supporters maintain that TTIP will produce spectacular growth and job creation; claims that are wholeheartedly rejected by its critics,...
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Polity
Parution :
2015-11-20
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Karin Schärer geht der Frage nach, weshalb es Länder gibt,
die trotz großen Reichtums an Ressourcen wirtschaftlich in einem desolaten
Zustand sind. Eine Analyse der Demokratischen Republik Kongo und Botswana
erklärt, weshalb sich diese rohstoffreichen Länder...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2015-11-18
Collection :
Schriftenreihe der Kalaidos Fachhochschule Schweiz
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Family Support introduces and explores the state of the art in preventative social work with children and young people. Drawing on contemporary thinking and research, the book aims to make a contribution to current debates about how we can best support families in...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-11-12
Collection :
Social Work in Theory and Practice
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Wei Manske-Wang analysiert den Zusammenhang zwischen der Urbanisierung im Rahmen der Stadtentwicklung und der zentralisierten Energieversorgungsstruktur in chinesischen Megastädten anhand einer empirischen Untersuchung, die auf Daten der vergangenen 35 Jahre...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2015-11-10
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This edited volume analyzes citizenship through attention to its Others, revealing the partiality of citizenship's inclusion and claims to equality by defining it as legal status, political belonging and membership rights. Established and emerging scholars explore the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-11-02
Collection :
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
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This book explores the extent to which a transformation of public employment regimes has taken place in four Western countries, and the factors influencing the pathways of reform. It demonstrates how public employment regimes have unravelled in different domains of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-29
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Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance seeks to advance our understanding of the global dimension of social policy by applying the notion of global social governance on actors, their relations to each other, and their pathways as well as their footprints of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-22
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Over the last 30 years, Economic Policy has strived to produce policy relevant and rigorous analyses of the economic challenges of the time. A number of articles have been highly influential, shaping thinking among academic economists and policymakers. This volume...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-22
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Over the last 30 years, Economic Policy has strived to produce policy relevant and rigorous analyses of the economic challenges of the time. A number of articles have been highly influential, shaping thinking among academic economists and policymakers. This volume...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-22
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This timely collection explores trust research from many angles while ably demonstrating the potential of cross-discipline collaboration to deepen our understanding of institutional trust. Citing, among other things, current breakdowns of trust in prominent...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-10-21
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Having children is probably as old as the first successful organism. It is often done thoughtlessly. This book is an argument for giving procreating some serious thought, and a theory of how, when, and why procreation may be permissible.
Rivka Weinberg begins with an...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-15
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Alexander Werner analysiert die Determinanten von regionalen Wachstumsunterschieden in Deutschland, für die verschiedene theoretische Modelle Erklärungsansätze liefern. Der Autor untersucht das regionale Wachstum mehrerer Wirtschaftsindikatoren – BIP und verfügbares...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2015-10-15
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Gemeinnützige oder Nonprofit-Organisationen (NPO) stehen aktuell vor vielfältigen Herausforderungen. Diese problematisiert der Sammelband, indem er die Perspektive der Fallstudie wählt. So wird anhand einer Vielzahl von Beispielen aufgezeigt, wie NPOs in...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-10-14
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This book develops an account of 'inclusive multicultural governance' which is contrasted with assimilationist and separatist/differentialist approaches to the political management of and accommodation of multicultural diversity in liberal democracies.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-14
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As Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward argued in the early seventies, in a capitalist economy, social welfare policies alternatingly serve political and economic ends as circumstances dictate. In moments of political stability, governments emphasize a capitalistic...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-05
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Western welfare states are in a period of significant transition. Changes in the nature of work and the family, the growing elderly population, and other developments over the past fifty years have rendered existing welfare policies largely out-of-step with economic and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-01
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While handing over the first set of 12-digit unique identification numbers to ten tribal families of Tembhli, a dusty village tucked away in a far corner of Maharashtra, the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, 'UID will help hundreds of people in India, whose pride...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2015-10-01
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Die Autoren beschreiben in diesem Essential anhand von Beispielen Schwierigkeiten, die beim Sparen auftreten. Auf Basis der Systemtheorie des Soziologen N. Luhmann, die zu Grundzügen einer Soziologie des Sparens umgeformt wird, entstehen neue Einblicke, weil in Systemen...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2015-09-26
Collection :
essentials
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