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Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of world fish production, and the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems. Many have voiced their concerns about marine conservation, as well...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-04-06
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Covers topical issues for Africa's development, economics and politics of climate change, water management, public service delivery, and delivering aid. The authors argue that these issues should be included in the post-MDG paradigm and add an important voice to recent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-04-05
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International Political Economy Series
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The greatest myth of modern times is the suggestion that capitalism and corporations do better with less government.The global economic crisis has certainly put paid to this idea. But the massive emergency state bailouts and interventions put in place from 2008 were...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-03-27
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The book discusses the demographic changes in Muslim countries. It thereby focuses on topics such as the demographic dividend and the demographic transition, labour market challenges, health care, universal education and gender issues. These challenges are addressed at...
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Springer
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2012-03-26
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Deliberative democracy now dominates the theory, reform, and study of democracy. Working at its cutting edges, Foundations and Frontiers ofDeliberative Governance reaches from conceptual underpinnings to the key challenges faced in applications to ever-increasing ranges...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-22
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Current Legal Issues, like its sister volumeCurrent Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at Univesity College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-08
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Current Legal Issues, like its sister volumeCurrent Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at Univesity College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-08
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The financial crisis that began in 2008 and its lingering aftermath have caused many intellectuals and politicians to question the virtues of capitalist systems.The 19 original essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars from Asia, North America, and Europe,...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-03-01
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Online news sites play an ever-pervasive role in the daily gathering and flow of political information. Media has always played an intermediary role in the way that citizens receive and process news, but, with the speed of information transmission, the segmentation of...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-02-24
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Going against both the naive techno-optimism of 'greening business as usual' and a resurgent 'catastrophism' within green thinking and politics, The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability offers an analysis of the causes of unsustainability and diminished human...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-02-23
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In this unique and engaging book, Sue Pryce tackles the major issues surrounding drug policy. Why do governments persist with prohibition policies, despite their proven inefficacy? Why are some drugs criminalized, and some not? And why does society care about drug use...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-02-14
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Die ethnische Komponente des zeitgenössischen montenegrinischen Nationsbildungsprozesses zielt auf eine Ausdifferenzierung montenegrinischen Identitätsbewusstseins im Sinne einer Abgrenzung zum Serbentum. Um diese Entwicklung verständlich zu machen, wird in dieser...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-10
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When Shane Dunphy starts work at Little Scamps crèche, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. He had not worked in an early years setting for many years and on arriving for his first day he found that two members of staff, Susan and Tush, are at the end of their...
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Constable
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2012-02-02
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The 2012 presidential campaign will, above all else, be a referendum on the Obama administration's handling of the financial crisis, recalling the period when Obama's "audacity of hope" met the austerity of reality. Central to this is the ''American Recovery and...
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PublicAffairs
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2012-01-31
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Draws on societies' unique histories, distinctive paths of institutional development and contrasting cultures to explain why they adopt different policies for common problems. It compares the United States with Sweden on tax policy, Canada on financing medical care,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-30
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In an online, interconnected world, democracy is increasingly made up of wikis and blogs, pokes and tweets. Citizens have become accidental journalists thanks to their handheld devices, politicians are increasingly working online, and the traditional sites of democracy...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-01-26
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Using an analytical framework based on Foucault's concept of governmentality and through unique case-studies, this volume explores the ongoing transformations taking place in the Swedish welfare state.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-25
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Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets presents a collection of works from social scientists that offer insights into mortgage markets and the causes, effects, and aftermath of the recent 'subprime' mortgage crisis. Provides an even-handed and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-01-19
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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Africa is a diverse continent. But is there a pattern to the diversity? Are there commonalities across the countries? And what does economics tell us about the diversity and the commonalities?
The Oxford Companion to the Economics ofAfrica is a definitive and...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-01-19
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Africa is a diverse continent. But is there a pattern to the diversity? Are there commonalities across the countries? And what does economics tell us about the diversity and the commonalities?
The Oxford Companion to the Economics ofAfrica is a definitive and...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-01-19
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