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There was a time when the phrase "American family" conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.5 kids living comfortable lives in a middle-class suburb. Today, that image has been shattered, due in part to skyrocketing divorce...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-04-01
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Since the 2008 financial crisis, researchers and policy makers have been looking to empirical data to distil both what happened and how a similar event can be avoided in the future. In Lit and Dark Liquidity with Lost Time Data, Vuorenmaa analyses liquidity to better...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-03-12
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Klimaskeptiker schließen einen anthropogen verursachten Klimawandel aus und zweifeln an der Glaubwürdigkeit wissenschaftlicher Ergebnisse sowie an dem Zwischenstaatlichen Ausschuss für Klimaänderungen (IPCC). Eine öffentliche Klimaskepsis in Deutschland ist – im...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-05
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A number of developing countries, including small island states have common problems that have affected their development and growth. Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives can be used to address some of these issues, but these developing countries need to understand...
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Springer
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2014-02-03
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Welche Faktoren fördern den regionalen Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien? Vier untersuchte Regionen mit unterschiedlichen Rahmenbedingungen, Prozessen und Akteuren bauen erneuerbare Energien aus und liefern Vorbilder für Nachahmer. Interviews mit Experten zeigen ein...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-30
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In various European countries the two world wars are remembered in very different ways, although everywhere one can find monuments which serve as material objectification of the memory of war. However, such objectifications not only determine certain patterns of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-15
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Die Arbeit bringt erstmals eine zusammenfassende Darstellung und Analyse der Entstehung des Atomgesetzes vom 23.12.1959. Zunächst wird die geschichtliche Entwicklung der Kernenergieforschung und friedlichen Kernenergienutzung in der Bundesrepublik und in der DDR...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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Why a book on new towns? Simply put, new towns are special cases in terms of urban development and the organisation of space. They are challenging adventures, reflecting different surroundings and trends and bringing together in one place a whole host of political,...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2013-11-05
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The cumulative body of research on borderlands is impressive for its diversity, its interdisciplinarity and its broad scope. One of the richest characteristics of this field is the tendency for scholars to treat borderlands as puzzles which need to be (re)composed. This...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2013-11-04
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This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance. Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-09-23
Collection :
Development and Change Special Issues
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Als fünftgrößter Staat der Erde zählt Brasilien zu den Top Ten der weltweit größten Volkswirtschaften. Die inländische Wirtschaft weist hohe Wachstumsraten auf, und aussichtsreiche Zahlen bei Außenhandel, Investitionen und Beschäftigungszuwachs erhöhen das...
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Springer Gabler
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2013-07-31
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Die von Erdbeben und Tsunamis ausgelöste Reaktorkatastrophe im japanischen Kernkraftwerk Fukushima Dai Ichi beeinflusste die Energiepolitik weltweit. Während sie den Kernenergieausstieg in Deutschland besiegelte, wächst in Japan die Konfrontation zwischen einer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-13
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In the past 25 years, the distribution of income and wealth in Britain and the US has grown enormously unequal, far more so than in other advanced countries. The book, which is aimed at both an academic and a general audience, examines how this happened, starting with...
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Polity
Parution :
2013-04-29
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Dramatic scenes of devastation and suffering caused by disasters such as the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, are viewed with shock and horror by millions of us across the world. What we rarely see, however, are the international politics of disaster aid,...
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Polity
Parution :
2013-04-18
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In a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice. Citizens...
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Polity
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2013-04-16
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Natural resources are exploited on a daily basis to provide basic services but they are managed for different purposes. Strategic environmental governance has been one of the most successful notions in the political arena and in the academic literature in recent times....
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2013-02-21
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Changing Welfare States is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform trajectories and political destinations in an era of rapid socioeconomic restructuring,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-12-14
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Does globalization erode the nation state's capacity to act? Are nation states forced to change their policies even if this goes against the democratic will of their electorates? How does government action change under conditions of globalization? Questions like these...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-10-11
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Welfare States and Immigrant Rights deals with the impact of welfare states on immigrants' social rights, economic well-being and social inclusion, and it offers the first systematic comparison of immigrants' social rights across welfare states. To study immigrants'...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-08-30
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