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Tackling one of the most controversial subjects of our time, one of the world's foremost environmental and petroleum engineers explores the potential causes and ramifications of global climate change. For too many years climate change (also referred to as global...
Editeur :
Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2019-12-02
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This Handbook presents a broad yet nuanced portrait of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, its socio-political rifts, economic challenges, foreign policy priorities and historical complexities.
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has traditionally been an oasis of peace and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-30
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Predatory Value Extraction explains how an ideology of corporate resource allocation known as 'maximizing shareholder value' (MSV) that emerged in the 1980s came to dominate strategic thinking in business schools and corporate boardrooms in the United States....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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The unconditional basic income (UBI) has attracted renewed attention in academia, as well as in public discussions in recent years, and much has been written on the possible consequences of a UBI. However, this is the first book focusing on the UBI in Europe that offers...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-27
Collection :
Contributions to Economics
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This book examines childhood in four Caribbean SIDS (Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti and St. Lucia). Through the analysis of primary and secondary data, the author reveals that children in Caribbean SIDS experience an endangered childhood. The intrinsic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-25
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Das Buch untersucht aktuelle Entwicklungen der Konstruktion von sozialer Differenz in spätmodernen Gesellschaften. Damit werden Ansatzpunkte für eine kritische Revision der Differenzbezeichnungen identifiziert, die Gruppen von Nutzerinnen und Nutzern homogenisieren und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-25
Collection :
Perspektiven Sozialwirtschaft und Sozialmanagement
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?The mining sector has been an integral part of economic development in many African countries. Although minerals have been exploited for decades in these countries, the benefits have not always been as visible. This has necessitated reforms including nationalisation of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-22
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This book exposes the barriers to inclusive and effective public policy making, which are the current decision making paradigm and commonly held ideas that reduce public policy problems to scientific and technical ones. Through both environmental policy and other...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-16
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With protectionist sentiment and economic nationalism on the rise, international trade and how it is governed is at the heart of some of the most important contemporary economic and political debates. Comprehensive and clear, this book skilfully outlines and analyses...
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Polity
Parution :
2019-11-12
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What is life like for workers in the gig economy? Is it a paradise of flexibility and individual freedom? Or is it a world of exploitation and conflict? Callum Cant took a job with one of the most prominent platforms, Deliveroo, to find out. His vivid account of the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-11
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In 1984, Pranab Bardhan published his classic work The Political Economy of Development in India. It went on to become one of the most influential references on the political economy of development in the pre-reform period of independent India. Class and Conflict...
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OUP India
Parution :
2019-11-09
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This book explores human well-being in South Asia from a policy dimension. It discusses the cultural history and diversity of the region in order to highlight major priority areas of public policy to improve people’s quality of life. The huge gap between economic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-08
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This book asks the question, how would economics look today and into the future if one started with a blank sheet of paper? Written mainly for a technical audience, yet accessible to the lay reader, Economics of a Crowded Planet addresses the ontology, epistemology...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-08
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Looming trade wars and rising nationalism have stirred troubling memories of the 1930s. Will history repeat itself? Do we face the chaotic breakdown of the global economic system in the face of stagnation, protectionism and political tumult? Jeremy Green argues that,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-08
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This book examines the integration experiences of refugees to Sweden from Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), and more recently from Syria (2014-2018) - two of the largest-scale refugee movements in Europe for the last thirty years.
It focuses on refugees’ interactions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-06
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This book is about how coast guards are becoming states’ foremost tool to manage changes occurring in ocean politics generally, and in the Arctic specifically. It looks at states’ rights at sea, changes occurring in the Arctic region, how coast guards are handling...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-04
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The migration movement, which has taken place since the beginning of the story of mankind, increasingly continues voluntarily or compulsorily for various reasons such as social challenges, technological revolutions and wars. Due to migration, many new questions emerge...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-10-31
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Daniela Strüngmann entwickelt ein integratives Legitimitätsmodell, mit dem sie die Akzeptanz öffentlicher Verwaltung bei den Bürgern erklärt. Anhand eines Mehrmethodenansatzes gewinnt sie aus der Empirie eine Typologie von Akzeptanztypen und untersucht Einflussfaktoren...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-10-25
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The book discusses the socio-cultural-historical, occupational, educational, employment and discriminatory status of one of the most neglected and marginalised communities: the de-notified tribes or ex-criminal tribes of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Based on primary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-24
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This book discusses the role of regional design and visioning in the formation of regional territorial governance to offer a better understanding of (1) how a recognition of spatial dynamics and the visualization of spatial futures informs, and is informed by, planning...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-22
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