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Valuing Environment and Natural Resources
Av Kenneth G. Willis, Guy Garrod
Inbunden, 2012
12205 kr
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Over-exploitation of environment and natural resources is becoming increasingly widespread in the modern world. To combat this, environmental economists have attempted to value such resources in order to ensure that they are given due recognition in any ex ante appraisal, or ex post evaluation of …
Geopolitics of Natural Resources
Inbunden, 2011
5496 kr
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This significant collection examines the diverse ways natural resources are managed and controlled and the controversies that arise regarding their use, allocation, and protection resulting from governance decisions and policies. Professor Feldman has selected seminal works which focus on several …
Health, Mortality and the Standard of Living in Europe and North America since 1700
Av Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
14808 kr
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This research review offers an essential guide to debates about the causes and consequences of the decline of mortality and the improvement of human health over the last three centuries. It discusses the early-life origins of adult health and disease, changes in height, weight and body mass, the …
Classics in Port Policy and Management
Av Mary R. Brooks, Athanasios A. Pallis
Inbunden, 2012
5304 kr
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This path-breaking research review brings together seminal contributions from 50 years of scholarly research in port policy and management. In revisiting the key foundations established by previous researchers, the reader will discover the knowledge necessary to examine these issues in new contexts …
Environmental Regulation
Av John McEldowney, Sharron McEldowney
Inbunden, 2014
6920 kr
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Featuring an original introduction by the editors, this important collection of essays explores the main issues surrounding the regulation of the environment. The expert contributors illustrate that regulating the environment in the UK is conceptually complex, involves a diverse range of …
Political Economy of Arab Gulf States
Inbunden, 2012
6552 kr
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This insightful research collection examines the internal and external transformation of the Arab Gulf states and their repositioning within the global order. It explores the interlocking challenges of transition toward post-rentier structures of governance and assesses the domestic, regional and …
Globalization of Higher Education
Av Roger King, Simon Marginson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
6207 kr
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This comprehensive book provides a collection of the critical papers that have been published in the fast-growing field of the globalization of higher education. They include work by a variety of noted scholars, such as Altbach, Clark and Marginson, which cover key areas of theoretical and …
Politics of the Arctic
Inbunden, 2013
5624 kr
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The Arctic ice cap is melting and scientists are uncertain about how this will affect ecosystems. At the same time, the Arctic is the object of heated political discussion. Who shall extract the oil when the ice disappears? How are marine delimitation lines established? Who will control the new sea …
Environmental Politics
Inbunden, 2013
7931 kr
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This significant collection surveys 41 pioneering and influential articles in the field of environmental politics. It maps the historical trends and current research directions, revealing the most important debates and findings in this energetic area of scholarship. Themes covered include …
Law and Entrepreneurship
Av Robert E. Litan, Anthony J. Luppino
Inbunden, 2013
6018 kr
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The symbiosis that exists between entrepreneurship and law is of paramount importance in accommodating and advancing the freedom to innovate, as well as the need to prevent unfair and abusive activities. Seminal articles and essays reprinted in this collection examine several major subject areas of …
Business Regulation
Inbunden, 2015
20479 kr
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This comprehensive collection conveys leading scholarly ideas on modern regulatory governance since 1871. The first two volumes lay out the rationales for and critiques of technocratic governance in industrialized societies. They trace the evolution of regulatory institutions, highlighting the most …
Geopolitics of Foreign Aid
Av Helen V. Milner, Dean Tingley
Inbunden, 2013
10538 kr
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Foreign aid remains a crucial policy tool of donor countries, and many countries throughout the world have been or continue to be recipients of aid. In this research review, Professor Milner and Professor Tingley bring together the key published articles from a variety of disciplines which explore …
Biotechnology, Agriculture and Development
Av Peter W.B. Phillips, David Castle m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
6542 kr
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Recent innovations in agriculture and food technologies have brought benefits to many countries, particularly in developing regions, but information about the extent of these has often been sparse. This research review examines the best papers on the subject to form a comprehensive, global …
Political Governance in China
Inbunden, 2014
6199 kr
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Including key research articles from specialists in the field, this volume provides an introduction and critical insights into the most important debates surrounding the governance of contemporary China. The material will enable readers to understand how China is ruled, how participation and …
Business History
Av Walter A. Friedman, Geoffrey Jones
Inbunden, 2013
5924 kr
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This important book assembles formative articles that demonstrate how business history emerged as a discipline from the interwar years until the present day. The essays, drawn from authors in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, document the remarkable intellectual achievements of the …
Islam and the Law of Armed Conflict
Essential Readings
Av Niaz A. Shah
Inbunden, 2015
6713 kr
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This important collection reveals a multiplicity of perspectives on the Islamic law of war and peace. Prefaced by an original introduction, the carefully selected works demonstrate how the concept of Jihad is interpreted or misinterpreted. They also examine the rules applicable during the conduct …
Institutions and the Environment
Inbunden, 2013
8943 kr
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This title contains the definitive contributions to the institutional foundations of environmental issues. It covers the foundations of welfare economics, externalities, market failure, and the central nexus of law and economics. Each contribution illustrates the fundamental importance of …
Developments in Social Impact Assessment
Inbunden, 2014
7073 kr
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Along with environmental impact assessment, social impact assessment (SIA) has its origins in the 1970s and has developed from being a tool to meet regulatory requirements, to a discipline that seeks to contribute proactively to better project and policy development and to enhance the wellbeing of …
Whistleblowing Law
Inbunden, 2015
11083 kr
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This collection, edited by a leading authority, presents key literature published in the last 30 years discussing the topic of whistleblowing law. The papers analyze the contours of the field, including perspectives from which to examine whistleblower laws, the issues arising in the implementation …
Services and Innovation
Av Faïz Gallouj, Faridah Djellal
Inbunden, 2015
6949 kr
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Service innovation is a young but prolific research field, with a rapidly increasing number of publications being dedicated to the area. This title explores the most significant articles that helped build and develop this field from a theoretical, empirical and methodological perspective. In this …
Political Corruption
Av Bo Rothstein
Inbunden, 2015
6850 kr
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Political corruption is a problem as old as society itself. As a fixture of political science and related disciplines, however, it is new and rapidly-developing, having only received very modest coverage until the late 1990s. The recent shattering of the taboo surrounding the discussion of …
Business and Government
Av David Coen, Wyn Grant
Inbunden, 2016
7725 kr
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This comprehensive volume brings together the key articles on relations between business and government from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. The editors have selected works that explore the themes of business and the state, organizing the firm for political action, managing government …
Advances in Political Methodology
Inbunden, 2017
6199 kr
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This research collection offers a 34-article tour of recent advances and the current state of 5 important and booming areas of empirical methodology: Bayesian methods; modelling of temporal duration, dependence, and dynamics; network-analytic methodology; text, classification, and big-data analytic …
Police Corruption: Essential Readings
Inbunden, 2014
5753 kr
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Police corruption is unquestionably one of the worst forms of corruption, as it can become a serious security issue and undermine a state's legitimacy. This research review brings together the most informative scholarly and practitioner contributions on the subject in recent decades. It covers …
Ethics, Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Inbunden, 2016
7828 kr
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Climate change cannot be fully understood or effectively mitigated without considering its ethical aspects. This volume brings together recent journal articles, written by eminent experts in the field, to illuminate the ethics of climate change and the related questions of justice. The editor has …
Islam and the Challenges of Western Capitalism
Inbunden, 2014
4604 kr
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This unique book brings together some of the finest minds in comparative economic / financial history and modern Islamic finance to discuss the rise, the decline and the contemporary efforts to regenerate Islamic capitalism. The collection features articles on the contribution of classical Muslim …
Multi-level Governance: Essential Readings
Av Ian Bache, Matthew Flinders
Inbunden, 2015
12390 kr
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The term multi-level governance (MLG) has emerged from its origins in EU studies in the early 1990s to become a commonly used description of politics and policy-making in a range of settings. This collection discusses seminal papers covering three waves of MLG scholarship; the first wave focuses …
Foundations of Bureaucracy in Economic and Social Thought
Av Bill Jenkins, Edward C. Page
Inbunden, 2004
12530 kr
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These two landmark volumes - prepared by leading authorities in the field - locate bureaucracy in its proper historical and theoretical context. They demonstrate that far from being a spent force bureaucratic organisations and processes are, and will continue to be, of central importance in the new …
Advances in Entrepreneurship
Inbunden, 2000
15886 kr
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This important three-volume collection focuses upon several major themes relating to the entrepreneur, the organisation and the environment for entrepreneurship. It includes articles that focus upon opportunity recognition and exploitation, creativity, risk and uncertainty, ability based on skills, …
Classics in Risk Management
Inbunden, 2004
10534 kr
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This two-volume collection of key papers by leading scholars provides a comprehensive perspective on the evaluation and performance of risk regulation policies. An analysis of the statistical life provides the basis for an examination of the risk money tradeoffs reflected in individual decisions in …
