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Ethics dumping : case studies from north-south research collaborations
This book provides original, up-to-date case studies of “ethics dumping” that were largely facilitated by loopholes in the ethics governance of low and middle-income countries. It is instructive even to experienced researchers since it provides a voice to vulnerable populations from the forementioned countries. Ensuring the ethical conduct of North-South collaborations in research is a proc…
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- 9783319647319
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- xiii, 134p. : ill.
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- 174.9 ETH e
Competition and cooperation in economics and business
Asia and the Pacific have become the growth engine of the world economy with the contribution of two-third of the global growth. The book discusses current issues in economics, business, and accounting in which economic agents, as individuals, entrepreneurs and professionals, as well as countries in the Asia and Pacific regions compete and collaborate with each other and with the rest of the gl…
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- 9781315225227
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- XII, 504 p.
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- 382.091823 COM c
Handbook of life course health development
This handbook synthesizes and analyzes the growing knowledge base on life course health development (LCHD) from the prenatal period through emerging adulthood, with implications for clinical practice and public health. It presents LCHD as an innovative field with a sound theoretical framework for understanding wellness and disease from a lifespan perspective, replacing previous medical, biopsyc…
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- 9783319471433
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- xxiv, 664p. : ill.
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- 362.1 HAN h
Climate smart agriculture : building resilience to climate change
The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation. Drawing upon theory and concepts from agricultural development, institutional, and resource economics, this book expands and formalizes the conceptual foundations of CSA. Focusing on the adaptation/resilience dimension of CSA,…
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- 9783319611945
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- xviii, 630p. : ill.
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- 338.1 CLI c
Multi-dimensional approaches towards new technology : insights on innovation,…
This open access edited book captures the complexities and conflicts arising at the interface of intellectual property rights (IPR) and competition law. To do so, it discusses four specific themes: (a) policies governing functioning of standard setting organizations (SSOs), transparency and incentivising future innovation; (b) issue of royalties for standard essential patents (SEPs) and related…
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- 9789811312328
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- xxv, 337p. : ill.
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- 346.048 MUL m
Wellbeing economics : The Capabilities Approach to Prosperity
Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, environmental damage, rising inequality and enduring poverty. Alternatives must be found. This open access book addresses that challenge. It sets out a wellbeing economics f…
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- 1st edition.
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- 9783319931944
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- 330 DAL w
The delusion of knowledge transfer : the impact of foreign aid experts on pol…
With the rise of the ‘knowledge for development’ paradigm, expert advice has become a prime instrument of foreign aid. At the same time, it has been object of repeated criticism: the chronic failure of ‘technical assistance’ – a notion under which advice is commonly subsumed – has been documented in a host of studies. Nonetheless, international organisations continue to send advisor…
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- 9781928331391
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- XI, 383 p
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- 330.968 KOC d
The economy as a complex spatial system : macro, meso and micro perspectives
This collected volume represents the final outcome of the COST Action IS1104 “The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evaluation”. Visualizing the EU as a complex and multi-layered network, the book is organized in three parts, each of them dealing with a different level of analysis: At the macro-level, Part I considers the interactions within la…
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- 9783319656274
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- xii, 220p. : ill.
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- 330.9 ECO e
The EU and China in African authoritarian regimes : domestic politics and gov…
This open access book analyses the domestic politics of African dominant party regimes, most notably African governments’ survival strategies, to explain their variance of opinions and responses towards the reforming policies of the EU. The author discredits the widespread assumption that the growing presence of China in Africa has made the EU’s task of supporting governance reforms difficu…
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- 9783319635910
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- xvi, 261p. : ill.
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- 341.2422096 HAC e
Energy poverty : (dis)assembling Europe's infrastructural divide
This open access book aims to consolidate and advance debates on European and global energy poverty by exploring the political and infrastructural drivers and implications of the condition across a variety of spatial scales. It highlights the need for a geographical conceptualization of the different ways in which household-level energy deprivation both influences and is contingent upon dispari…
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- 9783319692999
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- xiv, 117p. : ill.
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- 333.79 BOU e
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