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Goods and services of marine bivalves
The aim of this book is to review and analyse the goods and services of bivalve shellfish. How they are defined, what determines the ecological functions that are the basis for the goods and services, what controversies in the use of goods and services exist, and what is needed for sustainable exploitation of bivalves from the perspective of the various stakeholders. The book is focused on the …
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- 9783319967769
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- xxv, 591p. : ill.
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- 577.6 GOO g
HIgher education in globalized world: governance, competition and performance
This book offers an improved understanding of European higher education, both from a scientific and a policy point of view.
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- 9782800414225
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- 300p.: ill
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- 378.4 LUC h
Agency and causal explanation in economics
This open access book provides an exploration of the consequences of the ontological differences between natural and social objects (sometimes described as objects of nature and objects of thought) in the workings of causal and agency relationships. One of its important and possibly original conclusions is that causal and agency relationships do not encompass all of the dependent relationships …
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- 9783030261146
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- xv, 171p. : ill.
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- 330 AGE a
Alternative economies and spaces: new perspectives for a sustainable economy
The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Roger Lee, Peter North, and Katinka Weber) concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange. The cases addressed in these contributions – including credit unions, alternative currencies, sustainable consumption, and social enterprise…
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- 9783837624984 (pbk.)
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- 156 pages ; 23 cm.
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- Global studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
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- 330 ZAD a
Energy justice across borders
We must find new and innovative ways of conceptualizing transboundary energy issues, of embedding concerns of ethics or justice into energy policy, and of operationalizing response to them. This book stems from the emergent gap; the need for comparative approaches to energy justice, and for those that consider ethical traditions that go beyond the classical Western approach. This edited vol…
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- 9783030240219
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- xiv, 305p. : ill.
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- 333.79 ENE e
Fulfilling the promise of technology transfer : fostering innovation for the …
Universities and research institutes are increasingly expected to contribute to society by creating innovation from the returns of their research results and the establishment of new technologies. Toward that goal, Keio University in Japan held an international symposium titled “Fulfilling the Promise of Technology Transfer: Fostering Innovation for the Benefit of Society.” From that sympos…
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- 9784431543060
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- viii, 128p. : ill.
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- 338.926 FUL f
Manifesto of the new economy : institutions and business models of the digita…
The book describes the main directions for the development of the digital society. The author angles its book to those who are interested to know what would replace search engines, and how social networks would evolve; what profit can be made of different forms of informational collaboration (crowdsourcing, collaborative filtering). And, the main thing, how it will influence the structure of th…
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- 9783642212772
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- vi, 145p. : ill.
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- 330 DOL m
Economic complexity and human development: how economic diversification and s…
This book combines the human development approach and innovation economics in order to explore the effects that structural economic change has on human development. The author discusses how innovation, social networks, economic dynamics and human development are interlinked, and provides several practical examples of social and micro-entrepreneurship in contexts as diverse as Peruvian rural vil…
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- 9780415858915
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- xxiv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- 306.3 HAR e
Enabling sustainable energy transitions : practices of legitimation and accou…
This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy transitions contribute to sustainability. The real-world challenge of climat…
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- 9783030268916
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- xxi, 168p. : ill.
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- 333.79 ENA e
Disrupted development and the future of inequality in the age of automation
This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global ‘robot reserve army’ has profound effects on labor markets and economic development, but, rather than causing mass unemployment, new technologies are more likely to lead to stagnant wages and premature deindustrial…
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- 9783030301316
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- xiii, 102p. : ill.
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- 338.9 SCH d
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