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AiREAS: sustainocracy for a healthy city : Phase 3: civilian participation - …
Development Economics, Atmospheric Protection / Air Quality Control / Air Pollution, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Group Theory and Generalizations, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
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- 9783319456201
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- xiii, 333 p
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- SpringerBriefs on Case Studies of Sustainable Development
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- 307.12160949245 JEA
Agriculture and Food Security in China What Effect WTO Accession and Regiona…
China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) has had profound consequences for the structure of its economy, and there will many more before the full benefits of an open trading regime will be realised. Agriculture and Food Security in China explains the background to China’s WTO accession and links accession to reforms beginning as far back as 1979. The book highlights China…
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- 9781921313646
- Collation
- 440 p
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- Call Number
- 338.1851 CHU a
Social Enterprise in Western Europe : Theory, Models and Practice
In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project on which this book is based was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and …
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- 9780429621772
- Collation
- ix, 368 p
- Series Title
- Routledge Studies in Social Enterprise & Social Innovation
- Call Number
- 338.6094 DEF s
Ethics and Auditing
Ethics and Auditing examines ethical challenges exposed by recent accounting and auditing ‘lapses’ through a study of interconnected moral, legal and accounting issues. The book aims to engage a broad readership in the discussion of audit failure and reform. With its range of intellectual and practical perspectives, Ethics and Auditing provides critical analyses of auditor independence, …
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- 9781920942267
- Collation
- 388 p
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- Call Number
- 657.45 CAM e
Sociology in Germany : a history
This open access book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise overview of the main actors, institutional processes, theories, methods, topics and controversies. Throughout the book, the author relates the discipline’s history to its historical, economic, political and cultural contexts. The book begins with sociology in…
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- 9783030718664
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- 301.0943 MOE s
Atlas of global change risk of population and economic systems
This book is open access and illustrates the spatial distribution of the global change risk of population and economic systems with the maps of environment, global climate change, global population and economic systems, and global change risk. The risks of global change are mapped at 0.25 degree grid unit. The risk results and their contribution rates of the world at national level are unpreced…
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- 9789811666919
- Collation
- XXII, 278 p
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- Call Number
- 363.73874 SHI a
Indian agriculture towards 2030 : pathways for enhancing farmers' income, nut…
This open access book brings together varying perspectives for transformational change needed in India’s agriculture and allied sectors. Stressing the need of thinking for a post-Green Revolution future, the book promotes approaching this change through eight broad areas, indicating the policy shifts needed to meet the challenges for the coming decade (2021-2030). The book comprises of ten…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789811907630
- Collation
- XV, 311
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- -
- Call Number
- 338.1854 Ind
Making sense of the future
Making Sense of the Future integrates the latest thinking in Future Studies with the author’s expertise in world history, economics, interdisciplinary studies, knowledge organization, and political activism. The book takes a systems approach that recognizes the complexity of our world. It begins by suggesting a set of goals for human societies and identifying innovative strategies for achievi…
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- 9781003186854
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- xiv + 193 p
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- 303.49 RIC m
Energy Justice Across Borders
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 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 beyon…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783030240219
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- XIV, 305
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- 333.79 Ene
Celebrity bromances : constructing, interpreting and utilising personas
This comprehensive work presents a thorough exploration of celebrity “bromances,” interrogating how bromances are portrayed in media and consumed by audiences to examine themes of celebrity persona, performativity and authenticity. The authors examine how the performance of intimate male friendships functions within broadly “Western” celebrity culture from thr…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003093329
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- xviii + 140 p
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- 791.430280811 LAM c
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