This Brief provides an integrated study of housing and climate policy at the local level. Drawing from an empirical research project across six cities in Finland and Germany, the book explores the d……続きを見る
In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers who……続きを見る
This provocative Element is on the 'state of the art' of theories that highlight policymaking complexity. It explains complexity in a way that is simple enough to understand and use. The primary aud……続きを見る
This book offers a step-by-step introduction to an integrated theory of physical and biological evolution, from the early universe to the world we know today. To this end, the well-known laws of var……続きを見る
Das Patriarchat ist kein Mythos. Bestsellerautorin Rebekka Endler macht sich in ihrem neuen Buch auf die Suche nach den Ursachen des Patriarchats und untersucht, welche misogynen Mythen bis heute un……続きを見る
This book considers and examines the concept of a Smart City in the context of improving the quality of life and sustainable development in Central and Eastern European cities.
The Smart City concep……続きを見る
The field of public participation is developing fast, with phenomena such as citizen science and crowdsourcing extending the resource base of research, stimulating innovation and making science more……続きを見る
Public administration and policy analysis education have long emphasized tidiness, stages, and rationality, but practitioners frequently must deal with a world where objectivity is buffeted by, repr……続きを見る
Learning is critical for our capacity to govern the environment and adapt proactively to complex and emerging environmental issues. Yet, underlying barriers can challenge our capacity for learning i……続きを見る
Gathering brings together essays by women of colour across the UK writing about their relationships with nature, in a genre long-dominated by male, white, middle-class writers. In redressing this im……続きを見る
著者:Patrick Kilby
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2019年03月13日
This book reviews the Green Revolution, starting with its inception and development from the 1940s to the 1970s, and leading to what is commonly referred to as a second Green Revolution in the 2000s……続きを見る
著者:Shankkar Aiyar
出版社: HarperCollins India
発売日: 2024年01月25日
Aadhaar was born in July 2009, yoking modern technology and management expertise to political will. The biometric-based unique identification system, built by tech czar Nandan Nilekani and his team ……続きを見る
In the West, shortsighted human self-interest has resulted in devastating environmental losses. The fur trade decimated beaver populations, and streams and wetland ecosystems deteriorated. Though mo……続きを見る
A social robot is a robot that interacts and communicates with humans or other autonomous physical agents by following social behaviors and rules attached to its role. We seem to accept the use of r……続きを見る
Schwangerschaft sowie Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie werden in der Soziologie in den letzten Dekaden verstärkt sozialwissenschaftlich erforscht, bisher jedoch nicht zusammengebracht. Die Studie……続きを見る
An efficient transportation system reduces the cost of distance by moving people and goods from their origins to their destinations as cheaply, quickly, and safely as possible. By enabling individua……続きを見る
This book is an exploration of energy and its unique role to date as one of the fundamental enabling and controlling factors in human development and progress at the scale of global civilization, an……続きを見る
A first-of-its-kind theoretical overview and practical guide to wargame design
Government, industry, and academia need better tools to explore threats, opportunities, and human interactions in cyber……続きを見る
»Armut hat System«: Warum wir in Deutschland eine soziale Zeitenwende brauchen – ein Appell der Tafel Deutschland-Geschäftsführerin
Sirkka Jendis – Geschäftsführerin der Tafel Deutschland – fordert ……続きを見る
Developing a processual understanding of world statehood, this book combines history, political philosophy, explanatory social science, and critical-reflexive futures studies. While doing so, it pos……続きを見る
A Critical Cultural Sociological Exploration of Attitudes toward Migration in Czechia: What Lies Beneath the Fear of the Thirteenth Migrant qualitatively deciphers what lies beneath the fears about ……続きを見る
This book provides a novel approach to the understanding and realization of the values of art. It argues that art has often been instrumentalized for state-building, to promote social inclusion of d……続きを見る
The range and scope of public policy interventions have been growing the world over, especially in the developing democratic societies, on account of market failures and the increasing compulsions o……続きを見る
This book introduces the concept of ‘knowledge alchemy’ to capture the generic process of transforming mundane practices and policies of governance into competitive ones following imagined global go……続きを見る
著者:Mark Kanazawa
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2023年07月20日
The methodological needs of environmental studies are unique in the breadth of research questions that can be posed, calling for a textbook that covers a broad swath of approaches to conducting rese……続きを見る
This book provides a comprehensive overview of how the course, content and outcome of policy making is affected by big data. It scrutinises the notion that big and open data makes policymaking a mor……続きを見る
Global warming is the most severe environmental challenge faced by humanity today and the costs of responding effectively will be high. While Russia's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol ensures the ……続きを見る
著者:Vegard Skirbekk
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2022年09月24日
Globally, women are having half as many children as they had just fifty years ago. Why have birth rates fallen, and how will low fertility affect our shared future?
In Decline and Prosper!, demograp……続きを見る
Guns 360 takes a comprehensive and common-sense approach to some of the most difficult issues facing not only the criminal justice system but also society as a whole: firearm possession, regulation,……続きを見る