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Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South: Balancing Urgency and Justice
ISBN: 9781032015460 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores how urgent decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences for energy poverty, justice and democracy, especially in the global South. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions, environmental justice, climate change and developing countries.
This book explores how urgent decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences for energy poverty, justice and d...
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209,42 |
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Social Work During COVID-19: Glocal Perspectives and Implications for the Future of Social Work
ISBN: 9781032215396 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focusses on social work in the time of COVID-19. Social workers, their clients, as well as the organisations they represent have been affected by the pandemic in multiple ways.
This book focusses on social work in the time of COVID-19. Social workers, their clients, as well as the organisations they represent have been affect...
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698,25 |
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The Unequal Costs of Covid-19 on Well-being in Europe
ISBN: 9783031144240 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume focuses on the wider wellbeing costs within European countries as a result of the outbreak of the pandemic and the control measures implemented thereafter. In particular, it considers to what extent Covid-19 and measures taken to cope with the crisis have weakened economic and social structures across Europe and what effect this has had on people’s lives. While many countries in Europe have reallocated public funding to health care, provided support to SMEs, vulnerable populations and regions hit by the crisis, the wellbeing or welfare costs, considered broadly, are still...
This volume focuses on the wider wellbeing costs within European countries as a result of the outbreak of the pandemic and the control measures implem...
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346,16 |
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Knowledge and the University: Islam and Development in the Southeast Asia Cooperation Region
ISBN: 9789811669880 / Angielski / Miękka / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at a substantively new model of educational philosophy and its application within the field of tertiary education, in relation to socio-economic development in Southeast Asian members of the Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC). Focusing on and drawing from the cross-regional South East Asian Cooperation (SEACO), a network promoting regional economic cooperation, the author presents a thoughtful evocation of a new orientation to educational philosophy and policy within the development context in the time of, and relating to, COVID-19. The generalized worldview of...
This book looks at a substantively new model of educational philosophy and its application within the field of tertiary education, in relation to so...
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447,98 |
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The Evolution of China’s Anti-Poverty Strategies: Cases of 20 Chinese Changing Lives
ISBN: 9789811972805 / Angielski / Twarda / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access book presents the findings of the author’s 3 decades of studying China’s evolving anti-poverty strategies. It argues that much of the billions that nations spend yearly on economic aid is used inefficiently or to treat the symptoms but not the root causes of poverty. China, however, has evolved an effective sustainable alternative by providing the means for self-reliance to not only relieve economic poverty but also poverty of spirit. As a result, the success of China’s historic war on poverty has been due not only to top-down visionary leadership but also to the...
This open access book presents the findings of the author’s 3 decades of studying China’s evolving anti-poverty strategies. It argues that much of...
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203,61 |
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The Evolution of China’s Anti-Poverty Strategies: Cases of 20 Chinese Changing Lives
ISBN: 9789811972836 / Angielski / Miękka / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access book presents the findings of the author’s 3 decades of studying China’s evolving anti-poverty strategies. It argues that much of the billions that nations spend yearly on economic aid is used inefficiently or to treat the symptoms but not the root causes of poverty. China, however, has evolved an effective sustainable alternative by providing the means for self-reliance to not only relieve economic poverty but also poverty of spirit. As a result, the success of China’s historic war on poverty has been due not only to top-down visionary leadership but also to the...
This open access book presents the findings of the author’s 3 decades of studying China’s evolving anti-poverty strategies. It argues that much of...
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162,88 |
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Sustainable Qatar: Social, Political and Environmental Perspectives
ISBN: 9789811973970 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires engagement with diverse areas of social-political, human, and environmental development. On the environmental aspects, the contributors address climate change, food security, water reuse and desalination, energy, and biodiversity. The socio-political section examines state strategy and regulation, the place of environmental law and geopolitics and sustainability innovators and...
This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-pol...
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203,61 |
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Sustainable Qatar: Social, Political and Environmental Perspectives
ISBN: 9789811974007 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires engagement with diverse areas of social-political, human, and environmental development. On the environmental aspects, the contributors address climate change, food security, water reuse and desalination, energy, and biodiversity. The socio-political section examines state strategy and regulation, the place of environmental law and geopolitics and sustainability innovators and...
This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-pol...
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162,88 |
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Gender, Communications, and Reproductive Health in International Development
ISBN: 9780228017547 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To this day, women globally are subjected to forms of control over their bodies, and their ability to exercise their reproductive rights in particular is still constrained. Amid a rise of challenges to the advancement of women’s rights, including the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade in the United States, sexual and reproductive health rights are at the forefront of conversations about the advancement of gender equality. To determine how communications are used strategically to shape policy, Carolina Matos explores fifty-two feminist and health NGOs from across the world and how they are...
To this day, women globally are subjected to forms of control over their bodies, and their ability to exercise their reproductive rights in particular...
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558,60 |
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Routledge Handbook of Asian Cities
ISBN: 9781032188409 / Angielski / Twarda / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities - developed and developing, large and small - and their urban development.
This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities - developed and developing, large and small - and their urban development.
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1122,19 |
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The Economic Rise of East Asia: Development Paths of Japan, South Korea, and China
ISBN: 9783030871307 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In light of the growing global economic importance of East Asia, this book analyzes and compares the extraordinary development paths and strategies of Japan, South Korea, and China. It examines both the factors that enabled these countries’ prolonged periods of high-speed economic growth, and the reasons for their subsequent “cool-downs.” In addition, the book illustrates how their development strategies served as role models for one another, and what current and future developing countries can learn from the East Asian success stories. This book will appeal to scholars and students of...
In light of the growing global economic importance of East Asia, this book analyzes and compares the extraordinary development paths and strategies of...
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264,71 |
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The Principle of Solidarity: International and EU Law Perspectives
ISBN: 9789462655744 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume explores the principle of solidarity in international and EU law. Although the concept is regularly invoked in international and EU legal and policy debates alike, its meaning, nature and functions, as well as normative contours still remain nebulous.The contributions in this volume reflect on the legal trajectory of solidarity in international and EU law and offer unique insights into the evolution and status of the principle in different fields of international and EU law. By doing so, the book also serves as a springboard for answering broader questions pertaining to...
This edited volume explores the principle of solidarity in international and EU law. Although the concept is regularly invoked in international and EU...
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651,63 |
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The Quiet Violence of Empire: How USAID Waged Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
ISBN: 9781517907891 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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433,91 |
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Exchange and Markets in Early Economic Development: Informal Economy in the Three New Guineas
ISBN: 9781800739680 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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518,70 |
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Marek Thee: My Story: A Journey through the 20th Century
ISBN: 9783031169045 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marek Thee was a Jewish Polish journalist, scholar, and activist. This book tells his life from narrowly escaping death in the Holocaust to exile in Palestine, where he became attached to the Polish consular service. On his return to Poland in 1950, he worked for the Foreign Ministry and later for the Polish Institute for International Affairs. He served as Head of the Polish delegation to the International Control Commission in Indochina in the late 1950s. In 1968 he lost his job and his Polish citizenship in a nationalistic and antisemitic campaign. He was able to move to Norway where he...
Marek Thee was a Jewish Polish journalist, scholar, and activist. This book tells his life from narrowly escaping death in the Holocaust to exile in P...
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122,15 |
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Multicriteria Location Analysis
ISBN: 9783031238758 / Angielski / Twarda / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book applies Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) tools and techniques to problems in location analysis. It begins with a generic model for MCDM and subsequently develops specific versions of the technique for particular location problems. Throughout the book, MCDM is understood to encompass all tools and techniques that choose or rank existing or feasible solutions, including discrete multi-attribute decision making (MADM) problems, which typically include an attribute table that specifies the consequences of each decision with regard to the given criteria, as well as multi-objective...
This book applies Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) tools and techniques to problems in location analysis. It begins with a generic model for MCDM ...
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488,71 |
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Economics and Policy of Energy and Environmental Sustainability
ISBN: 9789811950605 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the linkages among economic development, energy, and environment. An increase in economic activity is correlated with a higher level of energy consumption, which in turn leads to an increase in environmental pollution. Due to the influence of greenhouse gases, the higher the concentration of pollutants in the atmosphere, the higher the temperature, which ultimately leads to climate change. Under these imminent dangers, the role of economic and energy efficiency policies becomes important for ecological sustainability. The present policies, however, in various instances,...
This book explores the linkages among economic development, energy, and environment. An increase in economic activity is correlated with a higher leve...
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610,90 |
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The Doraleh Disputes: Infrastructure Politics in The Global South
ISBN: 9789811974403 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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209,95 |
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Disasters in the Philippines: Before and After Haiyan
ISBN: 9781529222906 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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508,67 |
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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics
ISBN: 9780197515037 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The complexities and scope of environmental issues have not only outpaced the capacities and responsiveness of traditional political actors but also generated new innovations, constituencies, and approaches to governing environmental problems. In response, comparative environmental politics (CEP) has emerged as a vibrant and growing field of scholarly inquiry, embracing new questions and methods even as it addresses enduring questions in the broader field of comparative politics. Utilizing a range of methodological approaches, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics delves...
The complexities and scope of environmental issues have not only outpaced the capacities and responsiveness of traditional political actors but also g...
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632,36 |