The papers in Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Social Exclusion represent the most current research on poverty, deprivation, and income mobility.
Katrin Marquardt leistet mit diesem Buch einen Beitrag zur Vertiefung des theoretischen und praktischen Wissens in den Themengebieten Nachhaltigkeit und soziale Verantwortlichkeit, zu Programmen und Initiativen zur Förderung der Nachhaltigkeit und zur Digitalisierung der europäischen Industrie, sowie zu Digitalisierung und Innovationen im Kontext von nachhaltigen und verantwortungsvollen Business.
This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles - environmental, societal, and economic - that have curtailed such visions.
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an agricultural cooperative running a training programme for aspiring farmers, this book explores the possibilities of agrarian and land-based modes of livelihood in contemporary Japan.
People organising to protect their environment is not a new phenomenon, but the groups that have been pushing for environmental change since the 1970s have not convinced sufficient numbers make sustainable decisions or to lead sustainable lives.
Planning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban Spectacle explores the role of smaller scale events in contributing to the renewal and development of urban societies.
Food and architecture, the two pillars of human civilization, have intertwined to such extents to sustain the civilization itself, that the connection between the two has visually ceased to exist.
This textbook provides a broad introduction to the relationship between climate change, economics, and climate policy for young readers and future generations.
This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of building design and construction, by focusing on new design solutions for buildings and new technologies creation for construction, as presented by researchers and engineers at the 4th International Conference Building Innovations (ICBI), held in Poltava - Baku, Ukraine - Azerbaijan, on May 19-20, 2022.
Although Green approaches to politics have had some practical successes in a range of different countries, the movement has lacked a fully developed and coherent political theory.
This book draws upon the expertise of academic researchers, urban planners and architects to explore the challenge of building the sustainable cities of the future.
Das Lehrbuch Versorgungsforschung richtet sich an Studierende, Lehrende und Forschende sowie Interessierte aus den Bereichen Versorgungspraxis, Forschungsförderung, Selbstverwaltung und Gesundheitspolitik.
This book introduces the Eora, Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) and World Input-Output (WIOD) databases and provides detailed metadata on the data sources, database structures and construction techniques used to build each system.
This book discusses Bangladesh's economic and social development that may be called a "e;miracle"e; since the country has achieved remarkable development progress under several unfavorable situations: weak governance and political instabilities, inequality, risks entailed in rapid urbanization, and exposure to severe disaster risks.
This book provides an up-to-date series of advanced chapters on applied financial econometric techniques pertaining the various fields of commodities finance, mathematics & stochastics, international macroeconomics and financial econometrics.
This important textbook has been revised and updated to continue its focus on the link between ethics and economic policy analysis, whilst ensuring that perspectives addressing the moral limits of the market, latest behavioural economics literature, and the changes in inequality over the years are included.
This book presents a systemic view of the global environmental economy under the conditions of climate change from the positions of Sustainable Development Goals.
In this book, the authors analyze big data on global interdependence caused by the flows of commodities, money, and people, using a network science approach to obtain differing views of globalization and to clarify the facts on isolation of communities.
Recent technological advancements and other related factors and trends are contributing to the production of an astoundingly large and rapidly accelerating collection of data, or 'Big Data'.
