This volume presents the unique features of child abuse and neglect and discusses proposed as well as experimented protective measures to create awareness about child rights and their implementation.
This edited contribution explores strategies and measures for leveraging the potential of skilled diasporas and for advancing knowledge-based evidence on return skilled migration and its impact on development.
This book presents a comparative study of the vision, ability and dynamism on the part of governments in selected Asian Pacific countries as they engage in the distribution of e-governance.
In the light of multiple corporate debacles, financial crises and environmental disasters across the globe, the need for corporate goals to transition from simply maximising shareholder wealth to optimising stakeholder welfare is being echoed in various quarters.
What changes are occurring at the macro and the sectoral levels, how the labour market changes are taking place and what impact is felt on the low income households are some of the questions that the present volume focuses on.
There has been, of late, a growing realisation that the pace and pattern of economic development of a country can hardly be understood and explained comprehensively in terms of the straitjacket of economics discipline alone.
En la obra se analizan los principales factores, variables y atributos que permiten aproximarse a la realidad agraria y rural del departamento de Casanare como escenario para reconocer su importancia, asi como exaltar sus oportunidades en virtud de construir propuestas de desarrollo sostenible a traves de la multifuncionalidad de la agricultura, la multidimensionalidad rural y los diferentes actores territoriales.
En estas paginas se desvela la realidad de las victimas del conflicto armado en Mocoa, un municipio donde el 50 % de la poblacion se encuentra en esta condicion.
"En Colombia existen municipios donde más del 50 % de su población es víctima del conflicto armado, lo cual conlleva a que generen pocos ingresos y gran dependencia de los recursos de la nación.
Este libro es un estudio sobre lo que implican las formas de capitalismo contemporáneo en el Perú para el patrimonio ecológico del país, en diálogo con la literatura sobre extractivismo en América Latina.
This book examines the trends, underlying factors, and policy implications of fertility declines in three East Asian countries: Japan, South Korea, and China.
This book, based on economics and game theory, analyzes the changes that Japan is now facing as a reflection of changes in Japanese families and society.
This book examines the trends, underlying factors, and policy implications of fertility declines in three East Asian countries: Japan, South Korea, and China.
This book presents emerging work in the co-evolving fields of design-led systemics, referred to as systemic design to distinguish it from the engineering and hard science epistemologies of system design or systems engineering.
This volume presents the most robust and useful methodology for the derivation of investment criteria for the evaluation and planning of public investment projects - public investment criteria.
This book provides readers the idea of systemically synthesizing various kind of knowledge, which needs to combine analytical thinking and synthetic thinking.
Whether a natural event turns into a disaster depends on the severity of the hazard as well as the condition of the social sphere of its potential victims, i.
Based on micro-level empirical research, this book uniquely addresses the problem of arsenic contamination in ground water in Bangladesh in a comprehensive way.
This is the book to focus on a new phenomenon emerging in the twenty-first century: the rapidly aging and decreasing population of a well-developed country, namely, Japan.
Das Märchen von dem Myrtenfräulein Clemens Brentano - Im sandigen Lande, wo nicht viel Grünes wächst, wohnten einige Meilen von der prozellanenen Hauptstadt, wo der Prinz Wetschwuth residierte, ein Töpfer und seine Frau mitten auf ihrem Tonfeld neben ihrem Töpferofen, beide ohne Kinder, einsam und allein.
Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for all affected individuals.
No Name Wilkie Collins - Magdalen and her sister Norah, beloved daughters of Mr and Mrs Vanstone, find themselves the victims of a catastrophic oversight.
