Sociology

The book focuses on responsible living as the individual's contribution to sustainable development.

This textbook teaches some of the basic econometric methods and the underlying assumptions behind them.

A satisfactory and healthy integration of work with other life domains is one of the key challenges of modern society.

The Internet transformed the landscape of world economy.

This book assesses the life and works of the leading Zimbabwean poet and novelist, Chenjerai Hove.

The CSR report has become a very important tool which can help corporations to set up strategies and build their core competencies.

Europe's population is ageing and decreasing.

This publication focuses on the conditions for promising collaboration.

The book examines the evolution and current state of corporate social responsibility (CSR), using a five-stage maturity model: defensive, charitable, promotional, strategic and transformative CSR.

This book reports cutting-edge cases of emerging health technologies.

Here at last is the fourth edition of the textbook that is required reading for economics students as well as those practising applied economics.

After World War II, states transformed into 'collective fortresses' in order to protect competing ideological systems.

In January 2006, the Dutch Association of Industry-wide Pension Funds (VB) told us about their plan to prepare a book on solidarity in collective pension systems.

Just as one might be inclined to thinkthat every thing about demographic change has been already said and heard, a new dimension opens up.

The Political Economy of Alternative Media provides in-depth insights into media practices used by grassroots projects to organize, produce, and distribute the media that support and report on social movements.

This seminal volume offers an interdisciplinary exploration into the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence and its societal implications.

This book, written by two well-known scientists, represents an excellent ad- dition to the Springer Series in Synergetics in several ways.

This volume presents a comprehensive exploration of how innovation ecosystems, driven by business entrepreneurship and digital transformation, can reshape institutions and industries toward sustainability and resilience.

This volume presents a comprehensive exploration of how innovation ecosystems, driven by business entrepreneurship and digital transformation, can reshape institutions and industries toward sustainability and resilience.

As the interconnectivity between humans through technical devices is becoming ubiquitous, the next step is already in the making: ambient intelligence, i.

One common characteristics of a complex system is its ability to withstand major disturbances and the capacity to rebuild itself.

By now, most academics have heard something about the new science of complexity.

Why did Ludwig van Beethoven go deaf?

Social systems are among the most complex known.

Cities first came into existence more than five thousand years ago.

This book, edited and authored by a closely collaborating network of social scientists and psychologists, recasts typical research topics in these fields into the language of nonlinear, dynamic and complex systems.

Die Grundungsurkunde der Stadtsoziologie - endlich als kommentierte und zitierfahige Einzelausgabe bei ReclamSimmels 1903 erschienener Aufsatz legte die Grundlagen fur die Stadtsoziologie: Stadter sind anders als Landmenschen, werden von Informationen uberschwemmt, mussen z.

The concept of temporal networks is an extension of complex networks as a modeling framework to include information on when interactions between nodes happen.

This book develops a logic of world-views: belief-systems that shape how we know, interpret, and act in the world.

This book develops a logic of world-views: belief-systems that shape how we know, interpret, and act in the world.

Models of Science Dynamics aims to capture the structure and evolution of science, the emerging arena in which scholars, science and the communication of science become themselves the basic objects of research.

This book provides a critical re-examination of the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) as the main tool used by the European Commission and other policy-making bodies to measure national innovation capacity.

Complexity, Cognition and the City aims at a deeper understanding of urbanism, while invoking, on an equal footing, the contributions both the hard and soft sciences have made, and are still making, when grappling with the many issues and facets of regional planning and dynamics.

This book provides a comprehensive and analytical overview of green growth opportunities within a sustainable finance framework in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.

Taking you on a voyage of discovery through R and RStudio, this completely updated second edition combines real-world examples and humour with a hands-on 'how to' approach that brings statistics and programming to life.

Taking you on a voyage of discovery through R and RStudio, this completely updated second edition combines real-world examples and humour with a hands-on 'how to' approach that brings statistics and programming to life.