Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
Bargaining Power
Health Policymaking from England and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
This monograph applies Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework to two policymaking episodes of implementing pay for performance in general practice, conducted in England and New Zealand. The Framework’s explanatory power for policymaking in Westminster majoritarian jurisdictions is tested and, based...
Business and the Sustainable Development Goals
Measuring and Managing Corporate Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
This innovative and engaging book discusses the contribution of business to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2015. It critically analyses selected impact measurement and management tools to highlight their respective benefits and limitations, and also provides...
The Obesity Epidemic
Why a Social Justice Perspective Matters
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This book addresses the obesity epidemic from a political, economic and social perspective. Examining the populations that suffer the greatest from political and economic decision-making associated with obesity prevalence, this book utilizes a contemporary framework to discuss obesity. While it does...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
This book analyzes issues related to economic challenges for Japan’s regional revitalization. Japan’s responses to such challenges and to the problem of an aging population are of deep interest to the nations outside of Japan. This book brings together 19 articles contributed by Japan’s leading...
Project Management in Schools
New Conceptualizations, Orientations, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive overview of various models and practices of implementing project management in schools, and conceptualizes the processes of adaptation and development of project management curricula within the unique context of the contemporary school environment. By presenting...
Debating Nature's Value
The Concept of 'Natural Capital'
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
The concept of 'Natural Capital' has come to play a central role in current debates about biodiversity and nature conservation. It implies an approach to the natural world based on the valuation of places and species in terms of money. This is, in a variety of ways, both attractive and problematic.
This...
Higher Education and Social Justice
The Transformative Potential of University Teaching and the Power of Educational Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2018
This book demonstrates how the pedagogical decision making of university academics can be shaped by engagement with an educational philosophy known as “relationship-centred education”. Beginning with critical analysis of concepts such as student engagement, student satisfaction, and student-centred...
Teaching Struggling Students
Lessons Learned from Both Sides of the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
This book tackles the phenomenon of limited learning on campuses by approaching it from the point of view of the author, an educator who writes about the experience of being, simultaneously, a college student and a college professor. The author lays out her experience as a student struggling in an...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This book provides a concise introduction to China’s electricity sector, suitable for university students and business analysts. It is business focused, combining an introduction from an established regional electricity consultancy with five academic chapters covering governance, market stakeholders...
Total Urban Mobilisation
Ernst Jünger and the Post-Capitalist City
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
In this book Krzysztof Nawratek explores the possibility of a post-capitalist city, and in so doing, reclaims and develops the idea of total mobilisation as originally formulated by Ernst Jünger. Nawratek formulates the idea of ‘accumulation of agency’ the ability to act, to replace the logic...
Landed Estates and Rural Inequality in English History
From the Mid-Seventeenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Based on a detailed investigation of local sources, this book examines the history of the landed estate system in England since the mid-seventeenth century. Over recent centuries England was increasingly occupied by landed estates run by locally dominant and nationally influential owners. Historically,...
Preventing the Proliferation of WMDs
Measuring the Success of UN Security Council Resolution 1540
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
This edited volume provides a fresh analysis for researcher and practitioners regarding United Nations Security Council resolution 1540, the status of its implementation, and its future by providing an original evaluation of progress in implementation and challenges faced during the resolution’s...
Nano-Publics
Communicating Nanotechnology Applications, Risks, and Regulations
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book discusses the results and implications of a two-year public engagement program on nanotechnology. Led by eleven diverse civic groups across the United States, the program events covered a wide range of applications and sparked robust discussions concerning risk and regulation. Through computer-assisted...
by Anthony J. Makin
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book presents alternative macroeconomic perspectives, primarily open economy, on the limitations of discretionary fiscal policy, with a focus on government spending. Following an overview on the post-crisis Keynesian revival and of the macro-foundations needed for subsequent analysis, different...