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by A. Camacho
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
A new approach to explaining the existence of firms and markets, focusing on variability and coordination. It stands in contrast to the emphasis on transaction costs, and on monitoring and incentive structures, which are prominent in most of the modern literature in this field. This approach, called...
by Daniel Muijs, Mel Ainscow, Chris Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Collaboration and networking have recently come to the fore as major school improvement strategies in a number of countries. A variety of initiatives, from government and other agencies, have encouraged collaboration and led to a lot of practical activity in this area. However, at present there are...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This volume explores the professional ethics of addresses the varied ethical needs of the professional economists and public policy professionals. Using terms and methods familiar to the reader, the book goes beyond the typical narrative of economics and morality to walk the professional through...
Privatizing Eastern Europe
The Role of Markets and Ownership in the Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume is meant to be a modest contribution to the ongoing debate about the transitions away from the administrative planning environment typical of the former communist regimes. The central subject matter is a fairly special one, namely the privatization of these economies together with the...
Asset Management
The State of the Art in Europe from a Life Cycle Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
In the past decades asset intensive companies have witnessed a number of regulatory changes and especially industry is facing ever increasing competitiveness. To overcome these challenges different asset management methods have been developed aimed to improve the asset life cycle. Especially the design...
Food Consumer Science
Theories, Methods and Application to the Western Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This book explores the main methods, models, and approaches of food consumer science applied to six countries of the Western Balkans, illustrating each of these methods with concrete case studies. Research conducted between 2008 and 2011 in the course of the FOCUS-BALKANS project forms an excellent database for exploring recent changes and trends in food consumption.
Economic Modeling of Water
The Australian CGE Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
The book details the innovative TERM (The Enormous Regional Model) approach to regional and national economic modeling, and explains the conversion from a comparative-static to a dynamic model. It moves on to an adaptation of TERM to water policy, including the additional theoretical and database...
Beyond the International Space Station: The Future of Human Spaceflight
Proceedings of an International Symposium, 4–7 June 2002, Strasbourg, France
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Y. Fujimori, Symposium Programme Committee Chair, and Faculty Member, International Space University e-mail: fujimori@isu. isunet. edu M. Rycroft, Faculty Member, International Space University e-mail: rycroft@isu. isunet. edu Building on the foundations provided by the International Space Station,...
by Pavel Kalenský
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
to Seeking the answer to the three basic questions of contempo rary private international law, I also deemed it essential to out line to the reader the historical development of the different concepts of this particular branch of law, for without the know ledge of this history it is impossible...
The Concept of Discrimination in International Law
With Special Reference to Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book was written as a dissertation for the Doctorate of Laws, University of Amsterdam. I am most grateful, first of all, to Professor A. J. P. Tammes, who acted as Promotor. Throughout my working at this study he managed to afford at the same time guidance, inspiration, and complete freedom....
“Moral Order” and The Criminal Law
Reform Efforts in the United States and West Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
XIV Seen as a whole, however, I regard the work before us to be especially noteworthy precisely because of its illumination of both the social contexts surrounding the law and the ideas which underlie the efforts towards criminal law reform. An analysis of this kind has not appeared until now, to...
The Economy of Green Cities
A World Compendium on the Green Urban Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This volume bridges the gap between the global promotion of the Green Economy and the manifestation of this new development strategy at the urban level. Green cities are an imperative solution, not only in meeting global environmental challenges but also in helping to ensure socio-economic prosperity at the local level.
Product-Oriented Environmental Management Systems (POEMS)
Improving Sustainability and Competitiveness in the Agri-Food Chain with Innovative Environmental Management Tools
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Representing the coordinated work of a research group from four different Italian University departments which conducted the Eco-Management for Food (EMAF) Project, this book offers a systematic approach for managing and improving the environmental aspects of agri-food processes and products using Product-Oriented Environmental Management Systems (POEMS).
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies,...