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  • The Global Social Sciences

    —Under and Beyond European Universalism

    by Michael Kuhn, Michael Kuhn, Hebe Vessuri, Hebe Vessuri, Shujiro Yazawa, Kazumi Okamoto, Rajagopal Kumaran, Pal Tamas, Igor Yegorov0, Sujata Patel1, Rainer Grundmann2, Carmen Bueno3, Mauricio Nieto Olarte4, Doris Weidemann5, Huri Islamoglu6, Kwang-Yeong Shin7 ...
    Series Book 3 - Beyond the Social Sciences
    The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by “subaltern” social sciences, their “talking back”, has become a frequent line of reflection in European social sciences. The re-labelling of the critique of the European approach to social sciences ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Environment and Democratic Transition:

    Policy and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by A. Vari, Pal Tamas ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Recent democratization and the accompanied liberalization of the media in Central and Eastern Europe has brought the devastating environmental impacts of the intensive and careless industrialization of the last 40 years to the surface. Less is known, however, about the social, political and institutional background of environmental risk management which led to the present situation, as well as ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    by George E Rayment, David J Lyons ...
    Series series Australian Soil and Land Survey Handbooks Series
    Soil Chemical Methods – Australasia describes over 200 laboratory and field chemical tests relevant to Australasia and beyond. The information and methodology provided across 20 chapters is comprehensive, systematic, uniquely coded, up-to-date and designed to promote chemical measurement quality. There is guidance on the choice and application of analytical methods from soil sampling through to ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Drilling Down

    The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma

    by Joseph A. Tainter, Tadeusz W. Patzek ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the processes and institutions that generate and manage that growth. As societies grow more complex ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government

    A Balanced Scorecard Approach Towards Sustainable Development

    by Nan Chai ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Progressing towards sustainable development raises important challenges to conducting performance evaluations in governments because there are neither generally accepted methods nor specific standards to be met at present. Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government, makes a conceptual contribution to public sustainability performance evaluation and develops a set of framework ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Benefits Assessment

    The State of the Art

    Edited by J.D. Bentkover, V.T. Covello, J.L. Mumpower ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In recent years there has been substantial interest in benefits assessment methods, especially as these methods are used to assess health, safety, and environmental issues. At least part of this interest can be traced to Executive Order 12291, issued by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. This Executive Order requires Federal agencies to perform benefits assessments of pro posed major regulations and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Adaptive Water Management

    Concepts, Principles and Applications for Sustainable Development

    by Farideh Delavari Edalat, M. Reza Abdi ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book explores a new framework of Adaptive Water Management (AWM) for evaluating existing approaches in urban water management. It highlights the need to adopt multidisciplinary strategies in water management while providing an in-depth understanding of institutional interactions amongst different water related sectors.The key characteristics of AWM i.e. polycentric governance, organisational ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Decision Science and Social Risk Management

    A Comparative Evaluation of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Decision Analysis, and Other Formal Decision-Aiding Approaches

    by M.W Merkhofer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Economists, decision analysts, management scientists, and others have long argued that government should take a more scientific approach to decision making. Pointing to various theories for prescribing and rational izing choices, they have maintained that social goals could be achieved more effectively and at lower costs if government decisions were routinely subjected to analysis. Now, government ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Future Risks and Risk Management

    Edited by B. Brehmer, N.E. Sahlin ...
    Series Book 9 - Risk, Governance and Society
    Future Risks and Risk Management provides a broad perspective on risk, including basic philosophical issues concerned with values, psychological issues, such as the perception of risk, the factors that generate risks in current and future technological and social systems, including both technical and organizational factors. No other volume adopts this broad perspective. Future Risks and Risk ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Socially Responsible Investment

    A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach

    Edited by Enrique Ballestero, Blanca Pérez-Gladish, Ana Garcia-Bernabeu ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book integrates socially responsible investment into modern portfolio theory from a multi-criteria perspective. Socially responsible investment is a “new deal” championed by the institutional investment and bank sectors, agents that influence mutual funds and other collective investment schemes and which fear that financial strategies without ethical constraints can harm sustainable growth ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains

    Edited by Atalay Atasu ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book highlights what it takes to be successful in identifying and executing environmental responsibility from an operational perspective. It provides cutting-edge research from globally recognized field experts. It is a useful resource for practitioners to explore why and how firms engage in environmentally responsible operations, but also a valuable resource for academics as an introductory ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Smart Markets for Water Resources

    A Manual for Implementation

    by Mark W. Milke, John F. Raffensperger ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity? This book shows that water markets fail because of high transaction costs, resulting in inefficient allocations and unpredictable environmental effects. To overcome these obstacles, this book proposes a trading mechanism called a smart market. A smart market is an auction cleared with ... Read more

    $98.09 USD