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Living Alone
Globalization, Identity and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Exploring the growing global trend of solo living, this highly original study addresses core debates about contemporary social change in the context of globalization, including individualization and connection, the future of family formation, consumption and identities, belonging and 'community', living arrangements and sustainability.
Contemporary Approaches to Public Policy
Theories, Controversies and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This book considers a range of contemporary approaches to public policy studies. These approaches are based on a number of theoretical perspectives on decision-making, as well as alternative perspectives on policy instruments and implementation. The range of approaches covered in the volume includes...
by B. Fryzel
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Explores how companies engage in CSR activities, how their corporate identity determines the way in which they perceive the stakeholders and, as a result, engage in dialogue-based relations with them.
The Governance of Energy in China
Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The way in which energy is governed in China is driving its rising level of carbon dioxide emissions. This book analyses the nature of energy governance in China by combining ideas relating to transition management with institutionalist theories, which helps to identify factors which assist or constrain the country's path to a low-carbon economy.
Renewable Energy Transformation or Fossil Fuel Backlash
Vested Interests in the Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Renewable energy is rising within an energy system dominated by powerful vested energy interests in fossil fuels, nuclear and electric utilities. Analyzing renewables in six very different countries, the author argues that it is the extent to which states have controlled these vested interests that determines the success or failure of renewables.
The Decentralized Energy Revolution
Business Strategies for a New Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
The global energy system stands at the verge of a far-reaching paradigm shift. The established model of centralized supply services will be challenged by new, decentralized technologies, with Germany being an international role model for energy efficiency and renewable energy generation.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Confronting the digital revolution in academia, this book examines the application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities. Uniting differing perspectives, leading and emerging scholars discuss the theoretical and practical challenges that computation raises for these disciplines.
Postdigital Aesthetics
Art, Computation And Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Postdigital Aesthetics is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics which reflect both the postdigital nature of this age, but also critical perspectives of a post-internet world.
The Luxury Market in Brazil
Market Opportunities and Potential
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
The Luxury Market in Brazil provides a holistic and practitioners approach to luxury marketing in Brazil. The book analyses the key challenges and opportunities facing luxury brands, while providing an insight into the skills and competencies to develop and implement effective luxury marketing strategies that are specific to the market in question.
Hybrid Factories in Latin America
Japanese Management Transferred
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Explores the Latin American economy and management through the study of Japanese companies in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Based on detailed case studies, this volume offers a bird's eye view of foreign investments in Latin America.
by M. Panic, Mica Pani?
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Building on the impressive first edition, this revised and updated book examines a wide range of highly topical issues. Dr Panic questions whether economic prosperity, social wellbeing and peace are sustainable given existing national attitudes, institutions and policies, and explores the changes needed to prevent another global economic collapse.
Fighting Financial Fires
An IMF Insider Account
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
A topical insider view of causes and consequences of financial crises since the Mexican collapse of 1995. The book includes a detailed exploration of recent and ongoing firestorms, including the near meltdown of the global financial system and the euro crisis and suggests ways to save the international financial and monetary system.
Managing Towards Supply Chain Maturity
Business Process Outsourcing and Offshoring
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
This text takes a view of the crucial issues involved in supply chain management. The discussion introduces the concept of risk, information and social capital management that will ensure supply chain excellence and maturity according to the Poirier's model.
Before the Neoliberal Turn
The Rise of Energy Finance and the Limits to US Foreign Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This book pinpoints continuities and changes in U.S. foreign economic policy from the fixed exchange rate system of the 1960s through to the period between the two oil crises of the 1970s. Chapters pay close attention to the interconnectedness between the long lasting decline of the U.S. Dollar on...