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The Informal Economy Revisited ;:Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future
This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy as well as future challenges and directions for research and policy. Well over half of the global workforce and the vast majority of the workforce in developing countries work in the informal economy, and in countries around the…
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- 9780429577499
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Compreendendo a complexidade socioespacial contemporânea; o território como…
O livro constrói um diálogo entre pesquisadores brasileiros e franceses, de diferentes campos do conhecimento, sobre dois temas que passaram a ocupar os espaços do debate acadêmico e das ações públicas, nas duas últimas décadas: a questão do desenvolvimento e a questão territorial.
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Art and Economics in the City New Cultural Maps
Emerging forms of alternative economy are changing the structure of society, redefining the relationship between centre and periphery in the urban fabric. In this context, the arts can play a crucial role in formulating a concept of complex and plural citizenship: This economic, social and cultural paradigm has the potential to overcome the conventional isolation of the arts and culture in ivor…
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- 9783837642148
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Metrology in Urban Drainage and Stormwater Management: Plug and Pray
This book presents the advancements made in applied metrology in the field of Urban Drainage and Storm water Management over the past two decades in scientific research as well as in practical applications. Given the broadness of this subject (measuring principles, uncertainty in data, data validation, data storage and communication, design, maintenance and management of monitoring networks, te…
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Balancing the Commons in Switzerland Institutional Transformations and Susta…
Balancing the Commons in Switzerland outlines continuity and change in the management of common-pool resources such as pastures and forests in Switzerland.The book focuses on the differences and similarities between local institutions (rules and regulations) and forms of commoners’ organisations (corporations of citizens and corporations) which have managed common property for several centuri…
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Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature
The world has changed dramatically. We no longer live in a world relatively empty of humans and their artifacts. We now live in the “Anthropocene,” era in a full world where humans are dramatically altering our ecological life-support system. Our traditional economic concepts and models were developed in an empty world. If we are to create sustainable prosperity, if we seek “improved huma…
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- 9781921862045
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Accelerating the 5G transition in Europe: How to boost investments in transfo…
This study discusses why the "fifth generation" of telecommunication systems, or 5G, is integral to digitalisation efforts, and how its roll-out will be one of the most critical building blocks of the European digital economy and society in the next decade. We examine the transformative properties of this technology and explore how we can ensure that Europe remains a relevant, competitive and s…
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Ethics Dumping
Global Research Ethics; Global Bioethics; North-South Collaborations; Exploitation Vulnerability; Research Governance; Double Standards in Research; Ethics Dumping Examples
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Mythomanias: Crime Scenes & Psycho Case Studies
mythomaniaS is a catalog of case studies in the form of film stills, architectural fragments, stage props, texts, and images culled from the experiments of MindMachineMakingMyths (Lab M4, part of the New Territories architecture studio, Bankgok, Thailand), a collaboration begun in 2012 between Camille Lacadee and François Roche to construct environmental-architectural psycho-scapes (in the par…
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