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Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety
This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, and derives questions to be addressed in multi-disciplinary research toward a new paradigm of nuclear safety. The consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in March 2011 have fuelled the debate…
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Übersetzen in der Frühen Neuzeit – Konzepte und Methoden / Concepts and P…
Dieser interdisziplinäre Open Access-Band beschäftigt sich mit den vielfältigen Konzepten und Methoden des Übersetzens als zentraler und ubiquitärer Kulturtechnik der Frühen Neuzeit (1450–1800). In fünfzehn Einzelstudien werden gesellschaftliche Leitvorstellungen, Wahrnehmungsmuster und Kommunikationsformen erforscht, die seit dem 15. Jahrhundert durch Praktiken des Übersetzens etabli…
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- 9783662625620
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- XX, 501 ill; lamp
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Good Governance and Modern International Financial Institutions : AIIB Yearbo…
This first volume of the AIIB Yearbook of International Law (AYIL), edited by Peter Quayle and Xuan Gao, is based upon the inaugural 2017 AIIB Legal Conference, both titled, Good Governance and Modern International Financial Institutions (IFIs). Following a Preface by the General Counsel of the AIIB and General Editor of AYIL, Gerard Sanders, and an Introduction by the Editors, this volume of A…
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- 978-90-04-40832-6
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- xii, 266 pp
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- AIIB Yearbook of International Law, Volume: 1
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Constitutionalism and Transnational Governance Failures
This book explores strategies for limiting transnational market failures, governance failures and constitutional failures impeding protection of the universally agreed sustainable development goals like climate change mitigation and access to justice and transnational rule-of-law. Can multilevel democratic and judicial protection of fundamental rights and public goods across frontiers be extend…
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- 978-90-04-69371-5
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- World Trade Institute Advanced Studies, Volume: 16
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Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography
This book is the latest instalment in a longer history of anthologies on Nordic geography and geographers. Initially published in a mix of Scandinavian languages and English, and more recently in English alone, these collections address the field of (human) geography in general (Hägerstrand & Buttimer, 1988; Strand, 1982; Öhman, 1994; Öhman & Simonsen, 2003), but also particular aspec…
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- 9783031042348
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- XI, 293
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Novel Developments for Sustainable Hydropower
olicies are crucial in determining and improving the state of our environment. Policies set goals (including targets, indicators and time frames) while policy instruments are the specific means or measures to translate the policy intent into action (Jacob et al. 2019). In discussions on the sustainability of hydropower production, knowledge of the currently existing regulations at different…
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- 9783030991388
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- XVII, 223
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Multilevel Modelling for Public Health and Health Services Research
This open access book is a practical introduction to multilevel modelling or multilevel analysis (MLA) – a statistical technique being increasingly used in public health and health services research. The authors begin with a compelling argument for the importance of researchers in these fields having an understanding of MLA to be able to judge not only the growing body of research that uses i…
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- 9783030348014
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- XVII, 286 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs
This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from alcohol misuse. Alcohol-related harms are viewed as both a product of colonisation and dispossession and a contributor to ongoing social, economic and health-related disadvantage, both in Australia and in other countries with colonised Indigenous …
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- 978-981-99-0401-3
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- XXVI, 326
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Risiko im Wandel
Risiko als ein prägendes Element unserer Gesellschaft kann man nicht völlig vermeiden, aber durch ein angemessenes Risikomanagement beherrschbar(er) machen. In Ergänzung zum technischen Risikomanagement fokussiert das finanzielle Risikomanagement auf die Bewältigung finanzwirtschaftlicher Risiken; Kernaufgabe des aktuariellen Risikomanagements ist dabei die Bewertung der finanzwirtsc…
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- 9783658370718
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- XXVIII, 433
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A City in Blue and Green The Singapore Story
This open access book highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a liveable sustainable way of life. It is also a story about a unique and thoroughgoing approach to large-scale and potentially transferable water sustainability, within largely ur…
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- 9789811395970
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- X, 152 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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