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Cultivating Knowledge Promoting Research to Enrich Everyday Practice
Over the last decade or two, there has been increasing consensus that academic research, if used judiciously to guide practice, improves both educational policy and pedagogy ultimately leading to better outcomes for students. Yet, despite this potential, there remains a deep ravine between the body of knowledge built through research especially at the intersection between specific interventions…
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- 1
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- 9789463006033
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- XII, 456
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- Call Number
- 370
Countering 21st Century Social-Environmental Threats to Growing Global Popula…
This book brings together in a single volume a grand overview of solutions - political, economic, and scientific - to social and environmental problems that are related to the growth of human populations in areas that can least cope with them now. Through progressive adaptation to social and environmental changes projected for the future, including population growth, global warming/climate chan…
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- 1
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- 9781322138077
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- XV, 164
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- SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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- 330
Cost-of-Capital in Managerial Finance An Examination of Practices in the Germ…
This book examines cost-of-capital models and their application in the context of managerial finance. This includes the use of hurdle rates in capital allocation decisions, as well as target returns in performance management. Besides a review of classical finance models such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), other contemporary models and techniques to determine the cost-of-capital of b…
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- 1
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- 9783319151359
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- XII, 245
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- Contributions to Management Science
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- 330
Informing Energy and Climate Policies Using Energy Systems Models Insights f…
This book highlights how energy-system models are used to underpin and support energy and climate mitigation policy decisions at national, multi-country and global levels. It brings together, for the first time in one volume, a range of methodological approaches and case studies of good modeling practice on a national and international scale from the IEA-ETSAP energy technology initiative. It p…
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- 978-3-319-16539-4
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- XIV, 426
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- 330 INF
Cost-Benefit Studies of Natural Resource Management in Southeast Asia
This book applies cost-benefit analysis techniques in the management of environment and natural resources in developing countries of the Southeast Asian region and presents a compendium of studies conducted by researchers supported by the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA). It emphasizes the close relationship between the environment and natural resources and economic d…
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- 1
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- 9789812873934
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- XVII, 396
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- Call Number
- 330
Cost Effectiveness Modelling for Health Technology Assessment A Practical Course
This book provides an introduction to decision analytic cost-effectiveness modelling, giving the theoretical and practical knowledge required to design and implement analyses that meet the methodological standards of health technology assessment organisations. The book guides you through building a decision tree and Markov model and, importantly, shows how the results of cost-effectiveness anal…
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- 1
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- 9783319157443
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- XIII, 208
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- Call Number
- 330
Introduction to Swiss Law
What are the origins of direct democracy in Switzerland? How does the Swiss judiciary function? What are the principles of Swiss civil, contract and administrative law? What is the role of public service broadcasting in the political decision making process? What are the leading cases in tax law? What forms of euthanasia are legal in Switzerland? In this introduction 13 legal scholars of the Un…
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- 9783941159242
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- 340 THO i
Crowdfunding for SMEs : a European perspective
Crowdfunding for SMEs' provides a valuable insight into this new source of capital. In particular, the authors focus on financial return crowdfunding, which repays the crowd either through debt or equity. This source of capital might play a significant role in the future becoming an alternative or a complement to traditional funding sources. It is therefore of the uttermost importance to unders…
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- 1
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- 9781137560216
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- XV, 236
- Series Title
- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
- Call Number
- 338.7
The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States as a Co…
One of the major innovations made by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is the unequivocal granting of a supranational role to the Court of Justice of the organisation. However, its human rights mandate has led to real and potential tensions within the ECOWAS legal order. The tensions stem from the legal force of judgements of constitutional courts of member states and the a…
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- 9783848760510
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- 340 BAD c
Economic Analysis of International Law : Contributions to the XIIIth Travemü…
The topics covered in this volume range from classics of the on-going discussion on the economic analysis of international law – such as the issue of legitimacy of customary international law – to more recent topics such as internet privacy, private military contractors, the fight against piracy, the International Criminal Court and the highly topical issue of land grabbing.
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- 9783161518942
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- XIII, 337 halaman
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- -
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- 340 ECO
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