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Building a Cashless Society : The Swedish Route to the Future of Cash Payments
This open access book tells the story of how Sweden is becoming a virtually cashless society. Its goal is to improve readers’ understanding of what is driving this transition, and of the factors that are fostering and hampering it. In doing so, the book covers the role of central banks, political factors, needs for innovation, and the stakeholders involved in developing a cashless ecosystem. …
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- 978-3-030-10689-8
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- X, 96
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
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- 332 ARV b
Socioeconomics of Agriculture
This open access book applies for the first time emerging concepts of socioeconomics to analyse an economic sector, namely agriculture. It considers the rational choices of all actors in the system (just as agricultural economists do) and their cultural preferences and constraints (just as rural sociologists do). Socioeconomic concepts are subsequently used to structure agricultural issues with…
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- 978-3-319-74141-3
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- VII, 106
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
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- 338 MAN s
Institutional Reform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship : An Agenda for Europe
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. The authors of this book advise the economies of the European Union to become more entrepreneurial in promoting innovation and economic growth. The authors propose a reform strategy with respect to several aspects to achieve this goal. Starting with the rule of law and the protection of property rights; the tax system; the authors deal …
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- 978-3-319-55092-3
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- X, 102
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
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- 338 ELE i
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law
This open access book presents an interdisciplinary, multi-authored, edited collection of chapters on Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) and the Law. AI technology has come to play a central role in the modern data economy. Through a combination of increased computing power, the growing availability of data and the advancement of algorithms, AI has now become an umbrella term for some of the mo…
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- 978-3-031-41264-6
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- XV, 456
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- Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 58)
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- 340 MUL
GDPR and Biobanking: Individual Rights, Public Interest and Research Regulati…
This open access book focuses on the discrepancies in biobank research regulations that are among the most significant hurdles to effective research collaboration. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has established stringent requirements for the processing of health and genetic data, while simultaneously allowing considerable multi-level exceptions for the purposes of scientific rese…
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- 978-3-030-49388-2
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- VII, 434
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- Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 43)
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- 340 GDP
Challenges in Research Policy : Evidence-Based Policy Briefs with Recommendat…
This open access volume addresses major challenges in research policy and provides advice on how to approach them. With chapters designed as accessible policy briefs, the book serves as an essential resource for new actors in research policy. It offers evidence-based recommendations on approaching research governance, funding, and evaluation challenges by covering these topics: Identifying a…
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- 978-3-031-69580-3
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- VIII, 113
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- SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
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- 350 CHA
Homonegativity and Religiously Motivated Political Extremism : A Study Based …
This open access book describes the world’s increasingly multicultural societies face the problem that more and more diverse lifestyles (LGBTQIA+ communities) are not universally accepted, and that today, in addition to xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism, there is substantial homonegativity. This book explores this issue, reviews the empirical literature on the subject and provides new empi…
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- 978-3-031-66202-7
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- XXIII, 114
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- SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
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- 320 TAU h
Decidim, a Technopolitical Network for Participatory Democracy: Philosophy, P…
This Open Access book explains the philosophy, design principles, and community organization of Decidim and provides essential insights into how the platform works. Decidim is the world leading digital infrastructure for participatory democracy, built entirely and collaboratively as free software, and used by more than 500 institutions with over three million users worldwide. The platform al…
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- 978-3-031-50783-0
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- XVI, 133
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- SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
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- 320 BAR d
Human Rights Dissemination in Central Asia : Human Rights Education and Capac…
This open access book explores the field of human rights dissemination in Central Asia. Offering a comparative perspective on five post-Soviet Central Asian states—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan, it examines compliance with international human rights standards in these countries. The contributions capture various aspects of human rights dissemination through …
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- 978-3-031-27971-3
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- VII, 133
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- SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
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- 320 HUM
Researching Central Asia : Navigating Positionality in the Field
This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for scholars still in the planning stages of their research, it addresses key questions, including: How shall we problematize and reconceptualize the concept of positionality through lenses of local voices from the re…
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- 978-3-031-39024-1
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- X, 104
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- SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
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- 320 RES
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