The role that children and youth play in the emerging digital media culture-as consumers targeted by marketing campaigns, as creators of their own digital culture, and as political participants.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How generational policy affects the sustainability of a government's fiscal policy.In these eight 2002 Cairoli Lectures, presented at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laurence Kotlikoff shows how generational policy works, how it is measured, and how much it matters. Kotlikoff discusses the incidence and measurement of generational policy, the relationship of genera…
"Dahlem Workshop reports"--Cover."Report of the 90th Dahlem Workshop on Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, Berlin, June 23-28, 2002."The latest interdisciplinary research on the evolutionary models of cooperation.Current thinking in evolutionary biology holds that competition among individuals is the key to understanding natural selection. When competition exists, it is obvious that…
"The body as an object of critical study dominates disciplines across the humanities to such an extent that a new discipline has emerged: body criticism. In Getting Under the Skin, Bernadette Wegenstein traces contemporary body discourse in philosophy and cultural studies to its roots in twentieth-century thought - showing how psychoanalysis, phenomenology, cognitive science, and feminist theor…
A comparative analysis of global environmental assessments shows the importance of policy salience, scientific credibility, and social and political legitimacy in determining the influence of scientific assessments on global environmental policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Tolba had as much insight into, and influence on, the development of international environmental policy as anyone. In this book, he tells the story of the negotiations that led to a number of landmark agreements, such as the Vienna Convention on Ozone and its Montreal Protocol, the Basel Convention on Hazardous Wastes, and the Biodiversity Convention. The book stands as the legacy of an importa…
Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Buku ini memberikan gambaran umum tentang temuan utama dari proyek penelitian komparatif, Perubahan dalam Jaringan, Pendidikan Tinggi, dan Masyarakat Pengetahuan (CINHEKS). Tujuan utama dari proyek penelitian komparatif internasional ini adalah analisis tentang bagaimana lembaga pendidikan tinggi terhubung dalam masyarakat pengetahuan yang berbeda di dua wilayah utama dunia: Eropa dan Amerika S…
Dengan menggunakan metode studi kasus dan Pendekatan Multiperspektif, volume ini menyajikan studi mendalam dan pionir tentang kebijakan pendidikan guru di Tiongkok sejak tahun 1990-an. Buku ini menyelidiki secara kritis proses implementasi yang rasional, dinamis, dan kompleks yang terjadi di tingkat kelembagaan mikro untuk transformasi lembaga pendidikan guru. Buku ini pertama-tama memperkenalk…
Memperkenalkan serangkaian model teoritis dan metode empiris untuk aplikasi dalam pembangunan regional dan lingkungan, serta manajemen menuju keberlanjutan, Menyediakan berbagai studi kasus dari berbagai disiplin ilmu yang menyoroti pembangunan ekonomi regional, inovasi, lingkungan dan manajemen bencana., Menampilkan bagaimana Korea, salah satu ekonomi yang paling pesat berkembang akhir-akhir i…