Filter by
Financial, Staffing and Societal Sustainability of Dutch Health Care : An Urg…
This open access book analyzes how sound choices can be made in Dutch health care policies, and shows why they are necessary, urgent, and even inevitable. Analyzing the current functioning and funding of the Dutch health care system, this book shows how three dimensions of sustainability – financial, staffing and societal – are under increasing pressure. This study explores priority setting…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031585647
- Collation
- XI, 294 hlm,: ill, lamp;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Better Work : The Impact of Automation, Flexibilization and Intensification o…
This Open Access book provides a thorough analysis of the quality of work in the Netherlands, and suggests policy proposals to promote and facilitate good work for more people. New technology, flexibilization and the intensification of work will have significant consequences for all those who will still have jobs in the future, and – much less studied so far – for the quality of their work.…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030786823
- Collation
- X, 204 hlm,: ill, lamp;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Money and Debt: The Public Role of Banks
This Open Access book from the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy explains how money creation and banking works, describes the main problems of the current monetary and financial system and discusses several reform options. This book systematically evaluates proposals for fundamental monetary reform, including ideas to separate money and credit by breaking up banks, introducin…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030702502
- Collation
- XII, 247 hlm,: ill, lamp;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Human-Centred Economics: The Living Standards of Nations
This open access book examines the chronic underperformance of economies with respect to inclusion, sustainability and resilience. It finds that the standard liberal economic growth and development model has evolved over the past century in a fundamentally unbalanced manner that underemphasizes the crucial role of institutions – legal norms, policy incentives and public administrative capacit…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031374357
- Collation
- XXIX, 356
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) Using R : A Work…
Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) has become a standard approach for analyzing complex inter-relationships between observed and latent variables. Researchers appreciate the many advantages of PLS-SEM such as the possibility to estimate very complex models and the method’s flexibility in terms of data requirements and measurement specification. This practical open…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030805197
- Collation
- XIV, 197 hlm,: ill, lamp;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Future Intelligence : The World in 2050 - Enabling Governments, Innovators, a…
The first quarter of the 21st century introduced the world to rapid uncertainty, be it the social-political and financial crises, or pandemics, or the shaking up of well-established democracies with an increasing rise in populism. At the same time, the technological promise has taken off with automation, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnologies increasingly becoming an economic reality. Th…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031363825
- Collation
- XXII, 241 hlm; ill., lamp.,
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Smart Cities
This edited volume discusses the socioeconomic, environmental, and policy implications of smart cities. Written by international experts in energy economics and policy, the chapters present wide range of high quality theoretical and empirical studies at the nexus of social, entrepreneurial, governmental and ecological transformation. The book covers a wide range of topics, with a view towards p…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-35663-6
- Collation
- XV, 388
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Greening the Financial Sector : How to Mainstream Environmental Finance in De…
Environmental finance, particularly energy efficiency and renewable energy (EERE) finance, can and should serve as an interface to other sub-sectors of financial sector promotion such as microfinance, housing finance or agricultural finance. For example, existing clients of financial institutions include small and medium-sized enterprises and households, and these are often suffering from high …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-642-05087-9
- Collation
- XIV, 250
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment
This book offers an up-to-date review of our current understanding of climate change in the North Sea and adjacent areas, as well as its impact on ecosystems and socio-economic sectors. It provides a detailed assessment of climate change based on published scientific work compiled by independent international experts from climate-related disciplines such as oceanography, atmospheric sciences, m…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-39745-0
- Collation
- XLV, 528
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 650
New Directions in Digitalisation : Perspectives from EU Competition Law and t…
This open access book brings together experts from both EU competition law as well fundamental rights backgrounds, discussing the most recent developments in EU legislation on digitalisation. Most prominently, it explores the recently introduced Digital Markets Act (DMA), including a discussion on other related legislative acts and the respective case law. It is aimed mostly at academics and re…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031653810
- Collation
- VI, 294 hlm,: ill, lamp;
- Series Title
- 13
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography