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Consensus and global environment governance :deliberative democracy in nature…
In this book, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett explore the practical and conceptual implications of a new approach to international environmental governance. Their proposed approach, juristic democracy, emphasizes the role of the citizen rather than the nation-state as the source of legitimacy in international environmental law; it is rooted in local knowledge and grounded in democratic deliber…
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- 9780262327046
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 251 pages) :map.
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European climate leadership in question :policies toward China and India
The EU has, for a long time, portrayed itself as an international leader on climate change. Previous studies have tended to focus on the characteristics of EU leadership, but have failed to examine the extent to which EU leadership generates 'followship'. This book analyzes EU climate policies towards China and India in order to provide a holistic assessment of EU climate leadership, and makes …
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Dynamic Allocation and Pricing: A Mechanism Design Approach
A new approach to dynamic allocation and pricing that blends dynamic paradigms from the operations research and management science literature with classical mechanism design methods.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262327732
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Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma
An argument that environmental challenges will only resonate with citizens of affluent postindustrial countries if sustainability concerns emerge from everyday practices.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262327107
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- 1 online resource (ix, 253 pages)
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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/3001.001.0001?locatt=mode:legacy;http://www.…
This is the first broad cross-country assessment of the ties between financial structure--the mix of financial instruments, institutions, and markets in a given economy--and economic growth since Raymond Goldsmith's 1969 landmark study. Most studies focus on developed countries and compare bank-based and market-based systems. Debates over the relative merits of the two systems have relied on ca…
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- 9780262271455
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- 1 online resource (vi, 436 pages) :illustrations
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Learning at not-school :a review of study, theory, and advocacy for education…
Schools do not define education, and they are not the only institutions in which learning takes place. After-school programs, music lessons, Scouts, summer camps, on-the-job training, and home activities all offer out-of-school educational experiences. In "Learning at Not-School," Julian Sefton-Green explores studies and scholarly research on out-of-school learning, investigating just what it i…
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- 9780262311984
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- 1 online resource (vi, 92 pages).
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Economics after the crisis :objectives and means
The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 seemed a crisis not just of economic performance but also of the system's underlying political ideology and economic theory. But a second Great Depression was averted, and the radical shift to New Deal-like economic policies predicted by some never took place. Perhaps the correct response to the crisis is simply careful management of the macroeconomic cha…
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- 9780262301756
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 108 pages) :illustrations.
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The high price of materialism
A study of how materialism and consumerism undermine our quality of life. In The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health. Other writers have shown that once we have sufficient food, shelter, and clothing, further material gains do little to impr…
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- 9780262276764
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 149 pages) : illustrations.
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A History of Modern Experimental Psychology : From James and Wundt to Cogniti…
The evolution of cognitive psychology, traced from the beginnings of a rigorous experimental psychology at the end of the nineteenth century to the "cognitive revolution" at the end of the twentieth, and the social and cultural contexts of its theoretical developments. Modern psychology began with the adoption of experimental methods at the end of the nineteenth century: Wilhelm Wundt establ…
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- 9780262279017
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A history of online information services, 1963-1976
Every field of history has a basic need for a detailed chronology of what happened: who did what when. In the absence of such a resource, fanciful accounts flourish. This book provides a rich narrative of the early development of online information retrieval systems and services, from 1963 to 1976--a period important to anyone who uses a search engine, online catalog, or large database. Drawing…
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