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Consumption Corridors : Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits
Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good …
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- 978-0-367-74874-6
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- Routledge focus on environment & sustainability
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- 339.4 FUC t
Branding Books Across the Ages: Strategies and Key Concepts in Literary Branding
As marketing specialists know all too well, our experience of products is prefigured by brands: trademarks that identify a product and differentiate it from its competitors. This process of branding has hitherto gained little academic discussion in the field of literary studies. Literary authors and the texts they produce, though, are constantly 'branded': from the early modern period onwards, …
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Development of the Global Film Industry: Industrial Competition and Cooperati…
The global film industry has witnessed significant transformations in the past few years. Regions outside the USA have begun to prosper while non-traditional production companies such as Netflix have assumed a larger market share and online movies adapted from literature have continued to gain in popularity. How have these trends shaped the global film industry? This book answers this question …
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- 9781000092424
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- 791.43 DEV d
Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance: Local Experiences of a Global Co…
Taking a bottom-up perspective, this book explores local framings of a wide range of issues related to benefit-sharing, a growing concept in global environmental governance.Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance draws on original case studies from South Africa, Namibia, Greece, Argentina, and Malaysia to shed light on what benefit-sharing looks like from the local viewpoint. These local-le…
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- 9780429584176
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- 708 PAR b
Andean States and the Resource Curse : Institutional Change in Extractive Eco…
This volume explores institutional change and performance in the resource-rich Andean countries during the last resource boom and in the early post-boom years. The latest global commodity boom has profoundly marked the face of the resource-rich Andean region, significantly contributing to economic growth and notable reductions of poverty and income inequality. The boom also constituted a period…
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- 9781000527025
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Alles Frankreich oder was?
Mit der Präsentation ihrer "Frankreichstrategie" hat die saarländische Landesregierung überregional für Aufsehen gesorgt. Dass das Nachbarland Frankreich für das Saarland politisch und wirtschaftlich eine große Bedeutung hat, ist kaum bestreitbar. Doch wie realistisch sind die Zielsetzungen der Frankreichstrategie - und was können Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft dazu beitragen, die Potenzi…
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- 9783837637557
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Aktienrückkauf und Kapitalmarkt
Diese Arbeit wurde mit dem Hochschulpreis des Deutschen Aktieninstituts (1. Preis) ausgezeichnet. Die Jury würdigte besonders die hohe Praxisrelevanz der Arbeit sowie die ausführlichen statistischen Analysen. Seit 1998 können deutsche Aktiengesellschaften den Erwerb eigener Aktien als Instrument der Finanzierungspolitik nutzen. Über hundert deutsche Gesellschaften haben bereits davon G…
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- 9783631393567
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Air Quality integrated Assessment : a European Perspective
air quality; air pollution; environmental analysis
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Agriculture, peasantry and poverty in Turkey in the neo-liberal age
This book investigates recent policies introduced into Turkey which are designed to reduce state activities and open up the country to international investment and trade. This is done in the context of the UNs Millennium Development Goals continuing to stretch into the distant future amid the ongoing instability of the global financial system and economic pressures on the West. The focus is on …
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- 9789086861927
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Agricultura, cooperativas e multinacionais
Abordando aspectos diferentes, os dois estudos focalizam mecanismos de interpenetração crescente entre o capital agroindustrial e os produtores rurais, as estratégias que os diversos agentes utilizam e o papel das cooperativas dentro desse complexo jogo de forças. [...] [trecho retirado da apresentação do livro]
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