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Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology
How can we design more sustainable industrial and urban systems that reduce environmental impacts while supporting a high quality of life for everyone? What progress has been made towards reducing resource use and waste, and what are the prospects for more resilient, material-efficient economies? What are the environmental and social impacts of global supply chains and how can they be measured …
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- 978-3-319-20571-7
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- XXI, 362
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Obstructions in Security-Aware Business Processes
This Open Access book explores the dilemma-like stalemate between security and regulatory compliance in business processes on the one hand and business continuity and governance on the other. The growing number of regulations, e.g., on information security, data protection, or privacy, implemented in increasingly digitized businesses can have an obstructive effect on the automated execution of …
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- 978-3-658-38154-7
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True Cost Accounting for Food : Balancing the Scale
This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme hunger and diet-related diseases, and one which has significant environmental impacts, is not serving …
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- 9781003050803
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- 650
The Politics of Uncertainty : Challenges of Transformation
Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book’s chapters address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and critical infrastructures, as well as climate change, infectious disease responses, natural disasters, migration, crime and security and spirituality and religion.The book argues that uncertainties mu…
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- 9781003023845
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Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative : Producing the Reader
Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative: Producing the Reader is an interdisciplinary exploration into the profound power of narratives to create—and recreate—how we imagine ourselves. It posits that the process of producing a text also produces the reader. Written from the perspective of a psychoanalytic feminist, Sproles considers a wide array of examples from literature, popular cu…
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- 9780429884443
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Governing Delinquency Through Freedom : Control, Rehabilitation and Desistance
"This book analyses the non-custodial government of young offenders in two major cities in Brazil. In doing so, it delves into the paradox of an institution exerting control over youths while at the same time promoting their autonomy and responsibility. The study sheds light on the specific logics of power, control, and inequality produced by such institutional settings. The book’s analysis i…
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- 9780429466175
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Environmental Policy and Air Pollution in China : Governance and Strategy
This book systematically analyzes how and why China has expectedly lost and then surprisingly gained ground in the quest to solve the complicated environmental problem of air pollution over the past two decades. Yuan Xu shines a light on how China’s sulfur dioxide emissions rose quickly in tandem with rapid economic growth but then dropped to a level not seen for at least four decades. Despit…
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- 9780429452154
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- 650
Routledge handbook of public policy in Africa
Buku Pegangan ini memberikan tinjauan disiplin ilmu yang berwibawa dan mendasar tentang Kebijakan Publik Afrika dan pemeriksaan komprehensif tentang kepraktisan analisis kebijakan, proses pembuatan kebijakan, implementasi, dan administrasi di Afrika saat ini. Buku ini menyusun tim multidisiplin yang terdiri dari para sarjana, praktisi, peneliti, dan pakar kebijakan Afrika terkemuka dan yang sed…
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- 9781003143840
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- 1 online resource (718 Pages)
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- 320.6 ONY r
New paths and policies towards conflict prevention : Chinese and Swiss perspe…
Buku ini mengeksplorasi wacana tentang pencegahan konflik dan pembangunan perdamaian dengan mempertemukan para peneliti dari Tiongkok dan Swiss melalui serangkaian dialog kebijakan. Piagam Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa, yang diadopsi segera setelah Perang Dunia II, dengan jelas menyatakan tentang kebutuhan mendasar bagi komunitas internasional untuk bertindak dalam kemitraan guna mencegah konflik …
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- 9781003136996
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- 1 online resource. (160 Pages)
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- 327.17 FUN n
Food system transformations : social movements, local economies, collaborativ…
Buku ini mengkaji peran gerakan, perusahaan, dan jaringan pangan lokal dalam transformasi sistem pangan global yang saat ini tidak berkelanjutan. Buku ini mengeksplorasi serangkaian inovasi yang dirancang untuk mengintegrasikan kembali cara produksi pangan yang berkelanjutan dan mendorong kedaulatan pangan. Buku ini memberikan wawasan terperinci tentang jaringan khusus pelaku sosial yang berkol…
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- 9781003131304
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- 1 online resource (234 Pages)
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- 338.1 KRO f
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