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Economics of Urban Externalities
This book provides a fresh look at measuring negative externalities in the urbanization process. Meeting the challenges that come hand-in-hand with the contemporary age of rapid urbanization demands more extensive empirical knowledge. While most urbanization research focuses on positive externalities, this book is designed to offer insights into possible sources of negative externalities and th…
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- 978-981-10-0544-2
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- 26 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
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- XIX, 83
Economics of Unconventional Shale Gas Development
This book examines the economics and related impacts of unconventional shale gas development. While focusing on the Marcellus and Utica Shales in the Mid-Atlantic region, additional insights from other regions are included to provide a broader view of these issues. Shale gas development in recent years has changed the energy discussion in the US, as existing reserves of natural gas coupled with…
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- 978-3-319-11498-9
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- 10 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
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- VI, 246
Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico’s War on Crime
With Mexico’s War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to reform the national state by focusing on the material things—cellular phones, automobiles, human bodi…
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- 9780520284043
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- 323.44 2 GUZ m
Economics of Immigration
Poverty, famines, wars, and ethnic conflicts lead to large movements of refugees. The papers in this book provide an analysis of the economics of immigration. Junankar discusses why people migrate, the likely destinations for migrants, and their employment in the destination countries. He studies the benefits to the migrant families in terms of higher wages and living standards, and also studie…
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- 978-1-349-71716-3
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- XVII, 344
Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment fo…
This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resourc…
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- 978-3-319-19167-6
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- XVIII, 686
Transfer Entropy
Statistical relationships among the variables of a complex system reveal a lot about its physical behavior. Therefore, identification of the relevant variables and characterization of their interactions are crucial for a better understanding of a complex system. Correlation-based techniques have been widely utilized to elucidate the linear statistical dependencies in many science and enginee…
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- 978-3-03842-920-3
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- 536.73 GEN t
Modern Philosophy
This is a textbook (or better, a workbook) in modern philosophy. It combines readings from primary sources with two pedagogical tools. Paragraphs in italics introduce figures and texts. Numbered study questions (also in italics) ask students to reconstruct an argument or position from the text, or draw connections among the readings. Creator
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- 100 OTT m
Economics of Higher Education
This book examines the many ways in which economic concepts, theories and models can be used to examine issues in higher education. The topics explored in the book include how students make college-going decisions, the payoffs to students and society from going to college, markets for higher education services, demand and supply in markets for higher education, why and how state and federal gov…
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- 978-94-017-7504-5
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- 17 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
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- XI, 390
Economics and Ecology of Diversification
The monoculture systems that have been encouraged by governments since the 1960s have led to major socio-economic and environmental crises. Now the diversification of tree crop systems is advancing throughout the tropics. Why and when does diversification take place? What categories of farmers diversify? What obstacles do they have to overcome, and how do public and private policies interfere i…
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- 978-94-017-7293-8
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- 92 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
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- IX, 340
Economics and Computation
This textbook connects three vibrant areas at the interface between economics and computer science: algorithmic game theory, computational social choice, and fair division. It thus offers an interdisciplinary treatment of collective decision making from an economic and computational perspective. Part I introduces to algorithmic game theory, focusing on both noncooperative and cooperative game t…
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- 978-3-662-47903-2
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- 114 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
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- XIII, 612
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