This open access volume discloses rich set of findings and policy recommendations for India towards achieving the SDG 2.1 target of zero hunger by 2030. Through its fourteen chapters, it takes an integrated approach by examining diverse aspects of food and nutrition security through multidisciplinary lens of Agricultural Economics, Nutrition, Crop Sciences, Anthropology and Law, while being roo…
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set of historical GDP estimates for Spain from the demand and supply sides, and presents a reconstruction of production and expenditure series for the century prior to the introduction of modern national accounts. The author …
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the European Electricity Market Coupling. Tracing the evolution of the EU’s efforts to create an Internal Energy Market, it explores the history, principles and roles of all key actors from Transmission System Operators (TSOs) to service providers to National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) in Single Day-ahead and Intraday Coupling. Ke…
This open access book is intended to provoke and progress new thinking in the field of energy research for policy makers, practitioners and scholars. By drawing on a broad range of social and innovation theory insights, this book showcases the diversity of energy citizenship and opens up the concept by including multiple ‘latent’, less visible, forms of energy citizenship that also form par…
This open access book develops a deeper understanding of an increasingly applied term across policy cycles and academic discourses, ‘energy citizenship’. It provides the reader with five distinct chapters, with each in turn examining a specific aspect of the concept and how it has manifested in public discourses.
This open-access book offers a comparative analysis of changes in employment structures on a global scale, focusing on employment trends during the first decades of the 21st century across 17 developed and developing economies, including countries from Europe, North America, Central and Latin America, and Asia. The authors examine patterns of occupational change in all cases, with job upgrading…
Good education changes lives. It is therefore unsurprising that improved schooling plays a central part in most development strategies. At the same time, the expansion of school attainment alone is not sufficient to guarantee improved welfare. This open access book focuses on one country in West Africa, Togo, to explore what a country that has successfully increased enrollment rates can do to e…
In dieser Open-Access-Publikation stellt der Autor die Evolution der Steuergerechtigkeitsideen und -prinzipien in einen historischen Zusammenhang und ordnet diese in größere Strukturen ein, um so ein geschlossenes Bild der Steuergerechtigkeitskonzepte in der Rechts-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte zu zeichnen. Dabei gelingt es dem Autor, die Entwicklung der finanzwissenschaftlichen Diskuss…
Florian Kamp analysiert in diesem Open-Access-Buch Grund und Grenzen von Nebenpflichten nach § 241 II BGB. Dessen Auslegung zur Suche nach Haftungsgrund und -grenzen bietet als zentralen Befund, dass einzig der historisch eindeutig belegte Einsatzzweck von Nebenpflichten zur Kompensation deliktsrechtlicher Mängel als Funktion von § 241 II BGB vollumfänglich überzeugt. Die Berücksichtigung…
Dieses Open-Access-Buch führt auf der Spur der Trade-offs der Nachhaltigkeit vom Versuch einer sprachlogischen Aufarbeitung des Nachhaltigkeitsbegriffs aus in die zweiwertige Logik. Die klassische Logik führt hinein in ein Modell boolescher Algebra, um weiter zu drei- und mehrwertigen Logiken vorzudringen. Inspiriert von neuen digital erzeugbaren Kalkülen, die z. B. in Verbindung mit den in …