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Loneliness in Europe: Determinants, Risks and Interventions
This open-access volume accompanies the microdata release of the EU Loneliness Survey. Loneliness, often referred to as the ‘epidemic of the 21st century’, has emerged as a grave public health concern. For years, a lack of comprehensive European cross-national data hindered a thorough examination of this issue. In 2022, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre conducted the inaugu…
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- 9783031665820
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- XVIII, 176
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Advancing Energy Policy : Lessons on the integration of Social Sciences and H…
This open access book advocates for the Social Sciences and Humanities to be more involved in energy policymaking. It forms part of the European platform for energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities’ activities, and works on the premise that crossing disciplines is essential. All of its contributions are highly interdisciplinary, with each chapter grounded in at least three different Soc…
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- 9783319990972
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- XXVII, 193 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Megatrends in Agriculture, Food Industry and Food Markets : An Empirical and …
This book offers a research-based, holistic overview of the entire value chain of the global food industry. It captures and defines over 80 contemporary ‘megatrends’ in agriculture and the food market that can be empirically documented and have a major impact on business, economies, industries, societies, and individuals. Today the world is characterized by more uncertainty and unpredict…
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- 9783031581526
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- XLV, 410 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Precision Oncology and Cancer Biomarkers: Issues at Stake and Matters of Concern
This open access book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around precision oncology. Each chapter addresses the experiences, concerns and issues at stake for people who work in settings where precision oncology is practiced, enacted, imagined or discussed. It subsequently discusses and analyses bioethical dilemmas, scientific c…
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- Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology
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- XIV, 281
Internal Migration, Urbanization and Poverty in Asia: Dynamics and Interrelat…
This book is Open Access under a CC BY license. This volume offers an essential resource for economic policymakers as well as students of development economics focusing on the interrelationships of migration, urbanization and poverty in Asia. The continent’s recent demographic transitions and rural-urban structural transformations are extraordinary, and involve complexities that require …
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- 9789811315374
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- XII, 367 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Female Employment and Gender Gaps in China
This open access book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China’s economic transition period. It provides the reader with academic evidence for understanding the mechanism of female labor force participation, the determinants of the gender gap in the labor market, and the impact of policy transformation on women’s wages and employment …
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- 978-981-33-6904-7
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Climate-Resilient Cities: Priorities for the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
This edited volume discusses the concept of resilient cities within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Written by an international panel of scholars and experts, the book presents theoretical approaches, identifies risk factors, and suggests policies for building resiliency in a region of the world undergoing rapid urbanization. Chapters cover a diverse range of topics, including innova…
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- 9783031730900
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- X, 368
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“Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits”: A Mixed Methods Study on Corruption…
Why are historically Catholic countries and regions generally more corrupt and less competitive than historically Protestant ones? How has institutionalization of religion influenced the prosperity of countries in Europe and the Americas? This open access book addresses these critical questions by elucidating the hegemonic and emancipatory religious factors leading to these dissimilarities bet…
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- 9783030784980
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- XXXVI, 407
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Formalizing The Shadow Economy in Serbia: Policy Measures and Growth Effects
The main objective of this book is to develop a strategy and policy measures to enhance the formalization of the shadow economy in order to improve the competitiveness of the economy and contribute to economic growth; it explores these issues with special reference to Serbia. The size and development of the shadow economy in Serbia and other Central and Eastern European countries are estimated …
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- 9783319134369
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- IX, 179
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- 650
Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa: Essays in Honor of Keijiro Otsuka
This Open Access book explores the multifaceted nature of agricultural and rural development in Asia and examines the extent to which the Asian experience is being replicated in contemporary Africa. This volume compiles the works of top scholars who provided analyses and evidences from household-level surveys collected for many years in several parts of Asia and Africa. The most important findi…
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- 9789811955426
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- XXXIII, 387hlm,: ill, lamp;
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