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A Global History of the Financial Crash of 2007–10
We have just experienced the worst financial crash the world has seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. While real economies in general did not crash as they did in the 1930s, the financial parts of the economy certainly did, or, at least, came very close to doing so. Hundreds of banks in the United States and Europe have been closed by their supervisory authorities, forcibly merged with…
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A Global Green New Deal Rethinking the Economic Recovery
Meeting the short run challenges of reviving the worldwide economy need not mean sacrificing long run economic and environmental sustainability. A Global Green New Deal (GGND) is an economic policy strategy for ensuring a more economically and environmentally sustainable world economic recovery. Reviving growth and creating jobs should be essential objectives. But policies should also aim to re…
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Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation
This book introduces innovative approaches to pursue climate change adaptation and to support the long-term implementation of climate change policies. Offering new case studies and data, as well as projects and initiatives implemented across the globe, the contributors present new tools, approaches and methods to pursue and facilitate innovation in climate change adaptation.
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- 978-3-319-25812-6
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- IX, 388
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- 330 INN
Cultural impact on lean Six sigma and corporate success : Causal Analyses Co…
To achieve a better understanding of the influence of National Culture, Corporate Culture and Leadership Style on Lean Six Sigma implementation and Corporate Success a quantitative empirical web-based survey with Lean Six Sigma professionals involved in the social professional network LinkedIn was carried out by Miriam Jacobs. The outcome of this survey suggests, that certain constellations of …
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- 9783658073404
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- XXVIII, 320
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- Forum Marketing
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- 338.71
Cultural hybridity and the environment : strategies to celebrate local and In…
This book highlights the importance of diversity in overcoming issues of social and environmental degradation. It presents conceptual and practical strategies to celebrate local and Indigenous knowledge for improved community development and environmental management. David Harvey has proclaimed, "The geography we make must be a peoples' geography." This clarion call challenges geographers aroun…
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- 9789812873231
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- XIX, 215
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Countering 21st Century Social-Environmental Threats to Growing Global Popula…
This book brings together in a single volume a grand overview of solutions - political, economic, and scientific - to social and environmental problems that are related to the growth of human populations in areas that can least cope with them now. Through progressive adaptation to social and environmental changes projected for the future, including population growth, global warming/climate chan…
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- 9781322138077
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- XV, 164
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- SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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- 330
Cost-of-Capital in Managerial Finance An Examination of Practices in the Germ…
This book examines cost-of-capital models and their application in the context of managerial finance. This includes the use of hurdle rates in capital allocation decisions, as well as target returns in performance management. Besides a review of classical finance models such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), other contemporary models and techniques to determine the cost-of-capital of b…
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- 9783319151359
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- XII, 245
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- Contributions to Management Science
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Cost-Benefit Studies of Natural Resource Management in Southeast Asia
This book applies cost-benefit analysis techniques in the management of environment and natural resources in developing countries of the Southeast Asian region and presents a compendium of studies conducted by researchers supported by the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA). It emphasizes the close relationship between the environment and natural resources and economic d…
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- 9789812873934
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- XVII, 396
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Cost Effectiveness Modelling for Health Technology Assessment A Practical Course
This book provides an introduction to decision analytic cost-effectiveness modelling, giving the theoretical and practical knowledge required to design and implement analyses that meet the methodological standards of health technology assessment organisations. The book guides you through building a decision tree and Markov model and, importantly, shows how the results of cost-effectiveness anal…
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- 9783319157443
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- XIII, 208
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Crowdfunding for SMEs : a European perspective
Crowdfunding for SMEs' provides a valuable insight into this new source of capital. In particular, the authors focus on financial return crowdfunding, which repays the crowd either through debt or equity. This source of capital might play a significant role in the future becoming an alternative or a complement to traditional funding sources. It is therefore of the uttermost importance to unders…
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- 9781137560216
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- XV, 236
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- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
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- 338.7
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