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Digital and Strategic Innovation for Alpine Health Tourism
This open access book presents a set of practical tools and collaborative solutions in multi-disciplinary settings to foster the Alpine Space health tourism industry’s innovation and competitiveness. The proposed solutions emerge as the result of the synergy among health, environment, tourism, digital, policy and strategy professionals. The approach underlines the pivotal role of a sustainabl…
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- 978-3-031-15457-7
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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- IX, 130
The Economics of Water
This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it discusses and analyzes central issues in integrated water resource management, water tariffs, water markets, and transboundary water management. By illustrating the interplay …
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Words, Objects and Events in Economics
This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first vol…
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Urban and Regional Cooperation and Development
This is an open access book. This book, first of all, introduces the new unveiled Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone with details as a special mode of the regional collaborative development that is committed to be mutually beneficial to both sides with different political and economic systems. China's central authorities have recently issued a masterplan for constructing the Guangdong-M…
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- 978-981-19-8061-9
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- SpringerBriefs in Geography
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- IX, 94
Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century
This book aims to help readers make sense of our changing world by sharing the views of global thought leaders on some of the most important issues of our time, from US-China relations and global governance to climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- 978-981-19-3846-7
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- XIV, 213
Effective Statistical Learning Methods for Actuaries II
This book summarizes the state of the art in tree-based methods for insurance: regression trees, random forests and boosting methods. It also exhibits the tools which make it possible to assess the predictive performance of tree-based models. Actuaries need these advanced analytical tools to turn the massive data sets now at their disposal into opportunities.
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- 978-3-030-57556-4
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- Springer Actuarial
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- X, 228
Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in European Labour Markets
This open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK), in the framework of EU laws and policies, have a beneficial or negative impact on the effective capacity of these countries to integrate migrants, refugees …
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- 978-3-030-67284-3
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- IMISCOE Research Series
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- XI, 258
Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century
This book aims to help readers make sense of our changing world by sharing the views of global thought leaders on some of the most important issues of our time, from US-China relations and global governance to climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. The ten dialogues in this book were part of the “China and the World” series of online discussions hosted by the Center for China and Glob…
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- Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century
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- XIV, 213
Corporate Liability for Transboundary Environmental Harm
This open access book aims to elaborate on the legal prerequisites to establish the liability of corporations for transboundary environmental harm, not only by identifying existing liability rules, principles and standards but also by analysing their potential for further legal development. The authors consider international and transboundary liability law to currently be an underutilised tool …
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- 978-3-031-13264-3
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- XXVII, 640
Quest for Good Money
This open access book examines the history and role of money. Money is often defined in terms of three interrelated functions: as a medium of exchange, store of value and unit of account. Researchers frequently discuss the first two functions, but tend to ignore unit of account. This book focuses on how a unit of account or denomination can be defined and can be derived from the monetary system…
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- 978-981-19-5591-4
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- Hitotsubashi University IER Economic Research Series
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- XV, 151
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