Filter by
Market Engineering: Insights from Two Decades of Research on Markets and Info…
This open access book provides a broad range of insights on market engineering and information management. It covers topics like auctions, stock markets, electricity markets, the sharing economy, information and emotions in markets, smart decision-making in cities and other systems, and methodological approaches to conceptual modeling and taxonomy development. Overall, this book is a source of …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-66661-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Social Development in the World Bank: Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea
This open access book honors the work of Michael Cernea, who was the World Bank’s first professional sociologist, by taking on and extending his arguments for "putting people first.” Cernea led a community of social scientists in formulating and promoting a comprehensive set of innovative and original social policies on development issues, which the World Bank adopted and implemented. This …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-57426-0
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Social Cash Transfer in Turkey: Toward Market Citizenship
This open access book asks whether cash-transfer programs for very low-income households promote social and economic citizenship and, if so, under what conditions. To this end, it brings together elements that are too often considered separately: the transformation of social and economic citizenship rights in a market-centered context, and the increasing popularity of cash transfer as an instru…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-70381-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Migration and Environmental Change in Morocco: In search for Linkages Between…
This open access book studies the migration aspirations and trajectories of people living in two regions in Morocco that are highly affected by environmental change or emigration, namely Tangier and Tinghir, as well as the migration trajectories of immigrants coming from these regions currently living in Belgium. This book departs from the development of a new theoretical framework on the relat…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-61390-7
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
International Organizations in Global Social Governance
International Organizations (IOs) are important actors within global social governance. They provide forums for exchange, contention and cooperation about social policies. Our knowledge about the involvement of IOs varies significantly by policy fields, and we know comparatively little about the specific roles of IOs in social policies. This volume enhances and systematizes our understanding…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-65439-9
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Future of Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
This open access textbook offers a critical introduction to human and economic development prospects in Africa revolving around three questions: where is Africa today, what explains the current state, and, given historical trends and what we know about the world, where do we think the continent will be in 2040? And, a final question: what can we do to create a better tomorrow? It models ambitio…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-46590-2
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
GeomInt–Mechanical Integrity of Host Rocks
This open access book summarizes the results of the collaborative project “GeomInt: Geomechanical integrity of host and barrier rocks - experiment, modeling and analysis of discontinuities” within the Program: Geo Research for Sustainability (GEO: N) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The use of geosystems as a source of resources, a storage space, for installing unde…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-61909-1
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Towards a Natural Social Contract: Transformative Social-Ecological Innovatio…
This open access book is a 2022 Nautilus Gold Medal winner in the category "World Cultures' Transformational Growth & Development". It states that the societal fault lines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with challenges affecting the security, fairness and sustainability of our societies. The author, Prof. Dr. Patrick Huntjens, argues that overcoming these existent…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-67130-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Migration to and from Welfare States: Lived Experiences of the Welfare–Migr…
This open access book explores the role of family, public, market and third sector welfare provision for individual and households’ decisions regarding geographical mobility. It challenges the state-centred approach in research on welfare and migration by emphasising migrants’ own reflections and experiences. It asks whether and in which ways different welfare concerns are part of migrants…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-67615-5
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Migration and Discrimination: IMISCOE Short Reader
This open access short reader provides a state of the art overview of the discrimination research field, with particular focus on discrimination against immigrants and their descendants. It covers the ways in which discrimination is defined and conceptualized, how it is measured, how it may be theorized and explained, and how it might be combated by legal and policy means. The book also present…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-67281-2
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography