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Greening the Financial Sector : How to Mainstream Environmental Finance in De…
Environmental finance, particularly energy efficiency and renewable energy (EERE) finance, can and should serve as an interface to other sub-sectors of financial sector promotion such as microfinance, housing finance or agricultural finance. For example, existing clients of financial institutions include small and medium-sized enterprises and households, and these are often suffering from high …
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- 978-3-642-05087-9
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- XIV, 250
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North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment
This book offers an up-to-date review of our current understanding of climate change in the North Sea and adjacent areas, as well as its impact on ecosystems and socio-economic sectors. It provides a detailed assessment of climate change based on published scientific work compiled by independent international experts from climate-related disciplines such as oceanography, atmospheric sciences, m…
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- 978-3-319-39745-0
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- XLV, 528
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- 650
Model-Based Demography : Essays On integrating Data, Technique and Theory
Late in a career of more than sixty years, Thomas Burch, an internationally known social demographer, undertook a wide-ranging methodological critique of demography. This open access volume contains a selection of resulting papers, some previously unpublished, some published but not readily accessible. Rejecting the idea that demography is simply a branch of applied statistics, his work views i…
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- 9783319654324
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- XVIII, 200
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- 650
Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Asia
Public spending on infrastructure plays an important role in promoting economic growth and poverty alleviation. Empirical studies unequivocally show that under-investment in infrastructure limit economic growth. At the same time, numerous other studies have shown that investment in infrastructure can be a highly effective tool in fighting poverty reduction1. In that context, the financing of in…
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- 978-3-319-03137-8
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- IX, 148
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- 338.1
Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy: Multidisc…
This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance and portfolio analysis in climate policy, and presents methods for evaluating the costs and benefits o…
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- 1
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- 9783030031527
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- XVI, 259 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Methodological investigations in Agent-Based Modelling : With Applications Fo…
Agent-Based Modelling; ABM; Artificial Intelligence; AI; Computational social science; Social simulation; Population sciences
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- 9783658172756
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- XXIII, 235
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- 650
Financing Clean Energy Access in Sub-Saharan Africa : Risk Mitigation Strateg…
This open access book analyses barriers and challenges associated with the financing of clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa. By considering various economic, financial, political, environmental and social factors, it explores the consequences of energy poverty across the region and maps the real and perceived investment risks for potential capital providers, both domestic and internationa…
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- 978-3-030-75829-5
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- XIII, 197
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- SpringerBriefs in Energy (BRIEFSENERGY)
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- 338 MIC f
Evolution of New Working Spaces : Changing Nature and Geographies
This open access book provides multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing dynamics of new working spaces, with insights from various European countries and observing critical theoretical approaches. Divided into two main parts, the first part focuses on the different typologies of new working spaces, identifying the changing nature of these spaces and associated concepts, taxonomies, and sp…
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- 978-3-031-50868-4
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- VIII, 141
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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- 330 EVO
The Regulator–Regulatee Relationship in High-Hazard Industry Sectors : New …
This open access book addresses relationships that develop from the complex set of legislative, regulatory, and institutional arrangements that arise in the governance of high-hazard industries, especially those connected with safety. It analyses the difference in practices between high-hazard sectors such as nuclear power, chemical processing, and transport with those in the finance and health…
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- 978-3-031-49570-0
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- VI, 114
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- 330 REG
Compliance and Initiative in the Production of Safety : A Systems Perspective…
This open access book addresses the idea that there are two ways to go about achieving a safe working environment. The text challenges the prevailing notion that compliance with a rule system, imposed from the top of an organization and designed to anticipate possible hazards in system operation, is really incompatible with the idea that the professional expertise of front-line workers is what …
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- 978-3-031-45055-6
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- VII, 87
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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- 330 COM
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