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Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific
Manila, Philippines, 15–19 January 1996
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
PREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi L. AMADORE, W. C. BOLHOFER, R. V. CRUZ, R. B. FEIR, C. A. FREYSINGER, S. GUILL, K. F. JALAL, A IGLESIAS, A. JOSE, S. LEATHERMAN, S. LENHART, S. MUKHER JEE, J. B. SMITH, and J. WISNIEWSKII Climate Change Vulnerability and Adap tion in Asia and the Pacific: Workshop...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Flood Problem and Management in South Asia focuses on both the hazard and the vulnerability aspects of floods. This book addresses floods in South Asia from a multidisciplinary approach. The characteristics and nature of the flood problem and its management aspects are examined. It is suggested that...
Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
A Global Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book is the first of its kind – a global overview of extant research on ethics in small and medium sized enterprises. While vast amounts of corporate money, government policy and media time are directed at the social and ethical activities of large corporations, small businesses don’t generally...
The Business Cycle: Theories and Evidence
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Economic Policy Conference of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
These proceedings, from a conference held at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis on October 17-18, 1991, attempted to layout what we currently know about aggregate economic fluctuations. Identifying what we know inevitably reveals what we do not know about such fluctuations as well. From the vantage...
Is Water H2O?
Evidence, Realism and Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This book exhibits deep philosophical quandaries and intricacies of the historical development of science lying behind a simple and fundamental item of common sense in modern science, namely the composition of water as H2O. Three main phases of development are critically re-examined, covering the...
by Mario Bunge
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
The first part deals with philosophies that have had a significant input, positive or negative, on the search for truth; it suggests that scientific and technological are either stimulated or smothered by a philosophical matrix; and it outlines two ontological doctrines believed to have nurtured...
The Social Production of Scientific Knowledge
Yearbook 1977
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Politics and Rhetoric of Scientific Method
Historical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively earl- though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World...
Integrating History and Philosophy of Science
Problems and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Though the publication of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions seemed to herald the advent of a unified study of the history and philosophy of science, it is a hard fact that history of science and philosophy of science have increasingly grown apart. Recently, however, there has been a series...
Science and Society
Studies in the Sociology of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"If a science has to be supported by fraudulent means, let it perish. " With these words of Kepler, Agassi plunges into the actual troubles and glories of science (321). The SOciology of science is no foreign intruder upon scientific knowledge in these essays, for we see clearly how Agassi...
Megacities
Our Global Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
As urbanization continues, and even accelerates, scientists estimate that by 2015 the world will have up to 60 ‘megacities’ – urban areas with more than five million inhabitants. With the irresistible economic attractions of urban centers, particularly in developing countries, making the influx...
Management and Economic Development
The Case of Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The ping-pong diplomacy and its aftermath discussion, coupled with the entry of communist China into the United Nations and the subsequent expulsion of Taiwan, will generate considerable political dialogue about the changing balance of power and the fate of the other China. These political discussions...
Socio-Economics: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Ethics, Institutions, and Markets
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is intended as a warning against the kind of hard-core liberalism which blames state intervention for the disappointing results achieved in matters of macroeconomic, competition and social welfare policy. In calling attention to the social dimension of economics, the book stresses the need...