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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
More than a decade has passed since economist Richard N. Cooper reflected upon the trend toward increasing economic interdependence in the international community: During the past decade there has been a strong trend toward economic interdependence among the industrial countries. This growing interdependence...
Management Training in High-Tech and R&D
Concept for Enterprises under Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Innovative actIvItIes on the development of which Russia puts its hopes for the preservation and successful reconstruction of the former USSR applied science are based on three key factors: funding, infrastructure and management. These factors are of equal significance, however, under today's economic...
Benefits Assessment
The State of the Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years there has been substantial interest in benefits assessment methods, especially as these methods are used to assess health, safety, and environmental issues. At least part of this interest can be traced to Executive Order 12291, issued by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. This Executive...
by Barney Warf
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Today, roughly 2 billion people use the internet, and its applications have flourished in number and importance. This volume will examine the growth and geography of the internet from a political economy perspective. Its central motivation is to illustrate that cyberspace does not exist in some aspatial...
Transforming Water Management in South Africa
Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining...
Climate Change and European Leadership
A Sustainable Role for Europe?
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The issue of climate change is now widely recognised as one of the major challenges for mankind in the 21st century, not only because it may ultimately affect many areas of our environment, nature and human activity but also because its mitigation may have far reaching consequences for almost all...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Fifty years after the famous essay “The Problem of Social Cost” (1960) by the Nobel laureate Ronald Coase, Law and Economics seems to have become the lingua franca of American jurisprudence, and although its influence on European jurisprudence is only moderate by comparison, it has also gained...
Evolutionary Optimization and Game Strategies for Advanced Multi-Disciplinary Design
Applications to Aeronautics and UAV Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Many complex aeronautical design problems can be formulated with efficient multi-objective evolutionary optimization methods and game strategies.
This book describes the role of advanced innovative evolution tools in the solution, or the set of solutions of single or multi disciplinary optimization....
Transhumanism and Society
The Social Debate over Human Enhancement
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
This book provides an introductory overview to the social debate over enhancement technologies with an overview of the transhumanists' call to bypass human nature and conservationists' argument in defense of it. The author present this controversy as it unfolds in the contest between transhumanists...
East-West Scientific Co-operation
Science and Technology Policy of the Baltic States and International Co-operation
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
All former Soviet Union countries experience their past as a heavy burden. It led to the centralisation of scientific personnel, the separation of research from teaching at universities, and a concentration of certain branches of technology in different parts of the Union. This has given rise to a...
by Konstantin Katzarov
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this book Professor Katzarov has made the first comprehensive study 0/ nationalisation /rom the legal point 0/ view. The author's knowledge 0/ European languages, in addition to his mother tongue 0/ Bulgarian, has enabled him to draw on material/rom England, France, the U.s.S.R. and the other communist...
Politics as Rational Action
Essays in Public Choice and Policy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
One of the most promising trends in modem political science is the develop ment of a theory of politics as rational action. Focussing on choice as the central topic of study, rational choice theorists set out to specify what alter native an actor should prefer if he has some given knowledge of...
Freedom, Recognition and Non-Domination
A Republican Theory of (Global) Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
This book offers an original account of a distinctly republican theory of social and global justice. The book starts by exploring the nature and value of Hegelian recognition theory. It shows the importance of that theory for grounding a normative account of free and autonomous agency. It is this...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume characterizes the current state of natural science and socioeconomic modeling of the impacts of climate change and current climate variability on forests, grasslands, and water. It identifies what can be done currently with impact assessments and suggests how to undertake such assessments....