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Environmental Justice and Federalism
Dennis C. Cory, Tauhidur Rahman, Satheesh Aradhyula, Melissa Anne Burns, Miles H. Kiger
The authors discuss two case studies in their investigation of the complex interactions between environmental justice and government. These analyses offer a comprehensive view of both the siting and regulation of polluting activities, as...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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![Handbook of Research on Mergers and Acquisitions]()
Handbook of Research on Mergers and Acquisitions
Edited by Yaakov Weber
For the last four decades, researchers in various disciplines have been trying to explain the enduring paradox of the growing activity and volume of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) versus the high failure rate of M&A. This Handbook will s...eBook:Find out more$53.56
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![Research Handbook on the Economics of Labor and Employment Law]()
Research Handbook on the Economics of Labor and Employment Law
Edited by Cynthia L. Estlund, Michael L. Wachter
This Research Handbook assembles the original work of leading legal and economic scholars, working in a variety of traditions and methodologies, on the economic analysis of labor and employment law. In addition to surveying the current ...eBook:Find out more$63.16
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![A Handbook of Comparative Social Policy, Second Edition]()
A Handbook of Comparative Social Policy, Second Edition
Edited by Patricia Kennett
The current context of social policy is one in which many of the old certainties of the past have been eroded. The predominantly inward-looking, domestic preoccupation of social policy has made way for a more integrated, international an...eBook:Find out more$53.56
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![The Successes and Failures of Whistleblower Laws]()
The Successes and Failures of Whistleblower Laws
Robert G. Vaughn
Drawing on literature from several disciplines, this enlightening book examines the history of whistleblower laws throughout the world and provides an analytical structure for the most common debates about the nature of such laws and the...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Law and Economics for Civil Law Systems
Ejan Mackaay
Ejan Mackaay offers a comprehensive look at the essential points of economic reasoning, the Coase Theorem, and legal institutions such as intellectual property, extra-contractual civil liability and contracts. The book’s structure mirror...eBook:Find out more$63.16
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![Elgar Handbook of Civil War and Fragile States]()
Elgar Handbook of Civil War and Fragile States
Edited by Graham K. Brown, Arnim Langer
The Elgar Handbook of Civil War and Fragile States brings together contributions from a multidisciplinary group of internationally renowned scholars on such important issues as the causes of violent conflicts and state fragility, the cha...eBook:Find out more$63.16
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Household Sustainability
Chris Gibson, Carol Farbotko, Nicholas Gill, Lesley Head, Gordon Waitt
The authors engage critically, and constructively, with the proposition that households are a key scale of action on climate change. They confront dilemmas of practice and circumstance, and cultural norms of lifestyle and consumerism tha...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Societal Entrepreneurship
Edited by Karin Berglund, Bengt Johannisson, Birgitta Schwartz
Stating the importance of both the local and the broader societal context, the book reports close-up studies from a variety of social ventures. Generic themes include positioning societal entrepreneurship against other images of collecti...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Moving Towards Low Carbon Mobility
Edited by Moshe Givoni, David Banister
The transport sector has been singularly unsuccessful in becoming low carbon and less resource intensive. This book takes an innovative and holistic social, cultural and behavioural perspective, as well as covering the more conventional ...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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A World in Emergence
Allen J. Scott
Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized...eBook:Find out more$29.56
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Economic Futures of the West
Jan Winiecki
Jan Winiecki explores the various problems that the West must deal with in order to remain an efficient competitor in the world economy. These, he argues, are primarily consequences of the ever-expanding welfare state; consequences that ...eBook:Find out more$39.16
