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Environmental Technologies, Intellectual Property and Climate Change
Edited by Abbe E.L. Brown
Many disciplines are relevant to combating climate change. This challenging book draws together legal, regulatory, geographic, industrial and professional perspectives and explores the role of technologies in addressing climate change th...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Institutions, Economic Performance and the Visible Hand
Ashok Chakravarti
The book challenges the conventional wisdom on the determinants of economic performance and provides an alternative vision of the functioning of an economic system. The author provides a structured survey which critically evaluates the t...eBook:Find out more$43.16
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Handbook on Climate Change and Agriculture
Edited by Ariel Dinar, Robert Mendelsohn
This book explores the interaction between climate change and the agriculture sector. Agriculture is essential to the livelihood of people and nations, especially in the developing world; therefore, any impact on it will have significant...eBook:Find out more$71.16
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Handbook on the Economics of Leisure
Edited by Samuel Cameron
Surprisingly, the field of leisure economics is not, thus far, a particularly integrated or coherent one. In this Handbook a wide ranging body of international scholars get to grips with the core issues, taking in the traditional income/...eBook:Find out more$67.96
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World Economic Performance
Edited by D. S.P. Rao, Bart van Ark
World economic performance over the last 50 years has been spectacular. The postwar period has witnessed impressive growth rates in Western Europe and Japan, and in recent times China and India. This new book discusses these issues and t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Islands at Risk?
John Connell
This book provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary economic, social, political and environmental change in small islands, island states and territories, through every ocean. It focuses on those island realms conventio...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Intellectual Property, Pharmaceuticals and Public Health
Edited by Kenneth C. Shadlen, Samira Guennif, Alenka Guzmán , Narayanan Lalitha
This up-to-date book examines pharmaceutical development, access to medicines, and the protection of public health in the context of two fundamental changes that the global political economy has undergone since the 1970s, the globalizati...eBook:Find out more$50.36
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Managing Food Safety and Hygiene
Bridget M. Hutter
Food safety and hygiene is of critical importance to us all, yet, as periodic food crises in various countries each year show we are all dependent on others in business and public regulation to ensure that the food we consume in the reta...eBook:Find out more$43.16
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Local Government Finance
UNIDO
This book, compiled from the 2nd Global Report of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) on Decentralization and Local Democracy, analyzes the architecture of fiscal decentralization in one hundred and ten countries as well as in maj... -
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The Global Governance of HIV/AIDS
Edited by Obijiofor Aginam, John Harrington, Peter K. Yu
The Global Governance of HIV/AIDS explores the implications of high international intellectual property standards for access to essential medicines in developing countries. With a focus on HIV/AIDS governance, the volume provides a timel...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Clusters and Economic Growth in Asia
Edited by Sören Eriksson
This detailed book explores and provides insights into the development and transformation of various clusters, economies and industrial sectors in East and Southeast Asia.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Financial Development
Ding Chen
This important new book attempts to establish a fresh conceptual framework for the study of corporate governance by employing the new institutional economics of contract enforcement. This framework helps to clarify two critical issues in...eBook:Find out more$40.00