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A Guide to EU Renewable Energy Policy
Edited by Israel Solorio, Helge Jörgens
This book is a guide for understanding the EU renewable energy policy as one of the most ambitious attempts world-wide to facilitate a transition towards more sustainable energy systems. It contains key case studies for understanding how...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Law and Policy for a New Economy
Edited by Melissa K. Scanlan
This book makes the case for a New Environmentalism, and using a systems change approach, takes the reader through ideas for reorienting the economy. It addresses the laws and policies needed to support the emergence of a new economy acr...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Autonomous Public Bodies and the Law
Stéphanie De Somer
This insightful book discusses the impact of EU law on the creation and empowerment of autonomous public bodies (APBs) at Member State level and analyzes recent attempts of European states to rationalize delegation to APBs. It examines t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Middle Powers and International Organisations
Aynsley Kellow, Peter Carroll
This book provides a unique examination of how a middle power uses international organisations to achieve greater global influence. The authors focus on the OECD, ‘the rich man’s club’ of most of the world’s wealthiest nations. It demons...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Critical Studies of Innovation
Edited by Benoît Godin, Dominique Vinck
Different theories, models and narratives of innovation compete for both legitimacy and authority. However, despite the variations, they all offer a consistent pro-innovation bias, dismissing resistance as irrational, and overlooking the...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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North-South Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes
Clair Gammage
This book offers a critical reflection of the North-South regional trade agreements (RTAs), known as the Economic Partnership Agreements, negotiated between the EU and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries. Conceiving of regions ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A History of American State and Local Economic Development
Ronald W. Coan
A History of American State and Local Economic Development relates the history of American local and state economic development from 1790 to 2000. This multi-variable, multi-disciplinary history employs a bottom-up policy-making systems ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Hybridization of Food Governance
Edited by Paul Verbruggen, Tetty Havinga
Modern food governance is increasingly hybrid, involving not only government, but also industry and civil society actors. This book analyzes the unfolding interplay between public and private actors in global and local food governance. H...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Knowledge Borders
Kathrine E. Richardson
Key sections of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) deal with temporary labor mobility. Ideally, NAFTA status provisions should make the temporary movement of professionals easier across the border of all NAFTA countries. Ho...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Business, Organized Labour and Climate Policy
Peter J. Glynn, Timothy Cadman, Tek N. Maraseni
This impartial study analyses the role of employer’s organisations and trade unions in climate change policy and its impacts on the labour market. The policies of government to manage greenhouse gas emissions will require business to cha...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Childcare, Early Education and Social Inequality
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Nevena Kulic, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi
Recognising that social change over recent decades has strengthened the need for early childhood education and care, this book seeks to answer what role this plays in creating and compensating for social inequalities in educational attai...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Innovation and Democratic Leadership
Marc Parés, Sonia M. Ospina, Joan Subirats
This book explores new forms of democracy in practice following the 2011 global uprisings; democracy that comes from below, by and for the ‘have-nots’. Combining theories of social innovation and collective leadership, it analyses how di...eBook:Find out more$40.00