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The Governance of Insurance Undertakings : Corporate Law and Insurance Regulation

This volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation brings together contributions from authors ...

The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus

This book analyses the interplay between governing, evaluation and knowledge with an empirical focus on Swedish higher education. ...

The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment

This volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific ...

The Information Society: Innovation, Legitimacy, Ethics and Democracy

The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The ...

The Market for Corporate Control in Japan

This book analyzes the modern trend in the Japanese M and A market. It reveals from different perspectives the process of ...

The New Common How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Transforming Society

This book presents the scientific views of some fifty experts on how they believe the COVID-19 pandemic is currently affecting ...

The New Politics of Numbers : Utopia, Evidence and Democracy

This book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they ...

The Onlife Manifesto : Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era

What is the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the human condition? In order to address this ...

The Professoriate

What does it mean to be an academic in the twenty first century? Clearly, there is no one answer to this question, as the ...

The Urban Mosaic of Post-Socialist Europe

The book explores urban dynamics in post-socialist Europe 15 years after the fall of communism. The ‘urban mosaic’ metaphor ...

The World Summit on Sustainable Development

It addresses the science behind the discussions on poverty, production and consumption patterns, water, energy, Small Island ...

Transformation in Higher Education

This book presents the most comprehensive and most thorough study of the developments in South African higher education and ...

Understanding Society and Natural Resources : Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences

In this edited open access book leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration ...

Understanding the Bigger Energy Picture

This book gives an overview of today’s energy problem in the context of a rising world population, climate change and the ...

United States and European Union Auditor Independence Regulation

There is a difference in the communication and safeguarding effects of a regulation, depending on the precision of its wording. ...

University Dynamics and European Integration

This book explores the visions underlying the attempts to reform the European University as well as two European integration ...

Urban Planning Against Poverty How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Global South

This book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the ...

Venture Capital, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value

Based on economic and managerial theories, Maik Kleinschmidt studies the relationship between venture capital, corporate ...

Visual Securitization Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance

This book offers an innovative account of how relief organizations’ visual depiction of Syrian displacement contributes ...

Water Management at Abandoned Flooded Underground Mines : Fundamentals, Tracer Tests, Modelling, Water Treatment

This book addresses the processes related to mine abandonment from a hydrogeological perspective. The book gives some key ...

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