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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 ...

The effect of financial performance on the dividend distribution for the listed corporations in Damascus Securities Exchange (Applied Study on Syrian listed telecom companies Mtn and syriatel) مروى ياسر بردان ؛ شحاده الياس نجمه ؛ إشراف د. كنان نده

This study mainly deals with the impact of financial performance on the dividend distribution of the two Syrian telecom companies, ...

Towards a Natural Social Contract Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation for a Sustainable, Healthy and Just Society

This book states that the endemic societal faultlines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with ...

Transformation in Higher Education

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

Transnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and the Struggle for Justice

This book documents and analyses the various interventions – legal, political, and even artistic – that followed the ...

Trends in Business and Economic Ethics

A growing body of academic and business specialists are paying attention to ethical issues in business and economics, drawing ...

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 ...

Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies

Agricultural cooperatives have strong market positions in agri-food industries, in many countries. In recent decades we have ...

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 ...

Water Politics and Development Cooperation : Local Power Plays and global Governance

This statement in the most recent Human Development Report articulates a conv- tion that has increasingly gained ground in ...

Water Resources in the Middle East

This book demonstrates hope, optimism and the belief that people with good will can help contribute to peace and mutual cooperation ...

Wetlands and Water Framework Directive : Protection, Management and Climate Change

This book compares the lessons learned from a wetland-perspective approach to the changing climate and the requirements of ...

When Things Don't Fall Apart: Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- I. Crises, Change, and Productive Incoherence -- 1. ...

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