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A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions

This book examines health trajectories and health transitions at different stages of the life course, including childhood, ...

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978-3-8350-9131-3
A Theory of Marketing

Marketing has become one of the most influential forces in contemporary market economies. Yet despite ubiquitous empirical ...

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Academic Flying and the Means of Communication

This book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s ...

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978-3-540-75941-6
Adaptive and Integrated Water Management : Coping with Complexity and Uncertainty

The volume includes selected contributions on conceptual and methodological innovations and empirical insights from case ...

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Addressing the Climate Crisis : Local action in theory and practice

This book brings together a collection of cutting-edge insights into how action can and is already being taken against climate ...

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978-1-4020-5110-4
Advancing Quality of Life in a Turbulent World

Environmentalissuescontinuedtoloomlargeinthelastdecadeofthetwentiethc- tury,especiallyenvironmentalproblemsrelatedtorisinglevelsofCO ...

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978-1-4020-2589-1
After Bourdieu

Intellectual origins & orientations We begin by providing an overview of Bourdieu’s life as a scholar and a public intellectual. ...

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978-3-030-61315-0
Agroecology Now! Transformations Towards More Just and Sustainable Food Systems

This book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It ...

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AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City : Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition

This volume describes phase 3 of the AiREAS multidisciplinary cocreation effort to produce a Healthy City. Phase 1 referred ...

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978-1-4020-2934-9
Americanization of the European Economy

One of the main features of the world economy since the late nineteenth century has been the growing dominance of the American ...

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978-1-4020-8619-9
Animal Welfare : Competing Conceptions and Their Ethical Implications

The thesis of this book is that members of what I shall call the “animal welfare science community,”3 which includes ...

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Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication

Through anthropological and ethnographic analyses, this collection addresses how interests, values, and ideologies affect ...

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978-1-137-55697-4
Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain

This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings ...

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978-1-4020-8329-7
Applied Demography in the 21st Century : Selected Papers from the Biennial Conference on Applied Demography, San Antonio, Texas, January 7–9, 2007

The work contains chapters on several major topical areas that are central to applied demography including works on data ...

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978-3-319-51159-7
Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites in the Open Ocean

This volume addresses the potential for combining large-scale marine aquaculture of macroalgae, molluscs, crustaceans, and ...

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978-3-030-56417-9
Arts and Health Promotion Tools and Bridges for Practice, Research, and Social Transformation

This book offers an overview of the beautiful, powerful, and dynamic array of opportunities to promote health through the ...

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978-0-306-48595-4
As Pastoralists Settle

Formerly nomadic livestock-keeping pastoralists have settled in many regions of the world in the past century. Some groups, ...

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Asia-Pacific Fishing Livelihoods

Where fishing livelihoods come from and where they are going are simple questions with no simple answers. Using examples ...

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Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism

In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines argue that the asset—meaning anything that can be controlled, traded, ...

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978-3-319-94749-5
Asylum Determination in Europe

The book includes a legal overview of European asylum determination procedures, followed by sections on the diverse actors ...

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