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978-1-4020-6981-9
Quality of Life in Ireland : Social Impact of Economic Boom

The Irish economic boom has caused the economy in Ireland to roar ahead, but what has it done to Irish society? Some see ...

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978-1-4020-6966-6
Quantitative Economics : How sustainable are our economies?

Fuzzy vision, anecdotal evidence, media hype and rhetoric characterise the debate of environment and economy. At the same ...

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978-3-319-91971-3
RESTART Sustainable Business Model Innovation

Taking the business model as point of departure, this open access book explores how companies and organizations can contribute ...

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978-3-540-79832-3
Rational Choice and Social Welfare

The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of rational choice and social welfare and their applications. ...

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978-0-387-75870-1
Readings in Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy

Public choice is the study of behavior at the intersection of economics and political science. Since the pioneering work ...

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978-3-030-00813-0
Reality Lost : Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation

This book looks at how a democracy can devolve into a post-factual state. The media is being flooded by populist narratives, ...

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978-3-030-33256-3
Regeneration of the Built Environment from a Circular Economy Perspective

This book explores the strategic importance and advantages of adopting multidisciplinary and multiscalar approaches of inquiry ...

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NoIMG
Regenerative Territories : Dimensions of Circularity for Healthy Metabolisms

This book provides new perspectives on circular economy and space, explored towards the definition of regenerative territories ...

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978-3-7908-2086-7
Regional Analysis and Policy

Regional development is attracting the attention of policy makers and scientists again, as regions, urban centers and rural ...

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978-3-540-27639-5
Regional Disparities in Small Countries

This volume revisits the common conception that countries characterized by small land area and small population sizes do ...

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978-3-540-35484-0
Regional Externalities

Though positive externalities draw less attention than negative externalities, their existence is obvious, for example, b- ...

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978-1-4020-5549-2
Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society

It is widely assumed that our consumer society can move from using fossil fuels to using renewable energy sources while maintaining ...

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978-0-387-33773-9
Rent-Seeking, Institutions and Reforms in Africa

This book identifies rent-seeking behaviour as one of the main causes of poor economic performance, observed, among other ...

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NoIMG
Report on Global Environmental Competitiveness (2013)

This book explores the environmental competitiveness of 133 countries around the world, presenting an index evaluation system ...

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978-1-4020-8489-8
Resilience of Cities to Terrorist and other Threats

Cities tend to become more crowded, the high rise buildings taller, the traffic nodes more complex. The volume of hazardous ...

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978-3-030-71819-0
Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy

This book is based on work from the COST Action “RESTORE - REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy'', ...

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978-3-540-34264-9
Return to Growth in CIS Countries

The aim of this book is to analyse specific sets of macro and structural policies in selected Eastern European countries. ...

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978-1-4020-8289-4
Risks in Modern Society

The main goal of this book is to make the reader familiar with the complexity and multi-dimensionality of the subject RISK, ...

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978-3-540-77150-0
Road Pricing, the Economy and the Environment

Economic growth and globalisation create traffic growth, leading to congestion, which again increases travel times and costs. ...

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978-3-030-75031-2
Saving and Investment in the Twenty-First Century The Great Divergence

The economy of the 21st century in the OECD countries and in China, is characterized by a new phenomenon: the structural ...

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