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A Fair Share of Tax

This book takes a taxpayer's perspective to the relations taxation creates between people and their state. Larsen proposes ...

A Sea Change: The Exclusive Economic Zone and Governance Institutions for Living Marine Resources

A Sea Change in a Changing Sea The oceans, seas and coastal areas encompass over 70% of the earth’s surface. They are a ...

Advances in Integrated Soil Fertility Research in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

Food insecurity is a central concern and a fundamental challenge for human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural ...

Advances in Public Economics: Utility, Choice and Welfare

This Festschrift in honor ofChristian Seidl combines a group of prominent authors who are experts in areas like public economics, ...

Ages, Generations and the Social Contract

Our societies are ageing. The Family is changing. Labour force behaviour is evolving. How is the organisation of family and ...

Agricultural Value Chains in India : Ensuring Competitiveness, Inclusiveness, Sustainability, Scalability, and Improved Finance

This book provides a clear holistic conceptual framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability ...

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 ...

Alternatives to Animal Testing

This book presents recent advances in the pure sciences that are of significance in the quest for alternatives to the use ...

Amartya Sens Capability Approach

Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen’s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice ...

An Ecological and Societal Approach to Biological Control

Biological control is among the most promising methods for control of pests (including vectors), diseases and weeds. In this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Applying the Building Code: Step-by-Step Guidance for Design and Building Professionals / Ronald L. Geren

The IBC and its complementary codes provide design and construction professionals with a complete set of comprehensive, coordinated ...

Asias Debt Capital Markets

The book has three parts. Part I describes the characteristics and historical origins of these markets. Part II examines ...

Bearing Witness Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920–2000)

This book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, ...

Bringing the Jobless into Work?

Over the last decade, many industrialized countries shifted from passive unemployment and welfare benefit regimes and traditional ...

Broadband in Europe

Broadband is a key enabler of the information society, increasing productivity and competitiveness across all sectors of ...

CGE Models and Capital Income Tax Reforms : The Case of a Dual Income Tax for Germany

The book suggests a novel way how the effects of tax reforms especially in the field of capital income taxation can be measured ...

Care Poverty : When Older People’s Needs Remain Unmet

This book turns the research attention of social policy scholars and long-term care researchers from comparative descriptions ...

Child Maltreatment and the Law

Child Maltreatment and the Law is a must-read for psychologists, developmentalists, sociologists, social workers, criminologists, ...

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