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Altering Nature : Volume One: Concepts of ‘Nature’ and ‘The Natural’ in Biotechnology Debates

Volume One, Concepts of 'Nature' and 'The Natural' in Biotechnology Debates, offers nuanced accounts of the ways that ...

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Altering Nature :Volume Two: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy

The two volumes of Altering Nature consider the complex ways that concepts of 'nature' and 'the natural' are understood ...

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Anti-Microbial Resistance in Global Perspective

This book provides an accessible introduction to the mechanics of international development and global health text for policy-makers ...

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Applied Research in Environmental Economics

Sustainable development, climate policy, and biodiversity conservation are examples of issues on the current political agenda ...

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Building the Inclusive City Governance, Access, and the Urban Transformation of Dubai

This book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides ...

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Co-creating Digital Public Services for an Ageing Society Evidence for User-centric Design

This book attends to the co-creation of digital public services for ageing societies. Increasingly public services are provided ...

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Covid-19 and Capitalism : Success and Failure of the Legal Methods for Dealing with a Pandemic

The book focuses on the situation in a number of Western regions (notably the USA, the UK, and the EU and its Member States). ...

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Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation

This book provides statistical tools for evaluating the effects of public policies advocated by governments and public institutions. ...

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Deliberative Public Engagement with Science

This compact open access reference delves beyond popular concepts of educated consumers and an informed public by examining ...

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Designing Urban Food Policies : Concepts and Approaches

This book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding ...

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Digital Government

New information technologies are being applied swiftly to all levels of government service: local, county, regional and even ...

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Digital Towns : Accelerating and Measuring the Digital Transformation of Rural Societies and Economies

This book explores the digital transformation of small and rural towns, in particular, how to measure the evolution and development ...

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Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology

This volume provides a critical overview of the nature of nanotechnology (and its applications in the biomedical sciences, ...

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Endogenous Public Policy and Contests

This book studies endogenous policy determination focusing on the role of interest groups and their lobbying efforts in the ...

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Entrepreneurship in Emerging Domestic Markets

As one examines worldwide economic growth over the past decade, it is clear that the U.S. economy has surpassed most of the ...

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Entrepreneurship, the New Economy and Public Policy

Silicon Valley is the most salient example of high-tech industrial clusters. Public policy makers throughout the world would ...

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European E-Democracy in Practice

This book explores how digital tools and social media technologies can contribute to better participation and involvement ...

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From Colonialism to International Aid External Actors and Social Protection in the Global South

This book addresses the role of external actors in social protection in the Global South, from the Second World War until ...

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From Disaster Response to Risk Management

In 1992 Australia’s Commonwealth and State governments announced the introduction of a National Drought Policy adopting ...

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Frontiers of Real Estate Science in Japan

This book presents recent research and hot topics in the field of real estate science in Japan. It features carefully selected ...

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