Many scholars think that because of its ambiguous nature the definition of the civil society concept sometimes is … meaningless. Civil society belongs to a group of sociological and political theory concepts such as freedom, justice, equality and … democracy that are not clearly demarcated. At least two specific dimensions of the civil society concept are distinguishable …

"A Short History of Transport in Japan from Ancient Times to the Present is a unique study: the first by a Western … scholar to place the long-term development of Japanese infrastructure alongside an analysis of its evolving political economy … book consults a range of technical, cultural, and political sources to tease out these interactions between society and …

historical development. However, a history of the soybean and its changing roles within equally changing agrofood systems is …, globalization, environmental history, economic history and social-ecological systems. …This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this …

South Australia is a small economy that faces a fundamental need to re-shape its approach to innovation. The … manufacturing sector, as the backbone of the state's economy, has and will continue to change in its nature and form. This … necessitates a re-think about how innovation happens and how the respective actors within an economy interact and engage with each …

Why is the economy “complex”? For all the recent advances in the management sciences, businesses today face markets …. The talk demonstrates that many of the “surprises” we observe in today’s economy arise from our poor understanding of the … introduction to complexity, the types of complexity, and how agent-based modelling can be used to understand complex systems. …

South Australia is a small economy that faces a fundamental need to re-shape its approach to innovation. The … manufacturing sector, as the backbone of the state’s economy, has and will continue to change in its nature and form. This … necessitates a re-think about how innovation happens and how the respective actors within an economy interact and engage with each …