1. Introduction -- 2. The Ideological Trick of Climate Change and Sustainability -- 3. Words Count: the Role of Language in Overcoming Climate Inertia -- 4. Measuring Complex Socio-Economic Phenomena. Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- 5. Glaciers: Vanishing Elements of our Mountains and...

Wie sehen Weiterbildungsteilnehmende die Gesellschaft, und wie hängen Gesellschaftsbilder und Bildungsinteressen zusammen? Was verändert sich möglicherweise im Verlauf einer längeren Weiterbildung daran? Diesen Fragen sind die Autoren in einer umfangreichen empirischen Untersuchung...

We use novel and unique survey data from Italy to shed light on key questions regarding the measurement of social capital and the use of social capital indicators for empirical work. Our data cover a sample of over 600,000 respondents interviewed between 2000 and 2015. We identify four distinct...

The book is an edited collection of contributions by a distinguished international panel of academics on the main scientific, juridical, and economic aspects involved in the mitigation and adaptation processes imposed by climate change. Explicitly interdisciplinary, the book transversally cuts...