This comprehensive Dictionary is an important reference tool for all those interested in environmental science and environmental studies. Written in a clear and accessible style, the dictionary includes over three thousand up-to-date entries, all accompanied by a detailed yet straightforward...

Drawing together a wealth of research methods knowledge gained by trust researchers into one essential volume, this book provides an authoritative in-depth consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical study of trust in the social sciences. This second edition of the...

1. Introduction : a new adventure -- 2. Knowledge sharing : a historical perspective -- 3. The generative potential of appreciative processes -- 4. How to ASK -- 5. Private sector case studies -- 6. Government sector case studies -- 7. Public service case study -- 8. Summary, conclusion, and...

pt. 1. Economics and other social sciences : relationships and boundaries -- pt. 2. New light on rationality, social relations and the environment -- pt. 3. Flexibility, routines and production in economics and social sciences.

pt. I. A spatially integrated social science approach -- pt. II. Setting up your research -- pt. III. Data sources, data collection and information generation -- pt. IV. Research tools and techniques and applications -- pt. V. Producing research output.

This Handbook looks through the lens of the latest generation of scholars at the main propositions believed by so-called "Austrians". Each contributing author addresses key tenets of the school of thought, and outlines its ongoing contribution to economics and to the social sciences

This comprehensive second edition of The Elgar Companion to Social Economics presents an overview of a dynamic and growing field in economics that emphasizes the key role that values play in the economy and in economic life. Social economics treats the economy and economics as being embedded in...

This book applies ideas and methods from the complexity perspective to key concerns in the social sciences, exploring co-evolutionary processes that have not yet been addressed in the technical or popular literature on complexity. Authorities in a variety of fields--including evolutionary...

The Handbook of Research Methods on Trust provides an authoritative in-depth consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical study of trust in the social sciences. -- As this topic has matured, a growing number of practical approaches and techniques has been utilised across...

Most work on industrial ecology continues to emphasize its roots in engineering and the technological sciences. This book differs in that it explores the social context of industrial ecology and presents empirical work addressing how cognitive, cultural, political and structural mechanisms...