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...

The book assesses the development experience by reflecting on a number of aspects, su­­ch as growth in relation to employment, regional imbalances and rural-urban distribution. Further, it examines educational attainment and human capital formation issues in the context of the skill shortages...

1. Poverty and Deprivation in America -- 2. A Survey of Related Literature -- 3. Measuring Multidimensional Poverty -- 4. A Profile of the Multidimensionally Poor in America -- 5. Variation in Multidimensional Poverty across Demographic Cohorts -- 6. Variation in Multidimensional Poverty across...

Section 1: Incarceration—Convicts, unfree labour and colonial capitalism -- Chapter 1: Unfree labour, Dissent, Convict-transportation and the building of colonial capital -- Chapter 2: Approaches, Sources and Methods -- Chapter 3: Convict Eastern Australia: Labour Bureaucracy or Police State?...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Expansion and expectation: footloose-ness -- Chapter 3: Did we explain? -- Chapter 4: Alternative explanation from labour studies -- Chapter 5: Transition in Indian employment -- Chapter 6: Definitional Dilemma -- Chapter 7: Process of Informalisation of...

Digital Human Work oder Human Digital Work – mehr als eine Wortspielerei -- Fokus Mensch – Sind wir auf die Digitale Transformation der Arbeit vorbereitet? -- Fokus Kreativität – und der Traum von der digitalen Befreiung -- Fokus Führung – Denn sie wissen (nicht), was sie tun -- Fokus...

This book provides a theoretical basis for understanding the phenomenon of renegotiations in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). It analyzes the case of transport projects, and provides empirical evidence from a variety of real-world projects. What drives renegotiations? Why are some projects...