This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security issues, construction cost conundrum, infrastructure provision, and low-cost...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book delves into the widely held belief that the 21st century will be the "Asian Century" by examining the Asia's rapid economic development in the post-war era and the challenges it faces in forging ahead of world leaders in the West. The...

The distinctive contribution of this book is the formulation of an integrated social, environmental, and economic framework for public policy. This contribution is realised through investigations and conclusions in the following four domains: a formal stylised model that provides a platform for...

1. Indian Food Systems towards 2050: Challenges and Opportunities -- 2. Economic Growth, Agriculture and Food Systems: Explaining Regional Diversity -- 3. Rural Livelihood Challenges: Moving out of Agriculture -- 4.Diet Diversity and the Declining Importance of Staple Grains -- 5.The Nutrition...

From the late 1930s until December 7, 1941, isolationism and an antipathy toward war in Europe were strong political currents in the US. However, once the US entered World War II, the entire apparatus of the US government was mobilized to “market” the war to Americans who were incredulous...

1. Introduction: an old discussion but a new challenge! -- 2. The concept of happiness as subjective well-being -- 3. The measurement of happiness as an actual phenomenon -- 4. Dualism of happiness; the body and the mind again! -- 5. Affective happiness, or the affective component of happiness...

Vorwort -- Karl Marx’ Religionskritik: Religion als Seufzer der bedrängten Kreatur und Opium der Volks -- War Karl Marx ein politischer Denker? -- Hat nur Marx einen Bart oder auch seine Philosophie? -- Karl Marx’/Friedrich Engels’ Kritik am dialogischen Kommunismus Ludwig...

Digitalisierung ist für Bürgerinnen und Bürger, Politik und Verwaltung auf vielfältige Weise höchst relevant. Aus strategischer Perspektive sind für gesellschaftliche Akteure mehr Transparenz sowie Analyse- und Steuerungsmöglichkeiten verfügbar. Es ist wichtig, sich individuell mit...

Dieses Fachbuch zieht ein vorläufiges Fazit über die ersten 12 Monate der COVID-19-Pandemie in den verschiedenen Ländern der Welt, die aus nichtmedizinischer Sicht eine Vielzahl von Fragen aufgeworfen hat: Aus der Sicht der Wirtschaft standen die Auswirkungen im Zentrum, unter anderem die...

Chapter 1 – Defining and rationalising digital towns -- Chapter 2 – Measuring digital readiness -- Chapter 3 – Connectivity -- Chapter 4 – Digital Citizen -- Chapter 5 – Digital Education -- Chapter 6 – Digital Civil Society -- Chapter 7 – Digital Business -- Chapter 8 – Digital...