This book introduces innovative approaches to pursue climate change adaptation and to support the long-term implementation of climate change policies. Offering new case studies and data, as well as projects and initiatives implemented across the globe, the contributors present new tools,...

I. Einleitung -- II. Allergische Erkrankungen -- III. Soziale Ungleichheit und Gesundheit -- IV. Zum Umweltbegriff -- V. Theoretisches Modell -- VI. Empirische Umsetzung -- VII. Ergebnisse -- VIII. Schluss -- Literatur.

L. Leisering: Introduction -- M. G. Schmidt: Social Policy in the German Democratic Republic: Introduction.- "Socialist Social Policy" -- The Institutions of Social Policy in the GDR -- The Politics of Social Policy Under the Socialist Regime -- The Welfare State as Political Process: From...

Die deutsch-deutsche Markenlandschaft -- DIE AUSGANGSSITUATION -- MARKENSOZIOLOGISCHE GRUNDSÄTZE -- PSYCHOSOZIALE FUNKTION DER OSTMARKEN -- MARKE UND KONSUM IN DER DDR – EINE WERBE- UND MARKENFREIE ZONE? -- ERFOLGSSTRATEGIEN DER OSTMARKEN -- Erfolgreiche Ostmarken von Anker bis Zetti -- ANKER...

This volume critically analyzes the convergence of technology, business practices, public policies, political ideologies, and societal values for improving business performance at the global-local paradigm. It also enriches knowledge on contemporary business strategies against conventional...

This textbook introduces and develops new tools to understand the recent economic crisis and how desirable economic policies can be adopted. Gilles provides new institutional concepts for wealth creation, such as network economies, which are based on the social division of labour. This volume...

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese theory of civil society proposed unique thinking about...

This book develops John Rawls’s theory of justice by adding reality-based analyses. This is accomplished by answering the question of who makes rules and how, and by providing new answers to three of today’s most practical and critical issues. The question of who and how makes rules is...

Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, environmental damage, rising inequality and enduring poverty....

This book explores how corruption is now widely recognized as a major “disease” which threatens not only economic development but also the foundations of societies. As well as examining the causes and consequences of corruption, this book also offers a deep analysis of possible cures. It...