This edited collection provides a comprehensive examination of multidimensional poverty for a wide variety of economies and societies, with a general focus on multidimensional poverty in developed countries, where poverty is often overlooked. Arguing that income- and consumption-based poverty...

Introduction -- Design of the Study -- Complex Societal Problems -- Human Problem Handling -- Group Decision Support Systems -- Methodological Demands for Handling Complex Societal Problems -- The Compram Methodology: A Methodology for Policy Making on Complex Societal Problems -- Global Safety...

This book provides a theoretical, empirical, and pragmatic understanding of social dilemmas (SDs). A SD is a social situation where cooperation maximizing collective or social profit is different from defection maximizing individual profit. Problems arise when too many group members choose to...