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This edited collection investigates how full employment programs can sustain the economy and the environment, promote social justice, and reinvigorate local communities. The contributing authors focus on the formation of institutions to eliminate the opportunity gap for marginalized populations,...
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Having previously defined a good society as a sustainable society with a high level of development, significant provision of meaningful jobs, and low levels of inequality and social ills, Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-first Century provides a wide range of principles and policies that...
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Zu große Einkommensungleichheit gefährdet die Prosperität und Kohärenz einer Gesellschaft im gleichen Maß wie ein zu hoher Ausgleich der Einkommen; mittlere Ausgleichniveaus hingegen weisen die höchste Konsensfähigkeit auf. Diese Erkenntnisse resultieren aus der analytischen Nutzung von...
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Introduction and Theoretical Framework -- Analysis of Existing Data: Determinants for the Adoption of Energy-Efficient Household Appliances in Germany -- Results of the SECO@Home Household Survey and Discrete Choice Analysis -- Firm Strategies and Political Instruments -- Impacts of the...
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This book explores how energy efficiency is a major component in the development of sustainable real estate. Efficiency is one of the most frequently-mentioned aspects of government policies for green building design in the United States and around the world. There has been a significant amount...
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This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose of the series is to make works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider readership and to increase the knowledge of scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia....
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1. Introduction -- 2. Spatial Disparities and Poverty: The Case of Three Provinces in the Philippines -- 3. Decomposing … Poverty Change in India: Within- and Between-Group Effects Across Regions, 2004-05 and 2009-10 -- 4.Pathways Out of Rural … Poverty and the Role of Agriculture in Four Rice-Ecosystems in the Rural Philippines -- 5. Reducing Petroleum Subsidy in …
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Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing regions. This book explores how and by what Brazil achieved inclusive and sustainable growth in the Cerrado.
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, as billions of people continue to slip deeper into poverty. While many theories, policies, and practices have been …
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