Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Logistics Trends, Challenges, and Needs for Further Research and Innovation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Globalisation and Logistics -- 3 Demography and Logistics -- 4 Energy and Logistics -- 5 Information Technology, the Internet and...

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: Why Evidence-Based Training Methods, Third Edition? -- Part 1: Evidence-Based Practice and Learning -- Chapter 1: Training Fads and Fables -- Chapter 2: What Is Evidence-Based Practice? -- Chapter 3: How People Learn -- Chapter 4: Active...

When taxes are introduced on carbon and energy, and the revenue is used to reduce other taxes, will a positive effect be achieved both for the environment and for the economy? In 1990 Finland was the first country to introduce a tax on CO2. Later, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Slovenia, Germany...

This book explores how cities use tourism to bolster their economies and image, appraising it in terms of history, measurement, structure, operations and leadership. It combines both theory and practice and uses new and original case materials to exemplify mainstream approaches to city marketing...

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the...

In 2008, the report Working Conditions Laws 2006-2007: A global review (ILO, 2008) was first published, which drew on the information contained in TRAVAIL's database.In view of the interest it generated, we have decided to issue an update of that report. The present edition offers a succinct and...

Kathleen Scanlon Research Fellow LSE London London School of Economics Christine Whitehead Professor of Housing Department of Economics London School of Economics Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia Research Officer LSE London London School of Economics Contributors The contributors are among the...

The recent global financial crisis is considered to be the most severe crisis which has led to a synchronised recession since the Great Depression in the 1930s. Europe is the most affected region in the world as a result of this crisis, and, as such, the sovereign debt crisis remains the most...

This book examines the ways by which the European Union impacts economic and political processes in its member and candidate countries. Positive Turkish and negative Greek experiences suggest that the EU functions as a powerful catalyst of political and economic change, if towards various ends.