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The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes :Central Asian Migrant…
This open access book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in non-Western, non-democratic migration regimes. The book is conceived as a critical reflection on the contemporary migration regime scholarship, and, more generally, on comparative migration studies, which primarily focus on migrants’ experiences and immigration pol…
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- 9783030992569
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- IX, 192 p ; ill
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- 327.111 POL
Land Use Cover Datasets and Validation Tools
This open access book represents a comprehensive review of available land-use cover data and techniques to validate and analyze this type of spatial information. The book provides the basic theory needed to understand the progress of LUCC mapping/modeling validation practice. It makes accessible to any interested user most of the research community's methods and techniques to validate LUC maps …
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- 9783030909987
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- xiv; 462p; ill
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- 333.7313 LAN D
Brexit and beyond :rethinking the futures of Europe
Brexit will have significant consequences for the country, for Europe, and for global order. And yet much discussion of Brexit in the UK has focused on the causes of the vote and on its consequences for the future of British politics. This volume examines the consequences of Brexit for the future of Europe and the European Union, adopting an explicitly regional and future-oriented perspective m…
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- 9781787352759
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- xv, 291 p.
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- 341.24220941 BRE B
Creating resilient futures :integrating disaster risk reduction, sustainable …
This excellent text recognises that efforts towards improving development outcomes must work in concert with strategies which promote planetary health and support the transition to a sustainable and climate-resilient future. — Rt Hon Helen Clark, Patron, The Helen Clark Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand. The threat multiplier of climate change is carefully used to examine best practic…
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- 9783030807917
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- xix; 257p; ill
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- 363.346 CRE S
The Case for Case Studies :Methods and Applications in International Development
This book seeks to narrow two gaps: first, between the widespread use of case studies and their frequently 'loose' methodological moorings; and second, between the scholarly community advancing methodological frontiers in case study research and the users of case studies in development policy and practice. It draws on the contributors' collective experience at this nexus, but the underlying iss…
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- 9781108688253
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- xiii, 330 p
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- 300.72 CAS J
The Idea of Progress in Forensic Authorship Analysis
This Element examines progress in research and practice in forensic authorship analysis. It describes the existing research base and asks what makes an authorship analysis more or less reliable. Further to this, the author describes the recent history of forensic science and the scientific revolution brought about by the invention of DNA evidence. They chart the rise of three major changes…
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- 9781108974714
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- 84 p
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- 363.25 IDE T
The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law
Although customary international law (CIL) has been central to international law from its inception, it is often misunderstood. This edited volume remedies that problem by tracing the history of CIL and provides an in-depth study of its theory, practice, and interpretation. Its chapters tackle the big questions which surround this source of international law such as: what are the rules that reg…
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- 9781009025416
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- xxxiv, 648 p
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- 341 THE A
The global encyclopaedia of informality :understanding social and cultural co…
Alena Ledeneva invites you on a voyage of discovery, to explore society’s open secrets, unwritten rules and know-how practices. Broadly defined as ‘ways of getting things done’, these invisible yet powerful informal practices tend to escape articulation in official discourse. They include emotion-driven exchanges of gifts or favours and tributes for services, interest-driven know-how (fro…
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- 9781911307907
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- xxix, 400 p.
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- 306 GLO A
The impact of migration on Poland :EU mobility and social change
How has the international mobility of Polish citizens intertwined with other influences to shape society, culture, politics and economics in contemporary Poland? The Impact of Migration on Poland offers a new approach for understanding how migration affects sending countries, and provides a wide-ranging analysis of how Poland has changed, and continues to change, since EU accession in 2004. …
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- 9781787350687
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- xi, 267 p. ill;
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- 325.438 IMP A
The neoliberal age? :Britain since the 1970s
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are commonly characterised as an age of ‘neoliberalism’ in which individualism, competition, free markets and privatisation came to dominate Britain’s politics, economy and society. This historical framing has proven highly controversial, within both academia and contemporary political and public debate. Standard accounts of neolibera…
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- 9781787356856
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- xvii, 398 p.
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- 320.5130941 NEO A
Self-build homes :social discourse, experiences and directions
Self-Build Homes connects the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on self-build with commentary from leading international figures in the self-build and wider housing sector. Through their focus on community, dwelling, home and identity, the chapters explore the various meanings of self-build housing, encouraging new directions for discussions about self-building and calling for the recogniti…
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- 9781911576877
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- xiii, 332 p. ill;
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- 338.47690809411 SEL M
Leading cities :a global review of city leadership
Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today. Drawing on research into 202 cities in 100 countries, the book provides a broad, international evidence base grounded in the experiences of all types of cities. It offers a scholarly but also practical assessment of how cities are led, what challenges their leaders face, and the ways in which this lead…
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- 9781787355453
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- xiii, 119p. ill;
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- 320.85 LEA E
Dissecting Discrimination :Identifying Its Various Faces and Their Sources
This Open-Access-book examines the phenomenon of discrimination using a descriptive approach. Discrimination is omnipresent, whether it is people who discriminate against other people or, more recently, also machines that discriminate against people. The first part of the analysis employs decision theory on discrimination, leading to two fundamental subtypes: taste-based discrimination and stat…
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- 9783658345693
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- xi, 234 p.
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- 331.13 DIS D
Digital Platform Regulation :Global Perspectives on Internet Governance
This Open Access volume provides an in-depth exploration of global policy and governance issues related to digital platform regulation. With an international ensemble of contributors, the volume has at its heard the question: what would actually be involved in digital platform regulation?’. Once a specialised and niche field within internet and digital media studies, internet governance has i…
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- 9783030952204
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- xvii, 319 p.
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- 384.334 DIG T
Liquidity, Markets and Trading in Action
This open access book addresses four standard business school subjects: microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance and information systems as they relate to trading, liquidity, and market structure. It provides a detailed examination of the impact of trading costs and other impediments of trading that the authors call “frictions”. It also presents an interactive simulation model of equity mark…
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- 9783030748173
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- xi; 103p; ill
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- 330
Environmental groups and legal expertise :shaping the Brexit process
Environmental Groups and Legal Expertise explores the use and understanding of law and legal expertise by environmental groups. Rather than the usual focus on the court room, it scrutinises environmental NGO advocacy during the extraordinarily dramatic Brexit process, from the referendum on leaving the EU in June 2016 to the debate around the new Environment Bill in the first half of 2020. T…
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- 9781787358584
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- xxi, 191 p.
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- 344.4046 ENV C
The Nation Form in the Global Age
These incisive essays explore nationalist violence and ethno-religious purification in Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, India, and China. Readers will encounter the extreme precarity of Islamic minorities and migrants, as well as inspiring explorations of alternative imaginaries beyond the nation form. Kenneth Dean, Professor, National University of Singapore. This excellent edited …
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- 9783030855802
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- xix; 386p; ill
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- 320.54 NAT I
Politics, Policy, and Public Options
A public option is a government-provided social good that exists alongside a similar privately provided good. While the public option is typically identified with health care policy, public options have been a longstanding feature of American life in a variety of sectors, ranging from libraries to swimming pools. Public schools, for example, coexist alongside private schools. However, there is …
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- 9781108767552
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- ix, 186 p ; ill
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- 344.730316 POL G
Exploring Materiality and connectivity in anthropology and beyond
Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond provides a new look at the old anthropological concern with materiality and connectivity. It understands materiality not as defined property of some-thing, nor does it take connectivity as merely a relation between discrete entities. Somewhat akin to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, it sees materiality and connectivity as tw…
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- 9781787357488
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- xvii, 259 p. ill;
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- 306 EXP P
MATERIAL CULTURE AND (FORCED) MIGRATION :materializing the transient
Material Culture and (Forced) Migration argues that materiality is a fundamental dimension of migration. During journeys of migration, people take things with them, or they lose, find and engage things along the way. Movements themselves are framed by objects such as borders, passports, tents, camp infrastructures, boats and mobile phones. This volume brings together chapters that are based on …
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- 9781800081604
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- xvii, 372 p. ill;
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- 304.8 MAT F
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