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  • Entrepreneurship Ecosystems and Their Opportunities and Challenges
    Entrepreneurs are exceptionally gifted individuals capable of spotting projects, marshaling resources, inventing ideas, taking risks, and forming businesses. Prospective entrepreneurs must be inspired and motivated to pursue self-employment businesses in today’s volatile business environment and highly sophisticated information technologies. However, governments have been attem...
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    327,82 €

  • Entrepreneurship Ecosystems and Their Opportunities and Challenges
    Entrepreneurs are exceptionally gifted individuals capable of spotting projects, marshaling resources, inventing ideas, taking risks, and forming businesses. Prospective entrepreneurs must be inspired and motivated to pursue self-employment businesses in today’s volatile business environment and highly sophisticated information technologies. However, governments have been attem...
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    248,90 €

  • Low Carbon Transition in Emerging Economies
    Erkin Erdoğan
    Focusing on the case of Turkey, this book investigates the economic impacts of climate change policies to help meet the required mitigation targets and transition to a low carbon economy. This book explores the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of a carbon pricing mechanism by developing an econometric VAR model to analyse data sets. ...
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    241,24 €

  • This Is Our Home
    Trent A Romer
    Begin your journey toward sustainability and a greener future with these simple steps.There are grave environmental issues plaguing our world, from pollution to climate change. These global crises can often leave us feeling powerless, questioning: 'How can one person make a real impact?'Drawing from his personal experiences of growing up in a town marred by toxic waste, and his...
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    18,72 €

  • Achieving Net Zero
    Achieving Net Zero brings together chapters to examine these challenges from a range of perspectives, various regions and industries. From steps on the journey to net zero and sustainability rhetoric, to case studies in Angola and Mauritius, this collection helps facilitate best practice that can be adopted on a global scale. ...
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    191,12 €

  • Strategy 2030 Energy Sector Directional Guide
    Asian Development Bank
    This Energy Sector Directional Guide provides the strategic direction of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the energy sector.This sector guide describes the context and rationale that will guide ADB’s agenda in supporting developing member countries (DMCs) with financing, knowledge, convening ability, and technical assistance (TA) to ensure improved coherence, relevance, eff...
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    29,50 €

  • Pacific Economic Monitor - August 2023
    Asian Development Bank
    Pacific economies are bouncing back as tourism recovers and infrastructure projects resume, but inflationary pressures and vulnerability to natural hazards remain downside risks.This edition of the Pacific Economic Monitor tracks the rebound of some tourism-dependent economies; explores new opportunities from agriculture, digitalization, and fisheries; and analyzes ways to miti...
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    28,02 €

  • Challenges in Classical Liberalism
    This book examines contemporary policy debates from opposing perspectives. It considers seven key topics in today’s society: land use, education, international trade, health insurance, technological change, and recreational alcohol and drugs. Two scholars with differing viewpoints discuss each topic, one working in the classical liberal tradition and the other advocating slower...
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    47,90 €

  • Economic Growth
    Vitor Joao Pereira Domingues Martinho
    This book assesses the main interrelationships between economic growth processes, life cycle sustainability assessment approaches, and new technologies in the framework of digital transition. In other words, it aims to highlight how sustainability assessment methodologies and artificial intelligence can better support different actors for more sustainable economic growth. Reade...
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    48,46 €

  • China’s Agricultural Modernization
    On Kit Tam
    Originally published in 1985, this study investigates the actual experience in mechanization during the Fourth Five Year Plan period, a period which represented, in many ways, a new stage in China’s rural development. ...
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    159,80 €

  • Sustainable Finance and the Global Health Crisis
    This book argues that the pandemic represents a wake-up call for financial systems to be better prepared for the climate crisis and social risk and has provided a stimulus to scale down the reliance of the global economy on fossil fuels. ...
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    240,72 €

  • Sustainable Economics for the Anthropocene
    Leanne Guarnieri / Linda Lee-Davies
    This book examines both the need for sustainable economics and the financial practices that will underpin it. The link between rising inequality and the threat to social sustainability is highlighted to create the Economic Scale of Global Boundaries model, which realigns GDP to include quantifiable environmental and social economic gains and losses. The model is applied at both...
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    48,14 €

  • The Energy Sector and Energy Geopolitics in the MENA Region at a Crossroad
    Benedetta Bonometti / Manfred Hafner / Pier Paolo Raimondi
    This open access book offers a holistic and interdisciplinary analysis of the energy sector in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and its ongoing transformation. Taking into account global decarbonization policies, it offers a comprehensive overview of the transition’s effects in the region highlighting socioeconomic, geopolitical and cultural aspects.The book is di...
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    47,13 €

  • Economic Growth and Environmental Quality in a Post-Pandemic World
    In response to the damage caused by a growth-led global economy, researchers across the world started investigating the association between environmental pollution and its possible determinants. Most famously, the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesises. This book explores the latest literature on the Environmental Kuznets Curve. ...
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    240,57 €

  • The Common Agricultural Policy
    Brian E. Hill
    Originally published in 1984, this book provides an introduction to the history of agriculture in Western Europe, states the case for government intervention and analyses the operation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) during the late 20th Century. ...
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    146,60 €

  • Types of Rural Economy
    René Dumont / Douglas Magnin
    Originally published in English in 1957 this book quickly became a classic of comparative agricultural studies. The book brings together a wide range of case studies from the UK, Europe, Africa and South East Asia which together form a broad yet highly detailed view of world agriculture in the 20th Century. ...
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    185,36 €

  • Indigenous Agricultural Revolution
    Paul Richards
    Originally published in 1985, this book argues forcefully and practically for new relationship between science and the small farmer. It advocates scientific research seeking out changes which are already taking place within the smallholder farming sector and building on local initiatives. ...
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    146,55 €

  • Coping with Hunger
    Paul Richards
    Originally published in 1986, Coping with Hunger demonstrates that effective agricultural development in resource-poor regions must be based in a respect for the indigenous farmer’s understanding of the environment. The book challenges the prevailing of attitudes of policy makers in the late 20th Century. ...
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    146,57 €

  • Environment and Land Use in Africa
    Originally published in 1969, the contributors to this volume examine the natural and social environments of selected areas in Africa and study in detail some particular problems and their solutions. ...
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    151,50 €

  • Agricultural Geography
    R. J. C. Munton / W. B. Morgan
    Originally published in 1971, this book is a systematic study of the major features and factors of the location and distribution of global agricultural enterprises. ...
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    160,10 €

  • Planning for Agricultural Development
    J. A. Mollett
    Originally published in 1984, this text was written as a guide to agricultural policy makers, planners and project managers in developing countries, particularly for those in the areas of programme formulation and implementation. ...
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    186,27 €

  • Nowhere To Go But Down?
    Andrew S. MacDonald
    Originally published in 1989, this book is a unique examination of subsistence farming in the developing world, and its potential for development. ...
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    146,36 €

  • Family Agriculture
    David G. Francis
    Originally published in 1994, this book examines the importance of family agricultural systems in both the developed and the developing worlds. Throughout the world, and throughout history, the family unit has been at the heart of agricultural systems. ...
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    146,33 €

  • State-Administered Rural Change
    Björn Gyllström
    Originally published in 1991, this book includes a detailed case study of Kenya’s co-operative movement - one of the largest in sub-Saharan Africa. The book focuses on specific elements of the institutional setting within which agricultural marketing co-operatives operate. ...
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    159,40 €

  • Man and Natural Resources
    Cedric Stanton Hicks
    Originally published in 1975, yet prophetic in its wisdom this book deals with major aspects of man’s ecological destruction in an industrial framework. As well as discussing the destruction of forests by early civilizations the book examines the rate and extension of environmental deterioration in more recent times. ...
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    146,85 €

  • New Limits on European Agriculture
    Edward Szczepanik / François Duchêne / Wilfrid Legg
    Until about 1970, Western Europe was regarded as the great food-importing region of the world. This study, originally published in 1985, analyses the expansionary policies of individual nations, as well as those of the Community itself. ...
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    186,62 €

  • The Common Agricultural Policy
    Joan Pearce
    Originally published in 1981, at a time when the EEC’s Common Agricultural Policy had remained largely unchanged, this book examines the criticisms of the CAP and analyses the pressures emanating from the budget and the various options which were available for tackling them. ...
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    146,85 €

  • Rich Man’s Farming
    Michael Franklin
    Originally published in 1988, this study examines why a crisis situation was allowed to develop, nd proposes the most effective ways, both nationally and internationally - to chieve more rational agricultural support and trade policies. ...
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    146,94 €

  • Producers and Consumers
    Margaret Digby
    Although originally published in 1928, many of the issues discussed in this book remain pertinent today: in unstable markets grappling with labour shortages, how to pay the producers of food a fair price, at a price the consumer can afford, whilst maximising efficiency and minimising waste. ...
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    146,45 €

  • Agricultural Marketing and the EEC
    Edmund Neville-Rolfe / Michael Butterwick
    Originally published in 1971, this book resulted from a 2-year study of the implications of the Common Market agricultural policy in relation to agricultural marketing in Britain. ...
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    146,05 €