Author: Nordic Statistical SecretariatPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 517
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Statistik Utan Granser
Author: Nordic Statistical SecretariatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 517
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Scandinavian Major City Statistics
Author: Sigma
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Category : European Economic Community countries
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Nordisk statistisk skriftserie
Author: Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis
Author: Jefferey M. SellersPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137573783
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book undertakes the first systematic, multi-country investigation into how regimes of place equality, consisting of multilevel policies, institutions and governance at multiple scales, influence spatial inequality in metropolitan regions. Extended, diversified metropolitan regions have become the dominant form of human settlement, and disparities among metropolitan places figure increasingly in wider trends toward growing inequality. Regimes of place equality are increasingly critical components of welfare states and territorial administration. They can aggravate disparities in services and taxes, or mitigate and compensate for local differences. The volume examines these regimes in a global sample of eleven democracies, including developed and developing countries on five continents. The analyses reveal new dimensions of efforts to grapple with growing inequality around the world, and a variety of institutional blueprints to address one of the most daunting challenges of twenty-first century governance.
Statistics without frontiers
Author: Fourth International Conference on Minority Languages: Western and Eastern European papers
Author: Durk GorterPublisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853591112
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A compilation of papers taken from the Fourth International Conference on Minority Languages. While the first volume focused on the more theoretically orientated papers, this volume emphasizes the inventorial or descriptive approach.
Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed
Author: Claire MagonePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1849045259
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
From international NGOs to UN agencies, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged "clash of civilizations", our "humanitarian space" is shrinking. Put another way, the freedom of action and of speech of humanitarians is being eroded due to the radicalisation of conflicts and the reaffirmation of state sovereignty over aid actors and policies. The purpose of this book is to challenge this assumption through an analysis of the events that have marked MSF's history since 2003 (when MSF published its first general work on humanitarian action and its relationships with governments). It addresses the evolution of humanitarian goals, the resistance to these goals and the political arrangements that overcame this resistance (or that failed to do so). The contributors seek to analyse the political transactions and balances of power and interests that allow aid activities to move forward, but that are usually masked by the lofty rhetoric of "humanitarian principles". They focus on one key question: what is an acceptable compromise for MSF? This book seeks to puncture a number of the myths that have grown up over the forty years since MSF was founded and describes in detail how the ideals of humanitarian principles and "humanitarian space" operating in conflict zones are in reality illusory. How, in fact, it is the grubby negotiations with varying parties, each of whom have their own vested interests, that may allow organisations such as MSF to operate in a given crisis situation - or not.
Knowledge Transfer and Technology Diffusion
Author: Paul L. RobertsonPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 0857930559
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This important book is about the origins and diffusion of innovation, in theory and in practice. The practice draws on a variety of industries, from electronics to eyewear, from furniture to mechatronics, in a range of economies including Europe, USA and China.
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