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With diverse contributions from over 100 authors around the globe,
this comprehensive Encyclopedia summarises the developments of
ecological economics from the fundamental contributions to the more
recent methodological debates in the field. This Encyclopedia
further reflects the relevant state of research including past and
present major debates about particular concepts, theories, actors
and issues at hand. It provides an expansive list of topics
including sustainable development, the limits to growth,
agroecology, implications of thermodynamic laws for economics,
integrated ecologic-economic modelling, valuation of natural
resources and services, and renewable and non-renewable resources
management. With a strong normative focus, entries include
theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions, as the
field orientates its efforts to improve environmental policy and
governance to enhance wellbeing, environmental quality, and social
justice. This unique reference will be a key tool to students,
scholars, policy makers and anyone else seeking to understand the
link between economic systems and the environment from the
perspective of ecological economics, business management,
environmental and urban studies. Key Features: Entries include
selected references for further study Entries by both leading
scholars and up-and-coming voices Addresses the links between the
ecological crisis and economic activity Over 90 entries with
accessible explanations of key concepts and methods
Multi-disciplinary approach across the fields of economics,
ecology, sociology, geography, and also political science and
history.
This volume presents a range of methodologically innovative
treatments on ritual action in the Hebrew Bible. They treat a
diverse range of ritual phenomena, including space, blessings and
oath-taking, from the world of ancient Israel and Judah. The
introduction engages with the dominant scholarly models drawn from
ritual theory, and the volume explores their applicability to
ancient textual material such as the Hebrew Bible. The chapters
reflect high-level specialized engagement with specific ritual
phenomena through the lens of appropriate theoretical and
methodological approaches.
Green bond issuance has surged in recent years in response to
growing investor appetite and borrowers' needs as they embark on
the sustainability transition. The EU leads the way, with over 40%
of all sustainable bond issuances denominated in euro. The EU’s
'Regulation on European Green Bonds and optional disclosures for
bonds marketed as environmentally sustainable and
sustainability-linked bonds’ is the first comprehensive
legislative text covering such issuance, and a cornerstone of
EU’s Sustainable Finance strategy. This book explores in an
interdisciplinary way the challenges and opportunities of green
bonds and sustainable finance from a legal, regulatory and economic
perspectives. First, it analyses green bonds as a new financial
instrument in the context of the existing capital markets law.
Second, it studies green bond impact on the market and on investor
protection. Third, it assesses green bonds’ relevance for
prudential supervision and central banking. The variety of
viewpoints ensures a highly comprehensive analysis of green
bonds’ impact in a European and global context.
This book provides scientific evidence, both theoretically and
empirically, on the understudied field of women entrepreneurs
across North Africa. It provides insights on the domain of women
entrepreneurship, undertaking critical assessment of overall
historical frameworks, ecosystems and future perspectives of the
region.Women entrepreneurship is among the most important and
unexploited sources of economic growth in the developing world.
Yet, despite much progress in socioeconomic aspects such as health,
life expectancy and education, the gender economic gap remains
unchanged. More needs to be done to understand the underlying
forces and factors in the region to challenge the current status
quo.
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Afonso Dias Ramos, Tom Snow
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Lately, tourists consider their mobile devices as essential
accessories for the realization of their trip before, during, and
after the visit. Such devices allow them to consult information
about points of interest, services, or products in real time. Thus,
mobile devices have come to be considered as tools to support
decision making regarding the realization of trips. In the digital
environment, tourists seek complementary information to consolidate
knowledge about the destination, heritage, culture, customs, and
traditions that make the visited place unique. Simultaneously, they
transform tourist experiences into a memory associated with travel,
contribute to the sustainability of local populations, reduce
inequalities, and cooperate to improve the quality of life of all
involved. ICT as Innovator Between Tourism and Culture differs from
others on the same areas because it aims to place the emphasis on
and increase the bridge of knowledge between information
communications technology (ICT), tourism, and culture, considering
ICT as the main driver that creates the development environment and
enhances the tourist experience in general. In particular, it is
linked to cultural heritage, making it a more sustainable and
intelligent tourist destination, taking into account the well-being
of the local population and visitors. Covering topics such as
destination image, religious tourism, and innovation dynamics, this
book is an essential resource for IT consultants, hotel managers,
marketers, travel agencies, tour operators, tourism researchers,
professors, students, practitioners within the tourism industry,
and academicians.
This book, edited by M. A. Ramos and contributed by several reputed
physicists in the field, presents a timely review on
low-temperature thermal and vibrational properties of glasses, and
of disordered solids in general. In 1971, the seminal work of
Zeller and Pohl was published, which triggered this relevant
research field in condensed matter physics. Hence, this book also
commemorates about 50 years of that highlight with a comprehensive,
updated review.In brief, glasses (firstly genuine amorphous solids
but later on followed by different disordered crystals) were found
to universally exhibit low-temperature properties (specific heat,
thermal conductivity, acoustic and dielectric attenuation, etc.)
unexpectedly very similar among them - and very different from
those of their crystalline counterparts.These universal 'anomalies'
of glasses and other disordered solids remain very controversial
topics in condensed matter physics. They have been addressed
exhaustively in this book, through many updated experimental data,
a survey of most relevant models and theories, as well as by
computational simulations.
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