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Handbook of Energy and Environment in the 21st Century
The Handbook of Energy and Environment in the 21st Century discusses the key dimensions of the present energy scenario as well as the emerging trends. Global responses to environmental challenges are examined, taking into account technical, economic, social, and policy perspectives. Responding to the latest developments, the book also discusses the impacts of natural disasters and pandemics on energy in the context of energy and environmental implications. Further, it presents various related topics such as the dynamics of sustainable energy transition, renewable energy implementation, decarbonization of fossil fuels, electric mobility, distributed generation systems, and energy security. The book will benefit a wide range of stakeholders from the fields of energy, environment, socioeconomics, geopolitics, and sustainable development. It serves as a valuable reference for academics, researchers, and analysts in these fields. Provides a comprehensive and balanced account of the interwoven subjects of energy and environment in terms of technology and policy dynamics. Incorporates up-to-date data, case studies, and comparative assessments.
Shaping the Future Through Standardization
Quality assurance is an essential aspect for ensuring the success of corporations worldwide. Consistent quality requirements across organizations of similar types ensure that these requirements can be accurately and easily evaluated. Shaping the Future Through Standardization is an essential scholarly book that examines quality and standardization within diverse organizations globally with a special focus on future perspectives, including how standards and standardization may shape the future. Featuring a wide range of topics such as economics, pedagogy, and management, this book is ideal for academicians, researchers, decision makers, policymakers, managers, corporate professionals, and students.
Economic Instruments for a Low-carbon Future
Critically assessing recent developments in environmental and tax legislation, and in particular low-carbon strategies, this timely book analyses the implementation of market-based instruments for achieving climate stabilisation objectives around the world.
Market Power Politics
How are the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the Russian incursions into Ukraine and Georgia, and China's occupation of islands in the South China Sea related? In this book, Mark Crescenzi and Stephen Gent show how all three important moments in history are driven by the motivation to capture market power. Whether it was oil for Iraq, natural gas for Russia, or rare earth minerals for China, the goal isn't just the commodities themselves-it is the power to determine their price on the global market. They develop a new theory of market power politics that explains when and why states will delay cooperation or even fight wars in pursuit of this elusive goal.
European Union Policy-Making
This book furthers the ongoing theoretical development of the multiple streams framework, assessing its applicability to European Union (EU) policy-making processes. It systematically defines and identifies functional equivalents for all of the framework’s core concepts at the EU level and extends the framework in order to explain agenda-setting and decision-making. Furthermore, the book derives a set of explicit hypotheses to empirically assess the extent to which the (modified) framework is able to explain timing, agenda prominence, and policy change (or a lack thereof) for the EU natural gas directives passed in 1998, 2003, and 2009. The analysis documents that the framework is well-suited to explain the EU policy process in general and reveals where additional theoretical refinements are required.
Comparative Policy Studies
In the first volume of its kind, a collection of top policy scholars combine empirical and methodological analysis in the field of comparative policy studies to provide compelling insights into the formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies across regional and national boundaries.
Energy Policy Making in the EU
The book adopts an innovative analytical approach to agenda setting by not only presenting successful cases in which energy issues were addressed by means of public policy, but by also analyzing failed attempts to make issues part of the European policy agenda. Another outstanding feature of the book is its use of the latest empirical data on a broad range of energy issues. When are energy issues likely to find their way to the agenda of European policymakers? This is the key research question guiding this collection of empirical studies, which will shed light on both successful and unsuccessful attempts to include energy issues in the European agenda. The multi-level political system of the...
Using argumentation visualization to foster transparency of development processes
The literature shows that providing information about alternatives and arguments in development processes may increase stakeholders’ perceived transparency of the process and the results’ acceptance. In development processes with a high number of stakeholders this has been shown to be one of the main prerequisites for project success. According to previous studies, stakeholders prefer graph visualizations to textual representations (like e.g. protocols) to retrace underlying decision-making processes. In this study, we evaluate how the presentation of reasoning in five different forms of argumentation visualization influences perceived transparency of the process. Our results indicate th...
The Violin
"Sir Yehudi Menuhin packs a lifetime of recollection, experience, and emotion into the telling of this tale of the violin, from its earliest days as a primitive stringed instrument to its unrivaled position today in popular, folk, classical, and jazz music. Studded with anecdotes about many equally legendary figures encountered in a lifetime of music-making, as well as personal musings on the role of music in everyday life, and on its power to heal and federate, this book will speak powerfully to music lovers and violin aficionados in particular." --Book Jacket.
Qualitätsmessung als Prisma
In diesem Open-Access-Sammelband werden verschiedene Leistungsdimensionen und Datenzugänge für Abbildung medizinischer Forschung empirisch dargestellt und diskutiert. Leitfragen sind dabei: Wie identifizieren wir Qualität in der medizinischen Forschung? Unter welchen Bedingungen lassen sich medizinische Themen bestmöglich beforschen, um das Patientenwohl und die öffentliche Gesundheit zu fördern sowie Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft voranzubringen? Dieser Logik folgend startet der Sammelband mit Überblicksdarstellungen zum Stand der Evaluation medizinischer Forschung in Deutschland, führt dann auf die eher methodischen, informationswissenschaftlichen Aspekte und empirischen Perspektive...
