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How safe is eating chicken?
Consumers trust is a key factor in dealing with rising concerns about food safety and food quality, but only few studies have dealt with consumer attitudes and none of them has tried to model the process of consumer response. This book reports the main findings of an european project aimed at analysing trust along the food chain and its relationship with food risk communication. The papers coll…
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- 21
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- 8884534968
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 658 ROM h
Broadband economics : lessons from Japan
Japan's high-speed Internet access services such as ADSL, CATV Internet and FTTH are considered the cheapest and fastest state-of-the-art services drawing international attention. In this book the author introduces the current status of broadband services in Japan and their recent development in competition policy. An econometric model is proposed and discussed to analyse access demand. The pur…
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- 16
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780415860741
- Collation
- xvii, 320 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 384.330952 TAK i
Citizen activities in energy transition : user innovation, new communities, a…
This book addresses the rapidly changing citizen roles in innovation, technology adoption, intermediation, market creation, and legitimacy building for low-carbon solutions. It links research in innovation studies, sustainability transitions, and science and technology studies, and builds a new approach for the study of user contributions to innovation and sociotechnical change. Citizen Activit…
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- 8
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780367680251
- Collation
- xii, 190 p
- Series Title
- Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology,
- Call Number
- 333.794 HYY c
Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market : Bonding and Bridging Social Capital
To what extent can different forms of social capital help immigrants make headway on the labour market? An answer to this pressing question begins here. Taking the Netherlands and Germany as case studies, the book identifies two forms of social capital that may work to increase employment, income and occupational status and, conversely, decrease unemployment. New insights into the concepts of b…
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- -
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- 9789089643575
- Collation
- 192p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 331.620943 LAN
The Electoral Consequences of Third Way Welfare State Reforms : Social Democr…
In all advanced Western nations, policy-makers have implemented encompassing welfare state reforms in recent decades breaking with past welfare arrangements. In particular, social democracy engaged in significant policy change under the Third Way paradigm and broke with its traditional reputation on welfare that had built the ties with the core constituency in the 20th century. The Electoral Co…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789089644503
- Collation
- 280p
- Series Title
- Changing Welfare States
- Call Number
- 306.09409051 ARN
Landlock : paralysing dispute over minerals on Adivasi land in India
Landlock: Paralysing Dispute over Minerals on Adivasi Land in India explores the ways in which political controversy over a bauxite mining and refining project on constitutionally protected tribal lands in Andhra Pradesh descended into a state of paralysis where no productive outcome was possible. Long-running support for Adivasi (or tribal) land rights motivated a wide range of actors to block…
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- -
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- 9781760462512
- Collation
- xiv + 226 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 333.10954 PAT l
International experience in developing the financial resources of Universities
This open access book aims to present the experiences and visions of several world university leaders, providing strategies and methods used to find various income sources for their institutions. The expansion of a university system requires a corresponding increase in funding. Consequently, university administrators all over the world are in a constant search for additional funds. If higher-le…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030788933
- Collation
- XVIII, 124 p, ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 378.106 ATA i
Information systems foundations: the role of design science
This volume presents papers from the fourth biennial Information Systems Foundation Workshop, held at The Australian National University in Canberra from 2–3 October, 2008. The focus of the workshop was, as for the others in the series, the foundations of Information Systems as an academic discipline. The emphasis in this workshop was on the movement known as ‘Design Science’ and its impo…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921666353
- Collation
- 318 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 658.4038 HAR i
SDGs, transformation, and quality growth : insights from international cooper…
This is an Open Access book. The primary objective of this book is to seek out insights into the concept of high-quality growth (HQG). It explores the essential attributes of HQG, such as inclusiveness, sustainability, and resilience, as well as its relationship with transformation, by drawing principally on illustrative cases and instances of international cooperation. The United Nations docum…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811697487
- Collation
- xv, 164.; ill.
- Series Title
- Sustainable development goals series
- Call Number
- 338.927 SDG h
The sharing economy in Europe : developments, practices, and contradiction
This open access book considers the development of the sharing and collaborative economy with a European focus, mapping across economic sectors, and country-specific case studies. It looks at the roles the sharing economy plays in sharing and redistribution of goods and services across the population in order to maximise their functionality, monetary exchange, and other aspects important to soc…
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- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030868970
- Collation
- XXXIII, 413p. ; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 334.094 THE c
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