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Promoted ContentEconomicsJune 1998
Science Under Scarcity
Principles and Practice for Agricultural Research and Priority Setting
by Julian M Alston, George W Norton, Philip G Pardey
Resources for agricultural science are scarce across the world. Yet even as resources are shrinking, agricultural science has expanded its inquiry into many new areas - such as environmental preservation, food quality, and rural development - without forsaking its more traditional concerns. In a time of tight government budgets, research administrators are faced with the need to provide strong evidence that costs are justified by benefits. Science under Scarcity is an invaluable guide to the theory and methods necessary for evaluating research in agriculture and for setting priorities for resource allocation. Although economists have made significant progress in developing more sophisticated methods for research evaluation and priority setting, many research analysts and administrators do not have a working knowledge of those practices. Without the assistance of formal economic analysis it is particularly difficult to assess the social value of new technologies or to make informed judgements about the trade-offs that are involved in allocation decisions. Addressing that knowledge gap, this book reviews, synthesizes, and extends such methods as economic surplus analysis, econometric techniques, mathematical programming procedures, and scoring models. It discusses these practices in the context of scientific policy, describes their conceptual foundations, and explains how to do them.Originally published in 1995 in hardcover by Cornell University Press, it is now reissued in paperback by CAB INTERNATIONAL.
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Promoted ContentApril 2003
Imperator et Episcopus
Zum Verhältnis von Staatsgewalt und christlicher Kirche zwischen dem 1. Konzil von Nicaea (325) und dem 1. Konzil von Konstantinopel (381)
by Just, Patricia
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Trusted PartnerJanuary 1988
Ost- und südosteuropäische Amerikawanderung 1881–1914
Transitprobleme in Deutschland und Aufnahme in den Vereinigten Staaten
by Just, Michael
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Auswanderung und Schiffahrtsinteressen
"Little Germanies" in New York [Beigefügtes Werk]
by Just, Michael; Bretting, Agnes
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Trusted PartnerDecember 1987
Recht und Rechtsbesinnung.
Gedächtnisschrift für Günther Küchenhof (1907-1983).
by Herausgegeben von Just, Manfred; Herausgegeben von Wollenschläger, Michael; Herausgegeben von Eggers, Philipp; Herausgegeben von Hablitzel, Hans
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I Like You - Just Like That!
by Neele/ Marta Balmaseda
A poetic picture book that makes it easy to forget arguments and anger: the little elephant is in a bad mood and kicks a stone. The stone inadvertently hits the flamingo – and the complaining and annoyance just keeps spreading. By the river, in the bush, on the savannah: just like that! Until a little meerkat has had enough and just hugs the snarling leopard. The leopard’s heart becomes light and gradually all the animals notice how good it is when we’re nice to one another. Just like that!
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesJune 2024
Peace and the politics of memory
by Annika Björkdahl, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Stefanie Kappler, Johanna Mannergren Selimovic, Timothy Williams
This important book provides new understandings of how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. It does so by developing a theoretical approach focusing on the intersection of sites, agency, narratives, and events in memory-making. Drawing on rich empirical studies of mnemonic formations in Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, South Africa and Cambodia, the book speaks to a broad audience. The in-depth, cross-case analysis shows that inclusivity, pluralism, and dignity in memory politics are key to the construction of a just peace. The book contributes crucial and timely knowledge about societies that grapple with the painful legacies of the past and advances the study of memory and peace.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesOctober 2023
Towards a just Europe
A theory of distributive justice for the European Union
by João Labareda
This highly original book constitutes one of the first attempts to examine the problem of distributive justice in the European Union in a systematic manner. João Labareda argues that the set of shared political institutions at EU level, including the European Parliament and the Court of Justice of the EU, generate democratic duties of redistribution among EU citizens. Furthermore, the economic structure of the EU, comprising a common market, a common currency and a free-movement area, triggers duties of reciprocity among member states. The responsibilities to fulfil these duties, Labareda argues, should be shared by the local, national and supranational levels of government. Not only should the EU act as a safety net to the national welfare systems, applying the principle of subsidiarity, but common market and Eurozone regulations should balance their efficiency targets with fair cooperation terms. The concrete policy proposals presented in this book include a threshold of basic goods for all EU citizens, an EU labour code, a minimum EU corporate tax rate and an EU fund for competitiveness. Labarada argues that his proposals match the political culture of the member states, are economically feasible, can be translated into functioning institutions and policies and are consistent with the limited degree of social solidarity in Europe. This book is a major contribution to the understanding of what a just Europe would look like and what it might take to get us there. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10, Reduced inequalities
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Trusted PartnerDecember 2015
Die Reformierten in Schlesien
Vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Altpreußischen Union von 1817
by Herausgegeben von Bahlcke, Joachim; Herausgegeben von Dingel, Irene; Beiträge von Adamyczk, Aleksandra; Beiträge von Bömelburg, Hans-Jürgen; Beiträge von Garber, Klaus; Beiträge von Garloff, Mona; Beiträge von Gehrke, Roland; Beiträge von Harasimowicz, Jan; Beiträge von Ilic, Luka; Beiträge von Jürgens, Henning P.; Beiträge von Just, Jiří; Beiträge von Meyer, Dietrich; Beiträge von Sarx, Tobias; Beiträge von Wąs, Gabriela
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Trusted PartnerOctober 1991
Die Prager Moderne
Erzählungen, Gedichte, Manifeste
by Erika Annuß, Walter Annuß, Kvetoslav Chvatík, Kvetoslav Chvatík, Stefan Döring, Paul Eisner, Rudolf Fuchs, Franz Fühmann, Louis Fürnberg, Hans Gaertner, Edith Gaertnerova, Barbara Grüning, Felix Philipp Ingold, Gustav Just, Paul Kruntorad, Reiner Kunze, Franz Peter Künzel, Gabriel Laub, Nikolaus Lobkowicz, Peter Lotar, Richard Pietraß, Eva H. Plattner, Susanna Roth, Peter Sacher, Emil Saudek, Johannes Schröpfer, Holger Siegel, Josefine Spitzer, Peter Weibel, Franz Carl Weiskopf, Franz Werfel
Franz Werfel wurde 1890 als Sohn eines jüdischen Kaufmanns in Prag geboren. Bereits während der Schulzeit veröffentlichte er seine ersten Gedichte. 1912 ging er nach Leipzig, wo er als Lektor beim Kurt Wolff Verlag tätig war. Im Ersten Weltkrieg wurde er zum Kriegsdienst eingezogen und 1917 in das Wiener Kriegspressequartier versetzt. 1938 emigrierte er nach Frankreich und zwei Jahre später über die Iberische Halbinsel in die USA. Dort starb Franz Werfel 1945 in Beverly Hills.
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Just Kids
Die Geschichte einer Freundschaft
by Smith, Patti / Englisch Drechsler, Clara; Englisch Hellmann, Harald
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Just Kids
Die Geschichte einer Freundschaft
by Smith, Patti / Übersetzer Drechsler, Clara; Übersetzer Hellmann, Harald
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Just for Girls
Alles über deinen Körper, die Liebe und deine Zukunft
by Böhm, Michaela / Illustriert von Feldhaus, Hans J
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Youth Just Comes
by Yang Juan
The novel interweaves history and reality, discusses how people get power from history and pursue personal independence and life dream under the new historical opportunity
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