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  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (18)
  • Berkeley : Univ. of California Press
  • Kollektiventscheidung  (11)
  • Humanökologie  (8)
  • Economics  (15)
  • Biology  (6)
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  • 1
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    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108638838
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 257 Seiten, 8 unnummerierte Seiten mit Platten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
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    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Human ecology / Data processing ; Klimaänderung ; Umwelt ; Data Science ; Humanökologie ; Umwelt ; Klimaänderung ; Humanökologie ; Data Science
    Abstract: Data science is a revolutionary new way to understand human-environment relationships at the heart of pressing challenges like climate change and sustainable development. This timely book offers a comprehensive, balanced, and accessible account of the promise and problems of this work in terms of data, methods, theory, and policy
    Note: Also issued in print: 2023. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781108355780
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 326 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
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    DDC: 304.209
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    Keywords: Landscape changes History ; Landscape changes Research ; Landscape assessment History ; Landscape assessment Research ; Human ecology History ; Human ecology Research ; Historische Umweltforschung ; Historische Ökologie ; Humanökologie ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Historische Umweltforschung ; Historische Ökologie ; Humanökologie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Historical ecology is a research framework which draws upon diverse evidence to trace complex, long-term relationships between humanity and Earth. With roots in anthropology, archaeology, ecology and paleoecology, geography, and landscape and heritage management, historical ecology applies a practical and holistic perspective to the study of change. Furthermore, it plays an important role in both fundamental research and in developing future strategies for integrated, equitable landscape management. The framework presented in this volume covers critical issues, including: practicing transdisciplinarity, the need for understanding interactions between human societies and ecosystem processes, the future of regions and the role of history and memory in a changing world. Including many examples of co-developed research, Issues and Concepts in Historical Ecology provides a platform for collaboration across disciplines and aims to equip researchers, policy-makers, funders, and communities to make decisions that can help to construct an inclusive and resilient future for humanity
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  • 3
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    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316779484
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxv, 512 pages)
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    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Environmentalism ; Natural resources / Management ; Human ecology ; Sustainability ; Ökologischer Fußabdruck ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Umweltschaden ; Rohstoff ; Humanökologie ; Rohstoffverbrauch ; Natürliche Ressourcen ; Umweltökonomie ; Erschöpfbare Ressourcen ; Umweltschutz ; Umweltethik ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Umweltethik ; Umweltschaden ; Ökologischer Fußabdruck ; Natürliche Ressourcen ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Rohstoff ; Rohstoffverbrauch ; Umweltökonomie ; Umweltschutz ; Erschöpfbare Ressourcen ; Umweltschutz ; Humanökologie
    Abstract: In the past few decades, sustainability of natural resources and the social and environmental issues that surround them have become increasingly topical. This multidisciplinary book discusses the complex relationships between society, natural resources and the environment. Major resources including water, agriculture, energy, minerals and forests are considered, as well as different facets of the environment including climate, landforms and biodiversity. Each resource is discussed in the context of both environmental and socio-economic factors affecting their present and future distribution and demand. Presenting a balanced, comprehensive overview of the issues surrounding natural resources and sustainability, this accessible volume will be of interest to policy makers, resource managers, graduate students and researchers in the natural and social sciences
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316460252
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Resource (xix, 346 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Studies in environment and history
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    DDC: 304.209
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Globalisierung ; Human ecology / History ; Material culture ; Globalization / History ; Materialismus ; Geschichtstheorie ; Humanökologie ; Geschichtsphilosophie ; Geschichtsphilosophie ; Geschichtstheorie ; Materialismus ; Humanökologie
    Abstract: New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our very idea of what it means to be 'human', while an explosion of neo-materialist thinking in the humanities has fostered a renewed appreciation of the formative powers of a dynamic material environment. The Matter of History brings these scientific and humanistic ideas together to develop a bold, new post-anthropocentric understanding of the past, one that reveals how powerful organisms and things help to create humans in all their dimensions, biological, social, and cultural. Timothy J. LeCain combines cutting-edge theory and detailed empirical analysis to explain the extraordinary late-nineteenth century convergence between the United States and Japan at the pivotal moment when both were emerging as global superpowers. Illustrating the power of a deeply material social and cultural history, The Matter of History argues that three powerful things - cattle, silkworms, and copper - helped to drive these previously diverse nations towards a global 'Great Convergence'
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781107446984
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 535 Seiten) , Diagramme
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    DDC: 302/.130285
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    Keywords: Informatik ; Social choice ; Interdisciplinary research ; Computer science ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Computerunterstütztes Verfahren ; Public-Choice-Theorie ; Informatik ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Public-Choice-Theorie ; Computerunterstütztes Verfahren ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Informatik
    Note: Auf der Frontpage: "Online publication date: May 2016" , Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2016)
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781107082656 , 9781316014240
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (311 pages)
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    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Keywords: Nachhaltigkeit ; Sustainable development ; Organizational resilience ; Social change ; Resilienz ; Ökosystem ; Humanökologie ; Ökosystemdienstleistung ; Soziales System ; Regenerationsfähigkeit ; Umweltschutz ; Umweltökonomie ; Ökosystemmanagement ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ökosystemdienstleistung ; Umweltökonomie ; Humanökologie ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Ökosystem ; Resilienz ; Soziales System ; Umweltschutz ; Ökosystemmanagement ; Ökosystem ; Regenerationsfähigkeit
    Abstract: As both the societies and the world in which we live face increasingly rapid and turbulent changes, the concept of resilience has become an active and important research area. Reflecting the very latest research, this book provides a critical review of the ways in which resilience of social-ecological systems, and the ecosystem services they provide, can be enhanced. With contributions from leaders in the field, the chapters are structured around seven key principles for building resilience: maintain diversity and redundancy; manage connectivity; manage slow variables and feedbacks; foster complex adaptive systems thinking; encourage learning; broaden participation; and promote polycentric governance. The authors assess the evidence in support of these principles, discussing their practical application and outlining further research needs. Intended for researchers, practitioners and graduate students, this is an ideal resource for anyone working in resilience science and for those in the broader fields of sustainability science, environmental management and governance
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  • 7
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107013940 , 1107013941 , 9781139211543 , 1139211544 , 9781139222877 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Edition: Ann Arbor Proquest Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139222877
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 302.13
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    Keywords: Empirische Sozialforschung ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Verteilungsgerechtigkeit
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  • 8
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    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511803871
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Nitsan, Shemuʾel, 1948 - Collective preference and choice
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 302.3
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    Keywords: Social choice Mathematical models ; Group decision making Mathematical models ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Mathematisches Modell ; Group decision making ; Mathematical models ; Social choice ; Mathematical models ; Gruppenentscheidung ; Entscheidungstheorie ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: Collective decision-making is a familiar feature of our social, political, and economic lives. It ranges from the relatively trivial (e.g. the choice of the next family car) to the globally significant (e.g. whether or not a country should go to war). Yet, whether trivial or globally significant, such decisions involve a number of challenging problems. These problems arise in the standard social choice setting, where individuals differ in their preferences. They also arise in the standard decision-making setting, where individuals share the same preferences, but differ in their decisional capabilities. The distinctive feature of Collective Preference and Choice is that it looks at classical aggregation problems that arise in three closely related areas: social choice theory, voting theory, and group decision-making under uncertainty. Using a series of exercises and examples, the book explains these problems with reference to a number of important contributions to the study of collective decision-making
    Abstract: The reason for the problems -- Brief overview of the problems -- The relationship between preferences and choice -- Do social preferences exist? -- Arrow's and Sen's impossibility theorems -- The desirable decision rule: axiomatization -- Rule selection based on compromise with the unanimity criterion -- Paradoxes of voting -- Majority tyranny -- The problems of inefficient provision of public goods -- Do individuals reveal their true preferences?
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  • 9
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    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511664458
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Perspectives on public choice
    DDC: 302.13
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    Keywords: Neue politische Ökonomie ; Theorie ; Political science Economic aspects ; Social choice ; Social choice ; Political science ; Economic aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Public-Choice-Theorie
    Abstract: Public choice or rational politics differs from other approaches to the study of political behavior in that it builds on models in which rational individuals seek to advance their own interests. This five-part volume surveys the main ideas and contributions of the field. It contains twenty-five essays written by thirty scholars, both economists and political scientists, from North America and Europe. Part I discusses the nature and justification for the existence of government and various forms it can take, including mixed, private, and public institutions, international organizations, federalisms, and constitutional governments. Part II examines the properties of different voting rules and preference aggregation procedures. Part III explores multiparty systems, interest groups, logrolling and political business cycles. The individual decisionmaker is the focus of Part IV, with surveys of the experimental literature on individual behavior, and why people vote as they do. The final section applies public-choice reasoning to bureaucracy, taxation, and the size of government.
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  • 10
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    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511840357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 530 pages)
    DDC: 599.93/8
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    Keywords: Humanökologie ; Hominisation
    Abstract: We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behaviour is in fact rooted in our very nature as a species. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book explains the ecological predicament of humankind by placing it in the context of the first scientific theory of our species' development, taking over where Darwin left off. The theory presented is applied in detail to the whole of our seven-million-year history. Due to its comprehensiveness, and in part thanks to its extensive glossary and index, this book can function as a compact encyclopædia covering the whole development of Homo sapiens. It would also suit a variety of courses in the life and social sciences. Most importantly, Too Smart for our Own Good makes evident the very core of the paradigm to which our species must shift if it is to survive. Anyone concerned about the future of humankind should read this groundbreaking work.
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  • 11
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    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511617430
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 591 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Edition: Second edition
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 302/.13
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    Keywords: Social choice Mathematical models ; Social choice ; Mathematical models ; Personalwesen ; Arbeitsmotivation ; Anreiz ; Informationsverhalten ; Kollektiventscheidung
    Abstract: This book, first published in 2006, examines the incentives at work in a wide range of institutions to see how and how well coordination is achieved by informing and motivating individual decision makers. The book examines the performance of agents hired to carry out specific tasks, from taxi drivers to CEOs. It investigates the performance of institutions, from voting schemes to kidney transplants, to see if they enhance general well being. The book examines a broad range of market transactions, from auctions to labor markets, to the entire economy. The analysis is conducted using specific worked examples, lucid general theory, and illustrations drawn from news stories. Of the seventy different topics and sections, only twelve require a knowledge of calculus. The second edition offers new chapters on auctions, matching and assignment problems, and corporate governance. Boxed examples are used to highlight points of theory and are separated from the main text
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  • 12
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    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511617430
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 591 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    DDC: 302/.13
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    Keywords: Motivation ; Informationsökonomie ; Mathematisches Modell ; Wirtschaftliches Verhalten ; Anreiz ; Asymmetrische Information ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Public-Choice-Theorie
    Abstract: This book, first published in 2006, examines the incentives at work in a wide range of institutions to see how and how well coordination is achieved by informing and motivating individual decision makers. The book examines the performance of agents hired to carry out specific tasks, from taxi drivers to CEOs. It investigates the performance of institutions, from voting schemes to kidney transplants, to see if they enhance general well being. The book examines a broad range of market transactions, from auctions to labor markets, to the entire economy. The analysis is conducted using specific worked examples, lucid general theory, and illustrations drawn from news stories. Of the seventy different topics and sections, only twelve require a knowledge of calculus. The second edition offers new chapters on auctions, matching and assignment problems, and corporate governance. Boxed examples are used to highlight points of theory and are separated from the main text.
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  • 13
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    Berkeley : Univ. of California Press
    ISBN: 0520246470
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 394 S. , Ill., Kt.
    DDC: 306.3/64
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    Keywords: Agriculture - Origines ; Agriculture préhistorique ; Archeologische vondsten ; Comportement humain ; Evolutie ; Homme - Évolution ; Neolithicum ; Paleo-ecologie ; Écologie humaine ; Funde ; Landwirtschaft ; Agriculture Origin ; Agriculture, Prehistoric ; Human behavior ; Human ecology ; Human evolution ; Landwirtschaft ; Agrargesellschaft ; Vor- und Frühgeschichte ; Öko-Ethologie ; Humanökologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Agrargesellschaft ; Öko-Ethologie ; Vor- und Frühgeschichte ; Landwirtschaft ; Humanökologie ; Vor- und Frühgeschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Erscheint: Januar 2006
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  • 14
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511606076
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 240 pages)
    DDC: 658.4/03
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    Keywords: Arrow, Kenneth Joseph ; Sen, Amartya ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Wahl ; Entscheidungsfindung
    Abstract: It is not uncommon to be frustrated by the outcome of an election or a decision in voting, law, economics, engineering, and other fields. Does this 'bad' result reflect poor data or poorly informed voters? Or does the disturbing conclusion reflect the choice of the decision/election procedure? Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow's famed theorem has been interpreted to mean 'no decision procedure is without flaws'. Similarly, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen dashes hope for individual liberties by showing their incompatibility with societal needs. This highly accessible book offers a new, different interpretation and resolution of Arrow's and Sen's theorems. Using simple mathematics, it shows that these negative conclusions arise because, in each case, some of their assumptions negate other crucial assumptions. Once this is understood, not only do the conclusions become expected, but a wide class of other phenomena can also be anticipated.
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  • 15
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511016239 , 0511118988 , 0511492308 , 0521791022 , 9780511016233 , 9780511118982 , 9780511492303 , 9780521791021
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 153 pages)
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    Keywords: PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology ; Social choice ; Voorkeur ; Wiskundige modellen ; Besliskunde ; Domein (wiskunde) ; Existentie van oplossingen ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Mathematisches Modell ; Decision making / Mathematical models ; Social choice / Mathematical models ; Mathematisches Modell ; Social choice Mathematical models ; Decision making Mathematical models ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Mathematisches Modell ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Mathematisches Modell
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-145) and index , 1 - Introduction -- - 2 - Notation, definitions, and two fundamental theorems -- - 3 - The existence of collective choice rules under exclusion conditions for finite sets of discrete alternatives -- - 4 - Arrovian social welfare functions, nonmanipulable voting procedures and stable group decision functions -- - 5 - Restrictions on the distribution of individuals' preferences -- - 6 - The existence of social choice rules in n-dimensional continuous space -- - 7 - Concluding remarks , "Wulf Gaertner provides a comprehensive account of an important and complex issue within social choice theory: how to establish a social welfare function while restricting the spectrum of individual preferences in a sensible way. Gaertner's starting point is K.J. Arrow's famous 'Impossibility Theorem', which showed that no welfare function could exist if an unrestricted domain of preferences is to be satisfied, together with some other appealing conditions. A number of leading economists have tried to provide avenues out of this 'impossibility' by restricting the variety of preferences: here, Gaertner provides a clear and detailed account, using standardized mathematical notation, of well over 40 theorems associated with domain conditions." , "Domain Conditions in Social Choice Theory will be an essential addition to the library of social choice theory for scholars and their advanced graduate students."--Jacket
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511664458
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 672 pages)
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    DDC: 302.13
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    Keywords: Politische Wissenschaft ; Social choice ; Political science / Economic aspects ; Ökonomische Theorie der Politik ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Public-Choice-Theorie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Ökonomische Theorie der Politik ; Public-Choice-Theorie
    Abstract: Public choice or rational politics differs from other approaches to the study of political behavior in that it builds on models in which rational individuals seek to advance their own interests. This five-part volume surveys the main ideas and contributions of the field. It contains twenty-five essays written by thirty scholars, both economists and political scientists, from North America and Europe. Part I discusses the nature and justification for the existence of government and various forms it can take, including mixed, private, and public institutions, international organizations, federalisms, and constitutional governments. Part II examines the properties of different voting rules and preference aggregation procedures. Part III explores multiparty systems, interest groups, logrolling and political business cycles. The individual decisionmaker is the focus of Part IV, with surveys of the experimental literature on individual behavior, and why people vote as they do. The final section applies public-choice reasoning to bureaucracy, taxation, and the size of government
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9781139164023
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 354 pages)
    Series Statement: African studies 90
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    Keywords: Umweltpolitik ; Human ecology / Guinea / Kissidougou (Region) ; Landscape assessment / Guinea / Kissidougou (Region) ; Forest ecology / Guinea / Kissidougou (Region) ; Savanna ecology / Guinea / Kissidougou (Region) ; Environmental policy / Guinea / Kissidougou (Region) ; Savanne ; Wald ; Humanökologie ; Kissidougou (Guinea : Region) / Environmental conditions ; Provinz Kissidougou ; Provinz Kissidougou ; Humanökologie ; Savanne ; Humanökologie ; Wald
    Abstract: Islands of dense forest in the savanna of 'forest' Guinea have long been regarded both by scientists and policy-makers as the last relics of a once more extensive forest cover, degraded and degrading fast due to its inhabitants' land use. In this 1996 text, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach question these entrenched assumptions. They show, on the contrary, how people have created forest islands around their villages, and how they have turned fallow vegetation more woody, so that population growth has implied more forest, not less. They also consider the origins, persistence, and consequences of a century of erroneous policy. Interweaving historical, social anthropological and ecological data, this fascinating study advances a novel theoretical framework for ecological anthropology, encouraging a radical re-examination of some central tenets in each of these disciplines
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  • 18
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521911
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 152 pages)
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    Keywords: Politik ; Politische Wissenschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Social choice ; Economics / Political aspects ; Political science / Decision making ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Public-Choice-Theorie ; Arrow-Paradoxon ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Arrow-Paradoxon ; Public-Choice-Theorie
    Abstract: This textbook provides a survey of the literature of social choice. It integrates the ethical aspects of the subject, (discussing potentially desirable conditions for social judgements) with positive aspects of decision mechanisms that centre on the revelation of true preferences. The literature on the subject presently consists of a great many papers. This book draws them together in common notation and points out interpretations which are often missing in specialist papers. Applications in economics, electoral politics, and ethics are discussed. The book will be used by senior undergraduate and graduate students of economics, political science and philosophy as a text book in the subject
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  • 19
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511897993
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 278 pages)
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    Keywords: Social choice ; Welfare economics ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Fürsorge ; Wohlfahrtstheorie ; Rationalität ; Rationalität ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Wohlfahrtstheorie ; Fürsorge
    Abstract: Left freely to themselves, a group of rational individuals often fail to cooperate even when the product of social cooperation is beneficial to all. Hence, the author argues, a rule of collective decision making is clearly needed that specifies how social cooperation should be organised among contributing individuals. Suzumura gives a systematic presentation of the Arrovian impossibility theorems of social choice theory, so as to describe and enumerate the various factors that are responsible for the stability of the voluntary association of free and rational individuals. Among other topics covered are an axiomatic characterisation of the concept of a rational choice, the simple majority decision rule and its extensions, the social choice implications of the concept of equity as nonenvy, the constrained majoritarian collective choice rules and the conflict between the Paretian ethics and the libertarian claims of individual rights
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