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  • Complexity and Public Policy

    A New Approach to 21st Century Politics, Policy And Society

    by Robert Geyer, Samir Rihani ...
    This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to complexity thinking, its application to the social sciences and public policy, and the relevance of some of its various tools to those fields of politics, health, the international realm, development, planning and terrorism.The authors argue that the foundation for many of the current crises in these areas can be traced to the ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Exploring European Social Policy

    by Robert R. Geyer ...
    With the growing challenges of economic globalization and national welfare state retrenchment, the development and future of EU social policy has become increasingly important. This exciting new textbook provides a comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date overview of this contested area and examines whether EU social policy is strengthening or weakening European social policy regimes.The book begins ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Microstructural Parcellation of the Human Cerebral Cortex

    From Brodmann's Post-Mortem Map to in Vivo Mapping with High-Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Edited by Stefan Geyer, Robert Turner ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Unraveling the functional properties of structural elements in the brain is one of the fundamental goals of neuroscientific research. In the cerebral cortex this is no mean feat, since cortical areas are defined microstructurally in post-mortem brains but functionally in living brains with electrophysiological or neuroimaging techniques – and cortical areas vary in their topographical properties ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Complexity, Science and Society

    by Jan Bogg, Robert Geyer ...
    'The following sections are a very good representation of the core developments of complexity thinking in a number of major fields. Our intention is to provide an accessible interdisciplinary introduction to the wonderful intellectual breadth that complexity can offer.' - Jan Bogg and Robert Geyer in the Introduction. Complexity is a new and exciting interdisciplinary approach to science and ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Governing Complexity in the 21st Century

    by Neil E. Harrison, Robert Geyer ...
    Series series Complexity in Social Science
    Governing Complexity in the 21st Century surveys the ways in which social systems are becoming more complex. It shows how this complexity impacts every aspect of life for individuals, governments and societies in most social systems at individual, regional, national and global scales and explores how embracing ‘complexity thinking’ can greatly improve the art of governance in all policy areas.The ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Riding the Diabetes Rollercoaster

    A Complete Resource for EMQs, v. 2

    by Helen Cooper, Robert Geyer ...
    This work includes foreword by Ian Botham, OBE, former England Cricket Captain and father of a daughter with Type 1 Diabetes. This groundbreaking book reveals how science and medicine have traditionally tried to make diabetes simple and orderly, despite its obvious messiness and complexity. The result has left patients, carers and health professionals confused and frustrated. Using complexity ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

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    Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

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    Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution'. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account of the ... Read more

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  • The Age of Sustainability

    Just Transitions in a Complex World

    by Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting ... Read more

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    The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future

    by Raoul Martinez ...
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  • The SIMPOL Solution

    Solving Global Problems Could Be Easier Than We Think

    by Nick Duffell, John Bunzl ...
    In the 21st century we face innumerable material and existential challenges both now and in the future, from religious fanaticism, mass migration, unfettered corporate power, to inequality, big data and climate change. Ahead of these global threats and tragedies is a common barrier to their solution it is the spirit that has defined the age we live in: competition. The Simultaneous Policy Solution ... Read more

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  • Climate Change isn't Everything

    Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism

    by Mike Hulme ...
    The changing climate poses serious dangers to human and non-human life alike, though perhaps the most urgent danger is one we hear very little about: the rise of climatism. Too many social, political and ecological problems facing the world today – from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the management of wildfires – quickly become climatized, explained with reference to ‘a change in the climate’. ... Read more

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  • Ecological Public Health

    Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health

    by Geof Rayner, Tim Lang ...
    What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles.This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a return to and modernisation around ecological principles. Ecological Public Health thinking, outlined here, fits ... Read more

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