Tag: Societies

Free Download Western Elites and Societies in Twenty-First Century Politics: Avoiding Calamity
by John Higley
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031523067 | 104 Pages | True PDF | 1.54 MB

Free Download Laszlo Bruszt, Ronald Holzhacker, "The Transnationalization of Economies, States, and Civil Societies: New Challenges for Governance in Europe"
English | 2009 | pages: 306 | ISBN: 0387893385, 1489985271 | PDF | 3,3 mb
7. 1. 1 Research Question The electricity sector has undergone and continues to experience a fundamental transformation. Liberalization, deregulation and re-regulation have spread around the world, which has led to a far-reaching restructuring of the sector. In Europe, this trend has been reinforced by a European Union (EU) directive adopted in 1996. This directive alone, however, cannot suf ciently explain how and why most co- tries, some of them not members of the EU, decided to liberalize their electricity sectors. First, the directive gave large leeway to the member states about how to implement liberalization, and second, the phenomenon is an almost global trend, not limited to Europe. Therefore, Europeanization as an explanation for the electr- ity market’s liberalization has been criticized for overemphasizing the impact of the EU (Fligstein and Merand 2001; Jordana et al. 2006; Levi-Faur 2004; Verdier and Breen 2001). A more encompassing approach to explain why governments decided to lib- alize their electricity markets is offered by the recent research agenda of trans- tionalization. Transnationalization can be de ned as ‘[. . . ] the regular interactions between state and non-state actors across national boundaries aimed at shaping political and social outcomes at home, abroad, and in an emerging global sphere of governance’ (Orenstein and Schmitz 2006: 7). The approach of transnationalization includes both state and nonstate actors.

Free Download The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies by Robert C. Brears
English | EPUB | 2021 | 2283 Pages | ISBN : 3030424618 | 207.2 MB
The effects of climate change are beginning to be felt around the world with rising temperatures, changing precipitation levels, more frequent and severe storms and longer more intensive droughts threatening human life and livelihoods and damaging property and infrastructure. As such, society in all countries – both developing and developed – need to increase their resilience to the impacts of climate change, where resilience is the ability of a system to absorb stresses and adapt in ways that improve the overall sustainability of the system; enabling it to be better prepared for future climate change impacts.

Free Download Antoinette Verhage, "Policing in Smart Societies: Reflections on the Abstract Police "
English | ISBN: 3030836843 | 2022 | 148 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Smart societies pose new challenges for police organizations. Demands for more efficiency and effectiveness test police organizations which are often resistant to change. This book uses the concept of the abstract police to describe the way in which police organizations have tried to adapt to these new evolutions and the consequences. The chapters stem from a conference called "Street Policing in a Smart Society" which sought to frame and analyse these developments in policing. In this book, the concept of the abstract police is introduced, analysed and then challenged from different angles, looking at the evolutions related to technology, plural policing, police discretion and police decision making. As such, the book is a reflection of current debates on policing and police organization, aiming to give input to the debate by providing new insights on police and police work.

Free Download Asif Mohiuddin, "Navigating Religious Authority in Muslim Societies: Islamist Movements and the Challenge of Globalisation"
English | ISBN: 3031448243 | 2023 | 291 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Globalisation stands as an indispensable lens through which to analyse current cultural, political, and social transformations. This prevailing paradigm, acknowledged by its advocates and critics, profoundly shapes our environment. Within this global landscape, Islam’s position is noteworthy―often perceived as rejecting globalisation and its secular underpinnings. This book offers a perspective of the global resurgence of religion in general and the revival of Islam in particular as crucial features of globalisation. Furthermore, the book deeply explores how Islamist groups strategically challenge religious authority, utilising social media and the internet to reshape their spheres of influence. By exploring these dynamics, the book aims to provide comprehensive insights into the interplay between Islamist strategies, digital platforms, and religious institutions within our interconnected world.

Free Download Bina Sengar, "Indigenous Societies in the Post-colonial World: Responses and Resilience Through Global Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 9811987211 | 2023 | 338 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This edited book provides perceptions on "indigeneity" through a global perspective. Emphasizing the contemporary and postcolonial debates on indigenous, it delves into diversity and dissonance within indigenous concepts. Through its chapters based on theoretical and empirical studies from Asian, African, and American perceptions of indigenous societies, it brings out complexity, resilience, and response of "indigenous" in the post-colonial global society. It especially looks at how these societies manage to move forward by going beyond the stigma of the colonial past. The chapters in the book are divided into three sections where they discuss indigenous cultures through interdisciplinary perspectives. The narrative approach of historical concepts and contemporary indigenous challenges within the book include anthropological, cultural, ecological, historical, literary, and legal studies. The contributions in the collection come from widely respected international scholars whoare engaged in indigeneity and postcolonial questions. It allows the reader to (re)discover the theories and resilience of the indigenous societies that are historically marked and are reshaping the histories and contemporary narratives in the world. This book is of particular interest to scholars, students, policymakers, and people curious about the histories and the dynamic progress of the indigenous and indigenous societies of Africa, the Americas, and Asia.

Free Download Gillian Williams, "IB Environmental Systems and Societies"
English | 2015 | pages: 452 | ISBN: 0198332599 | PDF | 93,2 mb
Motivating learners to explore and investigate scientific concepts, this new core Course Book Pack helps learners actively connect study with wider issues relevant to the world today. The most comprehensive match to the new syllabus first examined 2017 and the only DP Environmental Systems developed directly with the IB, the inquiry-based approach truly engages learners, strengthening achievement. Integrated links to the Big Questions support a holistic approach to teaching and learning, encouraging students to make links between topics and other subjects.

Free Download Chi Zhang, "Governance in Transitional Societies in East and Southeast Asia: Governance in Transitional Societies East and Southeast"
English | ISBN: 9819953057 | 2023 | 184 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book brings together scholars based in, or had previously been based in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries, building on their respective primary empirical data and first-hand experience as academics and think tank researchers, in order to pluralise the current debates about governance in transitional societies. In an era of global democratic backsliding, this edited volume offers less-explored local perspectives, to balance the Western-centrism observed in area studies and the focus on former Soviet countries in transit. What is the future of governance in Asia? This book, by attempting to supply a diversity of answers, will interest political scientists, economists, and journalists.

Free Download Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Roger B. Beck, "A History of World Societies, Value Edition, Volume 1: To 1600"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1319059295 | EPUB | pages: 496 | 8.8 mb
View society and culture through regional and global lenses in order to expand your understanding of world history as History of World Societies, Value Edition, Volume 1 makes the past come alive.

Free Download Sonja Brentjes, "Historiography of the History of Science in Islamicate Societies "
English | ISBN: 103244505X | 2023 | 244 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This book presents eight papers about important historiographical issues as debated in the history of science in Islamicate societies, the history of science and philosophy of medieval Latin Europe and the history of mathematics as an academic discipline. Six papers deal with themes about the sciences in Islamicate societies from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, among them novelty, context and decline. Two other papers discuss the historiographical practices of historians of mathematics and other disciplines in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.