International and country efforts to address global climate change challenges are on the rise and evolving. Despite the need for action by all levels of government, public sector measures to counter climate change and to improve decentralization and intergovernmental relations tend to be...

Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA), as defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO14051), is beneficial for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the corporate level, it helps identify investment options that can reduce environmental impacts and enhance...

This chapter discusses the concept of core inflation, its relevance for policymakers and a variety of approaches taken for the construction of informative core measures. After reviewing some empirical patterns displayed by US inflation data and discussing the conceptual issues around...

This chapter explores the many ways to measure and manage returns. Individual investors can measure returns at a point in time or over multiple holding periods. It is good practice to consider returns after adjusting for inflation and the costs associated with the strategy. It is also important...

This chapter begins by presenting the background to the concept of narcissism which began in the clinical sphere and later moved into the non-clinical domain with the publication of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) which is used in most research studies into narcissism. In doing so,...

This chapter develops the potentials of poetry and poetic academic language pursued with/through feminist inspirations to unsettle and creatively transform the academic text. It does so by developing poetry and poetic language as embodied, affective, and relational endeavours that transmit field...

Although many academics are aware of the governmental science system, few university-led impact initiatives seek to engage directly with it. Many attempts to promote impact do so from the starting point of a research project, or a research agenda. Yet, within the UK government, there are roles,...

The basis for a successful mobilization in post-socialist Eastern Europe consists of post-peasants. The parameters of post-peasant popular economy with the centrality of the house as a social and cultural unit created by state-socialism out of the predominantly self-subsistent peasants have been...

The emergence of the concept of “post-work” reflects a growing interest in both criticizing and proposing alternatives to the current capitalist work structures. Post-work scholars highlight the shortcomings of current work practices, which are heavily influenced by economic growth,...