Die Zivilgesellschaft in Form von NGOs/NPOs, öffentliche Einrichtungen und private Unternehmen sind die am häufigsten beteiligten Akteure in sozialen Innovationen und bilden den inneren Kern, der diese initiiert und realisiert. Forschungs- und Bildungseinrichtungen (z.B. Hochschulen)...

Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Poverty, participation, and an emergent new path for the 21st century -- About us -- With or without us -- Representation of the included-in and included-out -- Historical development of poverty policies -- Case study...

Foreword and acknowledgment -- Humor, business, and society -- From society to business : humor's use and roles in activist movements -- From business to society : humor's use and roles in marketing, corporate communications, and public relations -- Society within business : humor's use and...

Inequalities and social justice in crisis times / Janine Brodie -- Social justice and the extinction of homo crusoeconomicus / David Robichaud -- Diversity in theory and practice / Malinda Smith -- Justice for whom? Migrant workers in Canada / Judy Fudge -- The politics of racial justice /...

This book is the result of a collaborative effort in which environmental historians from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa came together to offer new perspectives on the new and somehow intriguing entity. These scholars forged a dialogue from their own historical traditions to find...

Introduction: what is the discourse of Seonjinguk? -- From "munmyeong" (civilization) to "baljeon" (development) : the 1880s : the 1950s -- The origins of Korea's eurocentrism : gaehwa and munmyeong discourses from the 1880s to the 1930s -- The politics of modern discourse of civilization in...

In den 1970er-Jahren begannen Soziologen und Politikwissenschaftler, einen analytischen Begriff von Komplexität zu entwickeln, indem sie aus der allgemeinen Systemtheorie und Kybernetik entnommene Konzepte in die Gesellschaftstheorie, Policy-Forschung und Politikberatung übertrugen....

Der Autor registriert, dass die Menge der verantwortungsbewusst denkenden Menschen in zunehmendem Maße fühlt, dass offenbar in der menschlichen Gesellschaft – weltweit wie auch in Deutschland – „vieles klemmt“, ohne schlüssige Änderungsvorschläge unterbreiten zu können, was...

The vulnerability index presented in this paper is a tool to measure the vulnerability of different city areas related to flooding. The index is applied to the boroughs of the City of Hamburg. The city faces three different kinds of flood risks: storm surges, inland flooding and heavy rainfall....