Authors:Guus Berkhout, Guus Berkhout, Patrick Van Der Duin, D
Publisher: JAI Press
Keywords: innovation, study, advances, entrepreneurship, economic, growth, volume, soft, connecting, nature, hard, sciences, cyclic, values
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-08-10
List price: $116.95
ISBN-10: 0762313366
ISBN-13: 9780762313365

This series aims to present the latest research on entrepreneurship and innovation and the impact on economic performance. Research topics covered include all aspects of entrepreneurial behavior - the determinants of research and development, intellectual property concerns, innovation within and across firms, the effect of government regulation and tax policies, patenting and other property rights issues, organizational factors, market structure effects, marketing strategies, entrepreneurship programs and other educational activities, and the relative performance of entrepreneurial firms. The

Author: Frans Berkhout
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: environment, problems, management, natural, technology, waste, politics, radioactive
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1991-03-11
List price: $240.00
ISBN-10: 0415054923
ISBN-13: 9780415054928

Provides a detailed historical account of the policy and practice of radioactive waste management in Britain, Sweden, and Germany. This analysis of nuclear strategy, the politics of nuclear power, and the shifting emphasis of government regulation redefines the issue and sets it at the center of the current debate about power, the environment, and society.

Author: Carl T. Berkhout
Publisher: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Keywords: mediaevalia, subsidia, heresies, medieval
Number of Pages: 201
Published: 1981-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0888443609
ISBN-13: 9780888443601

Authors:Frans Berkhout, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoone,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: social, science, perspectives, new, environmental, change, negotiating
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 184064673X
ISBN-13: 9781840646733

This book by leading researchers presents a critical review of debates in environmental social science over the past decade. Three broad areas are covered in ten chapters: the problems of scientific uncertainty and its role in shaping environmental policy and decisions; the development of institutional frameworks for governing natural resources; and the link between economic and technological change and the environment. The book begins with an overview essay examining how perspectives across environmental social science have shifted over the past decade and looking forward to the emergence of

Author: Guus Balkema
Publisher: European Mathematical Society
Keywords: advanced, mathematics, lectures, zurich, scenarios, extremes, risk
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2007-09-15
List price: $64.00
ISBN-10: 3037190353
ISBN-13: 9783037190357

Quantitative Risk Management (QRM) has become a field of research of considerable importance to numerous areas of application, including insurance, banking, energy, medicine, and reliability. Mainly motivated by examples from insurance and finance, the authors develop a theory for handling multivariate extremes. The approach borrows ideas from portfolio theory and aims at an intuitive approach in the spirit of the Peaks over Thresholds method. The point of view is geometric. It leads to a probabilistic description of what in QRM language may be referred to as a high risk scenario: the conditio

Authors:Guus Extra, Ludo Th. Verhoeven,
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
Keywords: acquisition, language, studies, migration, bilingualism
Number of Pages: 391
Published: 1998-10
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 3110163691
ISBN-13: 9783110163698

This text focuses on bilingualism in the context of migration and minorization processes. Its aim is to integrate recent research in this field of scientific and social interest into a single academic reference.

Authors:Guus Extra, Massimiliano Spotti, Piet Van Avermae
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: integration, regimes, advances, sociolinguistics, perspectives, national, testing, migration, citizenship, cross, language
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2009-08-23
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 1847063454
ISBN-13: 9781847063458

This is an in depth analysis of the linguistic issues surrounding civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world. What is required to achieve civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world? Should language testing be a part of it? This book addresses the urgent need to develop a fuller conceptual and theoretical basis for language testing than is currently available, to enable widespread discussion of this theme and the concomitant linguistic and cultural requirements. The policy proposals for civic integration have so far been conducted almost entirel