"Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity. In this book the author looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in eighteen high-income nations to show how they are affected by institutional structures. The book cut…
Annotation Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity. In this pioneering work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in eighteen high-income nations to show how they are affected by institutiona…
How can we meet the needs of today without diminishing the capacity of future generations to meet theirs? This is the central question posed by "sustainable development". OECD countries committed themselves to sustainable development at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and …
Examining a series of droughts and the famines that they spawned in the last third of the 19th century, this text analyses this human tragedy. It covers its global history and lasting impacts on world economic development.
En beskrivelse af monsunens hærgen i Indien, Ethiopien og Brazilien i årene 1870-1914 med følgende tørke, som kombineret med ineffektiv indsats fra bl.a Englands side kostede millioner af mennesker livet