How effective is western aid-agency intervention in Africa? What can African women do to manage the AIDS crisis? Can western feminist theory be applied to the rural African context? These vital issues, and many others, are considered in this topical book by eminent scholars and …
"This book examines contemporary urban sharing mobilities, such as shared and public forms of urban mobility. Tracing the social and economic history of sharing mobilities and examining contemporary case studies of mobility sharing services, it raises questions about what these …
"This book examines contemporary urban sharing mobilities, such as shared and public forms of urban mobility. Tracing the social and economic history of sharing mobilities and examining contemporary case studies of mobility sharing services, it raises questions about what these …
"This book examines contemporary urban sharing mobilities, such as shared and public forms of urban mobility. Tracing the social and economic history of sharing mobilities and examining contemporary case studies of mobility sharing services, it raises questions about what these …
Platform Economics tackles head on the rhetoric surrounding the so-called 'sharing economy' which has muddied public debate and has contributed to a lack of policy and regulatory intervention.
1. The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and "ethnic" questions. 2. The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. 3. The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. 4. Protection of a specific minority: the case of Roma / Gypsies. 5. Coun…
"In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise of a global Collaborative Commons and the eclipse of capi…
The Zero Marginal Cost Society examines how the shift to an extremely interconnected world is making the core values and institutions upon which we've based our lives, including private property, representative democracy, and national boundaries, obsolete, and looks to the new v…
Describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise of a global Collaborative Commons and the eclipse of capitalism.
The capitalist era is passing. Rising in its wake is a new global collaborative Commons that will transform our way of life. Jeremy Rifkin explains that intense competition is forcing the introduction of ever newer technologies, in turn boosting productivity to the point where t…
In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, Jeremy Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise of a global Collaborative Commons and the eclipse of capitalism.
The capitalist era is passing -- not quickly, but inevitably. Rising in its wake is a new global collaborative Commons that will fundamentally transform our way of life. Ironically, capitalism's demise is not coming at the hands of hostile external forces. Rather, The Zero Margi…
This title explores the deep economic, philosophical, psychological, and political changes in human behaviour brought on by a world where billions of human beings are engaged in relentless communication and collaboration in real time - and where goods and services can be replica…