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Human behavioral ecology (HBE) applies the principles of evolutionary theory and optimisation to the study of human behavioural and cultural diversity. Among other things, HBE attempts to explain variation in behaviour as adaptive solutions to the competing life-history demands of growth, development, reproduction, parental care, and mate acquisition. This book is a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical orientation and specific findings of HBE. It consolidates the insights of evolution and human behaviour into a single volume that reflects the current state and future of the field. It brings together leading scholars from across the evolutionary social sciences to provide a comprehensive and thought-provoking review of the state of the topic. Throughout, the authors explain the latest developments in theory and highlight critical debates in the literature, while also engaging readers with ethnographic insights and field-based studies that remain at the core of human behavioral ecology

Der Autor beschreibt die Rechtslage bei Nichterfüllung von Verträgen aus einer wahrhaft europäischen Perspektive. Er stellt Gesetzgebung, Rechtsprechung und Literatur einer Vielzahl europäischer Länder sowie der Union als Bestandteile eines gemeineuropäischen Vertragsrechts dar und macht gemeinsame Prinzipien des europäischen Vertragsrechts deutlich. Die nationalen Rechte erscheinen hierbei als lokale Varianten eines einheitlichen europäischen Themas. Den Ausgangspunkt der Kapitel bilden jeweils die Interessen der Vertragsparteien, illustriert anhand praktischer Fallbeispiele.Nach einer Einführung in die heutige Rechtslage im europäischen Vertragsrecht behandelt Axel Flessner das Recht auf die vereinbarte Leistung und Erfüllung des Vertrags, die Voraussetzungen für eine Befreiung vom Vertrag, das Recht auf einstweilige Zurückbehaltung der versprochenen Leistung, das Recht auf Entschädigung wegen Nichterfüllung sowie die Rechtsfolgen von Sachmängeln.Das Buch wendet sich gleichermaßen an die akademische Lehre, die Gesetzgebung in den einzelnen Staaten und der Union sowie an die nationale und internationale Rechtspraxis

Trust, Courts and Social Rights proposes an innovative legal framework for judicially enforcing social rights that is rooted in public trust in government or 'political trust'. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book draws on theoretical and empirical scholarship on the concept of trust across disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, psychology and political theory. It integrates that scholarship with the relevant public law literature on social rights, fiduciary political theory and judicial review. In doing so, the book uses trust as an analytical lens for social rights law - importing ideas from the scholarship on trust into the social rights literature - and develops a normative argument that contributes to the controversial debate on how courts should enforce social rights. Also global in focus, the book uses cases from courts in Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America to illustrate how the trust-based framework operates in practice

Chapter 1. Introductory Developments -- Chapter 2. The Simple Regression Model -- Chapter 3. The Multiple Regression Model -- Chapter 4. Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation of Errors -- Chapter 5. Problems With Explanatory Variables -- Chapter 6. Distributed Lag Models -- Chapter 7. An Introduction to Time Series Models -- Chapter 8. Simultaneous Equations Models.

Making a unique contribution to the scholarship on democratic policing, this book adapts the concept of epistocracy to explore the role of knowledge and expertise in police governance and accountability. A rigorous empirical analysis of the Scottish police governance arrangements following reform in 2013 is complemented with examples from other liberal democracies, situating the Scottish context in wider debates on democratic policing, localism, and the operational independence doctrine. The book provides a framework for knowledge-based working practices, showing how principles of democratic policing, such as equity and responsiveness, may be achieved in practice

EPDF and EPUB are available open access under CC BY NC ND licence. This publication was supported by University of Essex's open access fund. Peter Appleton builds on research interviews with care-experienced young adults, and on cross-disciplinary theories of planning and of emotions, to develop a model of planning for young people leaving care.

This book analyses the shifting patterns of Czechoslovak educational aid programmes for sub-Saharan African countries within the broader framework of the global debates on the nature of development aid in education discussed on the UNESCO grounds during the three "development decades.".