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This book presents ecological perspectives towards early language education that conceptualise the phenomenon of interactions between child language-based agency, teachers', peers' and parents' agencies, furthering insights into the lives of young children growing up in multilingual homes.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the gamut of contemporary issues around health and healthcare from a political economy perspective. Its contributions present a unique challenge to prevailing economic accounts of health and healthcare, which narrowly focus on individual behaviour and market processes.

An easy-to-understand guide to modelling productivity and efficiency using modern statistical tools. Introduces the fundamentals of stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and the latest concepts and methods related to the use of copulas in SFA. A useful reference for those interested in the newest robust methods of business analytics.

Mobilität - Gesellschaft - Städteplanung- Designforschung - "Dieser Designansatz zur Untersuchung der Gesellschaft lädt die Leserschaft auf eine vielseitige Reise durch die Ströme von Waren, Menschen, Materialien, Ideen und Vermögenswerten sowie deren Interaktion ein. Es entkleidet die Welt von ihren einseitigen und unverrückbaren Eigenschaften und erforscht auf kreative Weise die weicheren Mobilitätsformen, die die Gesellschaft auf ökologischer, globaler und menschlicher Ebene formen."

With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. It will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Latin American Literature, Global Slavery and Postcolonial Studies

"China's economic development over the past four decades has been marked by several consequential policies. In the early 1990s, the Chinese state centralized its fiscal base and boosted the power of the central government; in the late 1990s, "national champions" in the state sector were constructed and swiftly made headway into the Fortune Global 500 list. Since the early 2000s, credit expanded dramatically in the economy and debt-driven growth became a norm rather than an exception. Towards the end of the 2000s, nationalist techno-industrial policy took center stage and redefined the meaning of competitiveness. In Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics, Yingyao Wang argues that these policies were not discrete or isolated events. Instead, they were part of systematic approaches developed in the Chinese state. These "policy paradigms" were aimed at reorganizing the Chinese economy and resetting state-market relations. Wang explains that the emergence and shifts in China's economic policy paradigms are contrary to conventional wisdom that any strategic plan coming from the Chinese state must reflect top leaders' intents. Instead she shows that attempts at restructuring began in the middle, within the Chinese bureaucracy. Paradigms worked their way out from second-tier economic bureaucrats, who played critical, yet unacknowledged roles in instituting large-scale transformations in the Chinese economy via their contentious bidding for career mobility and bureaucratic authority."

We consider a problem of collecting and processing waste material. At a production facility, every period, a known amount of inventory is required for production (e.g., paper). Instead of new material, the facility relies on collected and processed waste material (e.g., paper waste). This material is collected from regional waste collection locations. The amount of waste material per location is uncertain, as is the quality of the collected waste, i.e., the resulting inventory when processing the material. If the inventory at the end of a period is insufficient, costly new material has to be bought. Each period, decisions are made about how much waste material to collect from which location and how to route the collection vehicles accordingly. Ideally, inventory is built to hedge against quality uncertainty and to ensure efficient routing operations in future periods. We propose a stochastic lookahead method that samples a set of scenarios and solves a simplified twostage stochastic program in every period. We show the value of our method for two case studies, one based on real-world data from Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, and one from the literature with data from the United Kingdom. We further conduct a detailed analysis of our method and the problem characteristics.

"This book integrates the theory and practice of carbon trading at home and abroad, focusing on major theoretical and practical issues of establishing an emissions trading scheme (ETS) in China during its transition to a low-carbon economy. First, a theoretical analysis of the relationship between the transformation of the low-carbon economy and ETS is presented. Second, policy design, institutional evolution, market operation and practical effects of the major global ETSs are systematically compared. Third, the theoretical basis, key points, modelling methods, computational simulation, policy options and operational steps for key institutional and designing of policy elements in China's ETS are analyzed individually. Finally, policy recommendations for the top-level design of China's ETS are proposed"--