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Large countries with burgeoning populations such as China, India, and Brazil have economies that have grown exponentially over the last few decades, and projections indicate that they will continue to do so for some time to come. Philip Auerswald's The Coming Prosperity argues that this introduction of the majority of the world's population into the global economy should be considered a source of great opportunity. Auerswald links personal, social entrepreneurship narratives with global movements, in which 'the rise of the rest' are not threats to the world's stability but rather unique opportunities to discover new pathways toward progress and prosperity.

"This collective volume - with contributions from experts on these regions - examines broader questions about the current crises (The Great Recession and The Commodity Crisis) and the associated changes in political representation in both regions. It provides a general overview of political representation studies in Southern Europe and Latin America and builds bridges between the two traditions of political representation studies, affording greater understanding of developments in each region and promote future research collaboration between Southern Europe and Latin America. Finally, the book addresses questions of continuity and change in patterns of political representation after the onset of the two economic crises, specifically examining issues such as changes in citizens' democratic support and trust in political representatives and institutions, in-descriptive representation (in the sociodemographic profile of MPs) and in-substantive representation (in the link between voters and MPs in terms of ideological congruence and/or policy/issue orientations). This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political elites, political representation, European and Latin American politics/studies, and more broadly to comparative politics"--

Introduction: adapting infrastructure to climate change -- Learning across contrasting governance regimes -- Rotterdam: a neo-corporatist approach to adaptation -- Singapore: adapting a strong city-state -- Boston: many hands on deck in the neo-pluralist U.S -- Role-play simulation exercises for social learning and collaborative problem solving -- Uncertain decision-making: the use of multiple scenarios -- Moving forward: flexible and collaborative governance.

Economic Reorganization, Social Transformation, and Urban Sustainability in Argentina: The Case of Metropolitan Buenos Aires -- Ricardo Gomez-Insausti and Analia S. ConteUrban Renewal, Favelas, and Guanabara Bay: Environmental Justice and Sustainability in Rio de Janeiro -- Brian J. Godfrey; Neoliberal Restructuring, Poverty, and Urban Sustainability in Kingston, Jamaica -- Beverley Mullings; Housing and Urban Sustainability: A Los Angeles Case Study -- Victoria Basolo.

Heroic memory : ruin into salvation -- Childhood holidays, childhood salvation -- Dissident memory : rupture, persecution, awakening -- The lore of goodness and remorse -- Indifferent memory : closing the box on the past -- The accident : temptations of silence -- From loose memory to emblematic memory : knots on the social body -- Memory tomb of the Unknown Soldier -- Memories and silences of the heart.

Communication is a crucial issue in our complex societies tinted by distrust. It is the core of democratic life and almost all human and social actions. Therefore it is essential for communication to be responsible. But responsible communication cannot only be conceived as a deontological issue, framed by ethical compliance requirements or good practices promotion. It should be considered with all the virtualities of communication, from conversation to consideration, going through narrative, interpretation and argumentation. Indeed each of these communicational capacities has its properties, assets, complementarities and limitations. They constitute different ways to be responsive. This book offers a contribution to the debate of Theory of Deliberative Theory (TDD), reexamined here within its different inspiration sources, notably the opposition between communicational turn and system, the fact of moral pluralism and the public reason

1. A review of Circular Economy literature through a threefold level framework and engineering-management approach 2. Steering the Circular Economy: a new role for Adam Smith's invisible hand 3. A Systems Thinking Perspective for the Circular Economy 4. Conceptualizing the circular bioeconomy 5. Circular economy and financial performances of European SMEs 6. History and evolution of Circular Economy and Circular Economy Business Models 7. A methodology to assess circular business model 8. Beyond Product/Service Systems and towards configurations of circular strategies, business models, and actors -- introducing the Resource/Service-Spectrum 9. Complementing the Circular Economy with Life Cycle Assessment: Deeper Understanding of the Economic, Social and Environmental Sustainability 10. Life cycle costing as a way to include economic sustainability in the circular economy. New perspectives from resource-intensive industries 11.

The notion of optimum population has attracted the attention of economists ever since economics was made a science. Roots can be traced back to ancient Greece. The topic has recently found rising interest among population economists and demographers. The economic concept of optimum population seeks to define the population size, which maximizes a welfare criterion of the society. The purpose of this book is to outline this concept from a micro and macro perspective and to link it with issues of technical progress, social security, limited resources and migration. It treats fertility endogenously and studies its welfare and policy implications. The emphasis is on a rigorous theoretical treatment of the subject using the modern growth and welfare theory as well as the new classical micro model of the family

Preface; Editors as Leaders; Electronic Media's Effects on Tobacco Use Among Indian Children; The History and Role of the Media in U.P. during the 19th Century; Media is a Bliss or Curse for National Security in Nation-building; Nation-building, Intercultural Communication for Communal Harmony; Portrayal of Women in Hindi Films of the 1960s; The Role of the Media in a Democratic Nation; The Role of the Media in Nation-building; The Role of New Media in Nation-building; The Role of Social Media in Education and Nation-building; Social Media; The Effect of Media on Learning

Joseph Butler [1692-1752] is perhaps Britain's most powerful and original moral philosopher. He exercised a profound influence over the contemporary Protestant Churches, the English moralists and the Scottish philosophical school but his theory of the "affections", grounded in Newtonian metaphysics and presenting an account of human psychology, also set the terms of engagement with questions of education, slavery, missions and even labour relations. In the nineteenth-century English-speaking world he was an authority of first resort for Evangelicals, Tractarians, philosophers, scientists, psychologists, economists, sociologists, lawyers and educationalists alike. He remains a key reference point for modern American and British philosophers, from Broad to Rawls and beyond. Many analyses of Butler, however, have been distorted by aggressively secular readings. This book is based on a comprehensive reassessment of his published work and the surviving manuscripts and archival materials. These are set within an account of his spiritual and intellectual development and his ministerial vocation, from the protracted and painful process of conforming to the Church of England to his initial observations on a social philosophy. Demonstrating that even The Analogy originated in liturgical preaching, this book offers a refreshed and detailed account of Butler's key terms - conscience, consciousness, identity, affections, charity, analogy, probability, tendency - and suggests that exploration of his methods may contribute to modern thinking about ethics, language, the role of the Church, and the religion and science debates. BOB TENNANT taught English Literature at the University of Sussex, spent many years as a senior manager in adult education, and was a trade union and political activist serving leading organisations at local, regional and national levels. He has written on political, economic and trade union matters for many newspapers and periodicals and is a founder of The British Pulpit Online, seeking to create an online catalogue and database of all printed British sermons from 1660 to 1901

Social drinking is an accepted aspect of working life in Japan, and women are left to manage their drunken husbands when the men return home, restoring them to sobriety for the next day of work. In attempting to cope with their husbands' alcoholism, the women face a profound cultural dilemma: when does the nurturing behavior expected of a good wife and mother become part of a pattern of behavior that is actually destructive? How does the celebration of nurturance and dependency mask the exploitative aspects not just of family life but also of public life in Japan? The Too-Good Wife follows the

Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through the lens of friendship look like? Does friendship affect the shape of society as much as society moulds friendship? Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this volume offers answers to these questions and examines the ideology and practice of friendship as it is embedded in wider social contexts and transformations