For eighty years, a fortune has remained hidden. Now it is being used to buy an entire country.Björn Ohlson runs one of Scandinavia's most powerful energy companies — built on an inheritance his family understands perfectly. The rest of the world does not.When hundreds of millions of dollars begin moving abroad, officially for green energy, nobody in Norway suspects where the money is really going.Only one man does. Egil Olsen, director of Norway's ...

Something is changing in the sea. Nobody knows what it is. Not yet.A fisherman in the Faroe Islands hauls his traps from forty metres down. What he brings to the surface is something he has never seen in a lifetime at sea: animals that do not belong in these waters. The trail leads back to the tragedy of Soviet science in the 1960s. And into the present.In Hull, British NCA investigator James Walker stumbles across forged documents during a...

A discovery in the depths of the North Sea.A web of corruption and environmental destruction.A countdown that seems impossible to stop.When biologist Amelia Wiedner encounters anomalous readings in the Canadian Rockies, she has no idea she's stumbled upon the beginning of a global crisis. The data leads to NordGreen Energy, whose revolutionary CO₂ storage technology beneath the North Sea is being celebrated as a bre...

Steel is corroding across the North Atlantic. And no one knows how to stop it.Vessels vanish without a trace. Ships corrode overnight. Trade routes collapse. Marine biologist Amelia Wiedner is called from Canada to Brussels to brief European leaders on a crisis gripping governments and industry worldwide—a biological organism that dissolves metal on contact. While scientists search for answers, journalist Erik Wiedner follows the money. His investigation leads to a...

Provisioning for basic human needs is done in three main kind of institutions: the familial household; the commercial enterprise selling goods and services; the institutions of the Welfare State that provide education, medical care and other goods and personal services to all or to some specific groups of citizens in need. The purpose of this book is to study the interplay of these institutions and their impact on well-being, and to analyze key policies and measures that have been implemen...

This book, the first to specifically focus on disability hate speech, explains what disability hate speech is, why it is important, what laws regulate it (both online and in person) and how it is different from other forms of hate. Unfortunately, disability is often ignored or overlooked in academic, legal, political, and cultural analyses of the broader problem of hate speech. Its unique personal, ideological, economic, political and legal dimensions have not been recognized – until now.

Social Policy: Themes and approaches is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, providing a sense of the scope, range and purpose of the subject while developing critical awareness of problems, issues and common fallacies.

Many tools are on offer to politicians and other policy-makers when they seek to change policy outcomes. Often they choose to concentrate on one set of tools, but fail to see the costs as well as the benefits – and may not consider the available evidence regarding their effectiveness. This innovative new textbook clearly sets out the main tools of government, and provides an analysis of their efficacy when applied to public problems.Each chapter examines the relative benefits and c...

Populations of visible ethnic minorities have steadily increased over the past few decades in immigrant-receptive societies. While a complex calculus of push and pull factors has motivated this increase, one of the main impetuses for this migration has been the search for employment, better wages and a higher standard of living. It is therefore not surprising that the educational attainments of the first generation and beyond have achieved convergence with, or exceeded the non-ethnic minor...

The last decade has given rise to a strong public discourse in most highly industrialized economies about the importance of a skilled workforce as a key response to the competitive dynamic fostered by economic globalisation.The challenge for different training regimes is twofold: attracting young people into the vocational training system while continuing to train workers already in employment. Yet, on the whole, most countries and their training systems have failed to reach those ...

Since the 1980s, the process of European economic integration, within a wider context of globalization, has accelerated employment change and placed a new premium on ‘flexible’ forms of work organization. The institutions of employment relations, specifically those concerning collective bargaining between employers and trade unions, have had to adapt accordingly. The Transformation of Employment Relations focuses not just on recent change, but charts the strategic choices that hav...

In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector in the provision of public services. Several of these efforts have employed the concept of co-production to better understand and explain this trend. This book aims to go further by systematizing the growing body of academic papers and reports that focus on various aspects of co-production and its potential contribution to new public governance. ...