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1. Measuring Wellbeing: Towards Sustainability?

   By Karen Scott

   Improving wellbeing and sustainability are central goals of government, but are they in conflict? This engaging new book reviews that question and its implications for public policy through a focus on indicators. It highlights tensions on the one hand between various constructs of wellbeing and...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Antarctic Security in the Twenty-First Century

   Legal and Policy Perspectives

   Edited by Alan D. Hemmings, Donald R. Rothwell, Karen N. Scott

   The Antarctic Treaty (1959) was adopted for the purpose of bringing peace and stability to Antarctica and to facilitate cooperation in scientific research conducted on and around the continent. It has now been over fifty years since the signing of the treaty, nevertheless security continues to...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Expanding the Criminological Imagination

   Edited by Alana Barton, Karen Corteen, David Scott, Dave Whyte

   This book brings together a series of writings on the problems facing contemporary criminology, highlighting the main theoretical priorities of critical analysis and their application to substantive case studies of research in action. Its main aim is to establish the conceptual and practical...

   Published October 31st 2006 by Willan