Social Innovations in the Urban Context

Buku ini membahas praktik inovasi sosial, yang saat ini sangat menarik perhatian publik. Ide-ide dan pendekatan baru diperlukan untuk mengatasi masalah-masalah besar yang sedang dihadapi oleh masyarakat kontemporer. Terutama di masa krisis ekonomi, inovasi sosial dianggap sebagai salah satu elemen penting yang diperlukan untuk melangkah maju. Pengetahuan kita tentang dinamikanya telah berkemban…

Towards Sustainable and Resilient Tourism Futures: Insights from the Internat…

This book is open access. "The competitiveness of tourism products and tourist destinations heavily relies on natural and social resources. At the same time, the tourism industry's environmental footprint and its contribution to social inequalities are incontestable. A transformation towards more sustainable tourism futures is needed to ensure a positive contribution to fulfilling the UN's Sust…

Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe : Archaeology, Dendrochronology,…

This is an open access book. Unique in its scope, this book provides for the first time a Southern European perspective on prehistoric wetland settlements and their natural environment. These are dwellings originally built in humid locations, i.e. on shores and in shallow water areas of lakes, bogs, marshes, rivers, estuaries and lagoons. The relevant archaeological remains are in most cases wa…

The Ethics of Vaccination

This open access book discusses individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to vaccination from the perspective of philosophy and public health ethics. It addresses the issue of what it means for a collective to be morally responsible for the realisation of herd immunity and what the implications of collective responsibility are for individual and institutional respon…

Ganzheitliche Digitalisierung von Prozessen :Perspektivenwechsel – Design T…

In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird das Geschäftsprozessmanagement als ein ganzheitlicher Prozess begriffen, der der Mitwirkung aller Stakeholder bedarf. Denn das traditionelle Business Process Engineering stößt heute angesichts der Digitalisierung und der dynamischen Entwicklung von Organisationen immer mehr an seine Grenzen, beispielsweise bezüglich Agilität. Um nun das Wesen von Aufgaben un…

Safer Healthcare

The authors of this book set out a system of safety strategies and interventions for managing patient safety on a day-to-day basis and improving safety over the long term. These strategies are applicable at all levels of the healthcare system from the frontline to the regulation and governance of the system. There have been many advances in patient safety, but we now need a new and broader v…

Public Private Partnerships in International Construction: Learning from case…

Over the last ten years public private partnerships have become ever more popular worldwide, expanding the body of experience among construction professionals, government agencies, and industry. In these economically challenging times, PPP has emerged as a crucial framework for providing infrastructure, and also to boost construction industry activity, while shielding the taxpayer from some of …

Engaged decision making: how to transform team knowledge into high quality de…

In the knowledge economy, teams play a central role in decisions made within and across organisations. The reason why teams with diverse compositions are often used is arguably their ability to develop solutions that none of their members could have produced alone. Systems design, strategy and policy development, risk management, and innovation are just a few of the areas that call for team dec…

Cross-cultural and religious critiques of informed consent

This book explores the challenges of informed consent in medical intervention and research ethics, considering the global reality of multiculturalism and religious diversity. Even though informed consent is a gold standard in research ethics, its theoretical foundation is based on the conception of individual subjects making autonomous decisions. There is a need to reconsider autonomy as relati…

Self-organised schools :educational leadership and innovative learning enviro…

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