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In and Out of Suriname : Language, Mobility and Identity
In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a unique multidisciplinary perspective on a multilingual society in the Caribbean and Guianan sphere. Breaking away from the view of bounded ethnicity, the authors address central theoretical issues of multilingual and multicultural societies including ethnicity as a social distinction, identity as the shifting construction of the s…
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- 978-90-04-28012-0
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- 304 pp
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- Caribbean Series, Volume: 34
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Implementing International Watercourses Law through the WEF Nexus and SDGs : …
Implementing International Watercourses Law through the WEF Nexus and SDGs: An Integrated Approach Illustrated in the Zambezi River Basin offers an innovative approach to the governance of shared watercourses and the implementation of international water law through the Law, Nexus and Goals (LNG) approach. By looking at policy frameworks such as the WEF nexus and global development agendas such…
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- 978-90-04-44471-3
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- vi, 90 pp
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- Brill Research Perspectives in International Water Law
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Impact of hybrid potato : The future of hybrid potato from a systems perspective
This book describes the potential impact of the innovative hybrid breeding technology in potato. Conventional potato production is based on cumbersome breeding and multiplying of seed tubers. Seed tubers degenerate during the many generations of slow multiplication. Their bulkiness makes them difficult to store and transport. These issues are solved by hybrid true potato seed. Hybrid potato can…
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- 978-90-8686-946-6
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- 184 pp
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Human Rights and the Environment : Philosophical, Theoretical and Legal Persp…
This book explores the philosophical, theoretical and legal bases that underpin the linkage between human rights and the environment. Such linkage, grounded in reality, is an innovative way of addressing environmental issues through the lens of a well-established international human rights system. The book argues that a new set of environmental rights is gradually forging its way into internati…
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- 978-90-04-18993-5
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- 192 pp
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- Queen Mary Studies in International Law, Volume: 3
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Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021)
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the home as a workplace became a widely discussed topic. However, for almost 300 million workers around the world, paid work from home was not news. Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) includes contributions from scholars, activists and artists addressing the past and present conditions of home-based work. They discuss the institutional and legal his…
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- 978-90-04-49961-4
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- xxii, 443 pp
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- Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 45
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Intercultural Dialogue in the European Education Policies = A Conceptual Appr…
This open access book analyses intercultural dialogue as a concept, policy and ideal in European education policy documentation. The core European transnational organizatons – the Council of Europe and the European Union – have actively promoted policies to engender inclusive societies and respond to challenges that diversification may entail. This book, in turn, offers suggestions for impr…
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- 9783030415174
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- XIV, 114 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Ein neuer Gesellschaftsvertrag für eine nachhaltige Landwirtschaft = Wege zu…
Die Landwirtschaft in Deutschland, Europa und weltweit befindet sich in einem dramatischen Umbruchprozess. Einerseits bieten Liberalisierung und Marktöffnung, neue technologische Entwicklungen, die wachsende Weltbevölkerung und neue Kundenwünsche vielen landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben neue Möglichkeiten. Andererseits stehen viele Landwirtinnen und Landwirte in internationaler Konkurrenz, sin…
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- 9783662586563
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- XX, 323 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Informational Privacy for Service Design : An Ethical Framework for Designing…
This open access book equips designers with a deeper understanding of informational privacy, emphasizing why and how designers should design services that respect and enhance people’s privacy. The solution to these issues is more important and challenging in our globalized service and design landscape. In their quest to understand the rationale for privacy in service design, authors embarked …
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- 9783031769269
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- X, 127 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- 52
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Global Citizenship Education = Critical and International Perspectives
This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conceptual input and to open global citizenship agendas to diversity and indigeneity. Social and political changes brought…
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- 9783030446178
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- XIV, 217 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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AVENUE21. Automatisierter und vernetzter Verkehr: Entwicklungen des urbanen E…
Gegenstand dieser Open Access Publikation sind die Auswirkungen automatisierter und vernetzter Fahrzeuge auf die Europäische Stadt sowie die Voraussetzungen, unter denen diese Technologie einen positiven Beitrag zur Stadtentwicklung leisten kann. Dabei vertreten die Autorinnen und Autoren zwei Thesen, die im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs bislang wenig Beachtung fanden: Automatisierte und vernetz…
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- 9783662612835
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- XX, 190 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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