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Power and Influence of Economists
ABSTRACT Economists occupy leading positions in many different sectors including central and private banks, multinational corporations, the state and the media, as well as serving as policy consultants on everything from health to the environment and security. Power and Influence of Economists explores the interconnected relationship between power, knowledge and influence which has led economi…
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Time Geography in the Global Context
ABSTRACT Time-geography is a mode of thinking that helps us understand change processes in society, the wider context and the ecological consequences of human actions. This book brings together international time-geographic research from a range of disciplines. Swedish geographer Torsten Hägerstrand is a key foundation for this book, and an introductory biography charts the influences …
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Validating Bachelorhood
ABSTRACT This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity.
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Exploring the Narratives and Agency of Children with Migrant Backgrounds with…
ABSTRACT This edited volume presents the results of a European research project – ‘CHILD-UP’ (Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation), which analyses the hybrid integration of children with migration backgrounds into schools across Europe. Using qualitative data and theoretical foundations obtained through interviews and focus gr…
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Invention Pedagogy – The Finnish Approach to Maker Education
ABSTRACT This collection, edited and written by the leading scholars and experts of innovation and maker education in Finland, introduces invention pedagogy, a research-based Finnish approach for teaching and learning through multidisciplinary, creative design and making processes in formal school settings. The book outlines the background of, and need for, invention pedagogy, providing var…
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Building Smart, Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure in Developing Countries
ABSTRACT Building Smart, Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure in Developing Countries contains the papers presented at the International Conference on Development and Investment in Infrastructure (DII-2022). The contributions cover a wide range of topics related to infrastructure issues on the African continent: Sustainable Infrastructure Development Smart Infrastructure and Cities Qu…
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Tomorrow's Economy: A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth
Tomorrow's Economy: A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth Tomorrow's Economy: A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth By Per Espen Stoknes The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13677.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262361446 Publication date: 2021 A balance sheet for the planet: How we can achieve healthy growth—more regenerative than wasteful, instilling equity rather …
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Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity
A multidisciplinary examination of alternative framings of environmental problems, with using examples from forest, water, energy, and urban sectors. Does being an environmentalist mean caring about wild nature? Or is environmentalism synonymous with concern for future human well-being, or about a fair apportionment of access to the earth's resources and a fair sharing of pollution burdens? …
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AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Examining the potential benefits and risks of using artificial intelligence to advance global sustainability. Drones with night vision are tracking elephant and rhino poachers in African wildlife parks and sanctuaries; smart submersibles are saving coral from carnivorous starfish on Australia's Great Barrier Reef; recycled cell phones alert Brazilian forest rangers to the sound of illegal lo…
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Living Well Now and in the Future: Why Sustainability Matters
A philosopher and a scientist propose that sustainability can be understood as living well together without diminishing opportunity to live well in the future. Most people acknowledge the profound importance of sustainability, but few can define it. We are ethically bound to live sustainably for the sake of future generations, but what does that mean? In this book Randall Curren, a philosoph…
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