This open access book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan is one of only a few developed democracies in the world which retains capital punishment and continues to carry out executions on a regular basis. There are some similarities between the two systems of capital punishment but there are also many striking differen…
This open access book examines how TV professionals in Germany have negotiated “quality TV drama” from 2015 to the present. As practitioners have adapted quality TV – a term most strongly associated with US series – to their own national context, they have simultaneously dealt with shifts in screenwriting and storytelling as well as with broader transformations of the local television i…
This open access book provides an empirical account of the psychological and social experiences of 3500 African migrants to 6 European countries: Germany, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, France, and the UK. It discusses the psychosocial motivations for migration from Africa, who migrates where, and stressful pre- and post-migration factors affecting the social and psychological wellbeing of migr…
This open access book collects the major discussions in divorce research in Europe. It starts with an understanding of divorce trends. Why was divorce increasing so rapidly throughout the US and Europe and do we see signs of a turn? Do cohabitation breakups influence divorce trends or is there a renewed stability on the partner market? In terms of divorce risks, the book contains new insights o…
This book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle the severe and wicked problems with which contemporary societies are struggling. Especially in times of economic crisis, social innovation is regarded as one of the crucial elements needed to move forward. Our knowledge of its dynamics has signific…
This open access book examines the interactions between India’s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a “Food Systems Approach (FSA).” The Indian growth story is a paradoxical one. Despite economic progress over the past two decades, regional inequality, food insecurity and malnutrition problems persist. Simultaneously, recent trends in obesity …
Teacher training; project based learning; educational technology; research methodology; network development; vocational teacher education; developing teaching skills; technical teacher education; Central Asia; GIZ Programme Professional Education in Central Asia; PBL; TVET; USPECH; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; vocational education
Buku akses terbuka ini disiapkan sebagai Publikasi Akhir dari COST Action IC1303 "Algoritma, Arsitektur, dan Platform untuk Lingkungan Hidup yang Ditingkatkan (AAPELE)". Konsep Enhanced Living Environments (ELE) mengacu pada area Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) yang lebih terkait dengan Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi (TIK). Solusi ELE yang efektif memerlukan algoritme, arsitektur, platform, d…
Buku ini merupakan dokumentasi kolaboratif dan terpilih dari hasil ilmiah European COST Action IS0605 Econ@Tel "A Telecommunications Economics COST Network" yang berlangsung dari Oktober 2007 hingga Oktober 2011. Dengan melibatkan para ahli dari sekitar 20 negara Eropa, tujuan Econ@Tel adalah untuk mengembangkan jaringan penelitian dan pelatihan strategis di antara orang-orang dan organisasi ut…
This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resourc…