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Sustainability Standards and Global Governance : Experiences of Emerging Econ…
This open access book focuses on the issue of sustainability standards from the perspective of both global governance frameworks and emerging economies. It stems from the recognition that the accelerated pace of economic globalization has generated production and consumption patterns that are generating sustainability concerns. Sustainability standards (and regulations) are increasingly being u…
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- 1
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- 9789811534737
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- XXVII, 224 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Terrorist Risk in Urban Outdoor Built Environment: Measuring and Mitigating v…
This open access book outlines the latest results in analysing, assessing, and managing terrorist risk in the urban outdoor built environment. In detail, contents refer to the outdoor Open Areas (such as streets, squares, urban parks and other public spaces in our cities) exposed to such violent events considering the physical elements and properties of the built environment and users. PThe bui…
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- 1st Edition
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- 978-981-97-6965-0
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- XIV, 126
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Systemic Risk and Complex Networks in Modern Financial Systems
This open access book is a groundbreaking exploration of systemic risk in modern financial systems. Through its theoretical and empirical investigations, it reveals the multidimensionality of systemic risk, the transmission channels of crises, and the interlinkages between physical, transition, and financial risks. It introduces cutting-edge methodologies, including prediction and optimization …
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- 1st Edition
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- 978-3-031-64916-5
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- XXIII, 412
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Experimenting with the New European Bauhaus Values and Principles in Urban Tr…
This open access book offers valuable insights into experimenting with New European Bauhaus values and principles in urban transformation, drawing on contributions from key players such as local activists, action researchers, municipalities, developers and artists. It highlights lessons learned from the lighthouse project “Desire - Designing the Irresistible Circular Society", weaving a narra…
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- -
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- 978-3-031-76059-4
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- VIII, 116
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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- 650 EXP
Evaluation of Vocational Rehabilitation Services: Return on Investment (VR-RO…
This open book presents the latest advances in models and data for evaluating the efficacy of vocational rehabilitation (VR) services provided to individuals with disabilities. For the first time, the VR-ROI (return on investment) model is used to simultaneously compare short- and long-term labor market outcomes across multiple state agencies and four distinct disability groups. For each disab…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-86942-6
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- XIII, 198
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Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare = Recognising Agency and Promoting Vir…
This open access book explores epistemic justice in mental healthcare, bringing together perspectives from psychologists, psychiatrists, philosophers, activists, and lived experience researchers. Through eight chapters, authors identify threats to the agency of people who hear voices, experience depression, have psychotic symptoms, live with dementia, are diagnosed with personality disorders, a…
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- 1
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- 9783031688812
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- XVII, 160 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- -
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Energy Citizenship Across Europe = Contexts and Conditions for an Emerging En…
This open access book is intended to provoke and progress new thinking in the field of energy research for policy makers, practitioners and scholars. By drawing on a broad range of social and innovation theory insights, this book showcases the diversity of energy citizenship and opens up the concept by including multiple ‘latent’, less visible, forms of energy citizenship that also form par…
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- 1
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- 9783031701573
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- XVII, 172 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Energy Citizenship = Envisioning Citizens’ Participation in the Energy System
This open access book develops a deeper understanding of an increasingly applied term across policy cycles and academic discourses, ‘energy citizenship’. It provides the reader with five distinct chapters, with each in turn examining a specific aspect of the concept and how it has manifested in public discourses.
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031701535
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- VII, 138 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- -
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Digitales Besuchermanagement in Destinationen: Von der Bedarfsermittlung bis …
Dieses Open-Access-Essential erläutert die Entwicklung eines digitalen Besuchermanagementsystems für Destinationen von der Bedarfsermittlung bis zur Implementierung und Ausspielung. Zunächst müssen der Bedarf an Entlastungsmaßnahmen ermittelt und Ziele für das Besuchermanagement festgelegt werden. Daten aus diversen Quellen werden verarbeitet, gespeichert und an Gäste und Tourismusmanage…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-46219-2
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- XIV, 71
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Public Financial Management and Internal Control
This chapter describes the key aspects of public financial management and internal control reform, viewed through a managerial lens. It describes how, without a thorough appreciation of the linkage with management, this reform will at best fail to meet the intended objectives and at worst could add to administrative bureaucracy and hence costs. These are recurrent themes throughout th…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031350665
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- XXIII, 579
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