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Failures in Cultural Participation
This open access book examines how and why the UK's approach towards increasing cultural participation has largely failed to address inequality and inequity in the subsidised cultural sector despite long-standing international policy discourse on this issue. It further examines why meaningful change in cultural policy has not been more forthcoming in the face of this apparent failure. This work…
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- Palgrave Studies in Cultural Participation
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- XV, 162
Narrative Ethics in Public Health: The Value of Stories
This Open Access book illustrates the power of stories to illuminate ethical concerns that arise in public health. It complements epidemiological or surveillance evidence, and reveals stakeholder perspectives crucial for public health practitioners to develop effective and ethical public health interventions. Because it relies on the natural and universal appeal of stories, the book also serves…
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- 978-3-030-92080-7
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Public Policy and Research in Africa
This open access book responds to the need for a specifically African focus on public policy. It outlines the fundamental principles of public policy research, and engages with major issues in the study of public policy from an African perspective, covering essential topics such as the location and centrality of social sciences in relation to public policy, leadership, methodology, institutions…
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- 978-3-030-99724-3
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- XIII, 278
iCity. Transformative Research for the Livable, Intelligent, and Sustainable …
This open access book presents the exciting research results of the BMBF funded project iCity carried out at University of Applied Science Stuttgart to help cities to become more liveable, intelligent and sustainable, to become a LIScity. The research has been pursued with industry partners and NGOs from 2017 to 2020. A LIScity is increasingly digitally networked, uses resources efficiently, an…
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- 978-3-030-92096-8
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- XLI, 371
Geflüchtete in ländlichen Regionen Deutschlands
Die Open-Access-Publikation präsentiert umfangreiche empirische Analysen zu Halte- und Bleibeorientierung Geflüchteter und richtet den Blick dabei besonders auf die Situation der ländlichen Regionen Deutschlands. Migrations- und Integrationsforschung in Deutschland war bislang überwiegend auf Großstädte ausgerichtet. Durch den vermehrten Zuzug geflüchteter Menschen seit 2014 sehen s…
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- 978-3-658-36689-6
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- Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik
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- XVIII, 265
Arzneimittel-Kompass 2022: Qualität der Arzneimittelversorgung
Der Arzneimittel-Kompass 2022, der sowohl als Open-Access-Publikation als auch als gedrucktes Buch erscheint, widmet sich dem Schwerpunktthema „Qualität der Arzneimittelversorgung“. Dabei stehen die Qualitätssicherung und das Qualitätsmanagement in der zweiten Ausgabe des Arzneimittel-Kompass im Fokus. Namhafte Autorinnen und Autoren analysieren Stärken und Schwächen in der Arzneimitte…
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- 978-3-662-66041-6
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- VIII, 331
The Independent Variable Problem: Welfare Stateness as an Explanatory Concept
This open access publication deals with the operationalisation of the welfare state as an independent variable. To study how welfare states affect social inequality, individual behaviour, attitudes and more in different countries, an empirical operationalisation of the welfare state or specific elements of social policy is required. However, this operationalisation is fraught with some impor…
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- 978-3-658-39422-6
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- Sozialstrukturanalyse
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- XIII, 224
Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration: Beyond Participation in Large-scale …
This open access book provides an integrated overview of the challenges and resources of large-scale social housing estates in Europe and outlines possible interdisciplinary approaches and tools to promote their regeneration. It especially focuses on the tool of urban living labs, as promising in promoting new and more effective local governance and in including the different actors into the pl…
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- 978-3-031-19748-2
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- The Urban Book Series
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- IX, 205
Electricity Access, Decarbonization, and Integration of Renewables: Insights …
This Open-Access-Book covers different aspects of the low-carbon energy transformation in a unique manner, with a particular focus on two regions, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The first part of the book provides useful insights on changes and reforms in the energy sector of Bangladesh, while the second part illustrates the low-carbon energy transformation in South Asia and the third part …
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- 978-3-658-38215-5
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- Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection
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- XII, 280
Ethics, Integrity and Policymaking: The Value of the Case Study
This Open Access book provides illustrative case studies that explore various research and innovation topics that raise challenges requiring ethical reflection and careful policymaking responses. The cases highlight diverse ethical challenges and provide lessons for the various options available for policymaking. Cases are drawn from many fields, including artificial intelligence, space science…
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- 978-3-031-15746-2
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- Research Ethics Forum
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- VIII, 207
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