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The African Marine Litter Outlook
This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of marine litter in Africa with a focus on plastics. From distribution, to impacts on environmental and human health, this book looks at what is known scientifically. It includes a policy analysis of the instruments that currently exist, and what is needed to help Africa tackle marine litter—including local and transbound…
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- XXII, 224
External Voting
This open access book is the first monograph that brings together insights from comparative politics, political sociology, and migration studies to introduce the current state of knowledge on external voting and transnational politics. Drawing on new data gathered within the DIASPOlitic project, which created a comparative dataset of external voting results for 6 countries of origin and 17 coun…
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- Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
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- XI, 116
Geometric Challenges in Isogeometric Analysis
This book collects selected contributions presented at the INdAM Workshop "Geometric Challenges in Isogeometric Analysis", held in Rome, Italy on January 27-31, 2020. It gives an overview of the forefront research on splines and their efficient use in isogeometric methods for the discretization of differential problems over complex and trimmed geometries. A variety of research topics in this co…
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- IX, 384
Gesundheit – Konventionen – Digitalisierung
Die Open Access Publikation nimmt die Mobilisierung von Gesundheit als Kategorie in den Fokus. Dem pragmatischen Zugang zu Digitalisierung und Gesundheit der Économie des Conventions folgend, wird situativ aufgezeigt, welche Rolle bestehende und neue Formen, Konventionen und Objekte spielen, insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit digitalen Transformationen. Der Sammelband setzt sich damit von einer …
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- 978-3-658-34306-4
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Nachhaltiges Personalmanagement als Schlüsselfaktor für erfolgreiches Wirts…
Mit diesem Open-Access-Buch liefert Elisabeth Geursen erstmals Erkenntnisse zum Nachhaltigkeitsbegriff im Personalmanagement, auf den mit „Human Capital“ oder „Human Ressource“ referiert wird, mithilfe primär linguistischer Methoden. Der Nachhaltigkeitsidee wird im deutschsprachigen und internationalen Kontext gesellschaftspolitische Relevanz zugewiesen. Geursen präsentiert im Bereich…
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- 978-3-662-64738-7
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Journeys Towards Intercultural Capability in Language Classrooms
This open access book presents an account of five teacher educators who, over a two-year period, undertook a research project with five teachers of languages other than English in pre-secondary schools in New Zealand. Their collaborative aim was to develop students’ intercultural capability in the context of learning a new language. The school participants were typical of many in New Zealand…
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- 978-981-19-0991-7
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University engagement with farming communities in Africa: community action re…
This book explains and explores how collaborations can be built and strengthened between African universities and farming communities to address real-world contemporary challenges. The book focuses on Community Action Research Platforms, an approach that has successfully enabled African universities to break free of the ivory tower and prove their relevance to society through deep collaborat…
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Cultural Diplomacy in Cold War Finland
This open access book explores the organization and evolution of Finland’s Cold War cultural diplomacy (1945-1975) as the basis for a reflection on the country’s foreign relations, the link between culture and politics, small states’ autonomy during the Cold War, and the porosity of the East-West divide. The book offers a historical survey of the development of Finland’s cultural dip…
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- Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy
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- XVII, 258
Transforming Entrepreneurship Education
This open access book provides selected teaching approaches, supporting methods, concrete examples of curricula as well as extracurricular teaching formats, which are predominantly tailored to both African and German requirements. These approaches were developed by the YEEES Training and Research Centers, an international interdisciplinary network of university teachers and researchers from Ger…
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Die Zukunft des MINT-Lernens – Band 1
Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband stellt Perspektiven auf digitalen MINT-Unterricht und die Lehrkräftebildung der Zukunft dar. Auf Grundlage aktueller Forschungsergebnisse beantwortet er aktuelle Fragestellungen, etwa: Welche Kompetenzen und welche Lerninhalte werden für die Herausforderungen von morgen benötigt und welchen Beitrag können die MINT-Fächer dazu leisten? Inwiefern kann die Digita…
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