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Democratizing Risk Governance
This open access book features contributions from a multidisciplinary team of leading and emerging scholars focused on democratization of risk assessment, management, and communication. The volume identifies and sheds light on key risk governance dilemmas related to public trust, risk perception and public participation. The first part of the book articulates the relationship among science, exp…
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- 978-3-031-24271-7
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- XVIII, 421
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Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship
We acknowledge with gratitude the funding received from the Academy of Finland DEVELOP-programme (2018–2022) for the research project Theory and practice of learning to be a citizen: Experiences from Tanzania and Uganda (decision numbers 316098 and 316100) and from the Eudaimonia Institute of the University of Oulu for the research project Citizenship in Change: Constructing a Novel Theo…
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- 9783030948825
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- XIII, 221
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The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality
This open access handbook examines the phenomenon of South-South migration and its relationship to inequality in the Global South, where at least a third of all international migration takes place. Drawing on contributions from nearly 70 leading migration scholars, mainly from the Global South, the handbook challenges dominant conceptualisations of migration, offering new perspectives and insig…
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- 9783031398148
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- XXXVIII, 749
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Alterung und Pflege als kommunale Aufgabe : Deutsche und japanische Ansätze …
Die Beiträge in diesem Open-Access-Sammelband beschreiben und analysieren aus multidisziplinärer Sicht die Herausforderungen und Bewältigungsstrategien von Alterung und Pflege in japanischen und deutschen Gemeinden. Thematisiert werden rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen, zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement, Pflegekräftemangel, Technologiekonzepte für die Pflege und schließlich auch der Einfluss …
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- 978-3-658-36844-9
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- XV, 364
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- Dortmunder Beiträge zur Sozialforschung (SOZF)
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Quartier und Demokratie : Theorie und Praxis lokaler Partizipation zwischen F…
Die Beiträge dieses Open-Access-Bandes bringen demokratietheoretische Fragestellungen mit partizipatorischen Erfahrungen aus Quartieren zusammen. Charakteristisch für viele partizipative Planungsmodi ist ihr sozialräumlicher Kontext – das Quartier. Über dessen Mehrwert für gelingende Demokratie ist jedoch nur wenig bekannt: Während mit partizipativen Verfahren auf der Quartiersebene ver…
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- 978-3-658-26235-8
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- VIII, 220
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- Quartiersforschung (QF)
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Migration Diversity and Social Cohesion : Reassessing the Dutch Policy Agenda
This open access book shows policymakers which initiatives work when responding to the increasing diversity in cities, towns and neighborhood's. In recent times, policymakers have grappled with ways of responding to this increase, which has resulted in a plethora of policy initiatives, some more effective than others. Bringing together a large amount of research and evidence-based policy recomm…
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- 9783031142246
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- XIII, 187 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Updates on Myopia : A Clinical Perspective
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book discusses basic clinical concepts of myopia, prevention of progression and surgical treatments for myopia and pathological myopia. It also summarises the latest evidence and best practices for managing myopia, high myopia and its complications. Written by leading experts, the book addresses clinical diagnosis and interpr…
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- 9789811384912
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- XI, 305 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Tourism and Conservation-based Development in the Periphery : Lessons from Pa…
This open access book applies a social ecological systems (SES) lens to conservation-based development in Patagonia, bringing together authors with historical, contemporary, and future-oriented perspectives in order to increase understanding of the social and environmental implications of nature-based tourism and other forms of conservation-based territorial development. By focusing on Patagoni…
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- 9783031380488
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- XXXIV, 468 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Space–Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method : Advances and …
This open access book introduces the fundamentals of the space–time conservation element and solution element (CESE) method, which is a novel numerical approach for solving equations of physical conservation laws. It highlights the recent progress to establish various improved CESE schemes and its engineering applications. With attractive accuracy, efficiency, and robustness, the CESE method …
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- 9789819908769
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- IX, 139 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- 13
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Horizons of Phenomenology: Essays on the State of the Field and Its Applications
Ini adalah buku akses terbuka yang mengeksplorasi fenomenologi sebagai gerakan yang sangat beragam dalam filsafat sekaligus metode penelitian aktif yang melintasi batas-batas disiplin ilmu. Volume ini menyatukan tinjauan umum yang menarik dari berbagai bidang dan aliran fenomenologi utama, serta aplikasi terkini di berbagai bidang. Bagian pertama mengulas keadaan terkini di berbagai bidang feno…
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- 978-3-031-26074-2
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- 1 online resource ( VI, 355 Pages)
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- 142.7 YOS h
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