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Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America
This 9th volume of International Development Policy looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and related development trajectories in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Andean region. It examines the diverse development narratives and experiences in countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru during a period of high commodity prices associated with robust growth, poverty all…
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- Volume: 9
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- 978-90-04-35167-7
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To Be a Minority Teacher in a Foreign Culture
This open access book offers in depth knowledge on the challenges and opportunities offered by the inclusion of minority teachers in mainstream educational settings from an international perspective. It aims to be a unique and important contribution for scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners considering the complexities brought about by global trends into national/local educational systems …
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-25584-7
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- VIII, 509
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African Cities and the Development Conundrum
This 10th thematic volume of International Development Policy presents a collection of articles exploring some of the complex development challenges associated with Africa’s recent but extremely rapid pace of urbanisation that challenges still predominant but misleading images of Africa as a rural continent. Analysing urban settings through the diverse experiences and perspectives of inhabita…
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- Volume: 10
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- 9789004387942
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Polarization, Shifting Borders and Liquid Governance : Studies on Transformat…
This open-access book explores the security dynamics amid the polarization, shifting borders, and liquid governance that define the Zeitenwende era in Europe's eastern neighbourhood and Central Asia. Presenting various case studies, the volume unveils the intricate web of border dynamics and practices, including the nuanced interplay of border disputes within the Organization for Security and C…
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- 978-3-031-44584-2
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- XVII, 427
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Education in China and the World : Achievements and Contemporary Issues
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of education in China, covering 12 critical topics including basic education, higher education, professional education, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education, mental health education, and international education and excellence initiatives. Drawing from current research, theoretical literature, and real-life sto…
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- 978-981-99-5861-0
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- XXVI, 620
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International Actors and the Formation of Laws
EU law and the national laws of the EU Member States are closely interwoven. From a historical point of view, they form two different legal orders, but they may today be viewed as forming part of the same legal system. The chapter explains the relationship between EU law and national law by looking first at the status of EU law in national law and then at the relevance of national law to EU…
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- 9783030983512
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- XVIII, 197
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Successful Global Collaborations in Higher Education Institutions
This open access book presents deep investigation to the manifold topics pertaining to global university collaboration. It outlines the strategies King Abdulaziz University has employed to rise in global rankings, and the reasons chosen to collaborate with other academic and research institutes. The environment in which universities currently exist is considered, and subsequently how an innovat…
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- 1
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- 9783030255251
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- XVII, 93 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Teaching Multiplication with Lesson Study : Japanese and Ibero-American Theor…
This open access book is intended to assist teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum designers, editors and authors of textbooks in developing strategies to teach the multiplication of natural numbers based on the experience of the Lesson Study in Japan. This approach to mathematics education dates back to the 1870s and reconciles the emphasis on problem solving with the treatment of the curricul…
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- 9783030285616
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- XVIII, 296 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Modern Japan’s Place in World History
This Open Access book includes chapters on the key turning points in modern Japanese history from the Meiji Restoration to Japan-China diplomatic normalization in the 1970s and beyond. The topics covered include the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, the First and Second World Wars, the Manchurian Crisis, the US Occupation, postwar Japan-China relations, and postwar decolonization…
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- 1
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- 978-981-19-9592-7
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- XVIII, 211
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The Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition
The world is currently undergoing an historic energy transition, driven by increasingly stringent decarbonisation policies and rapid advances in low-carbon technologies. The large-scale shift to low-carbon energy is disrupting the global energy system, impacting whole economies, and changing the political dynamics within and between countries. This open access book, written by leading energy…
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- 978-3-030-39066-2
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- XXV, 381
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- Lecture Notes in Energy (LNEN, volume 73)
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