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Fostering Transformative Change for Sustainability in the Context of Socio-Ec…
This open access book is a compilation of case studies that provide useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities and contribute to policy recommendations, focusing on the relevance of social-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS) to “transformative change.” The concept of “transformative change” has been gaining more attention to deal with today…
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Undocumented Migrants and their Everyday Lives: The Case of Finland
This open access monograph provides an overview of the everyday lives of undocumented migrants, thereby focusing on housing, employment, social networks, healthcare, migration trajectories as well as their use of the internet and social media. Although the book’s empirical focus is Finland, the themes connect the latter to broader geographical scales, reaching from global migration issues to …
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Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean: Encounters with Alterity in Birth…
This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales an…
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AVENUE21. Politische und planerische Aspekte der automatisierten Mobilität
Gegenstand dieser Open Access Publikation sind die Auswirkungen automatisierter und vernetzter Fahrzeuge auf die Europäische Stadt sowie die Voraussetzungen, unter denen diese Technologie einen positiven Beitrag zur Stadtentwicklung leisten kann. Dabei vertreten die Autorinnen und Autoren zwei Thesen, die im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs bislang wenig Beachtung fanden:Automatisierte und vernetzte…
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Operationalisation of Hybrid Peacebuilding in Asia: From Theory to Practice
This open access book explores common critiques in the literature of hybrid peacebuilding, especially the lack of connection between hybridity in theory and practice. Through using a complexity-informed framework, the foundation for introducing the mid-space actor typology is established. Mid-space actors as insider-partial mediators are perceived to be vital agents for peace processes in confl…
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Explanatory Models, Unit Standards, and Personalized Learning in Educational …
The papers by Jack Stenner included in this book document the technical details of an art and science of measurement that creates new entrepreneurial business opportunities. Jack brought theory, instruments, and data together in ways that are applicable not only in the context of a given test of reading or mathematics ability, but which more importantly catalyzed literacy and numeracy capital i…
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- LXXIII, 325
Taxation, International Cooperation and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
This open access volume addresses the link between international taxation, the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the medium-term revenue strategy concept. It also analyses how countries and governments can reinforce this link in current and future initiatives in international taxation, including the base erosion profit shifting project initiated by the Organization for Economic Co-operati…
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Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding: Placing Cultural Literacy at the He…
This open access book is a result of an extensive, ambitious and wide-ranging pan-European project focusing on the development of children and young people’s cultural literacy and what it means to be European in the 21st century prioritising intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding. The Horizon 2020 funded, 3-year DIalogue and Argumentation for cultural Literacy Learning (DIALLS) proje…
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Sprachliche Variationen von mathematischen Textaufgaben: Entwicklung eines In…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird gezeigt, dass ein Instrument zur sprachlichen adaptiven Anpassung benötigt wird, um auf die sprachlichen Lernvoraussetzungen bei Textaufgaben von Lernenden im Mathematikunterricht reagieren zu können. Auf Basis eines quantitativen Vorgehens werden die sprachlichen Variationen in mathematische Textaufgaben festgestellt und als Grundlage für sprachliche Verände…
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Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar: Principles and Application
This open access book focuses on the practical application of electromagnetic polarimetry principles in Earth remote sensing with an educational purpose. In the last decade, the operations from fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar such as the Japanese ALOS/PalSAR, the Canadian Radarsat-2 and the German TerraSAR-X and their easy data access for scientific use have developed further the …
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