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Political Ecology of REDD+ in Indonesia
Indonesia’s commitment to reducing land-based greenhouse gas emissions significantly includes the expansion of conservation areas, but these developments are not free of conflicts. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of agrarian conflicts in the context of the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) and forest carbon offsetting in Indones…
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Planning and Managing Scientific Research: A guide for the beginning researcher
Although there are many books on project management, few address the issues associated with scientific research. This work is based on extensive scientific research and management experiences and is designed to provide an introduction to planning and managing scientific research for the beginning researcher. The aim is to build an understanding of the nature of scientific research, and the way …
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Piezoelectric Electromechanical Transducers for Underwater Sound, Parts III & IV
The book presents a broad-scope analysis of piezoelectric electromechanical transducers and the related aspects of practical transducer design for underwater applications. It uses an energy method for analyzing transducer problems that provides the physical insight important for the understanding of electromechanical devices. Application of the method is first illustrated with transducer exampl…
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- 9781644698273
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Refugees on the Move: Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe
Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countries and responses from the host countries involved. It examines the causes of the movement of refugee populations, the difficulties they face during their journeys, the daily challenges and obstacles they experience, a…
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- 9781800736528
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Livestock for Sale Animal Husbandry in a Roman Frontier Zone
The civitas Batavorum was a settlement on the north-western frontier of the Roman Empire, and it is now the site of numerous archaeological excavations. This book offers the most up-to-date look yet at what has been discovered, using the newest archaeological techniques, about the town and its economy, its military importance, and the religious and domestic buildings it held. It will be essenti…
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Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement : Unsettling the Everyday and …
The image we have of refugees is one of displacement – from their homes, families and countries – and yet, refugee settlement is increasingly becoming an experience of living simultaneously in places both proximate and distant, as people navigate and transcend international borders in numerous and novel ways. At the same time, border regimes remain central in defining the possibilities and …
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- 9781315268958
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- Studies in migration and diaspora
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- 305.9 MAR b
Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World : Refugee Youth and the Pursu…
Children and youth are front and center in the context of global mass migration and the social discord around questions of multicultural inclusion that it often ignites. It is young people at the forefront of navigating the complexities of cultural and ethnic diversity in their everyday lives. Imprecise portrayals of their inclination to either embrace diversity or to incite racism are used to …
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- 9781978803077
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- Rutgers series in childhood studies
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- 305.235 086 MOR b
Pesticides, Organic Contaminants, and Pathogens in Air: Chemodynamics, Health…
The air is an important but largely unrecognized source of contaminant fate in the environment, including transport of pesticides and contaminants to nontarget areas and exposures for people and wildlife. This book summarizes and places in perspective the potential transport, transformation, and health implications of pesticides and contaminants in air, including the air we breathe. It delves i…
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Persuasion in Public Discourse: Cognitive and functional perspectives
This book approaches persuasion in public discourse as a rhetorical phenomenon that enables the persuader to appeal to the addressee’s intellectual and emotional capacities in a competing public environment. The aim is to investigate persuasive strategies from the overlapping perspectives of cognitive and functional linguistics. Both qualitative and quantitative analyses of authentic data (in…
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Perspectives on European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology: Volume 1
Civil Engineering; Natural Hazards; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Industry Sec; 2ECEES; Earthquake Engineering; Performance Based Design and Earthquake Engineering; Irregular Buildings and Earthquakes; Historical Structures and Earthquakes; Precast Buildings and Earthquakes; Bridge Design and Earthquakes
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