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Enhancing Water and Food Security Through Improved Agricultural Water Product…
This open-access edited book provides a synthesis of knowledge on Water Productivity (WP) and its role in addressing global challenges related to water and food insecurity, as well as climate change. It explores how increasing WP can contribute to achieving several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the global South, with a focus on SDG 2, 6, and 12. The volume connects WP with emerging…
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- 978-981-96-1848-4
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- XXI, 391
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Energy Citizenship Across Europe = Contexts and Conditions for an Emerging En…
This open access book is intended to provoke and progress new thinking in the field of energy research for policy makers, practitioners and scholars. By drawing on a broad range of social and innovation theory insights, this book showcases the diversity of energy citizenship and opens up the concept by including multiple ‘latent’, less visible, forms of energy citizenship that also form par…
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- 9783031701573
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- XVII, 172 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Energy Citizenship = Envisioning Citizens’ Participation in the Energy System
This open access book develops a deeper understanding of an increasingly applied term across policy cycles and academic discourses, ‘energy citizenship’. It provides the reader with five distinct chapters, with each in turn examining a specific aspect of the concept and how it has manifested in public discourses.
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- 9783031701535
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- VII, 138 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Empowering At-Risk Youth in and Through Vocational Education = A Comparative …
This open access book presents insights on the resiliency strategies of at-risk vocational education and training (VET) students in the field of learning, employment and social integration, in the Baltic countries and Norway. It investigates the ways in which vocational education and training (VET) can enhance the social inclusion of young people at-risk, both in terms of combating school dropo…
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- 9789819606139
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- XIV, 225 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Emotion, Race, and Space in Contemporary African American Literature
This open access book examines how selected African American authors—Colson Whitehead, Edward P. Jones, Toni Morrison, Brit Bennett, Percival Everett, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Sherri L. Smith, and N.K. Jemisin—narrate relationships between emotion, race, and space. On the one hand, they bear witness to the structural production of Black emotional pain at the confluence of racial and spatial d…
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- 978-3-031-85795-9
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- IX, 232
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Security, Disinformation and Harmful Narratives: RT and Sputnik News Coverage…
The European Council announced a ban on the Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik in March 2022, just weeks after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The invasion has cost many thousands of lives, created millions of Ukrainian refugees, and caused enormous material damage, but also increased the disinformation activities of Russia in Ukraine and the rest of Europe. The two Russi…
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- 9783031587474
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- XIX, 293
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Sector-Based Action Against Corruption
This chapter outlines the aims of the book, explains the reform concept that underpins our thinking and provides an overview of the Sector Focus Remediation Action (SFRA) approach. It also explains how we came to write the book and sets out its structure.
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- 9783031593369
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- XXI, 182
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Schöne Momente pflegender Angehöriger in der Pflege und Begleitung von Mens…
Supporting and taking care of family members is a challenging life situation for relatives, which is associated with high physical, psychological and social stress, especially when caring for people with dementia. For these reasons, family caregivers as well as municipalities that develop support services view and experience the care situation primarily from a deficit-oriented and burdening…
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- 9783658451868
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- XXV, 184
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Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
The present study of the Lives of the Poets is designed to show that Johnson’s value judgements about literature lead to ethical literary criticism that pertains to human problems affecting our daily life and world crises. In his Dictionary, Johnson defines ethics as “the doctrine of morality; a system of morality.”1 While morality and ethics were, according to Johnson, nearly in…
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- 9783031618420
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- XIII, 172
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Rule of Law in Europe
The conditions under which these notes were prepared reflect the little time that could be devoted to their preparation. Circumstances inherent to my position drastically limited my availability to do better. This explains the erratic tone of my considerations, which I have not had time to organise and systematise properly. Added to this, of course, is the fact that I am not a professional …
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- 9783031612657
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- XVI, 165
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