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The Power of Energy Justice & the Social Contract
The first step in any energy decision today should be how to factor in energy justice. This will have the result of ensuring that there is a just outcome for society. One powerful effect of placing energy justice at the forefront for all decision-makers will be that it can balance the 3Rs which are ‘Risk, Reward, and Responsibility’. Ensuring justice is applied across these 3Rs wi…
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- 9783031462825
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- XXXI, 265
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Sustainable Enterprise Value Creation
This Open Access book provides a practical guide to the creation of sustainable enterprise value and implementation of the principles of stakeholder capitalism for corporate boards and management teams. The authors argue that business leadership is on the threshold of a new era driven by major shifts in technology, society, political economy and climate change. They set this transition in inter…
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- 978-3-030-93560-3
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- XVII, 289
Transformation Literacy
t This chapter introduces the term transformation literacy as an urgently required skill for decision-makers and change agents. It suggests that transformation literacy is the knowledge and capacity of collectives of individual and institutional actors to steward sustainability transformations effectively together across institutions, societal sectors and nations. This includes the human ca…
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- 9783030932541
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- XIV, 350
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Revisualising Intersectionality
The introduction to Revisualising Intersectionality explains the proposal for a revisualising of intersectionality as a double strategy of revising intersectionality and infusing it with a stronger focus on visual perceptions of similarity and difference to understand social stratifcation and inequality. Haschemi Yekani and Nowicka briefy situate the book within what by now has become t…
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- 9783030932091
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- XI, 132
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Transforming Urban Food Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa
This book is a product of the Food, Urbanization, Environment and Livelihoods (FUEL) Project of the African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) funded by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The publication of the book was made possible by a Connection Grant from SSHRC, which also funded a virtual workshop attended by the authors on May 13 and 1…
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- 9783030930721
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- XIX, 402
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Krankenhaus-Report 2022
Seit Anfang des Jahres 2020 und somit nun seit rund zwei Jahren ist die gesellschaftliche und politische Diskussion und das Handeln auf allen Ebenen stark durch die Herausforderungen der Covid-19-Pandemie geprägt. Seit dem ersten Auftreten hat die Pandemie mit diversen Virusmutationen in mehreren Wellen auch Deutschland erreicht und speziell das Gesundheitswesen sowie die Versorgung im Kra…
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- 9783662646854
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- XXIII, 430
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Bruno Latour in the Semiotic Turn : An Inquiry into the Networks of Meaning
This open access book highlights the link between Bruno Latour's works and the semiotic perspective on social phenomena analysis. It identifies and relaunches a dialogue that was as heated as it was fruitful, but still little recognized within the social sciences. It asks why the theory of signification has so far been only sporadically acknowledged in literature derived from Latour's work. Sta…
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- 978-3-031-57178-7
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- VIII, 113
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- SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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NEETs in European rural areas : Individual features, support systems and poli…
This open access book constitutes a transnational and multidisciplinary inquiry of the most pressing challenges faced by young people Not in Employment, nor in Education or Training (NEET) in rural areas across Europe. . Rural NEETs are one of the most invisible segments of the youth population, in spite of the fact that the percentage of NEETs is higher in the countryside, compared to those in…
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- 978-3-031-45679-4
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- XIII, 113
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- SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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Social Science Research in the Arab World and Beyond : A Guide for Students, …
This book presents and discusses the logic and method of social science research adapted mainly for instruction at Arab universities and for research in Arab countries, but with applicability beyond the region. It illustrates major concepts and methods pertaining to research with examples of previous studies carried out in the Arab world and with exercises using Arab Barometer and other dataset…
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- 978-3-031-13838-6
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- XXII, 160
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- SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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Robots in Care and Everyday Life : Future, Ethics, Social Acceptance
This open access book presents detailed findings about the ethical, legal, and social acceptance of robots in the German and European context. The key resource is the Bremen AI Delphi survey of scientists and politicians and a related population survey. The focus is on trust in robotic assistance, human willingness to use this assistance, and the expected personal well-being in human-robot inte…
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- 978-3-031-11447-2
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- IX, 130
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- SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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