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Crisis Reporters, Emotions, and Technology : An Ethnography
This open access book explores the emotional labour of crisis reporters in an original style that combines fictional and factual narrative. Exploring how journalists make sense of their emotional experience and development in relation to their professional ideology, it illustrates how media professionals learn to think and act within crisis situations. Drawing on in-depth interviews with journa…
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- 9783030214289
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- XX, 232 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Mission AI : The New System Technology
This open access book offers a strategic perspective on AI and the process of embedding it in society. After decades of research, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now entering society at large. Due to its general purpose character, AI will change society in multiple, fundamental and unpredictable ways. Therefore, the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) characterizes AI…
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- 9783031214486
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- XX, 410 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Financial, Staffing and Societal Sustainability of Dutch Health Care : An Urg…
This open access book analyzes how sound choices can be made in Dutch health care policies, and shows why they are necessary, urgent, and even inevitable. Analyzing the current functioning and funding of the Dutch health care system, this book shows how three dimensions of sustainability – financial, staffing and societal – are under increasing pressure. This study explores priority setting…
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- 9783031585647
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- XI, 294 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Migration Diversity and Social Cohesion : Reassessing the Dutch Policy Agenda
This open access book shows policymakers which initiatives work when responding to the increasing diversity in cities, towns and neighborhood's. In recent times, policymakers have grappled with ways of responding to this increase, which has resulted in a plethora of policy initiatives, some more effective than others. Bringing together a large amount of research and evidence-based policy recomm…
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- 9783031142246
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- XIII, 187 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Preparing for Digital Disruption
This open access book offers an analysis of why preparations for digital disruption should become a stated goal of security policy and policies that aim to safeguard the continuity of critical infrastructure. The increasing use of digital technology implies new and significant vulnerabilities for our society. However, it is striking that almost all cyber-security measures taken by governments, …
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- 9783030778385
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- XIV, 74 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Better Work : The Impact of Automation, Flexibilization and Intensification o…
This Open Access book provides a thorough analysis of the quality of work in the Netherlands, and suggests policy proposals to promote and facilitate good work for more people. New technology, flexibilization and the intensification of work will have significant consequences for all those who will still have jobs in the future, and – much less studied so far – for the quality of their work.…
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- 9783030786823
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- X, 204 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Money and Debt: The Public Role of Banks
This Open Access book from the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy explains how money creation and banking works, describes the main problems of the current monetary and financial system and discusses several reform options. This book systematically evaluates proposals for fundamental monetary reform, including ideas to separate money and credit by breaking up banks, introducin…
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- 9783030702502
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- XII, 247 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Security in an Interconnected World : A Strategic Vision for Defence Policy
This open access book follows the idea that security policy must be based on strategic analysis. Defence policy and the role of the armed forces can subsequently be determined on the grounds of said analysis. More than ever, internal and external security, and developments both in the Netherlands and abroad are interconnected. The world order is shifting, the cooperation within NATO and the EU …
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- 9783030376062
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- X, 183 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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European Variations as a Key to Cooperation
This Open Access book offers a novel view on the benefits of a lasting variation between the member states in the EU. In order to bring together thirty very different European states and their citizens, the EU will have to offer more scope for variation. Unlike the existing differentiation by means of opt-outs and deviations, variation is not a concession intended to resolve impasses in negotia…
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- 9783030328931
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- XX, 177 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough : A Realistic Perspective on Self-Reliance
This open access book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between “knowing” and “doing” in view of self-reliance, which is more and more often expected of citizens. In today’s society, people are expected to take responsibility for their own lives and be self-reliant. This is no easy feat. They must be on constant high alert in areas of life such as health, work and personal f…
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- 9789402417258
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- IX, 157 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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