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Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration
This open access book provides an integrated overview of the challenges and resources of large-scale social housing estates in Europe and outlines possible interdisciplinary approaches and tools to promote their regeneration. It especially focuses on the tool of urban living labs, as promising in promoting new and more effective local governance and in including the different actors into the pl…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-19748-2
- Collation
- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
- Call Number
- 550
Planning Cities in Africa
This open access book provides insights into challenges, threats and opportunities of urban development in Africa. It discusses how and why African cities need localised urban planning concepts and theories to deal with challenges and threats of rapid urbanisation and climate change. The book delivers an in-depth view of the nature and gaps of the framework on which current planning practice an…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-06550-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
- Call Number
- 324
Microfinance, EU Structural Funds and Capacity Building for Managing Authorities
In recent years, the European Commission has attached increasing importance to the use of financial engineering instruments rather than traditional grant-based financing for the microcredit sector, considering these to be the most efficient option available. This book presents a study of capacity building and structural funds in public managing authorities for the microcredit sector. It present…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-53602-0
- Collation
- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- Palgrave Macmillan London
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- -
“Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits”: A Mixed Methods Study on Corruption…
Why are historically Catholic countries and regions generally more corrupt and less competitive than historically Protestant ones? How has institutionalization of religion influenced the prosperity of countries in Europe and the Americas? This open access book addresses these critical questions by elucidating the hegemonic and emancipatory religious factors leading to these dissimilarities bet…
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- 1
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- 9783030784980
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- XXXVI, 407
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- -
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Finland’s Famous Education System
This open access book provides academic insights and serves as a platform for research-informed discussion about education in Finland. Bringing together the work of more than 50 authors across 28 chapters, it presents a major collection of critical views of the Finnish education system and topics that cohere around social justice concerns. It questions rhetoric, myths, and commonly held assumpt…
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- 1
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- 978-981-19-8241-5
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- XVIII, 466
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- -
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Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance
This open access book charts how South Africa’s gold mines have systematically suppressed evidence of hazardous work practices and the risks associated with mining. For most of the twentieth century, South Africa was the world’s largest producer of gold. Although the country enjoyed a reputation for leading the world in occupational health legislation, the mining companies developed a syste…
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- 1
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- 978-981-19-8327-6
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- XIII, 459
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- -
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Cooperatives in an Uncertain World: Perspectives from Switzerland and Its Nei…
This book focuses on different aspects of cooperatives in Switzerland and its neighboring countries, and their contribution to meeting overarching societal challenges. It seeks to identify how cooperatives can tackle grand societal challenges and extends the body of research on cooperatives. The discussions are highlighted in the context of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The respec…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031562006
- Collation
- XXVII, 365
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- -
- Call Number
- -
Die Ausübung mitgliedschaftlicher Kapitalgesellschafterrechte durch eine Erb…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird untersucht, wie die Erbengemeinschaft die Mitgliedschaftsrechte in einer Kapitalgesellschaft ausübt und ob das Recht die Erben dabei als einen einzelnen Gesellschafter oder als eine Vielheit von Gesellschaftern behandelt. Philipp Kowalski entwickelt aus einer Untersuchung dieses Rechtsausübungsprozesses heraus eine neue Argumentationslinie zur Bestätigung der …
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- 978-3-658-42442-8
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- -
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- -
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A City Cannot Be a Work of Art
This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the field of urbanism and famous for challenging and profoundly influencing urban planning and design, her theoretical contributions – although central to her criticisms of and proposals for public policy – are frequently overlooked even by her most…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-99-5362-2
- Collation
- XXV, 400
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- -
- Call Number
- -
European Actorness in a Shifting Geopolitical Order
This is an open access book. With the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, European security has been put on high alert. The implications of the Russian military invasion are many and difficult to grasp in full. However, the need for greater European strategic autonomy appears increasingly evident. The book argues that strategic autonomy may be reached—also in the short run—if differenti…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-44546-0
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- The European Union in International Affairs
- Call Number
- XIX, 133
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