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Robots in Care and Everyday Life
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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- SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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- IX, 130
Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?
This open access book analyses the idea that medicine and psychology have a substantial (and underestimated) impact on Western welfare states. Based on mixed-methods analyses conducted in Germany, it analyses this influence on debates and policies related to unemployment, poverty, and childhood. The book demonstrates how the turn to neoliberalism and social investment thinking has created this …
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- 978-3-031-32792-6
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- XIX, 222
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Politische und ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen des Sozial- und Gesundheitswese…
Das Buch bietet eine kompakte Einführung in die zentralen politischen und ökonomischen Begriffe, Konzepte und Diskurse des schweizerischen Sozial- und Gesundheitswesens. Es spannt den Bogen von den demokratischen Grundsätzen und Eigenheiten des politischen Systems, über die Sozialhilfe, Sozialversicherungen sowie ökonomischen Strukturmerkmale des Gesundheits- und Sozialwesens, bis hin zu F…
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- 978-3-658-35769-6
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- XI, 159
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Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Met…
Activists, analysts, and practitioners describe innovative strategies that promote healthy neighborhoods, fair housing, and accessible transportation throughout America's cities and suburbs.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255479
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- 1 online resource (xli, 446 pages) :illustrations.
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Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe
Case studies from around the world and theoretical discussion show how the capacity to act collectively on local problems can be developed, strengthening democracy while changing social and economic outcomes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269292
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 374 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Locally played :real-world games for stronger places and communities
How games can make a real-world difference in communities when city leaders tap into the power of play for local impact. In 2016, city officials were surprised when Pok?emon GO brought millions of players out into the public space, blending digital participation with the physical. Yet for local control and empowerment, a new framework is needed to guide the power of mixed reality and pervasive …
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- 9780262356923
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- 1 online resource (288 pages).
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Subversion, conversion, development : cross-cultural knowledge exchange and t…
This volume explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies, encounters that counter dominant, Western-oriented notions of media consumption. The contributors include media practices as forms of cultural resistance and subversion, 'DIY cultures', and other non-mainstream models of technology production and consumption. The contributors - leading thinkers in sci…
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- 9780262322492
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- 1 online resource (266 pages).
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Making futures : marginal notes on innovation, design, and democracy
Experiments in innovation, design, and democracy that search not for a killer app but for a collaboratively created sustainable future.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262320887
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- 1 online resource (xl, 351 pages) :illustrations, map
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Neighborhood as refuge : community reconstruction, place remaking, and enviro…
Environmental justice as studied in a variety of disciplines is most often associated with redressing disproportionate exposure to pollution, contimination, and toxic sites. In this book, Isabelle Anguelovski takes a broader view of environmental justice, examining wide-ranging comprehensive efforts at neighbourhood environmental revitalization that include parks, urban agriculture, fresh food …
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- 9780262322188
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up
Stories of environmental stewardship in communities from New Orleans to Soweto accompany an interdisciplinary framework for understanding civic ecology as a global phenomenon.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262327169
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- 1 online resource :illustrations.
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