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Conservation of Contemporary Art : Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
This open access book investigates whether and how theoretical findings and insights in contemporary art conservation can be translated into the daily work practices of conservators or, vice versa, whether and how the problems and dilemmas encountered in conservation practice can inform broader research questions and projects. For several decades now, the conservation of contemporary art has be…
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- 9783031423574
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- VIII, 401 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- 9
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United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order
This open access book explores how UN peace operations are adapting to four transformational trends in the changing global order: (1) the rebalancing of relations between states of the global North and the global South; (2) the rise of regional organisations as providers of peace; (3) the rise of violent extremism and fundamentalist non-state actors; and (4) increasing demands from non-state ac…
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- 9783319991061
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- XXV, 334hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Resourceful Civil Society
This open access book examines how civil society organizations in Poland, Russia, and Sweden (re)act to transformations of opportunities and limitations in access to various forms of resources. The volume’s contributions discuss the constraints associated with different types of resources as well as organizations’ capacities to generate resources—or compensate for their lack—as they neg…
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- 978-3-030-99007-7
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Crisis Response in Higher Education
This open access book explores the impact of Covid-19 on universities, and how students, staff, faculty and academic leaders have adapted to and dealt with the impact of the pandemic. Drawing on experiences from Britain, Australia and Sweden, it showcases how Covid has challenged routines and procedures in universities, and thrown them into a disarray of ever-changing events and short-term adap…
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- XI, 183
Guardians of Public Value : How Public Organisations Become and Remain Instit…
This open access book presents case studies of twelve organisations which the public have come to view as institutions. From the BBC to Doctors Without Borders, from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra to CERN, this volume examines how some organisations rise to prominence and remain in high public esteem through changing and challenging times. It builds upon the scholarly tradition of instit…
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- 978-3-030-51703-8
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Between preservation and exploitation :transnational advocacy networks and co…
"In the late 2000s, ordinary citizens in Jamaica and Mexico demanded that government put a stop to lucrative but environmentally harmful economic development activities -- bauxite mining in Jamaica and large-scale tourism and overfishing on the eastern coast of the Yucat?an Peninsula. In each case, the catalyst for the campaign was information gathered and disseminated by transnational advocacy…
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- 9780262333924
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- 1 online resource (xl, 301 pages).
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Transformative Governance for the Future
This open access book helps actors who are committed to change unlock true innovative potential for the common good in their organizations. Innovation and change processes are not linear. Hence, this book presents a novel way to manage complexity. The author introduces readers to a comprehensive change management framework, the Eoh-for-Good blueprint methodology. It presents the method and disc…
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- 978-3-031-43131-9
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The paradox of scale :how NGOs build, maintain, and lose authority in environ…
An examination of why NGOs often experience difficulty creating lasting change, with case studies of transnational conservation organizations in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262349246
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- 1 online resource (xi, 240 pages)
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Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 7
"National Bureau of Economic Research."These papers were presented at the seventh annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research meeting held in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2003.This series from the NBER presents new research by leading economists on current health care policy issues. The papers in this seventh volume, originally presented at the annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research co…
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- 9780262271059
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- 1 online resource (1 volume) :illustrations
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NGO diplomacy The Influence of Nongovernmental Organizations in International…
Provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of NGOs on intergovernmental negotiations on the environment and identifying the factors that determine the degree of NGO influence, with case studies that apply the framework to negotiations on cl.
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 244 pages)
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