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Indigenous Cultures and Sustainable Development in Latin America
This open access book outlines development theory and practice over time as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It becomes apparent that culturally sustainable development is both a new and old idea, which is simultaneously traditional and modern, and t…
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- 1
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- 9783030370237
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- IX, 253 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Divorce in Europe: New Insights in Trends, Causes and Consequences of Relatio…
Buku akses terbuka ini mengumpulkan diskusi utama dalam penelitian perceraian di Eropa. Ini dimulai dengan pemahaman tentang tren perceraian. Mengapa perceraian meningkat begitu cepat di seluruh AS dan Eropa dan apakah kita melihat tanda-tanda perubahan? Apakah putusnya kohabitasi mempengaruhi tren perceraian atau adakah stabilitas baru di pasar pasangan? Dalam hal risiko perceraian, buku ini m…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-030-25838-2
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- online resource ( 370 Pages)
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- Studi Kependudukan di Eropa
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- 306.89 MOR d
Romanian Management Theory and Practice: Navigating Digitization and Internat…
Buku akses terbuka ini menyediakan penelitian terkini tentang fitur teori dan praktik manajemen Romania. Ini mengeksplorasi posisi Romania dalam rantai pasokan global; kontribusi perusahaan Romania terhadap ekonomi global baru; serta proses dan efek internasionalisasi dan digitalisasi pada ekonomi Romania. Praktik manajemen Romania, mirip dengan negara-negara Eropa Timur lainnya, memiliki perke…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-60343-3
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- online resource ( XII, 220 Pages)
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- Teknik Komunikasi dan Pengendalian
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- 658.788 NIC r
Novel Developments for Sustainable Hydropower
olicies are crucial in determining and improving the state of our environment. Policies set goals (including targets, indicators and time frames) while policy instruments are the specific means or measures to translate the policy intent into action (Jacob et al. 2019). In discussions on the sustainability of hydropower production, knowledge of the currently existing regulations at different…
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- 9783030991388
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- XVII, 223
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Climate Smart Agriculture: Building Resilience To Climate Change
Buku ini menggunakan lensa ekonomi untuk mengidentifikasi fitur utama dari pertanian cerdas iklim (CSA), dampak yang mungkin terjadi, dan tantangan yang terkait dengan implementasinya. Mengandalkan teori dan konsep dari pengembangan pertanian, ekonomi institusi, dan ekonomi sumber daya, buku ini memperluas dan memformalkan dasar-dasar konseptual CSA. Dengan fokus pada dimensi adaptasi/kesiapsia…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-61194-5
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- online resource ( XVIII, 630 Pages)
- Series Title
- Pengelolaan dan Kebijakan Sumber Daya Alam
- Call Number
- 338.19045 LIP c
Sustainable Rice Straw Management
This open access book on straw management aims to provide a wide array of options for rice straw management that are potentially more sustainable, environmental, and profitable compared to current practice. The book is authored by expert researchers, engineers and innovators working on a range of straw management options with case studies from Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia. The book i…
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- 1
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- 9783030323738
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- XIII, 192 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Workers, Managers, Productivity : Kaizen in Developing Countries
This open access book provides a glimpse into the Japanese management technique known as “Kaizen,” and the ways it has been disseminated around the developing world. The novelty of this book is three-fold: it provides a contextualized view of the mechanisms of initiatives implementing Kaizen in developing countries; compared with productivity studies, it places the relationship between work…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811503641
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- XXVI, 327 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- -
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Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to M…
In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne Cynthia Skenazi explores a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. From the late fourteenth to the end of the sixteenth centuries, the elderly subject became a point of new social, medical, political, and literary attention on both sides of t…
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- Volume: 11
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- 9789004255722
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An Interdependent Approach to Happiness and Well-Being
This open access book examines an interdependent approach to happiness and well-being, one that contrasts starkly with dominant approaches that have originated from Western culture(s). It highlights the diversity of potential pathways towards happiness and well-being globally, and answers calls - voiced in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals - for more socially and environmentally sustaina…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031262609
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- XV, 172
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Culture and Sustainability
This Open access book brings a cultural lens, and a distinctive analytical framework, to the problem of transitioning to a sustainable, low-carbon future. The world faces a seemingly impossible hurdle – to radically alter long-established social, economic and technological systems in order to live within the biophysical limits of the globe, while ensuring a just and enduring transition. …
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-25515-1
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- XVII, 243
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