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Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America
This 9th volume of International Development Policy looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and related development trajectories in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Andean region. It examines the diverse development narratives and experiences in countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru during a period of high commodity prices associated with robust growth, poverty all…
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- Volume: 9
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- 978-90-04-35167-7
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Alfonso de Cartagena’s "Memoriale virtutum" (1422): Aristotle for Lay Princ…
In Alfonso de Cartagena’s 'Memoriale virtutum' (1422), María Morrás and Jeremy Lawrance offer a critical edition of an anthology of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, compiled and significantly altered by the major Castilian intellectual of the day, Bishop Alfonso de Cartagena, and addressed to the heir to the throne of Portugal, Crown Prince Duarte. The work is a speculum principis, an edu…
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- Volume: 8
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- 9789004194502
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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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Climate-Related Human Mobility in Asia and the Pacific
This open access book critically examines the policies and practices related to climate-related human mobility in Asia-Pacific and the legal and policy protection framework for climatically displaced migrants (CDMs) through an interdisciplinary human rights-based approach. While covering the policy and theoretical dimensions of mobility, it also evaluates the issue through empirical studies. Th…
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- 9789819732340
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Impacts of Study Abroad on Higher Education Development
This open-access book is an exceptional contribution to the burgeoning fields of higher education development and higher education internationalization as it empirically examines the impact of the study abroad experiences of faculty members on individual and institutional development. The research and its outcomes presented here utilize results from a large-scale survey and interviews of facult…
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- 9789819707751
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Whole School Approaches to Sustainability
In response to urgent global sustainability challenges, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship Education have been prioritized in the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 under SDG 4.7. There is a growing awareness that treating concepts such as global citizenship, sustainable development, climate urgency, and health and well-being as separate subjects or topics to be added…
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- 9783031561726
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Transforming Global Health Partnerships
This is a book about the human experience of conducting global health research, linked to operational responses to the control and prevention of diseases worldwide. Rather than a manual or how-to guide, we propose a roadmap and vision of equitable, sustainable, and impactful partnerships shared through a rich interweaving of voices: North and South, academics and community practitioners, senior…
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- 9783031537936
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Simple Solutions to Complex Catastrophes
This open access book sets out simple solutions to managing complex catastrophes. It focusses on four kinds of crises – climate change, crime-war cascades, epidemics and financial crises. These catastrophes are conceived as complex and prone to cascade effects. This book is optimistic in explaining that there are identifiable simple institutions that international society can strengthen and s…
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- 9783031487477
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Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs
This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from alcohol misuse. Alcohol-related harms are viewed as both a product of colonisation and dispossession and a contributor to ongoing social, economic and health-related disadvantage, both in Australia and in other countries with colonised Indigenous …
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- 1
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- 978-981-99-0401-3
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- XXVI, 326
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Post-digitales Management Arbeit an den Schnittstellen einer Produktionsorga…
Diese Open-Access-Publikation handelt von Digitalisierungsprojekten in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen. Es werden Forschungsergebnisse und Praxisbeobachtungen in Beiträgen, Interviews und Handouts von Wissenschaftlern und Praktikern präsentiert.
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-40707-0
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- XII, 300
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