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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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- 978-981-99-0401-3
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- XXVI, 326
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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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- 9783031262609
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- XV, 172
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New Digital Work
This open access book will give insights into global issues of work and work systems design from a wide range of perspectives. Topics like the impact of AI in the workplace as well as design for digital sovereignty at the workplace or foresight processes for digital work are covered. Practical cases, empirical results and theoretical considerations are not only taken from Germany and Europe, bu…
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- 978-3-031-26490-0
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- XV, 291
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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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- 978-3-031-25515-1
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- XVII, 243
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Women’s Drug Use in Everyday Life
This open access book explores the increasing role of psychoactive substances in contemporary everyday life, focussing on women's use. Drawing on an ethnographic study in Sweden, it uses cultural studies and queer phenomenology to analyse the women’s narratives of drug use relating to themes that encompass social, legal, cultural, embodied and gendered perspectives on drugs in the contemporar…
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- 978-3-031-46057-9
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- XIII, 352
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Transformationen gestalten : Beiträge aus Forschung und Praxis des privaten …
Folgt man den aktuellen UNO-Berichten, steht die Welt an einem kritischen Scheidepunkt, der eine Transformation auf verschiedenen Ebenen verlangt. Dieses Open Access-Fachbuch zeigt in 13 Kapiteln im Sinne von aktuellen Werkstattberichten auf, wie und unter welchen Bedingungen Wandel und Transformation stattfinden, wie sie unterstützt und skaliert werden können. Einige der Transformationsproje…
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- 978-3-658-42775-7
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- XII, 298
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Rassismus in der Polizei
Obwohl das Thema Rassismus als Problem der Polizei die gesellschaftliche Debatte in den vergangenen Jahren äußerst intensiv beschäftigt hat, sind Ausmaße und Formen des Rassismus in der deutschen Polizei bisher nur in Ansätzen untersucht. Der vorliegende Band bietet eine Grundlage für die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema, indem er den Forschungsstand aus verschiedenen Disziplinen…
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- 9783658371333
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- VIII, 742
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Industry 4.0 for SMEs : Challenges, Opportunities and Requirements
Dominik T. Matt holds the Chair for Production Systems and Technologies and heads the Industrial Engineering and Automation (IEA) research department in the Faculty of Science and Technology at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Dominik is also the Director of Fraunhofer Italia, the largest applied research organization in Europe. Vladimír Modrák is Professor of Manufacturing Tec…
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- 9783030254254
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- XXXV, 412 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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A City in Blue and Green The Singapore Story
This open access book highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a liveable sustainable way of life. It is also a story about a unique and thoroughgoing approach to large-scale and potentially transferable water sustainability, within largely ur…
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- 9789811395970
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- X, 152 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Psychology of Silicon Valley : Ethical Threats and Emotional Unintelligen…
Misinformation. Job displacement. Information overload. Economic inequality. Digital addiction. The breakdown of democracy, civility, and truth itself. This open access book explores the conscious and unconscious norms, values, and characteristics that drive behaviors within the high-tech capital of the world, Silicon Valley, and the sector it represents. In an era where the reach and influenc…
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- 9783030273644
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- VIII, 314 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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