Future of sustainable agriculture in saline environments

Produksi pangan di tanah salin saat ini dan masa depan patut mendapat perhatian dunia, khususnya karena ketahanan pangan merupakan isu yang mendesak, jutaan hektar tanah terdegradasi tersedia di seluruh dunia, air tawar semakin langka, dan kenaikan permukaan laut global mengancam produksi pangan di dataran rendah pesisir yang subur. Future of Sustainable Agriculture in Saline Environments bertu…

Didaktik and Curriculum in Ongoing Dialogue

Didaktik dan Kurikulum dalam Dialog Berkelanjutan menghidupkan kembali dialog antara tradisi Didaktik Eropa kontinental dan tradisi kurikulum Anglo-Saxon. Buku ini menyoroti temuan penelitian penting yang menjembatani perbedaan budaya dan mendukung pertukaran dan pemahaman ide secara timbal balik. Melalui analisis kondisi bersama dan perbedaan budaya, buku ini mengundang sikap kritis dan dialog…

Responsible Procurement

This open access book emphasizes that procuring goods at the expense of the environment and those who live there is no longer acceptable. Fortunately, there is now an unstoppable force, created by a collective of diverse stakeholders, driving the sustainability agenda. A company’s sustainability standards can only truly be as good as those along its entire supply chain. The purpose of this bo…

Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity

This open acess book extends recent work on entrepreneurship in response to adverse events to explore entrepreneurial responses by people who face chronic adversity more deeply. Instead of focusing on the sort of responses intended to destroy the institutions that create and sustain chronic adversity, the authors are interested in how individuals use entrepreneurial action to find a way within…

Responsible Procurement

This open access book emphasizes that procuring goods at the expense of the environment and those who live there is no longer acceptable. Fortunately, there is now an unstoppable force, created by a collective of diverse stakeholders, driving the sustainability agenda. A company’s sustainability standards can only truly be as good as those along its entire supply chain. The purpose of this bo…

Die Zukunft von Privatheit und Selbstbestimmung

Die in diesem Open-Access-Buch zusammengeführten interdisziplinären Untersuchungen des „Forums Privatheit“ gehen der Frage nach, wie sich die Verwirklichungsbedingungen von Privatheit und Selbstbestimmung durch die Digitalisierung aller Lebensbereiche radikal ändern. Nahezu jede Lebensregung hinterlässt Datenspuren, ermöglicht vielfältige und intensive Datensammlungen über Menschen, …

Co-Cities: innovative transitions toward just and self-sustaining communities

"A new framework for experimental and innovative "city-making" for urban resources and services to be developed and governed in a collaborative, socially, and economically inclusive ways"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The anthropology of parliaments : entanglements in democratic politics

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How Megaprojects Are Damaging Nigeria and How to Fix It

Since 1960, two-thirds of very large governmental projects in Nigeria have not only failed, but been abandoned mid-course. This presents a bigger failure rate than mega projects elsewhere, and yet there is no available data or analysis to help us understand the reasons behind such failures. This book provides an authoritative examination into why very large projects in Nigeria have failed so ba…

Spatio-temporal Image Analysis for Longitudinal and Time-Series Image Data: T…

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Spatio-temporal Image Analysis for Longitudinal and Time-Series Image Data, STIA 2014, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2014 in Boston, MA, USA, in September 2014. The 7 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. They are organized in …